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authorDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>2011-10-13 15:14:27 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-12-05 12:00:23 +0100
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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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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.