Documentation: Improve softlockup_panic= description text
It should say what that <integer> range is and what that integer value
means. I had to look at the code...
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[jc: changed non-null to nonzero]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index fcaa855..f02961b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3885,6 +3885,12 @@
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Format: <integer>
+ A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
+ to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
+ is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
+ which is the respective build-time switch to that
+ functionality.
+
softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
backtraces on all cpus.