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@@ -366,6 +366,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
possible to determine what the correct size should be.
This option provides an override for these situations.
+ security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
+ If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
+ security module asking for security registration will be
+ loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
+ as if no module has been chosen.
+
capability.disable=
[SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
be used only if an alternative security model is to be
@@ -763,11 +769,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
- Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler or ide=reverse
- See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
-
- ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
- Format: ide?=noprobe or chipset specific parameters.
+ Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler
See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
@@ -812,6 +814,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
inttest= [IA64]
+ iommu= [x86]
+ off
+ force
+ noforce
+ biomerge
+ panic
+ nopanic
+ merge
+ nomerge
+ forcesac
+ soft
+
+
intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
off
Disable intel iommu driver.
@@ -828,6 +843,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
for translation below 32 bit and if not available
then look in the higher range.
+ strict [Default Off]
+ With this option on every unmap_single operation will
+ result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
+ to batching them for performance.
io_delay= [X86-32,X86-64] I/O delay method
0x80
@@ -928,8 +947,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
kstack=N [X86-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack
in oops dumps.
+ kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles.
+ Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
+ (only serial suported for now)
+ Format: <serial_device>[,baud]
+
l2cr= [PPC]
+ l3cr= [PPC]
+
lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
disabled it.
@@ -1134,6 +1160,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
or
memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
+ memtest= [KNL,X86_64] Enable memtest
+ Format: <integer>
+ range: 0,4 : pattern number
+ default : 0 <disable>
+
meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
@@ -1251,8 +1282,16 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
noexec [IA-64]
noexec [X86-32,X86-64]
+ On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
- noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings
+ noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
+
+ noexec32 [X86-64]
+ This affects only 32-bit executables.
+ noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
+ read doesn't imply executable mappings
+ noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
+ read implies executable mappings
nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
register save and restore. The kernel will only save
@@ -1339,6 +1378,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
nowb [ARM]
+ nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
+ purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
+ SAL PALO.
+
numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
This can be set from sysctl after boot.
@@ -1428,10 +1471,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
- nosort [X86-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to
- order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is
- done to get a device order compatible with
- older kernels.
biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
on several machines and they hang the machine