sysrq: more explicit, less terse help messages
Eliminate sysrq terse help mode; make sysrq help messages more meaningful
(more explicit/verbose). Make the sysrq action letter clearer by listing
it explicitly in more sysrq help messages (when it is not simple/clear).
The SysRq help message now looks like this:
SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot terminate-all-tasks(E) memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) saK show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(L) show-memory-usage(M) nice-all-RT-tasks(N) powerOff show-registers(P) show-all-timers(Q) unRaw Sync show-task-states(T) Unmount show-blocked-tasks(W)
Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330403.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: <330403@bugs.debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
index 94966ed..d41b9f6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_loglevel_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_loglevel,
- .help_msg = "loglevel0-8",
+ .help_msg = "loglevel(0-9)",
.action_msg = "Changing Loglevel",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_LOG,
};
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_showallcpus_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_showallcpus,
- .help_msg = "aLlcpus",
+ .help_msg = "show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(L)",
.action_msg = "Show backtrace of all active CPUs",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_DUMP,
};
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_showregs_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_showregs,
- .help_msg = "showPc",
+ .help_msg = "show-registers(P)",
.action_msg = "Show Regs",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_DUMP,
};
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_showstate_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_showstate,
- .help_msg = "showTasks",
+ .help_msg = "show-task-states(T)",
.action_msg = "Show State",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_DUMP,
};
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_showstate_blocked_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_showstate_blocked,
- .help_msg = "shoW-blocked-tasks",
+ .help_msg = "show-blocked-tasks(W)",
.action_msg = "Show Blocked State",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_DUMP,
};
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_showmem_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_showmem,
- .help_msg = "showMem",
+ .help_msg = "show-memory-usage(M)",
.action_msg = "Show Memory",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_DUMP,
};
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_term_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_term,
- .help_msg = "tErm",
+ .help_msg = "terminate-all-tasks(E)",
.action_msg = "Terminate All Tasks",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_SIGNAL,
};
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_moom_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_moom,
- .help_msg = "Full",
+ .help_msg = "memory-full-oom-kill(F)",
.action_msg = "Manual OOM execution",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_SIGNAL,
};
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_kill_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_kill,
- .help_msg = "kIll",
+ .help_msg = "kill-all-tasks(I)",
.action_msg = "Kill All Tasks",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_SIGNAL,
};
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
}
static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_unrt_op = {
.handler = sysrq_handle_unrt,
- .help_msg = "Nice",
+ .help_msg = "nice-all-RT-tasks(N)",
.action_msg = "Nice All RT Tasks",
.enable_mask = SYSRQ_ENABLE_RTNICE,
};