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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>
Li Zefan 12 years ago
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Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - tainted
 - tainted
 - threads-max
 - threads-max
 - unknown_nmi_panic
 - unknown_nmi_panic
+- watchdog_thresh
 - version
 - 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
 NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for
 example.  If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch.
 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.
+
+==============================================================