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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
+ EVM Extended Verification Module
FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
- See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+ See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
@@ -306,6 +307,19 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
+ align_va_addr= [X86-64]
+ Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
+ allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
+ gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
+ machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
+ CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
+ a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
+
+ 1: only for 32-bit processes
+ 2: only for 64-bit processes
+ on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+ off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+
amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
Possible values are:
@@ -319,7 +333,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
Format: <a>,<b>
- See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
+ See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
@@ -408,7 +422,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
kernel args too.
bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
- bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
+ bttv.tuner=
bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
@@ -724,13 +738,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
elevator= [IOSCHED]
Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
- See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
+ See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
- elfcorehdr= [IA-64,PPC,SH,X86]
+ elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
- image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
- pass this option to capture kernel.
+ image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
+ kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
@@ -760,12 +774,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
+ evm= [EVM]
+ Format: { "fix" }
+ Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
+ current integrity status.
+
failslab=
fail_page_alloc=
fail_make_request=[KNL]
General fault injection mechanism.
Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
- See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
+ See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
floppy= [HW]
See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
@@ -954,6 +973,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
ignore_loglevel [KNL]
Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
+ We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
+ could change it dynamically, usually by
+ /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
ihash_entries= [KNL]
Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
@@ -1014,10 +1036,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
has the capability. With this option, super page will
not be supported.
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
- Format: { on (default) | off | nosid }
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
off disable Interrupt Remapping
nosid disable Source ID checking
+ no_x2apic_optout
+ BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
inttest= [IA-64]
@@ -1181,6 +1204,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
Default is 1 (enabled)
+ kvm-intel.nested=
+ [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
+ Default is 0 (disabled)
+
kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
@@ -1642,6 +1669,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+ To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
+ console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
+ it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
+ /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
+ turn on/off it dynamically.
noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
@@ -1777,6 +1809,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
+ nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND
+ instruction even if it is supported by the
+ processor. RDRAND is still available to user
+ space applications.
+
noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
space.
@@ -2240,6 +2277,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
+ resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
+ read the resume files
+
+ resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
+ Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
+ (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
+
hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
present during boot.
@@ -2375,7 +2419,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Format: <integer>
sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
- See Documentation/sonypi.txt
+ See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.