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sysrq: Document hexadecimal values for kernel.sysrq bitmask
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It makes more sense to enter a bitmask in hexadecimal rather than
decimal.  Sadly we can't make it read back as hexadecimal.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Ben Hutchings authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Oct 16, 2013
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1 - enable all functions of sysrq
>1 - bitmask of allowed sysrq functions (see below for detailed function
description):
2 - enable control of console logging level
4 - enable control of keyboard (SAK, unraw)
8 - enable debugging dumps of processes etc.
16 - enable sync command
32 - enable remount read-only
64 - enable signalling of processes (term, kill, oom-kill)
128 - allow reboot/poweroff
256 - allow nicing of all RT tasks
2 = 0x2 - enable control of console logging level
4 = 0x4 - enable control of keyboard (SAK, unraw)
8 = 0x8 - enable debugging dumps of processes etc.
16 = 0x10 - enable sync command
32 = 0x20 - enable remount read-only
64 = 0x40 - enable signalling of processes (term, kill, oom-kill)
128 = 0x80 - allow reboot/poweroff
256 = 0x100 - allow nicing of all RT tasks

You can set the value in the file by the following command:
echo "number" >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

The number may be written either as decimal or as hexadecimal with the
0x prefix.

Note that the value of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq influences only the invocation
via a keyboard. Invocation of any operation via /proc/sysrq-trigger is always
allowed (by a user with admin privileges).
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