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@@ -328,11 +328,15 @@
not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
APC and your system crashes randomly.
- apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
+ apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
Change the amount of debugging information output
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
+ For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
+ driver name.
+ Format: apic=driver_name
+ Examples: apic=bigsmp
apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
@@ -1737,7 +1741,7 @@
isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
- isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
+ isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
@@ -2662,7 +2666,7 @@
Valid arguments: on, off
Default: on
- nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
+ nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
@@ -2708,6 +2712,8 @@
steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
behaviour
+ nopti [X86-64] Disable kernel page table isolation
+
nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
@@ -3282,6 +3288,12 @@
pt. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
+ pti= [X86_64]
+ Control user/kernel address space isolation:
+ on - enable
+ off - disable
+ auto - default setting
+
pty.legacy_count=
[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
default number.