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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-09-28 08:29:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-09-28 08:29:59 -0400 |
| commit | 185a257f2f73bcd89050ad02da5bedbc28fc43fa (patch) | |
| tree | 5e32586114534ed3f2165614cba3d578f5d87307 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 3f1a9aaeffd8d1cbc5ab9776c45cbd66af1c9699 (diff) | |
| parent | a77c64c1a641950626181b4857abb701d8f38ccc (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into gfs2
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -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 |