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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 13:07:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 13:07:55 -0700 |
| commit | b278240839e20fa9384ea430df463b367b90e04e (patch) | |
| tree | f99f0c8cdd4cc7f177cd75440e6bd181cded7fb3 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | dd77a4ee0f3981693d4229aa1d57cea9e526ff47 (diff) | |
| parent | 3f75f42d7733e73aca5c78326489efd4189e0111 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
[PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
[PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
[PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
[PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
[PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
[PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
[PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
[PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
[PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
[PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
[PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
[PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
[PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
[PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
[PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
[PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
[PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
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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 |