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 <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]> --- 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. -- 2.27.0
