From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

It should say what that <integer> range is and what that integer value
means. I had to look at the code...

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9a84483db403..c14cd2645c1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3887,6 +3887,12 @@
                        [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
                        Format: <integer>
 
+                       A non-null value "instructs" the soft-lockup detector
+                       to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
+                       is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
+                       which is the respective build-time switch to that
+                       functionality.
+
        softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
                        [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
                        backtraces on all cpus.
-- 
2.13.0

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