move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code

The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d18a9e12152a..a3b688287a8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1825,6 +1825,11 @@ 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.
+                        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