Commit 3ce62385 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: Improve softlockup_panic= description text

It should say what that <integer> range is and what that integer value
means. I had to look at the code...
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[jc: changed non-null to nonzero]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent d19cd4bb
...@@ -3885,6 +3885,12 @@ ...@@ -3885,6 +3885,12 @@
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Format: <integer> Format: <integer>
A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
which is the respective build-time switch to that
functionality.
softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
backtraces on all cpus. backtraces on all cpus.
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