x86: move x86-specific documentation into Documentation/x86

The current organization of the x86 documentation makes it appear as
if the "i386" documentation doesn't apply to x86-64, which is does.
Thus, move that documentation into Documentation/x86, and move the
x86-64-specific stuff into Documentation/x86/x86_64 with the eventual
goal to move stuff that isn't actually 64-bit specific back into
Documentation/x86.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 314 deletions

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-AMD64 specific boot options
-
-There are many others (usually documented in driver documentation), but
-only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here.
-
-Machine check
-
-   mce=off disable machine check
-   mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
-               Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
-               If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
-               to make sure you log even machine check events that result
-               in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
-   mce=nobootlog
-		Disable boot machine check logging.
-   mce=tolerancelevel (number)
-		0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-		1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-		2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-		3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only)
-		Default is 1
-		Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable.
-
-   nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off
-
-   Everything else is in sysfs now.
-
-APICs
-
-   apic		 Use IO-APIC. Default
-
-   noapic	 Don't use the IO-APIC.
-
-   disableapic	 Don't use the local APIC
-
-   nolapic	 Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility)
-
-   pirq=...	 See Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt
-
-   noapictimer	 Don't set up the APIC timer
-
-   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
-		 broken.
-
-   disable_8254_timer / enable_8254_timer
-		 Enable interrupt 0 timer routing over the 8254 in addition to over
-	         the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default.
-
-Early Console
-
-   syntax: earlyprintk=vga
-           earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
-
-   The early console is useful when the kernel crashes before the
-   normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
-   default because it has some cosmetic problems.
-   Append ,keep to not disable it when the real console takes over.
-   Only vga or serial at a time, not both.
-   Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
-   Interaction with the standard serial driver is not very good.
-   The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console.
-
-Timing
-
-  notsc
-  Don't use the CPU time stamp counter to read the wall time.
-  This can be used to work around timing problems on multiprocessor systems
-  with not properly synchronized CPUs.
-
-  report_lost_ticks
-  Report when timer interrupts are lost because some code turned off
-  interrupts for too long.
-
-  nmi_watchdog=NUMBER[,panic]
-  NUMBER can be:
-  0 don't use an NMI watchdog
-  1 use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
-  2 use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using a performance counter. Note
-  This will use one performance counter and the local APIC's performance
-  vector.
-  When panic is specified panic when an NMI watchdog timeout occurs.
-  This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and need the box
-  quickly up again.
-
-  nohpet
-  Don't use the HPET timer.
-
-Idle loop
-
-  idle=poll
-  Don't do power saving in the idle loop using HLT, but poll for rescheduling
-  event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
-  to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also
-  makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate.
-  Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T
-  CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop.
-  It may also interact badly with hyperthreading.
-
-Rebooting
-
-   reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] [, [w]arm | [c]old]
-   bios	  Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
-   warm   Don't set the cold reboot flag
-   cold   Set the cold reboot flag
-   triple Force a triple fault (init)
-   kbd    Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
-   acpi   Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not configured or the
-          ACPI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
-          the keyboard controller.
-   efi    Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or the
-          EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
-          the keyboard controller.
-
-   Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory
-   systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check.
-   Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized
-   on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems.
-
-   reboot=force
-
-   Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot more reliable
-   in some cases.
-
-Non Executable Mappings
-
-  noexec=on|off
-
-  on      Enable(default)
-  off     Disable
-
-SMP
-
-  additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug
-		 (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec)
-
-NUMA
-
-  numa=off	Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
-
-  numa=noacpi   Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
-
-  numa=fake=CMDLINE
-		If a number, fakes CMDLINE nodes and ignores NUMA setup of the
-		actual machine.  Otherwise, system memory is configured
-		depending on the sizes and coefficients listed.  For example:
-			numa=fake=2*512,1024,4*256,*128
-		gives two 512M nodes, a 1024M node, four 256M nodes, and the
-		rest split into 128M chunks.  If the last character of CMDLINE
-		is a *, the remaining memory is divided up equally among its
-		coefficient:
-			numa=fake=2*512,2*
-		gives two 512M nodes and the rest split into two nodes.
-		Otherwise, the remaining system RAM is allocated to an
-		additional node.
-
-  numa=hotadd=percent
-		Only allow hotadd memory to preallocate page structures upto
-		percent of already available memory.
-		numa=hotadd=0 will disable hotadd memory.
