Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:39:10 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters |
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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.
-hpa
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