commit 97842216b8400fe9d1a20468959e2989180f8f79
author Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Sun Jul 15 23:41:05 2007 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> Mon Jul 16 09:05:47 2007 -0700
tree 63d0d731e0e93d5ef9ac1a23734c60cd0f0664f2
parent ea5a3dcfda1c9140228f2842ea9b01e1713c559a

Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled

It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime.
Especially if it triggers during a distro install.

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

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index a571495..789f97a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1181,6 +1181,8 @@
 
 	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel.
 
+	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
+
 	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
 
 	notsc		[BUGS=IA-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter