Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:41:03 -0700 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> >>> --- >>> >>> On top of -tip dda51106620c328b50007c259b9ef8cea2b7c3d2 >>> >>> Index: linux-2.6.git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt >>> =================================================================== >>> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-10-27 21:35:08.000000000 +0300 >>> +++ linux-2.6.git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-10-31 22:21:59.000000000 +0300 >>> @@ -1404,6 +1404,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. >>> Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] >>> >>> nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels >>> + Format: [panic,][num] >>> + Valid num: 0,1,2 >>> + 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off >>> + 1 - use IO-APIC >>> + 2 - use local APIC >>> + Instead of 1 and 2 it is possible to use the following >>> + symbolic names: lapic and ioapic >>> + Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic >>> >>> no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths >>> emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor >>> -- >> please update >> >> Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt >> > > If it's in x86-64, it's not =X86-32, so something is fishy. The > x86_64/boot-options.txt file really should be merged into > kernel-parameters.txt.
should have all command line etc in source code .c, and use some tools to extract them to keep them consistent.
YH
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