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@@ -582,6 +582,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
+ bert_disable [ACPI]
+ Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
+
bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
kernel args too.
@@ -687,6 +690,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
[SPARC64] tick
[X86-64] hpet,tsc
+ clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
+ [ARM,ARM64]
+ Format: <bool>
+ Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
+ architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
+ loops can be debugged more effectively on production
+ systems.
+
clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
@@ -920,9 +931,18 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
dhash_entries= [KNL]
Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
+ disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
+ Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
+ causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
+ can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
+ miss to occur.
+
disable= [IPV6]
See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
+ disable_radix [PPC]
+ Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
+
disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
Format: <int>
The number of initial APIC ID for the
@@ -1185,6 +1205,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
doesn't support it.
+ efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
+ that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
+ multiple variables with the same name but with different
+ vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
+ Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
+
+
eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
@@ -1803,12 +1830,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
- kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
- Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
- (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
- the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
- kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
- hibernation will be disabled.
+ nokaslr [KNL]
+ When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
+ kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
+ Layout Randomization).
keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
@@ -2788,8 +2813,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
for generic hr timer mode)
- [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
- (report cpu_type "timer")
oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
process, but there is a small probability of
@@ -3594,6 +3617,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
present during boot.
nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
no Disable hibernation and resume.
+ protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
+ (that will set all pages holding image data
+ during restoration read-only).
retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
@@ -3992,8 +4018,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
trace_event=[event-list]
[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
- to facilitate early boot debugging.
- See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
+ to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
+ comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
+ also Documentation/trace/events.txt
trace_options=[option-list]
[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.