Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751998AbYKAF4W (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:56:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751069AbYKAF4O (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:56:14 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.237]:55175 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbYKAF4M (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:56:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=UaW2v1uwkijBs9MMphiyOGwm59y3ukfN++II0KWyY5Q2hOYyLIWvhBBdrmvgBvs00r tgelyIoCmTrZ5vvVD9GJQdAbBd7JuUfZd0BXn1GvbV61yVG36BAiWN6Z8w0grhobMdz2 QcZ/kNOEtZJX+tJGJb8D8oT3Lqqq+q17BPc6c= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:56:11 +0300 From: "Cyrill Gorcunov" To: "Yinghai Lu" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , "Aristeu Rozanski" , LKML , "Thomas Gleixner" In-Reply-To: <490B7B6F.2080800@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081031192358.GC20803@localhost> <86802c440810311422w79d0e697k246cb5ca76bf91b5@mail.gmail.com> <490B7AFE.2030505@zytor.com> <490B7B6F.2080800@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2205 Lines: 50 On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Yinghai Lu wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov >>>> --- >>>> >>>> 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 > > Will update boot-options.txt by a separate patch later. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/