Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Dou Liyang <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver | Date | Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:03:13 +0800 |
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There are two consumers of apic=: the APIC debug level and the low level generic architecture code, but Linux just documented the first one.
Append the second description.
Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> --- V1 --> V2: -Replcace the description suggested by Randy Dunlap --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 6571fbfdb2a1..0ead24cb282f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -328,11 +328,15 @@ not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. - apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Change the output verbosity whilst booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. + For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC + driver name. + Format: apic=driver_name + Examples: apic=bigsmp apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } -- 2.14.3
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