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author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2007-02-13 07:26:23 -0500 |
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committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2007-02-13 07:26:23 -0500 |
commit | 57d307720c9a60038f134b0567ca302b88313a0a (patch) | |
tree | d84b4ca0181c3e8c638fd3c0c405bf61aa0f523e /Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | |
parent | 44264261d8fb87849118e41b2735bd95db28126f (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 0d653993f361..625a21db0c2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | |||
@@ -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 | ||
276 | Debugging | 276 | Debugging |
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] | 295 | Miscellaneous |
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 | |||
302 | Misc | ||
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. |