Re: [PATCH 21/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST

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Em Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:31:44 +0800
Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
> add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/x86/index.rst               |   1 +
>  Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst | 326 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 278 ------------------
>  Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst        |  10 +
>  4 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 278 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> index 19323c5b89ce..e7becb146c30 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> @@ -27,3 +27,4 @@ Linux x86 Support
>     resctrl_ui
>     usb-legacy-support
>     i386/index
> +   x86_64/index
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..2378f30c694a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,326 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +===========================
> +AMD64 Specific Boot Options
> +===========================
> +
> +There are many others (usually documented in driver documentation), but
> +only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here.
> +
> +Machine check
> +=============
> +Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables.
> +
> +   mce=off
> +		Disable machine check
> +   mce=no_cmci
> +		Disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
> +		Intel processor supports.  Usually this disablement is
> +		not recommended, but it might be handy if your hardware
> +		is misbehaving.
> +		Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than with
> +		due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get duplicated
> +		error logs.
> +   mce=dont_log_ce
> +		Don't make logs for corrected errors.  All events reported
> +		as corrected are silently cleared by OS.
> +		This option will be useful if you have no interest in any
> +		of corrected errors.
> +   mce=ignore_ce
> +		Disable features for corrected errors, e.g. polling timer
> +		and CMCI.  All events reported as corrected are not cleared
> +		by OS and remained in its error banks.
> +		Usually this disablement is not recommended, however if
> +		there is an agent checking/clearing corrected errors
> +		(e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conflicting
> +		with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent,
> +		then this option will be a help.
> +   mce=no_lmce
> +		Do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
> +		to broadcast MCEs.
> +   mce=bootlog
> +		Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
> +		Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older because some BIOS
> +		leave bogus ones.
> +		If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
> +		to make sure you log even machine check events that result
> +		in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
> +   mce=nobootlog
> +		Disable boot machine check logging.
> +   mce=tolerancelevel[,monarchtimeout] (number,number)
> +		tolerance levels:
> +		0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
> +		1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
> +		2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
> +		3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only)
> +		Default is 1
> +		Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable.
> +		monarchtimeout:
> +		Sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine checks. 0
> +		to disable.
> +   mce=bios_cmci_threshold
> +		Don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot option
> +		prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI threshold set by the
> +		bios. Without this option, Linux always sets the CMCI
> +		threshold to 1. Enabling this may make memory predictive failure
> +		analysis less effective if the bios sets thresholds for memory
> +		errors since we will not see details for all errors.
> +   mce=recovery
> +		Force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
> +
> +   nomce (for compatibility with i386)
> +		same as mce=off
> +
> +   Everything else is in sysfs now.
> +
> +APICs
> +=====
> +
> +   apic
> +	Use IO-APIC. Default
> +
> +   noapic
> +	Don't use the IO-APIC.
> +
> +   disableapic
> +	Don't use the local APIC
> +
> +   nolapic
> +     Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility)
> +
> +   pirq=...
> +	See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt
> +
> +   noapictimer
> +	Don't set up the APIC timer
> +
> +   no_timer_check
> +	Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around
> +	problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards.
> +
> +   apicpmtimer
> +	Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
> +	apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally broken.
> +
> +Timing
> +======
> +
> +  notsc
> +    Deprecated, use tsc=unstable instead.
> +
> +  nohpet
> +    Don't use the HPET timer.
> +
> +Idle loop
> +=========
> +
> +  idle=poll
> +    Don't do power saving in the idle loop using HLT, but poll for rescheduling
> +    event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
> +    to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also
> +    makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate.
> +    Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T
> +    CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop.
> +    It may also interact badly with hyperthreading.
> +
> +Rebooting
> +=========
> +
> +   reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] [, [w]arm | [c]old]
> +    * bios - Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset

Please use the same convention as the one you used before, e. g.: 

	* bios
		Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset

and so on.

After such change:

