watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:02:42 +0000 (23:02 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:58:43 +0000 (13:58 -0800)
commit36bd931c61a97d5b8f9bc3ded62c4e43b22c34ff
treee2e0dc3d47c3070dfc932b8c6c22fcd7b17a3631
parent8ce65f6d58a7cc3d6393422f6c4d39b4f6128f45
watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation

commit 551423748a4eba55f2eb0fc250d757986471f187 upstream.

The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'
does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the
watchdog.  It also currently prints the error value as a
pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().
Fix that.

Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel
parameter to associate it with this message.

Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
kernel/watchdog.c