From d404ab0a1133e95557bb7deab2a49b348dfeba85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olaf Hering Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:34:04 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index d18a9e12152a..a3b688287a8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1825,6 +1825,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b