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authorLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-12-29 16:47:18 +1100
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-12-29 16:47:18 +1100
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[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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt9
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index bb1b0dd3bfcb..71df353e367c 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
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