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>


> +    * warm - Don't set the cold reboot flag
> +    * cold - Set the cold reboot flag
> +    * triple - Force a triple fault (init)
> +    * kbd  - Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
> +    * acpi - Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not configured or
> +      the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset
> +      using the keyboard controller.
> +    * efi - Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or
> +      the EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
> +      the keyboard controller.
> +
> +   Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory
> +   systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check.
> +   Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized
> +   on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems.
> +
> +   reboot=force
> +     Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot more reliable
> +     in some cases.
> +
> +Non Executable Mappings
> +=======================
> +
> +  noexec=on|off
> +    * on  - Enable(default)
> +    * off - Disable
> +
> +NUMA
> +====
> +
> +  numa=off
> +    Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
> +
> +  numa=noacpi
> +    Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
> +
> +  numa=fake=<size>[MG]
> +    If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with nodes of
> +    size interleaved over physical nodes.
> +
> +  numa=fake=<N>
> +    If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes
> +    interleaved over physical nodes.
> +
> +  numa=fake=<N>U
> +    If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each
> +    physical node into N emulated nodes.
> +
> +ACPI
> +====
> +
> +  acpi=off
> +    Don't enable ACPI
> +  acpi=ht
> +    Use ACPI boot table parsing, but don't enable ACPI interpreter
> +  acpi=force
> +    Force ACPI on (currently not needed)
> +  acpi=strict
> +    Disable out of spec ACPI workarounds.
> +  acpi_sci={edge,level,high,low}
> +    Set up ACPI SCI interrupt.
> +  acpi=noirq
> +    Don't route interrupts
> +  acpi=nocmcff
> +    Disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. This
> +    disables parsing the HEST CMC error source to check if
> +    firmware has set the FF flag. This may result in
> +    duplicate corrected error reports.
> +
> +PCI
> +===
> +
> +  pci=off
> +    Don't use PCI
> +  pci=conf1
> +    Use conf1 access.
> +  pci=conf2
> +    Use conf2 access.
> +  pci=rom
> +    Assign ROMs.
> +  pci=assign-busses
> +    Assign busses
> +  pci=irqmask=MASK
> +    Set PCI interrupt mask to MASK
> +  pci=lastbus=NUMBER
> +    Scan up to NUMBER busses, no matter what the mptable says.
> +  pci=noacpi
> +    Don't use ACPI to set up PCI interrupt routing.
> +
> +IOMMU (input/output memory management unit)
> +===========================================
> +Multiple x86-64 PCI-DMA mapping implementations exist, for example:
> +
> +   1. <lib/dma-direct.c>: use no hardware/software IOMMU at all
> +      (e.g. because you have < 3 GB memory).
> +      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU"
> +
> +   2. <arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c>: AMD GART based hardware IOMMU.
> +      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU"
> +
> +   3. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c> : Software IOMMU implementation. Used
> +      e.g. if there is no hardware IOMMU in the system and it is need because
> +      you have >3GB memory or told the kernel to us it (iommu=soft))
> +      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering
> +      for IO (SWIOTLB)"
> +
> +   4. <arch/x86_64/pci-calgary.c> : IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU. Used in IBM
> +      pSeries and xSeries servers. This hardware IOMMU supports DMA address
> +      mapping with memory protection, etc.
> +      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using Calgary IOMMU"
> +
> +::
> +
> +  iommu=[<size>][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce]
> +  [,memaper[=<order>]][,merge][,fullflush][,nomerge]
> +  [,noaperture][,calgary]
> +
> +General iommu options:
> +
> +    off
> +      Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
> +    noforce
> +      Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not needed. (default).
> +    force
> +      Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when it is
> +      not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB memory).
> +    soft
> +      Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
> +      Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
> +      of an available hardware IOMMU.
> +
> +iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU:
> +
> +    <size>
> +      Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
> +    allowed
> +      Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets.
> +    fullflush
> +      Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
> +    nofullflush
> +      Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
> +    memaper[=<order>]
> +      Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<<order.
> +      (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
> +    merge
> +      Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force" (experimental).
> +    nomerge
> +      Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
> +    noaperture
> +      Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
> +    noagp
> +      Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
> +    panic
> +      Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
> +    calgary
> +      Use the Calgary IOMMU if it is available
> +
> +iommu options only relevant to the software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) IOMMU
> +implementation:
> +
> +    swiotlb=<pages>[,force]
> +      <pages>
> +        Prereserve that many 128K pages for the software IO bounce buffering.
> +      force
> +        Force all IO through the software TLB.
> +
> +Settings for the IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU currently found in IBM
> +pSeries and xSeries machines
> +
> +    calgary=[64k,128k,256k,512k,1M,2M,4M,8M]
> +      Set the size of each PCI slot's translation table when using the
> +      Calgary IOMMU. This is the size of the translation table itself
> +      in main memory. The smallest table, 64k, covers an IO space of
> +      32MB; the largest, 8MB table, can cover an IO space of 4GB.
> +      Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
