1 files changed, 53 insertions, 474 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 363e348bff9..4d5c5650269 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ 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.
@@ -70,6 +69,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
         M68k    M68k architecture is enabled.
                         These options have more detailed description inside of
                         Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
+        MCA     MCA bus support is enabled.
         MDA     MDA console support is enabled.
         MIPS    MIPS architecture is enabled.
         MOUSE   Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ parameter is applicable:
         USB     USB support is enabled.
         USBHID  USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
         V4L     Video For Linux support is enabled.
-        VMMIO   Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
         VGA     The VGA console has been enabled.
         VT      Virtual terminal support is enabled.
         WDT     Watchdog support is enabled.
@@ -164,7 +163,7 @@ 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/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 
         acpi_rsdp=      [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
                         Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
@@ -307,20 +306,7 @@ 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.
-
-                        32: only for 32-bit processes
-                        64: 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,X86-64]
+        amd_iommu=      [HW,X86-84]
                         Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
                         Possible values are:
                         fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
@@ -335,16 +321,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                                           requirements as needed. This option
                                           does not override iommu=pt
 
-        amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
-                        Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
-                        for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
-                        driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
-                        IOMMU initialization.
-
         amijoy.map=     [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
                         Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
                         Format: <a>,<b>
-                        See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
+                        See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
 
         analog.map=     [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
                         Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
@@ -403,6 +383,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
                         Use software keyboard repeat
 
+        autotest        [IA-64]
+
         baycom_epp=     [HW,AX25]
                         Format: <io>,<mode>
 
@@ -431,7 +413,7 @@ 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=
+        bttv.tuner=     and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
 
         bulk_remove=off [PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
                         firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
@@ -446,6 +428,12 @@ 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.
 
+        capability.disable=
+                        [SECURITY] Disable capabilities.  This would normally
+                        be used only if an alternative security model is to be
+                        configured.  Potentially dangerous and should only be
+                        used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
+
         ccw_timeout_log [S390]
                         See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
 
@@ -506,11 +494,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
                         some critical bits.
 
-        cma=nn[MG]      [ARM,KNL]
-                        Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous
-                        memory allocations. For more information, see
-                        include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
-
         cmo_free_hint=  [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
                         Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
                         when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
@@ -518,10 +501,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         a hypervisor.
                         Default: yes
 
-        coherent_pool=nn[KMG]   [ARM,KNL]
-                        Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
-                        allocations, by default set to 256K.
-
         code_bytes      [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
                         in an oops report.
                         Range: 0 - 8192
@@ -617,7 +596,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
                         time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
-                        details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
+                        details.
 
         debug           [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
 
@@ -635,25 +614,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         no_debug_objects
                         [KNL] Disable object debugging
 
-        debug_guardpage_minorder=
-                        [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
-                        parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
-                        be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
-                        buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
-                        of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
-                        amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
-                        possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
-                        to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
-                        memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
-                        driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
-                        random memory location. Note that there exists a class
-                        of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
-                        F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
-                        memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
-                        bypassed) which are not detectable by
-                        CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
-                        tracking down these problems.
-
         debugpat        [X86] Enable PAT debugging
 
         decnet.addr=    [HW,NET]
@@ -720,28 +680,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         The filter can be disabled or changed to another
                         driver later using sysfs.
 
-        drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>
-                        Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may
-                        send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter
-                        allows to specify an EDID data set in the
-                        /lib/firmware directory that is used instead.
-                        Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
-                        edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
-                        edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
-                        and no file with the same name exists. Details and
-                        instructions how to build your own EDID data are
-                        available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
-                        data set will only be used for a particular connector,
-                        if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
-                        name.
-
         dscc4.setup=    [NET]
 
-        dyndbg[="val"]          [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
-        module.dyndbg[="val"]
-                        Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
-                        Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
-
         earlycon=       [KNL] Output early console device and options.
                 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
                 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
@@ -789,13 +729,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         elevator=       [IOSCHED]
                         Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
-                        See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
+                        See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
                         Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
 
-        elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
+        elfcorehdr=     [IA-64,PPC,SH,X86]
                         Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
-                        image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
-                        kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
+                        image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
+                        pass this option to capture kernel.
                         See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
 
         enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
@@ -825,17 +765,12 @@ 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.
@@ -899,24 +834,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         gpt             [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
                         invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
 
-        grcan.enable0=  [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
-                        the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
-                        Format: 0 | 1
-                        Default: 0
-        grcan.enable1=  [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
-                        the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
-                        Format: 0 | 1
-                        Default: 0
-        grcan.select=   [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
-                        Format: 0 | 1
-                        Default: 0
-        grcan.txsize=   [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
-                        Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
-                        Default: 1024
-        grcan.rxsize=   [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
-                        Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
-                        Default: 1024
-
         hashdist=       [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
                         are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
                         for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
@@ -995,7 +912,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                              controller
         i8042.nopnp     [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
                              controllers
-        i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
+        i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by conroller
         i8042.reset     [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
         i8042.unlock    [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
 
@@ -1012,20 +929,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         i8k.restricted  [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
                         capability is set.
 
