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| author | Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> | 2008-10-30 13:08:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-30 19:07:04 +0100 |
| commit | 8a1c8eb75be492e20003966652c9cd5ff57a559d (patch) | |
| tree | 9cd97cc9f80fa538017a2ed741de7393876aba08 | |
| parent | b062f841b569791d3054e975cd85f48562161565 (diff) | |
x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2
Impact: improve documentation
This patch updates the /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog documentation.
Updated: included Randy Dunlap's corrections.
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bcceb99b81d..86be879ed70 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1338,10 +1338,13 @@ 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 ------ diff --git a/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt b/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt index 90aa4531cb6..bf9f80a9828 100644 --- a/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt +++ b/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt @@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ to the overall system performance. On x86 nmi_watchdog is disabled by default so you have to enable it with a boot time parameter. +It's possible to disable the NMI watchdog in run-time by writing "0" to +/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog. Writing "1" to the same file will re-enable +the NMI watchdog. Notice that you still need to use "nmi_watchdog=" parameter +at boot time. + NOTE: In kernels prior to 2.4.2-ac18 the NMI-oopser is enabled unconditionally on x86 SMP boxes. |