Re: [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: update description about sysrq crash

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com> writes:

> 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 <mka@chromium.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@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.

Makes sense. Applied, thanks.

jon