After commit 8341f2f222d7 ("sysrq: Use panic() to force a crash"),
a crash was not generated by dereferencing a NULL pointer anymore.
Let's update documentation as well to make it less misleading.
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <m...@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefa...@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiang...@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
index 67dfa4c29093..60ce5f5ebab6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ Command Function
``b`` Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or unmounting
your disks.
-``c`` Will perform a system crash by a NULL pointer dereference.
- A crashdump will be taken if configured.
+``c`` Will perform a system crash and a crashdump will be taken
+ if configured.
``d`` Shows all locks that are held.
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2.27.0
