[PATCH] kdump: introduce "reset_devices" command line option

Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly
operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices).  This option can be
used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset
during initialization.

This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable
environment.  For ex.  during kdump boot where devices are in unknown
random state and BIOS execution has been skipped.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 255ec535bba8..54983246930d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1370,6 +1370,9 @@ running once the system is up.
                         Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
                         address space.
 
+        reset_devices   [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
+                        during initialization.
+
         resume=         [SWSUSP]
                         Specify the partition device for software suspend