Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:21:59 -0800 |
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On 11/20/2017 05:27 AM, Dou Liyang wrote: > 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> > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > index 62436bd..fdd2382 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > @@ -328,11 +328,14 @@ > 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. > + If in X86-32, one more function is registering APIC > + driver. > + Examples: apic=bigsmp, bigsmp is an APIC driver name.
How about this?
For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC driver name. Format: apic=drivername Example: apic=bigsmp
> > apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting > Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } >
-- ~Randy
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