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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-06-04 11:25:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-06-04 11:25:31 -0700 |
| commit | c22072bdf053b115a1126658100967dda00b5ecf (patch) | |
| tree | 21520119dbbfce237a5005e9840105e86944c9cc /Documentation | |
| parent | 0640113be25d283e0ff77a9f041e1242182387f0 (diff) | |
| parent | 62cf20b32aee4ae889a2eb40fd41c0eab73de970 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c22072bdf053b115a1126658100967dda00b5ecf.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option
is default off, well tested and non dangerous."
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section
clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support
clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver
clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
tick: Add tick skew boot option
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index c45513d806ab..a92c5ebf373e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2543,6 +2543,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate + xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock + contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. + Format: { "0" | "1" } + 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" + 1 -- enable. + Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be + enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. + security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first security module asking for security registration will be |