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inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
Format: <irq>
+ int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
+
integrity_audit=[IMA]
Format: { "0" | "1" }
0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
@@ -3005,6 +3007,27 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
+ tmem [KNL,XEN]
+ Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
+
+ tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
+ API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
+
+ tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
+ API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
+ the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
+
+ tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
+ to the hypervisor.
+
+ tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
+ transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
+ kernel based on different criteria.
+
topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
@@ -3320,6 +3343,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
+ workqueue.power_efficient
+ Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
+ they show better performance thanks to cache
+ locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
+ be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
+
+ Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
+ were observed to contribute significantly to power
+ consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
+ power usage at the cost of small performance
+ overhead.
+
+ The default value of this parameter is determined by
+ the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
+
x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
supporting x2apic.
@@ -3330,9 +3368,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
- xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
- xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
-
xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
Unplug Xen emulated devices
Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]