-        i915.invert_brightness=
-                        [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
-                        set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
-                        brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
-                        and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
-                        to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
-                        (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
-                        is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
-                        to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
-                        value switches the backlight off.
-                        -1 -- never invert brightness
-                         0 -- machine default
-                         1 -- force brightness inversion
-
         icn=            [HW,ISDN]
                         Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
 
@@ -1056,21 +959,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         ignore_loglevel [KNL]
                         Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
                         kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
-                        We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
-                        could change it dynamically, usually by
-                        /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
 
         ihash_entries=  [KNL]
                         Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
 
-        ima_appraise=   [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
-                        Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" }
-                        default: "enforce"
-
-        ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
-                        The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
-                        owned by uid=0.
-
         ima_audit=      [IMA]
                         Format: { "0" | "1" }
                         0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
@@ -1126,11 +1018,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
                         has the capability. With this option, super page will
                         not be supported.
-
-        intel_idle.max_cstate=  [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
-                        0       disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
-                        1 to 6  specify maximum depth of C-state.
-
         intremap=       [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
                         on      enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
                         off     disable Interrupt Remapping
@@ -1138,6 +1025,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         no_x2apic_optout
                                 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
 
+        inttest=        [IA-64]
+
         iomem=          Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
                 strict  regions from userspace.
                 relaxed
@@ -1154,6 +1043,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                 forcesac
                 soft
                 pt              [x86, IA-64]
+                group_mf        [x86, IA-64]
 
 
         io7=            [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
@@ -1273,6 +1163,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
                         Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
 
+        kvm.oos_shadow= [KVM] Disable out-of-sync shadow paging.
+                        Default is 1 (enabled)
+
         kvm.mmu_audit=  [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
                         KVM MMU at runtime.
                         Default is 0 (off)
@@ -1296,10 +1189,6 @@ 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
@@ -1316,10 +1205,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         lapic           [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
                         disabled it.
 
-        lapic=          [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
-                        value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
-                        back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
-
         lapic_timer_c2_ok       [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
                         in C2 power state.
 
@@ -1374,9 +1259,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
                           and both resets.
 
-                        * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
-                          hot-unplug link recovery
-
                         * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
 
                         If there are multiple matching configurations changing
@@ -1483,6 +1365,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         devices can be requested on-demand with the
                         /dev/loop-control interface.
 
+        mcatest=        [IA-64]
+
         mce             [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
 
         mce=option      [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -1497,10 +1381,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         mem=nn[KMG]     [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
                         Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
                         to see the whole system memory or for test.
-                        [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
-                        with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
-                        Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
-                        belonging to unused RAM.
+                        [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
+                        address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
+                        could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
 
         mem=nopentium   [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
                         memory.
@@ -1610,12 +1493,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
                         so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
 
-        module.sig_enforce
-                        [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
-                        modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
-                        Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ENFORCE is set, that
-                        is always true, so this option does nothing.
-
         mousedev.tap_time=
                         [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
                         leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
@@ -1733,52 +1610,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         of returning the full 64-bit number.
                         The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
 
-        nfs.max_session_slots=
-                        [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
-                        the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
-                        This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
-                        that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
-                        Note that there is little point in setting this
-                        value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
-
         nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
-                        [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
-                        ensures that both the RPC level authentication
-                        scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
-                        numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
-                        'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
-                        disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
-                        legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
-                        Servers that do not support this mode of operation
-                        will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
-                        back to using the idmapper.
-                        To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
-        nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
-                        [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
-                        ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
-                        their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
-                        UUID that is generated at system install time.
-
-        nfs.send_implementation_id =
-                        [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
-                        information in exchange_id requests.
-                        If zero, no implementation identification information
-                        will be sent.
-                        The default is to send the implementation identification
-                        information.
-
-        nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
-                        [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
-                        server will return only numeric uids and gids to
-                        clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
-                        and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
-                        migration from NFSv2/v3.
-
-        objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
-                        [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
-                        is used to automatically discover and login into new
-                        osd-targets. Please see:
-                        Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
+                        [NFSv4] When set, this option disables the NFSv4
+                        idmapper on the client, but only if the mount
+                        is using the 'sec=sys' security flavour. This may
+                        make migration from legacy NFSv2/v3 systems easier
+                        provided that the server has the appropriate support.
+                        The default is to always enable NFSv4 idmapping.
 
