move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code

The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 991bb87a1704..69231670eb95 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -433,3 +433,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail);
 
 core_param(panic, panic_timeout, int, 0644);
 core_param(pause_on_oops, pause_on_oops, int, 0644);
+
+static int __init oops_setup(char *s)
+{
+	if (!s)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!strcmp(s, "panic"))
+		panic_on_oops = 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("oops", oops_setup);