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author | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-09-28 00:13:53 +0200 |
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committer | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-09-28 00:13:53 +0200 |
commit | aebb1153ac54ddbbd3d3f0481a193f4bf0ead53b (patch) | |
tree | 57425aa83c8bed5b41af7e3408024fe1f2fdded9 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'upstream' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/netdev-2.6 ... (diff) | |
parent | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/... (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 99902ae6804e..7db71d6fba82 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 |