Commit a8f2a68e authored by Gao Xiang's avatar Gao Xiang Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation: sysrq: update description about sysrq crash 



After commit 8341f2f2 ("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.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309191550.3955601-1-hsiangkao@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 3eca1cfb

Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst

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@@ -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.