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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2008-09-19 01:56:23 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-19 11:45:56 +0200
commit3b7ecb5d2ffde82efd1b1bcc6780dc8a019acf02 (patch)
tree20fea0cd1d27d259a8bae6ea970e082df8fb213e
parentbc45eb8950b8c14487385cfd2bda1613ca8d9703 (diff)
softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description
- s/s/seconds/ - s/10 seconds/60 seconds/ - Mention the zero-disables-it feature. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 276a7e63782..e1ff0d920a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -351,9 +351,10 @@ kernel. This value defaults to SHMMAX.
softlockup_thresh:
-This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance
-threshold. The default threshold is 10s. If a cpu is locked up
-for 10s, the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60s.
+This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance threshold. The
+default threshold is 60 seconds. If a cpu is locked up for 60 seconds,
+the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60 seconds. Setting this
+tunable to zero will disable the softlockup detection altogether.
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