After an "unexpected" reboot, I found this Oops in my logs:

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / kernel-parameters.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 0c412ff3986238d6d0af4d85f302d15cdd2685b6..fa3d180d63cad20e5cb9aced5365315632b78b33 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
        EDD     BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
        EFI     EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
        EIDE    EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
+       EVM     Extended Verification Module
        FB      The frame buffer device is enabled.
        FTRACE  Function tracing enabled.
        GCOV    GCOV profiling is enabled.
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
                        copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
 
-                       See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+                       See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 
        acpi_rsdp=      [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
                        Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
@@ -306,6 +307,19 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
                        bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
 
+       align_va_addr=  [X86-64]
+                       Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
+                       allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
+                       gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
+                       machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
+                       CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
+                       a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
+
+                       1: only for 32-bit processes
+                       2: only for 64-bit processes
+                       on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+                       off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+
        amd_iommu=      [HW,X86-84]
                        Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
                        Possible values are:
@@ -319,7 +333,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        amijoy.map=     [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
                        Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
                        Format: <a>,<b>
-                       See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
+                       See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
 
        analog.map=     [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
                        Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
@@ -408,7 +422,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        bttv.radio=     Most important insmod options are available as
                        kernel args too.
        bttv.pll=       See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
-       bttv.tuner=     and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
+       bttv.tuner=
 
        bulk_remove=off [PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
                        firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
@@ -724,7 +738,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        elevator=       [IOSCHED]
                        Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
-                       See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
+                       See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
                        Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
 
        elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
@@ -760,12 +774,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
                        has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
 
+       evm=            [EVM]
+                       Format: { "fix" }
+                       Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
+                       current integrity status.
+
        failslab=
        fail_page_alloc=
        fail_make_request=[KNL]
                        General fault injection mechanism.
                        Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
-                       See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
+                       See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
 
        floppy=         [HW]
                        See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
@@ -1181,6 +1200,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
                        Default is 1 (enabled)
 
+       kvm-intel.nested=
+                       [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
+                       Default is 0 (disabled)
+
        kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
                        [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
                        (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
@@ -1777,6 +1800,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        noresidual      [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
 
+       nordrand        [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND
+                       instruction even if it is supported by the
+                       processor.  RDRAND is still available to user
+                       space applications.
+
        noresume        [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
                        space.
 
@@ -2375,7 +2403,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        Format: <integer>
 
        sonypi.*=       [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
-                       See Documentation/sonypi.txt
+                       See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
 
        specialix=      [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
                        See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.