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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>2008-11-01 11:06:51 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-03 03:17:39 -0500
commit5b9a0e14eb4bf40a7cb780af4723560e06753f2d (patch)
tree9f5720657a6ff48bac77b64448f4b6b85b63ce7e /Documentation
parent8a1c8eb75be492e20003966652c9cd5ff57a559d (diff)
x86: nmi - nmi_watchdog boot param docs cleanup
Impact: documentation update 1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with. 2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first position otherwise it will not be recognized. 3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt11
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 343e0f0f84b6..6246220ac914 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1403,7 +1403,20 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
1403 when a NMI is triggered. 1403 when a NMI is triggered.
1404 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 1404 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
1405 1405
1406 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels 1406 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32,X86-64] Debugging features for SMP kernels
1407 Format: [panic,][num]
1408 Valid num: 0,1,2
1409 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
1410 1 - use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
1411 2 - use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using
1412 a performance counter. Note: This will use one performance
1413 counter and the local APIC's performance vector.
1414 When panic is specified panic when an NMI watchdog timeout occurs.
1415 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and need the box
1416 quickly up again.
1417 Instead of 1 and 2 it is possible to use the following
1418 symbolic names: lapic and ioapic
1419 Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic
1407 1420
1408 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 1421 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1409 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 1422 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index 72ffb5373ec7..bc8a339c1f27 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -79,17 +79,6 @@ Timing
79 Report when timer interrupts are lost because some code turned off 79 Report when timer interrupts are lost because some code turned off
80 interrupts for too long. 80 interrupts for too long.
81 81
82 nmi_watchdog=NUMBER[,panic]
83 NUMBER can be:
84 0 don't use an NMI watchdog
85 1 use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
86 2 use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using a performance counter. Note
87 This will use one performance counter and the local APIC's performance
88 vector.
89 When panic is specified panic when an NMI watchdog timeout occurs.
90 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and need the box
91 quickly up again.
92
93 nohpet 82 nohpet
94 Don't use the HPET timer. 83 Don't use the HPET timer.
95 84