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author | Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> | 2011-10-13 15:14:27 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-12-05 12:00:23 +0100 |
commit | bda62633983f9db49ce0b1a9235b3709c1cda5f0 (patch) | |
tree | a19384bfa63d4341ee28776ed7554444495ffbb2 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
parent | 99e8b9ca90d688c3ac7d3a141b701c9694a93925 (diff) | |
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x86, NMI: Add knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpus
Some machines may exhibit problems using the NMI to stop other
cpus. This knob just allows one to revert back to the original
behaviour to help diagnose the problem.
V2:
make function static
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: mjg@redhat.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: gong.chen@intel.com
Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a0c5c5f4fce6..b4339e5a50da 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1796,6 +1796,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). + nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to + shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR + irq. + nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of pagetables) support. |