[ARM] 5437/1: Add documentation for "nohlt" kernel parameter
authorPaulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:55:44 +0000 (13:55 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:15:37 +0000 (22:15 +0100)
As per discussion in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=123633652517391&w=2

Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index be3bde5..73fa52c 100644 (file)
@@ -1513,7 +1513,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
        noclflush       [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
 
-       nohlt           [BUGS=ARM,SH]
+       nohlt           [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
+                       wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
+                       use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
 
        no-hlt          [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
                        instruction doesn't work correctly and not to