linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: kernel-parameters: reformat "lapic=" boot option

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Message-ID: <20200924104751.328cc109@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:47:51 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: kernel-parameters: reformat
 "lapic=" boot option

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:47:39 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> Reformat "lapic=" to try to make it more understandable and similar
> to the style that is mostly used in this file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Cc: x86@...nel.org
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- linux-next-20200917.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ linux-next-20200917/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2384,9 +2384,10 @@
>  	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
>  			disabled it.
>  
> -	lapic=		[X86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
> +	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
>  			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
>  			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
> +			Format: notscdeadline

Applied, thanks.

jon