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| author | Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> | 2012-03-08 09:23:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> | 2012-03-08 09:23:27 +0000 |
| commit | d4faf5a948c03ffe61b4bfd1ebcdc93343727ca4 (patch) | |
| tree | fa8363186763e4dd9707edf3bdb9171bf3bd23d9 /docs/misc | |
| parent | 338db98dd8d2cf1a639951597880d7a2e7f3b3d6 (diff) | |
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NMI: Command line parameter for watchdog timeout
Introduce a command parameter to set the watchtog timeout. Manually
specifying "watchdog_timeout=<seconds>" on the command line will also
turn the watchdog on. For consistency, move opt_watchdog into nmi.c
along with opt_watchdog_timeout.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown index 986264cdf4..61f5328bdf 100644 --- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown +++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown @@ -391,7 +391,17 @@ The optional `keep` parameter causes Xen to continue using the vga console even ### watchdog > `= <boolean>` -Run an NMI watchdog on each processor. Defaults to disabled. +> Default: `false` + +Run an NMI watchdog on each processor. If a processor is stuck for longer than the watchdog\_timeout, a panic occurs. + +### watchdog\_timeout +> `= <integer>` + +> Default: `5` + +Set the NMI watchdog timeout in seconds. Specifying `0` will turn off the watchdog. + ### x2apic ### x2apic\_phys ### xencons |