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authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2011-01-02 23:02:42 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-01-03 05:25:52 +0100
commit551423748a4eba55f2eb0fc250d757986471f187 (patch)
tree401f03f7e5a70de089ef83153ac98096929c6f09 /Documentation
parentb518a64983cbf2ff31aed530898de2d80e4573d5 (diff)
watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation
The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...' does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the watchdog. It also currently prints the error value as a pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR(). Fix that. Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel parameter to associate it with this message. Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37.x and later LKML-Reference: <1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8b61c9360999..01ece1b9213e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
- nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector.
+ nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
nowb [ARM]