From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753517AbdLDEDi (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2017 23:03:38 -0500 Received: from mail.cn.fujitsu.com ([183.91.158.132]:33278 "EHLO heian.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752917AbdLDEDd (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2017 23:03:33 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.43,368,1503331200"; d="scan'208";a="30682907" From: Dou Liyang To: , CC: , , , , , , Dou Liyang Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:03:13 +0800 Message-ID: <20171204040313.24824-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.3 In-Reply-To: <20171204040313.24824-1-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <20171204040313.24824-1-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Originating-IP: [10.167.226.106] X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: 43A4848AE748.AEB11 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-yoursite-MailScanner-From: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There are two consumers of apic=: the APIC debug level and the low level generic architecture code, but Linux just documented the first one. Append the second description. Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang --- V1 --> V2: -Replcace the description suggested by Randy Dunlap --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 6571fbfdb2a1..0ead24cb282f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -328,11 +328,15 @@ not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. - apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Change the output verbosity whilst booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. + For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC + driver name. + Format: apic=driver_name + Examples: apic=bigsmp apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } -- 2.14.3