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From: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] nmi_watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:17:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030151712.GO771@redhat.com> (raw)

This patch updates the /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog documentation.

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>

---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |   13 ++++++++-----
 Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt     |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- linus-2.6.orig/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt	2008-10-24 11:41:30.000000000 -0400
+++ linus-2.6/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt	2008-10-29 16:38:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ to the overall system performance.
 On x86 nmi_watchdog is disabled by default so you have to enable it with
 a boot time parameter.
 
+It's possible to disable the NMI watchdog in run-time by writing "0" to
+/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog. Writing "1" to the same file will re-enable
+the NMI watchdog. Notice that you still need to use "nmi_watchdog=" parameter
+in boot time.
+
 NOTE: In kernels prior to 2.4.2-ac18 the NMI-oopser is enabled unconditionally
 on x86 SMP boxes.
 
--- linus-2.6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt	2008-10-24 11:41:28.000000000 -0400
+++ linus-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt	2008-10-30 11:16:36.000000000 -0400
@@ -1336,12 +1336,15 @@ panic controls already in that directory
 nmi_watchdog
 ------------
 
-Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems.  When the value is non-zero
+Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is non-zero
 the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all online cpus to
-determine whether or not they are still functioning properly.
-
-Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI
-watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
+determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. Currently,
+passing "nmi_watchdog=" parameter in boot time is required for this function
+to work.
+
+If LAPIC NMI watchdog method is in use (nmi_watchdog=2 kernel parameter), the
+NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI watchdog,
+oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
 
 msgmni
 ------

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 15:17 Aristeu Rozanski [this message]
2008-10-30 15:45 ` [PATCH] nmi_watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-10-30 15:51   ` Aristeu Rozanski
2008-10-30 15:51     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-10-30 16:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-30 17:08   ` [PATCH] nmi_watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2 Aristeu Rozanski
2008-10-30 17:13     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-30 18:07       ` Ingo Molnar

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