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| author | Hans-Joachim Picht <hans@de.ibm.com> | 2009-09-11 12:28:47 +0400 |
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| committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2009-09-11 12:29:49 +0400 |
| commit | c114728af2acdca0bd8b1d2f5792e393c775f5fc (patch) | |
| tree | 7c4b6c31b66a8a7fd0806a3a786b540721a9d418 /Documentation | |
| parent | 275c340941991a925969c03ec6b900fd135d09dd (diff) | |
| download | linux-c114728af2acdca0bd8b1d2f5792e393c775f5fc.tar.xz | |
[S390] add call home support
Signed-off-by: Hans-Joachim Picht <hans@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 322a00bb99d9..2dbff53369d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration) show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - acpi_video_flags - acct +- callhome [ S390 only ] - auto_msgmni - core_pattern - core_uses_pid @@ -91,6 +92,21 @@ valid for 30 seconds. ============================================================== +callhome: + +Controls the kernel's callhome behavior in case of a kernel panic. + +The s390 hardware allows an operating system to send a notification +to a service organization (callhome) in case of an operating system panic. + +When the value in this file is 0 (which is the default behavior) +nothing happens in case of a kernel panic. If this value is set to "1" +the complete kernel oops message is send to the IBM customer service +organization in case the mainframe the Linux operating system is running +on has a service contract with IBM. + +============================================================== + core_pattern: core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. |