x86, NMI: Add knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpus

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / kernel-parameters.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index a0c5c5f4fce6e9587346a4a049c9725e5ca45de5..b4339e5a50dae586a54ac5d04df0cba668bc7425 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1796,6 +1796,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        nomfgpt         [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
                        Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
 
+       nonmi_ipi       [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
+                       shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
+                       irq.
+
        nopat           [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
                        pagetables) support.