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| author | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com> | 2008-12-29 16:47:18 +1100 |
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| committer | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com> | 2008-12-29 16:47:18 +1100 |
| commit | 0a8c5395f90f06d128247844b2515c8bf3f2826b (patch) | |
| tree | d95382dcdfa303b99d480c01763d6cb6767fdaca /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 25051158bbed127e8672b43396c71c5eb610e5f1 (diff) | |
| parent | 3c92ec8ae91ecf59d88c798301833d7cf83f2179 (diff) | |
[XFS] Fix merge failures
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.h
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bb1b0dd3bfc..71df353e367 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1339,10 +1339,13 @@ 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. +determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. Currently, +passing "nmi_watchdog=" parameter at boot time is required for this function +to work. -Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI -watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. +If LAPIC NMI watchdog method is in use (nmi_watchdog=2 kernel parameter), the +NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile. By disabling the NMI watchdog, +oprofile may have more registers to utilize. msgmni ------ |