linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Docs: admin/kernel-parameters: edit a few boot options

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Message-ID: <ffe0183c-7e48-2ac7-9c69-ca87d98c442a@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:41:49 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Docs: admin/kernel-parameters: edit a few boot options



On 3/21/22 17:45, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:
>> Clean up some of admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt:
>>
>> a. "smt" should be "smt=" (S390)
>> b. add "smt-enabled" for POWERPC
> 
> I'd rather you didn't. It's not well tested and we ignore it entirely on
> some platforms because it causes bugs. Eventually I'd like to remove it.
> 
> If we ever get time we'd want to support the generic `nosmt` argument
> instead.

No problem. Thanks for replying.

-- 
~Randy