Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - document lapic and ioapic parameters

Yinghai Lu wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
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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.

-hpa

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