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@@ -235,10 +235,61 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
- acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
- acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
+ acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
+ acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
+ acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
+ acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
+ strings
acpi_osi= # disable all strings
+ 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
+ multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
+ vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
+ affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
+ it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
+ strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
+ specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
+ is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
+ care about the state of the feature group strings which
+ should be controlled by the OSPM.
+ Examples:
+ 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
+ to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
+ can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
+
+ 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
+ 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
+ exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
+ only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
+ multiple times through kernel command line is also
+ meaningless.
+ Examples:
+ 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
+ FALSE.
+
+ 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
+ multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
+ string(s). Note that such command can affect the
+ current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
+ feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
+ through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
+ still not able to affect the final state of a string if
+ there are quirks related to this string. This command
+ is useful when one want to control the state of the
+ feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
+ the OSPM features.
+ Examples:
+ 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
+ '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
+ 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
+ '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
+ 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
+ equivalent to
+ 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
+ and
+ 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
+ they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
+
acpi_pm_good [X86]
Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
@@ -1129,11 +1180,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
owned by uid=0.
- ima_audit= [IMA]
- Format: { "0" | "1" }
- 0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
- 1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
-
ima_hash= [IMA]
Format: { "sha1" | "md5" }
default: "sha1"
@@ -1158,6 +1204,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
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)
+ 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
+
intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
on
Enable intel iommu driver.
@@ -1456,6 +1509,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
+ * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
+
If there are multiple matching configurations changing
the same attribute, the last one is used.
@@ -2677,9 +2732,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
- reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
- Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
- See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
+ reboot= [KNL]
+ Format (x86 or x86_64):
+ [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
+ [[,]s[mp]#### \
+ [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
+ [[,]f[orce]
+ Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
+ reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
+ reboot_force is either force or not specified,
+ reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
+ to be used for rebooting.
relax_domain_level=
[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
@@ -2941,7 +3004,7 @@ 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.
- swapaccount[=0|1]
+ swapaccount=[0|1]
[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
@@ -3069,6 +3132,19 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
section.
+ traceoff_on_warning
+ [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
+ warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
+ be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
+ file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
+
+ This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
+ the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
+ be filled with content caused by the warning output.
+
+ This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
+ option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
+
transparent_hugepage=
[KNL]
Format: [always|madvise|never]
@@ -3229,6 +3305,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
+ video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
+ If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
+ generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
+ level and then send out the event to user space through
+ the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
+ will only send out the event without touching backlight
+ brightness level.
+ default: 1
+
virtio_mmio.device=
[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
@@ -3288,6 +3373,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
them quite hard to use for exploits but
might break your system.
+ vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
+ Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
+ Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
+
vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
@@ -3327,6 +3416,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
cursors, 1 will display them.
+ vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
+ Default: 2 = green.
+
+ vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
+ Default: 3 = cyan.
+
watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
or other driver-specific files in the
@@ -3341,6 +3436,21 @@ 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.
@@ -3351,9 +3461,6 @@ 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]