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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt (renamed from Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt) | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 5 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index 7727db8f94bc..f4c2a97bfdbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -58,21 +58,9 @@ Protocol 2.11: (Kernel 3.6) Added a field for offset of EFI handover protocol entry point. Protocol 2.12: (Kernel 3.8) Added the xloadflags field and extension fields - to struct boot_params for loading bzImage and ramdisk + to struct boot_params for loading bzImage and ramdisk above 4G in 64bit. -Protocol 2.13: (Kernel 3.14) Support 32- and 64-bit flags being set in - xloadflags to support booting a 64-bit kernel from 32-bit - EFI - -Protocol 2.14: (Kernel 4.20) Added acpi_rsdp_addr holding the physical - address of the ACPI RSDP table. - The bootloader updates version with: - 0x8000 | min(kernel-version, bootloader-version) - kernel-version being the protocol version supported by - the kernel and bootloader-version the protocol version - supported by the bootloader. - **** MEMORY LAYOUT The traditional memory map for the kernel loader, used for Image or @@ -209,7 +197,6 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning 0258/8 2.10+ pref_address Preferred loading address 0260/4 2.10+ init_size Linear memory required during initialization 0264/4 2.11+ handover_offset Offset of handover entry point -0268/8 2.14+ acpi_rsdp_addr Physical address of RSDP table (1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the real value is 4. @@ -322,7 +309,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ Contains the magic number "HdrS" (0x53726448). Field name: version -Type: modify +Type: read Offset/size: 0x206/2 Protocol: 2.00+ @@ -330,12 +317,6 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ e.g. 0x0204 for version 2.04, and 0x0a11 for a hypothetical version 10.17. - Up to protocol version 2.13 this information is only read by the - bootloader. From protocol version 2.14 onwards the bootloader will - write the used protocol version or-ed with 0x8000 to the field. The - used protocol version will be the minimum of the supported protocol - versions of the bootloader and the kernel. - Field name: realmode_swtch Type: modify (optional) Offset/size: 0x208/4 @@ -763,17 +744,6 @@ Offset/size: 0x264/4 See EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL below for more details. -Field name: acpi_rsdp_addr -Type: write -Offset/size: 0x268/8 -Protocol: 2.14+ - - This field can be set by the boot loader to tell the kernel the - physical address of the ACPI RSDP table. - - A value of 0 indicates the kernel should fall back to the standard - methods to locate the RSDP. - **** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt b/Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt index 52b10945ff75..d9aed8303984 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ -User Interface for Resource Allocation in Intel Resource Director Technology +User Interface for Resource Control feature + +Intel refers to this feature as Intel Resource Director Technology(Intel(R) RDT). +AMD refers to this feature as AMD Platform Quality of Service(AMD QoS). Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation @@ -6,8 +9,8 @@ Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com> -This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_INTEL_RDT Kconfig and the -X86 /proc/cpuinfo flag bits: +This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_RESCTRL and the X86 /proc/cpuinfo +flag bits: RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation - "rdt_a" CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) - "cat_l3", "cat_l2" CDP (Code and Data Prioritization ) - "cdp_l3", "cdp_l2" diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index ad6d2a80cf05..abc53886655e 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ IOMMU (input/output memory management unit) mapping with memory protection, etc. Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using Calgary IOMMU" - iommu=[<size>][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce][,leak[=<nr_of_leak_pages>] + iommu=[<size>][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce] [,memaper[=<order>]][,merge][,fullflush][,nomerge] [,noaperture][,calgary] @@ -228,9 +228,6 @@ IOMMU (input/output memory management unit) 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" |