documentation: Update per-CPU kthreads documentation

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt b/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
index 81fe051c4447..f4cbfe0ba108 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
@@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ To reduce its OS jitter, do any of the following:
                 (based on an earlier one from Gilad Ben-Yossef) that
                 reduces or even eliminates vmstat overhead for some
                 workloads at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/4/379.
-        e.      If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with
+        e.      Boot with "elevator=noop" to avoid workqueue use by
+                the block layer.
+        f.      If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with
                 CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_DAEMON=n.  This prevents the RTAS
                 daemon from running on each CPU every second or so.
                 (This will require editing Kconfig files and will defeat
@@ -213,12 +215,12 @@ To reduce its OS jitter, do any of the following:
                 due to the rtas_event_scan() function.
                 WARNING:  Please check your CPU specifications to
                 make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
-        f.      If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with
+        g.      If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with
                 CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR=n to avoid OS jitter from
                 spu_gov_work().
                 WARNING:  Please check your CPU specifications to
                 make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
-        g.      If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with
+        h.      If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with
                 CONFIG_PMAC_RACKMETER=n to disable the CPU-meter,
                 avoiding OS jitter from rackmeter_do_timer().
 
@@ -260,8 +262,12 @@ Purpose: Detect software lockups on each CPU.
 To reduce its OS jitter, do at least one of the following:
 1.      Build with CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=n, which will prevent these
         kthreads from being created in the first place.
-2.      Echo a zero to /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog to disable the
+2.      Boot with "nosoftlockup=0", which will also prevent these kthreads
+        from being created.  Other related watchdog and softlockup boot
+        parameters may be found in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+        and Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt.
+3.      Echo a zero to /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog to disable the
         watchdog timer.
-3.      Echo a large number of /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh in
+4.      Echo a large number of /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh in
         order to reduce the frequency of OS jitter due to the watchdog
         timer down to a level that is acceptable for your workload.