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-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt6
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index ffe1c062088b..e566affeed7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ Machine check
7 7
8 mce=off disable machine check 8 mce=off disable machine check
9 mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting. 9 mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
10 Disabled by default because some BIOS leave bogus ones. 10 Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
11 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though 11 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
12 to make sure you log even machine check events that result 12 to make sure you log even machine check events that result
13 in a reboot. 13 in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
14 mce=nobootlog
15 Disable boot machine check logging.
14 mce=tolerancelevel (number) 16 mce=tolerancelevel (number)
15 0: always panic, 1: panic if deadlock possible, 17 0: always panic, 1: panic if deadlock possible,
16 2: try to avoid panic, 3: never panic or exit (for testing) 18 2: try to avoid panic, 3: never panic or exit (for testing)
@@ -122,6 +124,9 @@ SMP
122 124
123 cpumask=MASK only use cpus with bits set in mask 125 cpumask=MASK only use cpus with bits set in mask
124 126
127 additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug
128 (defaults are specified by the BIOS or half the available CPUs)
129
125NUMA 130NUMA
126 131
127 numa=off Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 132 numa=off Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
@@ -188,6 +193,9 @@ Debugging
188 193
189 kstack=N Print that many words from the kernel stack in oops dumps. 194 kstack=N Print that many words from the kernel stack in oops dumps.
190 195
196 pagefaulttrace Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging
197 and will create a lot of output.
198
191Misc 199Misc
192 200
193 noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropiate ones 201 noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropiate ones
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
index 662b73971a67..133561b9cb0c 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
60000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm 60000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm
7hole caused by [48:63] sign extension 7hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
8ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole 8ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole
9ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of phys. memory 9ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory
10ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole 10ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole
11ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space 11ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
12... unused hole ... 12... unused hole ...
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
14... unused hole ... 14... unused hole ...
15ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space 15ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space
16 16
17The direct mapping covers all memory in the system upto the highest
18memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
19holes)
20
17vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of 21vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of
18the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as 22the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as
19reference. 23reference.