From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v5 5/5] Make reboot_cpuid a kernel parameter.
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130417201533.GL3658@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <516EFF3D.4040506@zytor.com>
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:59:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It is also worth noting that the documentation says reboot=s[mp]#
> whereas in fact only reboot=s# parse correctly. I consider this to be a
> bug.
>
> If we centralized the parser, we could take a string like
>
> "reboot=bios,smp32,warm"
>
> and parse it into:
>
> reboot_cpu = 32
> reboot_mode = "bw"
>
> ... and pass the information in that form to the arch layer. I don't
> think we can do more parsing at that in the main kernel.
OK. I will go back to the drawing board again.
Robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-17 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 18:43 [PATCH -v5 0/5] Shutdown from reboot_cpuid without stopping other cpus Robin Holt
2013-04-17 18:43 ` [PATCH -v5 1/5] CPU hotplug: Provide a generic helper to disable/enable CPU hotplug Robin Holt
2013-04-17 18:43 ` [PATCH -v5 2/5] Migrate shutdown/reboot to boot cpu Robin Holt
2013-04-17 18:43 ` [PATCH -v5 3/5] Move shutdown/reboot related functions to kernel/reboot.c Robin Holt
2013-04-17 18:43 ` [PATCH -v5 4/5] checkpatch.pl the new kernel/reboot.c file Robin Holt
2013-04-17 19:13 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-17 18:43 ` [PATCH -v5 5/5] Make reboot_cpuid a kernel parameter Robin Holt
2013-04-17 19:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-17 19:48 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-17 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-17 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-17 20:15 ` Robin Holt [this message]
2013-04-18 0:17 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-18 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-18 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-18 1:25 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-18 2:04 ` Robin Holt
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