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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2011-04-04 15:02:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-04-04 17:51:47 -0700
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Documentation: update panic parameter info
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@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -1832,15 +1832,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
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 can also be entirely omitted.
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 can also be entirely omitted.
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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