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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index c357a31411cd..f2e5f3f72c8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1832,15 +1832,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                                 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
                                 CPU specific event set.
 
-        oops=panic      Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
-                        but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
+        oops=panic      Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
+                        process, but there is a small probability of
+                        deadlocking the machine.
                         This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
                         Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
 
         OSS             [HW,OSS]
                         See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
 
-        panic=          [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
+        panic=          [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
+                        seconds before rebooting
                         Format: <timeout>
 
         parkbd.port=    [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
@@ -2343,6 +2345,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         softlockup_panic=
                         [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
+                        Format: <integer>
 
         sonypi.*=       [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
                         See Documentation/sonypi.txt
@@ -2529,8 +2532,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         reported either.
 
         unknown_nmi_panic
-                        [X86]
-                        Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
+                        [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
 
         usbcore.autosuspend=
                         [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used