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| author | Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> | 2006-09-26 10:52:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2006-09-26 10:52:27 +0200 |
| commit | e33e89ab1a8d295de0500b697f4f31c3ceee9aa2 (patch) | |
| tree | 51a7955a1a67f65169278a97d3d54305cb18e8ae /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 407984f1af259b31957c7c05075a454a751bb801 (diff) | |
[PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from procfs (update)
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the
nmi watchdog.
By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to
monitor the online cpus in the system. By entering a zero value here, a
user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which
could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be
short a counter when in use.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 99902ae6804..7db71d6fba8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1124,11 +1124,15 @@ debugging information is displayed on console. NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example. If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch. -[NOTE] - This function and oprofile share a NMI callback. Therefore this function - cannot be enabled when oprofile is activated. - And NMI watchdog will be disabled when the value in this file is set to - non-zero. +nmi_watchdog +------------ + +Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is non-zero +the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all online cpus to +determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. + +Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI +watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem |