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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 9a53c929f017..def479154d59 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead of the ACPI video.ko driver. + acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr + force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the + 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 + bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use + the older legacy 32 bit addresses. + acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] Disable AML predefined validation mechanism This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make @@ -666,7 +672,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See - arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific ones should be. @@ -1687,6 +1693,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. ip= [IP_PNP] See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + 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 @@ -1750,7 +1765,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. keepinitrd [HW,ARM] - kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter + kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] + Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" + This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The @@ -1766,6 +1783,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal zone if it does not. + Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), + you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" + option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used + for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used + for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, + so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same + time. + kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug @@ -2566,6 +2591,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nointroute [IA-64] + noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. + nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver @@ -2721,6 +2748,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. we can turn it on. on: enable the feature + page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of + poisoning on the buddy allocator. + off: turn off poisoning + on: turn on poisoning + panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting timeout = 0: wait forever @@ -3491,6 +3523,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot + rodata= [KNL] + on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). + off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. + root= [KNL] Root filesystem See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. @@ -3528,6 +3564,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. + Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature + incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler + but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. |