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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot
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From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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On 5/7/20 11:46 PM, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> After a recent change introduced by Vlastimil's series [0], kernel is
> able now to handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line; also, the
> series introduced a simple infrastructure to convert legacy boot
> parameters (that duplicate sysctls) into sysctl aliases.
> 
> This patch converts the watchdog parameters softlockup_panic and
> {hard,soft}lockup_all_cpu_backtrace to use the new alias infrastructure.
> It fixes the documentation too, since the alias only accepts values 0
> or 1, not the full range of integers. We also took the opportunity here
> to improve the documentation of the previously converted hung_task_panic
> (see the patch series [0]) and put the alias table in alphabetical order.
> 
> [0] lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200427180433.7029-1-vbabka@suse.cz
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>

Ah, so I did miss some, as the Documentation file doesn't mention there is also
a sysctl for those parameters. Maybe it should?

Anyway, thanks.
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>