Commit b4d19cc84e8e6838f4aa0b26b3afcdc8c7f71505

Authored by Andrew Morton
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent db203d53d4

Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description

- s/s/seconds/

- s/10 seconds/60 seconds/

- Mention the zero-disables-it feature.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
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351 351  
352 352 softlockup_thresh:
353 353  
354   -This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance
355   -threshold. The default threshold is 10s. If a cpu is locked up
356   -for 10s, the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60s.
  354 +This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance threshold. The
  355 +default threshold is 60 seconds. If a cpu is locked up for 60 seconds,
  356 +the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60 seconds. Setting this
  357 +tunable to zero will disable the softlockup detection altogether.
357 358  
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