> +    calgary=[translate_empty_slots]
> +      Enable translation even on slots that have no devices attached to
> +      them, in case a device will be hotplugged in the future.
> +    calgary=[disable=<PCI bus number>]
> +      Disable translation on a given PHB. For
> +      example, the built-in graphics adapter resides on the first bridge
> +      (PCI bus number 0); if translation (isolation) is enabled on this
> +      bridge, X servers that access the hardware directly from user
> +      space might stop working. Use this option if you have devices that
> +      are accessed from userspace directly on some PCI host bridge.
> +    panic
> +      Always panic when IOMMU overflows
> +
> +
> +Miscellaneous
> +=============
> +
> +  nogbpages
> +    Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
> +  gbpages
> +    Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> deleted file mode 100644
> index abc53886655e..000000000000
> --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,278 +0,0 @@
> -AMD64 specific boot options
> -
> -There are many others (usually documented in driver documentation), but
> -only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here.
> -
> -Machine check
> -
> -   Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables.
> -
> -   mce=off
> -		Disable machine check
> -   mce=no_cmci
> -		Disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
> -		Intel processor supports.  Usually this disablement is
> -		not recommended, but it might be handy if your hardware
> -		is misbehaving.
> -		Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than with
> -		due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get duplicated
> -		error logs.
> -   mce=dont_log_ce
> -		Don't make logs for corrected errors.  All events reported
> -		as corrected are silently cleared by OS.
> -		This option will be useful if you have no interest in any
> -		of corrected errors.
> -   mce=ignore_ce
> -		Disable features for corrected errors, e.g. polling timer
> -		and CMCI.  All events reported as corrected are not cleared
> -		by OS and remained in its error banks.
> -		Usually this disablement is not recommended, however if
> -		there is an agent checking/clearing corrected errors
> -		(e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conflicting
> -		with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent,
> -		then this option will be a help.
> -   mce=no_lmce
> -		Do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
> -		to broadcast MCEs.
> -   mce=bootlog
> -		Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
> -		Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older because some BIOS
> -		leave bogus ones.
> -		If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
> -		to make sure you log even machine check events that result
> -		in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
> -   mce=nobootlog
> -		Disable boot machine check logging.
> -   mce=tolerancelevel[,monarchtimeout] (number,number)
> -		tolerance levels:
> -		0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
> -		1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
> -		2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
> -		3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only)
> -		Default is 1
> -		Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable.
> -		monarchtimeout:
> -		Sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine checks. 0
> -		to disable.
> -   mce=bios_cmci_threshold
> -		Don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot option
> -		prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI threshold set by the
> -		bios. Without this option, Linux always sets the CMCI
> -		threshold to 1. Enabling this may make memory predictive failure
> -		analysis less effective if the bios sets thresholds for memory
> -		errors since we will not see details for all errors.
> -   mce=recovery
> -		Force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
> -
> -   nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off
> -
> -   Everything else is in sysfs now.
> -
> -APICs
> -
> -   apic		 Use IO-APIC. Default
> -
> -   noapic	 Don't use the IO-APIC.
> -
> -   disableapic	 Don't use the local APIC
> -
> -   nolapic	 Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility)
> -
> -   pirq=...	 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt
> -
> -   noapictimer	 Don't set up the APIC timer
> -
> -   no_timer_check Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around
> -		 problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards.
> -   apicpmtimer
> -		 Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
> -		 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
> -		 broken.
> -
> -Timing
> -
> -  notsc
> -  Deprecated, use tsc=unstable instead.
> -
> -  nohpet
> -  Don't use the HPET timer.
> -
> -Idle loop
> -
> -  idle=poll
> -  Don't do power saving in the idle loop using HLT, but poll for rescheduling
> -  event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
> -  to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also
> -  makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate.
> -  Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T
> -  CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop.
> -  It may also interact badly with hyperthreading.
> -
> -Rebooting
> -
> -   reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] [, [w]arm | [c]old]
> -   bios	  Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
> -   warm   Don't set the cold reboot flag
> -   cold   Set the cold reboot flag
> -   triple Force a triple fault (init)
> -   kbd    Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
> -   acpi   Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not configured or the
> -          ACPI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
> -          the keyboard controller.
> -   efi    Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or the
> -          EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
> -          the keyboard controller.
> -
> -   Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory
> -   systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check.
> -   Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized
> -   on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems.
> -
> -   reboot=force
> -
> -   Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot more reliable
> -   in some cases.
> -
> -Non Executable Mappings
> -
> -  noexec=on|off
> -
> -  on      Enable(default)
> -  off     Disable
> -
> -NUMA
