watchdog: Document watchdog_thresh sysctl

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51959678.6000802@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Li Zefan 2013-05-17 10:31:20 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent a6572f84c5
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@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- tainted
- threads-max
- unknown_nmi_panic
- watchdog_thresh
- version
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@ -648,3 +649,16 @@ that time, kernel 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.
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watchdog_thresh:
This value can be used to control the frequency of hrtimer and NMI
events and the soft and hard lockup thresholds. The default threshold
is 10 seconds.
The softlockup threshold is (2 * watchdog_thresh). Setting this
tunable to zero will disable lockup detection altogether.
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