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@@ -461,6 +461,11 @@
possible to determine what the correct size should be.
This option provides an override for these situations.
+ carrier_timeout=
+ [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
+ the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
+ it waits 120 seconds.
+
ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
trust validation.
@@ -910,6 +915,10 @@
The filter can be disabled or changed to another
driver later using sysfs.
+ driver_async_probe= [KNL]
+ List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
+ Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
+
drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
@@ -1073,9 +1082,15 @@
specified address. The serial port must already be
setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
+ efifb,[options]
+ Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
+ memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
+ coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
+ the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
+ mapped with the correct attributes.
+
earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
earlyprintk=vga
- earlyprintk=efi
earlyprintk=sclp
earlyprintk=xen
earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
@@ -3653,19 +3668,6 @@
latencies, which will choose a value aligned
with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
- rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
- Set required age in jiffies for a
- given grace period before RCU starts
- soliciting quiescent-state help from
- rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the
- kernel will calculate a value based on the most
- recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
- and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
- This calculated value may be viewed in
- rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to
- set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be
- cheerfully overwritten.
-
rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Set delay from grace-period initialization to
first attempt to force quiescent states.
@@ -3677,6 +3679,20 @@
quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
+ Set required age in jiffies for a
+ given grace period before RCU starts
+ soliciting quiescent-state help from
+ rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
+ If not specified, the kernel will calculate
+ a value based on the most recent settings
+ of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
+ and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
+ This calculated value may be viewed in
+ rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
+ rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
+ overwritten.
+
rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
@@ -3720,6 +3736,11 @@
This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
+ rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
+ Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
+ rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
+ why a new grace period has not yet started.
+
rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
Measure performance of asynchronous
grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().