> -
> -  numa=off	Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
> -
> -  numa=noacpi   Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
> -
> -  numa=fake=<size>[MG]
> -		If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with nodes of
> -		size interleaved over physical nodes.
> -
> -  numa=fake=<N>
> -		If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes
> -		interleaved over physical nodes.
> -
> -  numa=fake=<N>U
> -		If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each
> -		physical node into N emulated nodes.
> -
> -ACPI
> -
> -  acpi=off	Don't enable ACPI
> -  acpi=ht	Use ACPI boot table parsing, but don't enable ACPI
> -		interpreter
> -  acpi=force	Force ACPI on (currently not needed)
> -
> -  acpi=strict   Disable out of spec ACPI workarounds.
> -
> -  acpi_sci={edge,level,high,low}  Set up ACPI SCI interrupt.
> -
> -  acpi=noirq	Don't route interrupts
> -
> -  acpi=nocmcff	Disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. This
> -		disables parsing the HEST CMC error source to check if
> -		firmware has set the FF flag. This may result in
> -		duplicate corrected error reports.
> -
> -PCI
> -
> -  pci=off		Don't use PCI
> -  pci=conf1		Use conf1 access.
> -  pci=conf2		Use conf2 access.
> -  pci=rom		Assign ROMs.
> -  pci=assign-busses	Assign busses
> -  pci=irqmask=MASK	Set PCI interrupt mask to MASK
> -  pci=lastbus=NUMBER	Scan up to NUMBER busses, no matter what the mptable says.
> -  pci=noacpi		Don't use ACPI to set up PCI interrupt routing.
> -
> -IOMMU (input/output memory management unit)
> -
> - Multiple x86-64 PCI-DMA mapping implementations exist, for example:
> -
> -   1. <lib/dma-direct.c>: use no hardware/software IOMMU at all
> -      (e.g. because you have < 3 GB memory).
> -      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU"
> -
> -   2. <arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c>: AMD GART based hardware IOMMU.
> -      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU"
> -
> -   3. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c> : Software IOMMU implementation. Used
> -      e.g. if there is no hardware IOMMU in the system and it is need because
> -      you have >3GB memory or told the kernel to us it (iommu=soft))
> -      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering
> -      for IO (SWIOTLB)"
> -
> -   4. <arch/x86_64/pci-calgary.c> : IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU. Used in IBM
> -      pSeries and xSeries servers. This hardware IOMMU supports DMA address
> -      mapping with memory protection, etc.
> -      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using Calgary IOMMU"
> -
> - iommu=[<size>][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce]
> -	[,memaper[=<order>]][,merge][,fullflush][,nomerge]
> -	[,noaperture][,calgary]
> -
> -  General iommu options:
> -    off                Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
> -    noforce            Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not needed.
> -                       (default).
> -    force              Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when it is
> -                       not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB memory).
> -    soft               Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
> -                       Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
> -                       of an available hardware IOMMU.
> -
> -  iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU:
> -    <size>             Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
> -    allowed            Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets.
> -    fullflush          Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
> -    nofullflush        Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
> -    memaper[=<order>]  Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<<order.
> -                       (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
> -    merge              Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
> -                       (experimental).
> -    nomerge            Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
> -    noaperture         Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
> -    noagp              Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
> -    panic              Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
> -    calgary            Use the Calgary IOMMU if it is available
> -
> -  iommu options only relevant to the software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) IOMMU
> -  implementation:
> -    swiotlb=<pages>[,force]
> -    <pages>            Prereserve that many 128K pages for the software IO
> -                       bounce buffering.
> -    force              Force all IO through the software TLB.
> -
> -  Settings for the IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU currently found in IBM
> -  pSeries and xSeries machines:
> -
> -    calgary=[64k,128k,256k,512k,1M,2M,4M,8M]
> -    calgary=[translate_empty_slots]
> -    calgary=[disable=<PCI bus number>]
> -    panic              Always panic when IOMMU overflows
> -
> -    64k,...,8M - Set the size of each PCI slot's translation table
> -    when using the Calgary IOMMU. This is the size of the translation
> -    table itself in main memory. The smallest table, 64k, covers an IO
> -    space of 32MB; the largest, 8MB table, can cover an IO space of
> -    4GB. Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
> -
> -    translate_empty_slots - Enable translation even on slots that have
> -    no devices attached to them, in case a device will be hotplugged
> -    in the future.
> -
> -    disable=<PCI bus number> - Disable translation on a given PHB. For
> -    example, the built-in graphics adapter resides on the first bridge
> -    (PCI bus number 0); if translation (isolation) is enabled on this
> -    bridge, X servers that access the hardware directly from user
> -    space might stop working. Use this option if you have devices that
> -    are accessed from userspace directly on some PCI host bridge.
> -
> -Miscellaneous
> -
> -	nogbpages
> -		Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
> -	gbpages
> -		Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a8cf7713cac9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +==============
> +x86_64 Support
> +==============
> +
> +.. toctree::
> +   :maxdepth: 2
> +
> +   boot-options



Thanks,
Mauro



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