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authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>2020-06-07 21:40:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-08 11:05:56 -0700
commitf117955a2255721a6a0e9cecf6cad3a6eb43cbc3 (patch)
treee39ebf40c91f2eda1bf92efa18c5678ad8870803 /Documentation/admin-guide
parent4f2f682d89d83fb6194562321d875253282d8496 (diff)
downloadlinux-f117955a2255721a6a0e9cecf6cad3a6eb43cbc3.tar.bz2
kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot parameters to sysctl aliases
After a recent change introduced by Vlastimil's series [0], kernel is able now to handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line; also, the series introduced a simple infrastructure to convert legacy boot parameters (that duplicate sysctls) into sysctl aliases. This patch converts the watchdog parameters softlockup_panic and {hard,soft}lockup_all_cpu_backtrace to use the new alias infrastructure. It fixes the documentation too, since the alias only accepts values 0 or 1, not the full range of integers. We also took the opportunity here to improve the documentation of the previously converted hung_task_panic (see the patch series [0]) and put the alias table in alphabetical order. [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-1-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200507214624.21911-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 0c72b5c22416..ed9597e37415 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@
hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
backtraces on all cpus.
- Format: <integer>
+ Format: 0 | 1
hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
@@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@
hung_task_panic=
[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
- Format: <integer>
+ Format: 0 | 1
A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
@@ -4665,9 +4665,9 @@
softlockup_panic=
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
- Format: <integer>
+ Format: 0 | 1
- A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
+ A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
@@ -4676,7 +4676,7 @@
softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
backtraces on all cpus.
- Format: <integer>
+ Format: 0 | 1
sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst