From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:41:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490B7B6F.2080800@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490B7AFE.2030505@zytor.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 19:23 [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-10-31 19:28 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2008-10-31 21:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-31 21:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-31 21:41 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-11-01 5:56 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-11-01 6:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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