From 6e1cb38a2aef7680975e71f23de187859ee8b158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:16:58 -0700 Subject: x64, x2apic/intr-remap: add x2apic support, including enabling interrupt-remapping x2apic support. Interrupt-remapping must be enabled before enabling x2apic, this is needed to ensure that IO interrupts continue to work properly after the cpu mode is changed to x2apic(which uses 32bit extended physical/cluster apic id). On systems where apicid's are > 255, BIOS can handover the control to OS in x2apic mode. Or if the OS handover was in legacy xapic mode, check if it is capable of x2apic mode. And if we succeed in enabling Interrupt-remapping, then we can enable x2apic mode in the CPU. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org Cc: steiner@sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 795c487af8e..56689ef1a15 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1377,6 +1377,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. + nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. + noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel lowmem mapping on PPC40x. -- cgit v1.2.3 From af9d13887f9e3699bbc852c39b076d30bb9dff2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:11:57 -0700 Subject: x2apic: kernel-parameter documentation for "x2apic_phys" Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 56689ef1a15..88b08acf2ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1379,6 +1379,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. + x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of + default x2apic cluster mode on platforms + supporting x2apic. + noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel lowmem mapping on PPC40x. -- cgit v1.2.3