From patchwork Fri Mar 6 16:35:58 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Paulius Zaleckas X-Patchwork-Id: 10393 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n26Ga68J000313 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:36:07 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751064AbZCFQgH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:36:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752020AbZCFQgH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:36:07 -0500 Received: from 81-7-68-229.static.zebra.lt ([81.7.68.229]:35494 "EHLO teltonika.lt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751226AbZCFQgF (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:36:05 -0500 Received: (qmail 4769 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2009 16:35:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [127.0.0.1]) (paulius.zaleckas@[217.147.39.138]) (envelope-sender ) by teltonika.lt (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Mar 2009 16:35:58 -0000 From: Paulius Zaleckas Subject: [PATCH v2] Add documentation for "nohlt" kernel parameter To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Cc: yanok@emcraft.com, wd@denx.de Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20090306163558.11873.5076.stgit@Programuotojas> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-sh-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org As per discussion in: http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=123633652517391&w=2 v2: - usefull<->useful Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas Acked-by: Paul Mundt --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sh" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 54f21a5..5d251ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1487,7 +1487,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction - nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] + nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or + wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to + use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt instruction doesn't work correctly and not to