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authorOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>2011-03-22 16:34:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 17:44:11 -0700
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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 <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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