From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752506AbdJCPyb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:54:31 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:36544 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752025AbdJCPy3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:54:29 -0400 From: Borislav Petkov To: LKML Cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Improve softlockup_panic= description text Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 17:54:07 +0200 Message-Id: <20171003155407.25471-1-bp@alien8.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.13.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Borislav Petkov It should say what that range is and what that integer value means. I had to look at the code... Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 9a84483db403..c14cd2645c1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3887,6 +3887,12 @@ [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. Format: + A non-null 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= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate backtraces on all cpus. -- 2.13.0