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From: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Document unknown_nmi_dump_log variable
Date: Wed,  2 Jun 2010 09:39:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275464359-1566-6-git-send-email-v.mayatskih@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275464359-1566-1-git-send-email-v.mayatskih@gmail.com>

Mention unknown_nmi_dump_log in sysctl documentation.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 3894eaa..b554838 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - tainted
 - threads-max
 - unknown_nmi_panic
+- unknown_nmi_dump_log
 - version
 
 ==============================================================
@@ -515,6 +516,15 @@ If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+unknown_nmi_dump_log:
+
+The value in this file affects behavior of handling NMI. When dump
+capture kernel is loaded, the value is non-zero and unknown NMI is
+trapped, then vmcore's log buffer and CPU registers are extracted and
+displayed on console.
+
+==============================================================
+
 panic_on_unrecovered_nmi:
 
 The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to continue
-- 
1.7.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-02  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-02  7:39 [PATCH 0/5] kdump: extract log buffer and registers from vmcore on NMI button pressing Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-02  7:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: Introduce ELF_CORE_EXTRACT_REGS Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-02  7:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: Split __show_regs() Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-02  9:50   ` Pekka Enberg
2010-06-02 10:00     ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-02  7:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] vmcore: Introduce dump_old_log() Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-02  7:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add new callback for unhandled NMIs Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-02  7:39 ` Vitaly Mayatskikh [this message]
2010-06-02 15:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] kdump: extract log buffer and registers from vmcore on NMI button pressing Vivek Goyal
2010-06-03  9:01   ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-03  9:30     ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-03 12:33       ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-03 15:13         ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-04  9:32           ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-04 10:15             ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-04 13:58               ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-06-04  9:49           ` Américo Wang
2010-06-04 10:16             ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-04 14:49             ` Vivek Goyal
2010-06-04 14:42     ` Vivek Goyal

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