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authorLouis Bouchard <louis.bouchard@canonical.com>2017-01-05 11:41:07 +0100
committerLouis Bouchard <louis.bouchard@canonical.com>2017-01-05 11:41:07 +0100
commit261e213ea7f38882026348bd699ade7de3b80f98 (patch)
treeeb08c4bab5df9876ae6a25f28d90ca6171e54907
parent2e8d9f3b8feb747e7735e682a4746bb07054d662 (diff)
[debian] Add mention of SysRq in README
Add a mantion that sysrq might be used to trigger a crash. (Closes: 793753) Signed-off-by: Louis Bouchard <louis.bouchard@canonical.com>
-rw-r--r--debian/kdump-tools.README.Debian4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/kdump-tools.README.Debian b/debian/kdump-tools.README.Debian
index 401663d..52ce714 100644
--- a/debian/kdump-tools.README.Debian
+++ b/debian/kdump-tools.README.Debian
@@ -64,3 +64,7 @@ may still be required. Specifically:
some systems may need KDUMP_KEXEC_ARGS="--noio". Use this
if the system hangs after a panic, but before the kdump kernel
begins to boot.
+6. Magic SysRq key can be used to trigger a crash
+ You can manually trigger a kernel crash by using the magic SysRq
+ key. SysRq usage is described in details in the kernel documentation
+ (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/sysrq.html)