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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2007-02-10 04:45:55 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-11 13:51:32 -0500
commit78831ba68263d37382d61ea87d738975d992bd0d (patch)
tree44bf144336c7e3e78329dc760867552eeefd826d /Documentation/sysrq.txt
parentb653d081c17e26101980c858a9808740533b78b4 (diff)
[PATCH] sysrq: alphabetize command keys doc
Alphabetize the sysrq command keys list. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@ On all - write a character to /proc/sysrq-trigger. e.g.:
64 64
65* What are the 'command' keys? 65* What are the 'command' keys?
66~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 66~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
67'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mode and sets it to XLATE.
68
69'k' - Secure Access Key (SAK) Kills all programs on the current virtual
70 console. NOTE: See important comments below in SAK section.
71
72'b' - Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or unmounting 67'b' - Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or unmounting
73 your disks. 68 your disks.
74 69
@@ -76,21 +71,37 @@ On all - write a character to /proc/sysrq-trigger. e.g.:
76 71
77'd' - Shows all locks that are held. 72'd' - Shows all locks that are held.
78 73
79'o' - Will shut your system off (if configured and supported). 74'e' - Send a SIGTERM to all processes, except for init.
80 75
81's' - Will attempt to sync all mounted filesystems. 76'f' - Will call oom_kill to kill a memory hog process.
82 77
83'u' - Will attempt to remount all mounted filesystems read-only. 78'g' - Used by kgdb on ppc platforms.
84 79
85'p' - Will dump the current registers and flags to your console. 80'h' - Will display help (actually any other key than those listed
81 above will display help. but 'h' is easy to remember :-)
86 82
87't' - Will dump a list of current tasks and their information to your 83'i' - Send a SIGKILL to all processes, except for init.
88 console. 84
85'k' - Secure Access Key (SAK) Kills all programs on the current virtual
86 console. NOTE: See important comments below in SAK section.
89 87
90'm' - Will dump current memory info to your console. 88'm' - Will dump current memory info to your console.
91 89
92'n' - Used to make RT tasks nice-able 90'n' - Used to make RT tasks nice-able
93 91
92'o' - Will shut your system off (if configured and supported).
93
94'p' - Will dump the current registers and flags to your console.
95
96'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mode and sets it to XLATE.
97
98's' - Will attempt to sync all mounted filesystems.
99
100't' - Will dump a list of current tasks and their information to your
101 console.
102
103'u' - Will attempt to remount all mounted filesystems read-only.
104
94'v' - Dumps Voyager SMP processor info to your console. 105'v' - Dumps Voyager SMP processor info to your console.
95 106
96'w' - Dumps tasks that are in uninterruptable (blocked) state. 107'w' - Dumps tasks that are in uninterruptable (blocked) state.
@@ -102,17 +113,6 @@ On all - write a character to /proc/sysrq-trigger. e.g.:
102 it so that only emergency messages like PANICs or OOPSes would 113 it so that only emergency messages like PANICs or OOPSes would
103 make it to your console.) 114 make it to your console.)
104 115
105'f' - Will call oom_kill to kill a memory hog process.
106
107'e' - Send a SIGTERM to all processes, except for init.
108
109'g' - Used by kgdb on ppc platforms.
110
111'i' - Send a SIGKILL to all processes, except for init.
112
113'h' - Will display help (actually any other key than those listed
114 above will display help. but 'h' is easy to remember :-)
115
116* Okay, so what can I use them for? 116* Okay, so what can I use them for?
117~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 117~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
118Well, un'R'aw is very handy when your X server or a svgalib program crashes. 118Well, un'R'aw is very handy when your X server or a svgalib program crashes.