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authorDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>2010-11-29 17:07:17 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-12-10 00:01:06 +0100
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x86, NMI: Add back unknown_nmi_panic and nmi_watchdog sysctls
Originally adapted from Huang Ying's patch which moved the unknown_nmi_panic to the traps.c file. Because the old nmi watchdog was deleted before this change happened, the unknown_nmi_panic sysctl was lost. This re-adds it. Also, the nmi_watchdog sysctl was re-implemented and its documentation updated accordingly. Patch-inspired-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Format: [panic,][num]
- Valid num: 0,1,2
+ Valid num: 0
0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
- 1 - use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
- 2 - use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using
- a performance counter. Note: This will use one
- performance counter and the local APIC's performance
- vector.
When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
timeout occurs.
This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
need the box quickly up again.
- Instead of 1 and 2 it is possible to use the following
- symbolic names: lapic and ioapic
- Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic
netpoll.carrier_timeout=
[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that