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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>2010-10-04 17:03:20 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-18 20:52:25 +0200
commite82b8e4ea4f3dffe6e7939f90e78da675fcc450e (patch)
tree116e54691f87d2cb0f2f5df36d1e114624c225d0 /Documentation
parentb52bfee445d315549d41eacf2fa7c156e7d153d5 (diff)
x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it when TSC is enabled. This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet. Following patches use it for different purposes. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8dd7248508a..ed05a4a0d24 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -2435,6 +2435,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
disables clocksource verification at runtime.
Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
hardware, and in virtualized environment.
+ [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
+ Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
+ platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
+ can add overhead.
turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
TurboGraFX parallel port interface