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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-05 09:52:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-05 09:52:33 -0800
commit69f061e0c2ed47304b3eeac7fb7bd5268652dc50 (patch)
tree69bca9d5c7e7eb5e79dae030cbce713686e4d209 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip (diff)
parentsignal: Print warning message when dropping signals (diff)
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Merge branch 'core-signal-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-signal-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: signal: Print warning message when dropping signals signal: Fix alternate signal stack check
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 332fe3b47e0c..1d28812260cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2031,8 +2031,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
print-fatal-signals=
[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
- print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
- the kernel console.
+
+ If enabled, warn about various signal handling
+ related application anomalies: too many signals,
+ too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
+ coredump - etc.
+
+ If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
+ you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
+
default: off.
printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line