From 8542b200cbe5609edd7aae0c304c091a1c290452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zachary Amsden Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 02:14:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] paravirt: Add option to allow skipping the timer check Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option. The VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings. It fires 100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs have not yet been delivered. In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs. While here, make check_timer be __init. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 2e1898e4e8fd..4e90aa427aea 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -599,8 +599,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hugepages= [HW,IA-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. - noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing - i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from keyboard and cannot control its state @@ -1052,9 +1050,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file in certain environments such as networked servers or real-time systems. + noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing + noirqdebug [IA-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and disable unhandled interrupt sources. + no_timer_check [IA-32,X86_64,APIC] Disables the code which tests for + broken timer IRQ sources. + noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured -- cgit v1.2.3