[PATCH 4/8] Documentation: update panic parameter info

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Apr 04 2011 - 18:13:54 EST


From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Add a little more info for some of the panic-related kernel parameters.
Fix "oops=panic" to fit in 80 columns.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.38-git18.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ linux-2.6.38-git18/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1832,15 +1832,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
CPU specific event set.

- oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
- but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
+ oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
+ process, but there is a small probability of
+ deadlocking the machine.
This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.

OSS [HW,OSS]
See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt

- panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
+ panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
+ seconds before rebooting
Format: <timeout>

parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
@@ -2343,6 +2345,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes

softlockup_panic=
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
+ Format: <integer>

sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
See Documentation/sonypi.txt
@@ -2529,8 +2532,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
reported either.

unknown_nmi_panic
- [X86]
- Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
+ [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.

usbcore.autosuspend=
[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
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