From c3b6a58b7ac30e9586b13e04ad00a06f2889f5ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Walle Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 114733 b: refs/heads/master c: 22b8ab66deb2600f93d24d30df17b9d9e5273d05 h: refs/heads/master i: 114731: e9463badfc355211140e109be5a913044419c46b v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 8435540cb02f..bc1999f361ec 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 6d5cd6effed5f8c958a6c0df56da336f5a4fdb8a +refs/heads/master: 22b8ab66deb2600f93d24d30df17b9d9e5273d05 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index b488edad743c..c032bf39e8b9 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1321,6 +1321,18 @@ 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. +panic_on_unrecovered_nmi +------------------------ + +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 ------------