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@@ -928,6 +928,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
+ eagerfpu= [X86]
+ on enable eager fpu restore
+ off disable eager fpu restore
+ auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
+ enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
+
early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
@@ -1036,7 +1042,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
efi= [EFI]
- Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime" }
+ Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
default.
@@ -1044,6 +1050,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
firmware implementations.
noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
+ debug: enable misc debug output
efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
@@ -1965,6 +1972,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
or
memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
+ memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
+ [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
+ Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+ The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
+ and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
+
memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
@@ -1988,7 +2001,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
- memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
+ memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
default : 0 <disable>
Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
@@ -2235,8 +2248,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
- Valid num: 0
+ Valid num: 0 or 1
0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
+ 1 - turn nmi_watchdog on
When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
default).
@@ -2315,12 +2329,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
read implies executable mappings
- nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
+ nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
register save and restore. The kernel will only save
legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
+ nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
+
noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
@@ -2340,12 +2356,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
memory on xsaves enabled systems.
- eagerfpu= [X86]
- on enable eager fpu restore
- off disable eager fpu restore
- auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
- enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
-
nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
@@ -2463,7 +2473,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
- nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
+ nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
+ soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
nowb [ARM]
@@ -2968,6 +2979,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
process in one batch.
+ rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
+ Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
+ RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
+ effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is
+ set.
+
rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
@@ -2991,11 +3008,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
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).
+ 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)
+ and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
+ rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
+ set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
+ (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
+ RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
+ the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
@@ -3462,6 +3483,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
improve throughput, but will also increase the
amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
+ suspend.pm_test_delay=
+ [SUSPEND]
+ Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
+ mode before resuming the system (see
+ /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
+ is set. Default value is 5.
+
swapaccount=[0|1]
[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable