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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2007-02-13 07:26:23 -0500
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-02-13 07:26:23 -0500
commit57d307720c9a60038f134b0567ca302b88313a0a (patch)
treed84b4ca0181c3e8c638fd3c0c405bf61aa0f523e /Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
parent44264261d8fb87849118e41b2735bd95db28126f (diff)
[PATCH] x86-64: cleanup Doc/x86_64/ files
Fix typos. Lots of whitespace changes for readability and consistency. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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@@ -226,9 +226,9 @@ IOMMU (input/output memory management unit)
226 is 20. 226 is 20.
227 memaper[=<order>] Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<<order. 227 memaper[=<order>] Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<<order.
228 (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB) 228 (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
229 merge Do scather-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force" 229 merge Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
230 (experimental). 230 (experimental).
231 nomerge Don't do scather-gather (SG) merging. 231 nomerge Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
232 noaperture Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP. 232 noaperture Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
233 forcesac Force single-address cycle (SAC) mode for masks <40bits 233 forcesac Force single-address cycle (SAC) mode for masks <40bits
234 (experimental). 234 (experimental).
@@ -275,14 +275,14 @@ IOMMU (input/output memory management unit)
275 275
276Debugging 276Debugging
277 277
278 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process, 278 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
279 but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine. 279 but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
280 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 280 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
281 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 281 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
282 282
283 kstack=N Print that many words from the kernel stack in oops dumps. 283 kstack=N Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps.
284 284
285 pagefaulttrace Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging 285 pagefaulttrace Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging
286 and will create a lot of output. 286 and will create a lot of output.
287 287
288 call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new] 288 call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new]
@@ -292,15 +292,8 @@ Debugging
292 newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets 292 newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets
293 stuck (default) 293 stuck (default)
294 294
295 call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new] 295Miscellaneous
296 old: use old inexact backtracer
297 new: use new exact dwarf2 unwinder
298 both: print entries from both
299 newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets
300 stuck (default)
301
302Misc
303 296
304 noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropriate ones 297 noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropriate ones
305 for the CPU. This may be useful on asymmetric MP systems 298 for the CPU. This may be useful on asymmetric MP systems
306 where some CPU have less capabilities than the others. 299 where some CPUs have less capabilities than others.