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@@ -741,10 +741,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
- elfcorehdr= [IA-64,PPC,SH,X86]
+ elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
- image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
- pass this option to capture kernel.
+ image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
+ kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
@@ -973,6 +973,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
ignore_loglevel [KNL]
Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
+ We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
+ could change it dynamically, usually by
+ /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
ihash_entries= [KNL]
Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
@@ -1666,6 +1669,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+ To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
+ console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
+ it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
+ /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
+ turn on/off it dynamically.
noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,