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[cascardo/linux.git] / Documentation / kernel-parameters.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9a53c92..4d9ca7d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
                        Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
-                       arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
+                       arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
                        numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
                        stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
                        ones should be.
@@ -1687,6 +1687,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        ip=             [IP_PNP]
                        See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
 
+       irqaffinity=    [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
+                       Format:
+                       <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
+                       or
+                       <cpu number>-<cpu number>
+                       (must be a positive range in ascending order)
+                       or a mixture
+                       <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+
        irqfixup        [HW]
                        When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
                        for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
@@ -2566,6 +2575,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        nointroute      [IA-64]
 
+       noinvpcid       [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
+
        nojitter        [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
 
        no-kvmclock     [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
@@ -3491,6 +3502,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        ro              [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
 
+       rodata=         [KNL]
+               on      Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
+               off     Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
+
        root=           [KNL] Root filesystem
                        See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
 
@@ -3528,6 +3543,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        sched_debug     [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
 
+       schedstats=     [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
+                       Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
+                       incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
+                       but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
+
        skew_tick=      [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
                        xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
                        contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.