move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d18a9e1..a3b6882 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1825,6 +1825,11 @@
perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
CPU specific event set.
+ oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
+ but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
+ This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
+ Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
+
OSS [HW,OSS]
See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt