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Documentation: update panic parameter info

Add a little more info for some of the panic-related kernel parameters.
Fix "oops=panic" to fit in 80 columns.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Randy Dunlap and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
··· 1832 1832 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 1833 1833 CPU specific event set. 1834 1834 1835 - oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process, 1836 - but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine. 1835 + oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 1836 + process, but there is a small probability of 1837 + deadlocking the machine. 1837 1838 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 1838 1839 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 1839 1840 1840 1841 OSS [HW,OSS] 1841 1842 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 1842 1843 1843 - panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic 1844 + panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 1845 + seconds before rebooting 1844 1846 Format: <timeout> 1845 1847 1846 1848 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is ··· 2345 2343 2346 2344 softlockup_panic= 2347 2345 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 2346 + Format: <integer> 2348 2347 2349 2348 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 2350 2349 See Documentation/sonypi.txt ··· 2532 2529 reported either. 2533 2530 2534 2531 unknown_nmi_panic 2535 - [X86] 2536 - Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot. 2532 + [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 2537 2533 2538 2534 usbcore.autosuspend= 2539 2535 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used