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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ff571f9..d8323b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. + acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI} + Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards + that require a timer override, but don't have + HPET acpi_dbg_layer= [HW,ACPI] Format: <int> @@ -544,6 +548,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog. Format: <io>[,<irq>] + failslab= + fail_page_alloc= + fail_make_request=[KNL] + General fault injection mechanism. + Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> + See also /Documentation/fault-injection/. + fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c. @@ -553,9 +564,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file floppy= [HW] See Documentation/floppy.txt. - ftape= [HW] Floppy Tape subsystem debugging options. - See Documentation/ftape.txt. - gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) @@ -598,8 +606,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hugepages= [HW,IA-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. - noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing - i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from keyboard and cannot control its state @@ -649,6 +655,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file idle= [HW] Format: idle=poll or idle=halt + ignore_loglevel [KNL] + Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ + kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. + ihash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. @@ -713,7 +723,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. - Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> + Format: + <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> + or + <cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending order) + or a mixture + <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling algorithms. The only way to move a process onto or off @@ -1011,6 +1026,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor is present. + noaliencache [MM, NUMA] Disables the allcoation of alien caches in + the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, but will + impact performance on real NUMA hardware. + noalign [KNL,ARM] noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any @@ -1051,9 +1070,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file in certain environments such as networked servers or real-time systems. + noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing + noirqdebug [IA-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and disable unhandled interrupt sources. + no_timer_check [IA-32,X86_64,APIC] Disables the code which tests for + broken timer IRQ sources. + noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured @@ -1231,6 +1255,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file machine check when some devices' config space is read. But various workarounds are disabled and some IOMMU drivers will not work. + bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + This sorting is done to get a device + order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. + nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 pd. [PARIDE] @@ -1279,6 +1308,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for statistical time based profiling. + Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs) processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] Limit processor to maximum C-state @@ -1360,6 +1390,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file resume= [SWSUSP] Specify the partition device for software suspend + resume_offset= [SWSUSP] + Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition + given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, + in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). + See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt + rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] Set number of hash buckets for route cache @@ -1410,6 +1446,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file scsi_logging= [SCSI] + scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are + discovered. async scans them in kernel threads, + allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting + user space to do the scan. + selinux [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. Format: { "0" | "1" } See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. @@ -1721,6 +1762,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file norandmaps Don't use address space randomization Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space + unwind_debug=N N > 0 will enable dwarf2 unwinder debugging + This is useful to get more information why + you got a "dwarf2 unwinder stuck" ______________________________________________________________________ |
