x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver
There are two consumers of apic=: the APIC debug level and the low
level generic architecture code, but Linux just documented the first
one.
Append the second description.
Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204040313.24824-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b74e133..852fb11 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -328,11 +328,15 @@
not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
APC and your system crashes randomly.
- apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
+ apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
Change the amount of debugging information output
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
+ For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
+ driver name.
+ Format: apic=driver_name
+ Examples: apic=bigsmp
apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
