From: tip-bot for Dou Liyang <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 03:37:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-64e05d118e357bb52a084b609436acf292ce7944@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171204040313.24824-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Commit-ID: 64e05d118e357bb52a084b609436acf292ce7944
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/64e05d118e357bb52a084b609436acf292ce7944
Author: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:03:13 +0800
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:32:07 +0100
x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver
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>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204040313.24824-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b74e133..852fb11 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -328,11 +328,15 @@
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.
+ For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
+ driver name.
+ Format: apic=driver_name
+ Examples: apic=bigsmp
apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-28 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-04 4:03 [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/apic: Avoid wrong warning when parsing 'apic=' in X86-32 case Dou Liyang
2017-12-04 4:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver Dou Liyang
2017-12-28 11:37 ` tip-bot for Dou Liyang [this message]
2017-12-28 11:36 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/apic: Avoid wrong warning when parsing 'apic=' in X86-32 case tip-bot for Dou Liyang
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