The kernel cmdline option panic_on_warn expects an integer, it is not a plain option as documented. A number of uses in the tree figured this already, and use panic_on_warn=1 for their purpose. Adjust a comment which otherwise may mislead people in the future. Fixes: 9e3961a097 ("kernel: add panic_on_warn") Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 9e5bab29685f..15196f84df49 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4049,7 +4049,7 @@ extra details on the taint flags that users can pick to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. - panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump + panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump on a WARN(). parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh index 62f3b0f56e4d..d3cdc2d33d4b 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh @@ -655,4 +655,4 @@ fi # Control buffer size: --bootargs trace_buf_size=3k # Get trace-buffer dumps on all oopses: --bootargs ftrace_dump_on_oops # Ditto, but dump only the oopsing CPU: --bootargs ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu -# Heavy-handed way to also dump on warnings: --bootargs panic_on_warn +# Heavy-handed way to also dump on warnings: --bootargs panic_on_warn=1