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-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/boot.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt7
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index f4f268c2b826..cb81741d3b0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -608,6 +608,9 @@ Protocol: 2.12+
- If 1, the kernel supports the 64-bit EFI handoff entry point
given at handover_offset + 0x200.
+ Bit 4 (read): XLF_EFI_KEXEC
+ - If 1, the kernel supports kexec EFI boot with EFI runtime support.
+
Field name: cmdline_size
Type: read
Offset/size: 0x238/4
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index 1228b22e142b..5223479291a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -78,14 +78,6 @@ APICs
no_timer_check Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around
problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards.
-
- apicmaintimer Run time keeping from the local APIC timer instead
- of using the PIT/HPET interrupt for this. This is useful
- when the PIT/HPET interrupts are unreliable.
-
- noapicmaintimer Don't do time keeping using the APIC timer.
- Useful when this option was auto selected, but doesn't work.
-
apicpmtimer
Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
@@ -144,11 +136,6 @@ Non Executable Mappings
on Enable(default)
off Disable
-SMP
-
- additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug
- (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec)
-
NUMA
numa=off Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
@@ -289,16 +276,6 @@ Debugging
kstack=N Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps.
- pagefaulttrace Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging
- and will create a lot of output.
-
- call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new]
- old: use old inexact backtracer
- new: use new exact dwarf2 unwinder
- both: print entries from both
- newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets
- stuck (default)
-
Miscellaneous
nogbpages
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index 881582f75c9c..c584a51add15 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -28,4 +28,11 @@ reference.
Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space,
but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
+->trampoline_pgd:
+
+We map EFI runtime services in the aforementioned PGD in the virtual
+range of 64Gb (arbitrarily set, can be raised if needed)
+
+0xffffffef00000000 - 0xffffffff00000000
+
-Andi Kleen, Jul 2004
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