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[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
@@ -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.
@@ -1496,6 +1496,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        could change it dynamically, usually by
                        /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
 
+       ignore_rlimit_data
+                       Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
+                       print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
+                       /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
+
        ihash_entries=  [KNL]
                        Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
 
@@ -1682,6 +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
@@ -2561,6 +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
@@ -3555,6 +3571,11 @@ 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.
@@ -4262,6 +4283,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        The default value of this parameter is determined by
                        the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
 
+       workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
+                       Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
+                       items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
+                       on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
+                       and while local CPU is still preferred work items
+                       may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
+                       forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
+                       usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
+                       When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
+                       impacted.
+
        x2apic_phys     [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
                        default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
                        supporting x2apic.