Commit-ID: 64e05d118e357bb52a084b609436acf292ce7944 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/64e05d118e357bb52a084b609436acf292ce7944 Author: Dou Liyang <douly.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:03:13 +0800 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> CommitDate: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:32:07 +0100
x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver 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 <douly.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: pet...@infradead.org Cc: rdun...@infradead.org Cc: cor...@lwn.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204040313.24824-2-douly.f...@cn.fujitsu.com --- 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 b74e133..852fb11 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 }
