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Documentation: document the nosmt and smt s390 kernel parameters
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Commit 6c2ff84e979a ("s390: add SMT support") added the nosmt and smt
early kernel parameters for restricting the use of symmetric
multithreading (SMT). They are quite useful for debugging and testing,
so document them.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Sascha Silbe authored and Martin Schwidefsky committed Apr 15, 2016
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nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.

nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
Equivalent to smt=1.

noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
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1: Fast pin select (default)
2: ATC IRMode

smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
actual hardware limit.
Format: <integer>
Default: -1 (no limit)

softlockup_panic=
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Format: <integer>
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