         nmi_debug=      [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
                         when a NMI is triggered.
@@ -1812,11 +1650,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
                         not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
                         to work with serial and VGA consoles.
-                        To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
-                        console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
-                        it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
-                        /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
-                        turn on/off it dynamically.
 
         noaliencache    [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
                         caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
@@ -1851,12 +1684,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
                         noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
 
-        nosmap          [X86]
-                        Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
-                        even if it is supported by processor.
-
         nosmep          [X86]
-                        Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
+                        Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection)
                         even if it is supported by processor.
 
         noexec32        [X86-64]
@@ -1876,12 +1705,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
                         enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
 
-        eagerfpu=       [X86]
-                        on      enable eager fpu restore
-                        off     disable eager fpu restore
-                        auto    selects the default scheme, which automatically
-                                enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
-
         nohlt           [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
                         wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
                         use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
@@ -1949,12 +1772,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         nomfgpt         [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
                         Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
 
-        nonmi_ipi       [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
-                        shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
-                        irq.
-
-        nomodule        Disable module load
-
         nopat           [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
                         pagetables) support.
 
@@ -1968,11 +1785,6 @@ 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.
 
@@ -2001,20 +1813,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         nox2apic        [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
 
-        cpu0_hotplug    [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
-                        CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
-                        Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
-                        1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
-                        Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
-                        need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
-                        2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
-                        removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
-                        It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
-                        machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
-                        after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
-                        If the dependencies are under your control, you can
-                        turn on cpu0_hotplug.
-
         nptcg=          [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
                         purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
                         SAL PALO.
@@ -2027,9 +1825,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         nr_uarts=       [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
 
-        numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
-                        Allowed values are enable and disable
-
         numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
                         one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
                         This can be set from sysctl after boot.
@@ -2061,11 +1856,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
                                 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
                                 CPU specific event set.
-                        timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
-                                timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
-                                for generic hr timer mode)
-                                [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
-                                (report cpu_type "timer")
 
         oops=panic      Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
                         process, but there is a small probability of
@@ -2248,17 +2038,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                                 the default.
                                 off: Turn ECRC off
                                 on: Turn ECRC on.
-                realloc=        Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
-                                if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
-                                accommodate resources required by all child
-                                devices.
-                                off: Turn realloc off
-                                on: Turn realloc on
-                realloc         same as realloc=on
-                noari           do not use PCIe ARI.
-                pcie_scan_all   Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
-                                only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
-                                port.
+                realloc         reallocate PCI resources if allocations done by BIOS
+                                are erroneous.
 
         pcie_aspm=      [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
                         Management.
@@ -2266,10 +2047,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                 force   Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
                         WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
 
-        pcie_hp=        [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
-                nomsi   Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
-                        makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
-
         pcie_ports=     [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
                 auto    Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
                         associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
@@ -2363,12 +2140,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
                         default: off.
 
-        printk.always_kmsg_dump=
-                        Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
-                        panics
-                        Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
-                        default: disabled
-
         printk.time=    Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
                         Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
 
@@ -2428,137 +2199,18 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         ramdisk_size=   [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
                         See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
 
-        rcu_nocbs=      [KNL,BOOT]
-                        In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
-                        the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
-                        Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
-                        be offloaded to "rcuoN" kthreads created for
-                        that purpose.  This reduces OS jitter on the
-                        offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
-                        real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
-                        efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
-
-        rcu_nocbs_poll  [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
-                        (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
-                        awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
-                        make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
-                        This improves the real-time response for the
-                        offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
-                        wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
-                        energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
-                        periodically wake up to do the polling.
-
-        rcutree.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
+        rcupdate.blimit=        [KNL,BOOT]
                         Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
                         in one batch.
 
-        rcutree.fanout_leaf=    [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
-                        leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very large
-                        systems.
-
-        rcutree.qhimark=        [KNL,BOOT]
+        rcupdate.qhimark=       [KNL,BOOT]
                         Set threshold of queued
                         RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
 
-        rcutree.qlowmark=       [KNL,BOOT]
+        rcupdate.qlowmark=      [KNL,BOOT]
                         Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
                         batch limiting is re-enabled.
 
