From 0a07bef6e5c58874d510f452c72eb12a31200e0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:36:49 -0300 Subject: Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl Commit 9c44bc03fff4 ("softlockup: allow panic on lockup") added the softlockup_panic sysctl, but didn't add information about it to the file Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst (which in that time certainly wasn't rst and had other name!). This patch just adds the respective documentation and references it from the corresponding entry in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. This patch was strongly based on Scott Wood's commit d22881dc13b6 ("Documentation: Better document the hardlockup_panic sysctl"). Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200310183649.23163-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++---- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 4220477079bd..b3b5aa7408df 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4516,10 +4516,10 @@ Format: A nonzero 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. + 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 + respective build-time switch to that functionality. softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 1c48ab4bfe30..335696d3360d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1036,6 +1036,20 @@ NMI. = ============================================ +softlockup_panic +================= + +This parameter can be used to control whether the kernel panics +when a soft lockup is detected. + += ============================================ +0 Don't panic on soft lockup. +1 Panic on soft lockup. += ============================================ + +This can also be set using the softlockup_panic kernel parameter. + + soft_watchdog ============= -- cgit