Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...

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

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1094,6 +1094,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
                        fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
 
+       efi_fake_mem=   nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
+                       Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
+                       updating original EFI memory map.
+                       Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
+                       from ss to ss+nn.
+                       If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
+                       is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
+                       attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
+                       0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
+
+                       Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
+                       related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
+                       Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
+                       doesn't support it.
+
        eisa_irq_edge=  [PARISC,HW]
                        See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.