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Message-ID: <4bdcf4c9-a956-f053-17bb-719889c0211d@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:58:57 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>,
        Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@....com>,
        Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Fix documentation of panic_on_warn

Hi Olaf,

On 6/30/23 07:53, Olaf Hering wrote:
> The kernel cmdline option panic_on_warn expects an integer, it is not a
> plain option as documented. A number of uses in the tree figured this
> already, and use panic_on_warn=1 for their purpose.
> 
> Adjust a comment which otherwise may mislead people in the future.
> 
> Fixes: 9e3961a097 ("kernel: add panic_on_warn")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 9e5bab29685f..15196f84df49 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -4049,7 +4049,7 @@
>  			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
>  			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
>  
> -	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
> +	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
>  			on a WARN().
>  

It's declared as an int instead of a boolean, but it's only tested for 0 or
non-0.

In any case, this update needs to be done. Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

>  	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
> index 62f3b0f56e4d..d3cdc2d33d4b 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
> @@ -655,4 +655,4 @@ fi
>  # Control buffer size: --bootargs trace_buf_size=3k
>  # Get trace-buffer dumps on all oopses: --bootargs ftrace_dump_on_oops
>  # Ditto, but dump only the oopsing CPU: --bootargs ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
> -# Heavy-handed way to also dump on warnings: --bootargs panic_on_warn
> +# Heavy-handed way to also dump on warnings: --bootargs panic_on_warn=1

-- 
~Randy