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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:23:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081031192358.GC20803@localhost> (raw)

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

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 19:23 Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2008-10-31 19:28 ` [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters Aristeu Rozanski
2008-10-31 21:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-31 21:39   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-31 21:41     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-01  5:56       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-11-01  6:09     ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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