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| author | Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> | 2008-12-31 17:34:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-03 18:53:31 +0100 |
| commit | 7eb19553369c46cc1fa64caf120cbcab1b597f7c (patch) | |
| tree | ef1a3beae706b9497c845d0a2557ceb4d2754998 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 6092848a2a23b660150a38bc06f59d75838d70c8 (diff) | |
| parent | 8c384cdee3e04d6194a2c2b192b624754f990835 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-7eb19553369c46cc1fa64caf120cbcab1b597f7c.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
kernel/rcuclassic.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bb1b0dd3bfcb..71df353e367c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1339,10 +1339,13 @@ nmi_watchdog Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is non-zero the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all online cpus to -determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. +determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. Currently, +passing "nmi_watchdog=" parameter at boot time is required for this function +to work. -Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI -watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. +If LAPIC NMI watchdog method is in use (nmi_watchdog=2 kernel parameter), the +NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile. By disabling the NMI watchdog, +oprofile may have more registers to utilize. msgmni ------ |