-
-ACPI
-
-  acpi=off	Don't enable ACPI
-  acpi=ht	Use ACPI boot table parsing, but don't enable ACPI
-		interpreter
-  acpi=force	Force ACPI on (currently not needed)
-
-  acpi=strict   Disable out of spec ACPI workarounds.
-
-  acpi_sci={edge,level,high,low}  Set up ACPI SCI interrupt.
-
-  acpi=noirq	Don't route interrupts
-
-PCI
-
-  pci=off	Don't use PCI
-  pci=conf1	Use conf1 access.
-  pci=conf2	Use conf2 access.
-  pci=rom	Assign ROMs.
-  pci=assign-busses    Assign busses
-  pci=irqmask=MASK	       Set PCI interrupt mask to MASK
-  pci=lastbus=NUMBER	       Scan upto NUMBER busses, no matter what the mptable says.
-  pci=noacpi		Don't use ACPI to set up PCI interrupt routing.
-
-IOMMU (input/output memory management unit)
-
- Currently four x86-64 PCI-DMA mapping implementations exist:
-
-   1. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c>: use no hardware/software IOMMU at all
-      (e.g. because you have < 3 GB memory).
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU"
-
-   2. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c>: AMD GART based hardware IOMMU.
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU"
-
-   3. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c> : Software IOMMU implementation. Used
-      e.g. if there is no hardware IOMMU in the system and it is need because
-      you have >3GB memory or told the kernel to us it (iommu=soft))
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering
-      for IO (SWIOTLB)"
-
-   4. <arch/x86_64/pci-calgary.c> : IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU. Used in IBM
-      pSeries and xSeries servers. This hardware IOMMU supports DMA address
-      mapping with memory protection, etc.
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using Calgary IOMMU"
-
- iommu=[<size>][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce][,leak[=<nr_of_leak_pages>]
-	[,memaper[=<order>]][,merge][,forcesac][,fullflush][,nomerge]
-	[,noaperture][,calgary]
-
-  General iommu options:
-    off                Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
-    noforce            Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not needed.
-                       (default).
-    force              Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when it is
-                       not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB memory).
-    soft               Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
-                       Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
-                       of an available hardware IOMMU.
-
-  iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU:
-    <size>             Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
-    allowed            Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets.
-    fullflush          Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
-    nofullflush        Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
-    leak               Turn on simple iommu leak tracing (only when
-                       CONFIG_IOMMU_LEAK is on). Default number of leak pages
-                       is 20.
-    memaper[=<order>]  Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<<order.
-                       (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
-    merge              Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
-                       (experimental).
-    nomerge            Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
-    noaperture         Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
-    forcesac           Force single-address cycle (SAC) mode for masks <40bits
-                       (experimental).
-    noagp              Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
-    allowdac           Allow double-address cycle (DAC) mode, i.e. DMA >4GB.
-                       DAC is used with 32-bit PCI to push a 64-bit address in
-                       two cycles. When off all DMA over >4GB is forced through
-                       an IOMMU or software bounce buffering.
-    nodac              Forbid DAC mode, i.e. DMA >4GB.
-    panic              Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
-    calgary            Use the Calgary IOMMU if it is available
-
-  iommu options only relevant to the software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) IOMMU
-  implementation:
-    swiotlb=<pages>[,force]
-    <pages>            Prereserve that many 128K pages for the software IO
-                       bounce buffering.
-    force              Force all IO through the software TLB.
-
-  Settings for the IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU currently found in IBM
-  pSeries and xSeries machines:
-
-    calgary=[64k,128k,256k,512k,1M,2M,4M,8M]
-    calgary=[translate_empty_slots]
-    calgary=[disable=<PCI bus number>]
-    panic              Always panic when IOMMU overflows
-
-    64k,...,8M - Set the size of each PCI slot's translation table
-    when using the Calgary IOMMU. This is the size of the translation
-    table itself in main memory. The smallest table, 64k, covers an IO
-    space of 32MB; the largest, 8MB table, can cover an IO space of
-    4GB. Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
-
-    translate_empty_slots - Enable translation even on slots that have
-    no devices attached to them, in case a device will be hotplugged
-    in the future.
-
-    disable=<PCI bus number> - Disable translation on a given PHB. For
-    example, the built-in graphics adapter resides on the first bridge
-    (PCI bus number 0); if translation (isolation) is enabled on this
-    bridge, X servers that access the hardware directly from user
-    space might stop working. Use this option if you have devices that
-    are accessed from userspace directly on some PCI host bridge.
-
-Debugging
-
-  oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
-		but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
-		This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
-		Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
-
-  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
-		Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
-	gbpages
-		Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.