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authorOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>2023-06-30 16:53:02 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2023-07-04 08:29:32 -0600
commit57ada2358fae8c3df0f810c3a7196f074da01c98 (patch)
treec0da3c97b6c00561fa1f0f8f868faa3de0e01fa3
parentdocs: remove the tips on how to submit patches from MAINTAINERS (diff)
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Fix documentation of panic_on_warn
The kernel cmdline option panic_on_warn expects an integer, it is not a plain option as documented. A number of uses in the tree figured this already, and use panic_on_warn=1 for their purpose. Adjust a comment which otherwise may mislead people in the future. Fixes: 9e3961a09798 ("kernel: add panic_on_warn") Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt2
-rwxr-xr-xtools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b0e4195808b4..de0eb6fd8d03 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4064,7 +4064,7 @@
extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
- panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
+ panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
on a WARN().
parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
index 62f3b0f56e4d..d3cdc2d33d4b 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
@@ -655,4 +655,4 @@ fi
# Control buffer size: --bootargs trace_buf_size=3k
# Get trace-buffer dumps on all oopses: --bootargs ftrace_dump_on_oops
# Ditto, but dump only the oopsing CPU: --bootargs ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
-# Heavy-handed way to also dump on warnings: --bootargs panic_on_warn
+# Heavy-handed way to also dump on warnings: --bootargs panic_on_warn=1