x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver
authorDou Liyang <[email protected]>
Mon, 4 Dec 2017 04:03:13 +0000 (12:03 +0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 11:32:07 +0000 (12:32 +0100)
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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                        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 }