[tip:x86/apic] Documentation: Document kernel.panic_on_io_nmi sysctl

tip-bot for Hidehiro Kawai
2015-12-19T10:15:52Z

Commit-ID: 9f318e3fcb1d4c48c26e8ca2ff2a459b82f36a23
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/9f318e3fcb1d4c48c26e8ca2ff2a459b82f36a23
Author: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:19:14 +0100
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 11:07:01 +0100

Documentation: Document kernel.panic_on_io_nmi sysctl

kernel.panic_on_io_nmi sysctl was introduced by commit

5211a242d0cb ("x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error")

but its documentation is missing. So, add it.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Requested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151210014637.25437.71903.stgit@softrs
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index af70d15..73c6b1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -551,6 +551,21 @@ the recommended setting is 60.

==============================================================

+panic_on_io_nmi:
+
+Controls the kernel's behavior when a CPU receives an NMI caused by
+an IO error.
+
+0: try to continue operation (default)
+
+1: panic immediately. The IO error triggered an NMI. This indicates a
+ serious system condition which could result in IO data corruption.
+ Rather than continuing, panicking might be a better choice. Some
+ servers issue this sort of NMI when the dump button is pushed,
+ and you can use this option to take a crash dump.
+
+==============================================================
+
panic_on_oops:

Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered.