Document powerpc udbg-immortal
authorChristian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Tue, 31 May 2011 15:22:05 +0000 (15:22 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:21:46 +0000 (11:21 +1000)
Back in 2006 the "udbg-immortal" kernel option has been introduced:

  > commit 3b5e905ee3bd23e9311951890aba57a0dbc81ca4
  > Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
  > Date:   Wed Jun 7 12:06:20 2006 +1000
  >
  >  [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option

...but I could not find it documented anywhere in the sources.
This patch adds it to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index fd248a3..960c321 100644 (file)
@@ -2524,6 +2524,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
                        See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
 
+       udbg-immortal   [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
+                       happen after console_init() and before a proper 
+                       console driver takes over, this boot options might
+                       help "seeing" what's going on.
+
        uhash_entries=  [KNL,NET]
                        Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections