Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Mar 10 2020 - 15:56:23 EST


On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:36:49 -0300
"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit 9c44bc03fff4 ("softlockup: allow panic on lockup") added the
> softlockup_panic sysctl, but didn't add information about it to the file
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst (which in that time certainly
> wasn't rst and had other name!).
>
> This patch just adds the respective documentation and references it from
> the corresponding entry in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
>
> This patch was strongly based on Scott Wood's commit d22881dc13b6
> ("Documentation: Better document the hardlockup_panic sysctl").
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

jon