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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-05-25 14:59:47 (GMT)
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2013-04-04 22:09:04 (GMT)
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genirq: Add default affinity mask command line option
If we isolate CPUs, then we don't want random device interrupts on them. Even w/o the user space irq balancer enabled we can end up with irqs on non boot cpus. Allow to restrict the default irq affinity mask. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -1182,6 +1182,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
See comment before ip2_setup() in
drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
+ irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
+ Format:
+ <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
+ or
+ <cpu number>-<cpu number>
+ (must be a positive range in ascending order)
+ or a mixture
+ <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+
irqfixup [HW]
When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken