Commit 22b8ab66 authored by Bernhard Walle's avatar Bernhard Walle Committed by Linus Torvalds

Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctl

This adds "panic_on_unrecovered_nmi" sysctl to
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. The text is mainly taken from
http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/43/217998.html.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6d5cd6ef
...@@ -1321,6 +1321,18 @@ debugging information is displayed on console. ...@@ -1321,6 +1321,18 @@ debugging information is displayed on console.
NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example. NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example.
If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch. If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch.
panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
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The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to continue
operation. For many environments such as scientific computing it is preferable
that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than an uncorrected
parity/ECC error get propogated.
A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons such as
power management so the default is off. That sysctl works like the existing
panic controls already in that directory.
nmi_watchdog nmi_watchdog
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