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@@ -829,6 +829,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
tracking down these problems.
+ debug_pagealloc=
+ [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
+ parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
+ default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
+ chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
+ it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
+ with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
+ on: enable the feature
+
debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
@@ -1228,9 +1237,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
- (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
- Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
- using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
+ (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
@@ -1369,6 +1376,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" }
Default: "ima-ng"
+ ima_template_fmt=
+ [IMA] Define a custom template format.
+ Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
+
ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
Format: <min_file_size>
Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
@@ -1446,6 +1457,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
disable
Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
scaling driver for the supported processors
+ no_hwp
+ Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
+ if available.
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
@@ -2503,12 +2517,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
OSS [HW,OSS]
See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
+ page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
+ Storage of the information about who allocated
+ each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
+ we can turn it on.
+ on: enable the feature
+
panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
timeout = 0: wait forever
timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Format: <timeout>
+ panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
+ on a WARN().
+
crash_kexec_post_notifiers
Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
@@ -2940,6 +2963,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU
+ per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also
+ used for the priority of the RCU boost threads
+ (rcub/N). Valid values are 1-99 and the default
+ is 1 (the least-favored priority).
+
rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
defaults to the square root of the number of
@@ -3089,6 +3119,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
to zero.
+ rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
+ Run the RCU early boot self tests
+
+ rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
+ Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
+
+ rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
+ Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
+
rdinit= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
@@ -3412,6 +3451,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
Useful for debugging.
+ tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
+ Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
+ Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
+ ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
+ cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+ "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
+
tdfx= [HW,DRM]
test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
@@ -3501,7 +3547,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
are saved.
trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
- [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
+ [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
trace_event=[event-list]
[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order