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Sebastian Andrzej SiewiorPeter Zijlstra
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sched/core: Update kernel boot parameters for LAZY preempt.
Update the documentation for the `preempt=' parameter which now also accepts `lazy'. Fixes: 7c70cb9 ("sched: Add Lazy preemption model") Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield
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contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
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explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
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lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
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of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
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one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
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preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
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task returns to user space.
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print-fatal-signals=
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[KNL] debug: print fatal signals

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