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@@ -566,6 +566,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
possible to determine what the correct size should be.
This option provides an override for these situations.
+ ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
+ the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
+ trust validation.
+ format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
+
cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
@@ -1103,6 +1108,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
that can be changed at run time by the
set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
+ ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
+ [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
+ function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
+ functions that can be changed at run time by the
+ set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
+
gamecon.map[2|3]=
[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
@@ -1319,6 +1330,23 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" }
Default: "ima-ng"
+ ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
+ Format: <min_file_size>
+ Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
+ If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
+
+ ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
+ different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
+ to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
+
+ ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
+ Format: <bufsize>
+ Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
+
+ ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
+ different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
+ to achieve best performance for particular HW.
+
init= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
@@ -1422,10 +1450,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
ip= [IP_PNP]
See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
- ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
- See comment before ip2_setup() in
- drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
-
irqfixup [HW]
When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
@@ -1698,8 +1722,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
- in bytes. n must be a power of two. The default
- size is set in the kernel config file.
+ in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
+ than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
+ by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
+ also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
+ that allows to increase the default size depending on
+ the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
This may be used to provide more screen space for
@@ -2796,6 +2824,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
systems.
+ rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
+ Set required age in jiffies for a
+ given grace period before RCU starts
+ soliciting quiescent-state help from
+ rcu_note_context_switch().
+
rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Set delay from grace-period initialization to
first attempt to force quiescent states.
@@ -2807,6 +2841,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
+ Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
+ defaults to the square root of the number of
+ CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
+ on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
+ that same overhead on each group's leader.
+
rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
batch limiting is disabled.
@@ -3023,6 +3064,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
S [KNL] Run init in single mode
+ s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
+ Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
+ strict
+ With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
+ an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
+ which is faster.
+
sa1100ir [NET]
See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
@@ -3532,7 +3580,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
will only send out the event without touching backlight
brightness level.
- default: 0
+ default: 1
virtio_mmio.device=
[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.