-        rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
-
-        rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
-
-        rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set delay from grace-period initialization to
-                        first attempt to force quiescent states.
-                        Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
-                        and maximum value is HZ.
-
-        rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
-                        quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
-                        value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
-
-        rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
-
-        rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
-
-        rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
-
-        rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Test RCU readers from irq handlers.
-
-        rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
-
-        rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
-                        stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
-                        test, hence the "fake".
-
-        rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set number of RCU readers.
-
-        rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
-
-        rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
-                        zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
-
-        rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
-                        allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
-                        during the rcutorture test.
-
-        rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
-                        is useful for hands-off automated testing.
-
-        rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
-                        warnings, zero to disable.
-
-        rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
-
-        rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
-
-        rcutorture.stutter= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
-                        five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
-                        wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
-                        ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
-
-        rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
-                        "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
-                        under test support RCU priority boosting.
-
-        rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
-
-        rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Interval (s) between each boost test.
-
-        rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
-                        rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
-
-        rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Specify the RCU implementation to test.
-
-        rcutorture.verbose= [KNL,BOOT]
-                        Enable additional printk() statements.
-
         rdinit=         [KNL]
                         Format: <full_path>
                         Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
@@ -2589,8 +2241,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         resume=         [SWSUSP]
                         Specify the partition device for software suspend
-                        Format:
-                        {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
 
         resume_offset=  [SWSUSP]
                         Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
@@ -2598,13 +2248,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
                         See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
 
-        resumedelay=    [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
-                        read the resume files
-
-        resumewait      [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
-                        Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
-                        (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
-
         hibernate=      [HIBERNATION]
                 noresume        Don't check if there's a hibernation image
                                 present during boot.
@@ -2645,15 +2288,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         sched_debug     [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
 
-        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.
-                        Format: { "0" | "1" }
-                        0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
-                        1 -- enable.
-                        Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
-                        enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
-
         security=       [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
                         If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
                         security module asking for security registration will be
@@ -2692,12 +2326,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         slram=          [HW,MTD]
 
-        slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
-                        Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
-                        A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
-                        fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
-                        more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
-
         slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]    [MM, SLUB]
                         Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
                         culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
@@ -2722,7 +2350,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
 
         slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
-                        Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
+                        Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
                         lower than slub_max_order.
                         For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
 
@@ -2736,6 +2364,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         smart2=         [HW]
                         Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
 
+        smp-alt-once    [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
+                        attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
+
         smsc-ircc2.nopnp        [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
         smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=    [HW] Device configuration I/O port
         smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=    [HW] SIR base I/O port
@@ -2752,7 +2383,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         Format: <integer>
 
         sonypi.*=       [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
-                        See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
+                        See Documentation/sonypi.txt
 
         specialix=      [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
                         See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
@@ -2765,14 +2396,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         stacktrace      [FTRACE]
                         Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
 
-        stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
-                        [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
-                        will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
-                        list of functions. This list can be changed at run
-                        time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
-                        tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
-                        and the stacktrace above is not needed.
-
         sti=            [PARISC,HW]
                         Format: <num>
                         Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
@@ -2885,7 +2508,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
         threadirqs      [KNL]
                         Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
-                        marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
+                        marked explicitely IRQF_NO_THREAD.
 
         topology=       [S390]
                         Format: {off | on}
@@ -2914,29 +2537,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         to facilitate early boot debugging.
                         See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
 
-        trace_options=[option-list]
-                        [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
-                        The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
-                        that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
-                        to echo the option name into
-
-                            /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
-
-                        For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
-                        stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
-
-                              trace_options=stacktrace
-
-                        See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
-                        section.
-
-        transparent_hugepage=
-                        [KNL]
-                        Format: [always|madvise|never]
-                        Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
-                        with respect to transparent hugepages.
-                        See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
-
         tsc=            Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
                         Format: <string>
                         [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
@@ -2996,10 +2596,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         [USB] Start with the old device initialization
                         scheme (default 0 = off).
 
-        usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
-                        [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
-                        usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
-
         usbcore.use_both_schemes=
                         [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
                         if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
@@ -3047,8 +2643,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                                         initial READ(10) command);
                                 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
                                         reported by the device);
-                                p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
-                                        by default);
                                 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
                                         bogus residue values);
                                 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
@@ -3090,22 +2684,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         video=          [FB] Frame buffer configuration
                         See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
 
-        virtio_mmio.device=
-                        [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
-
-                                <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
-                        where:
-                                <size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
-                                                like K, M and G)
-                                <baseaddr> := physical base address
-                                <irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
-                                                request_irq())
-                                <id>       := (optional) platform device id
-                        example:
-                                virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
-
-                        Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
-
         vga=            [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
                         See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
                         Documentation/svga.txt.
@@ -3136,10 +2714,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
                         targets for exploits that can control RIP.
 
-                        emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
-                                    emulated reasonably safely.
+                        emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
+                                    reasonably safely.
 
-                        native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
+                        native      [default] Vsyscalls are native syscall
+                                    instructions.
                                     This is a little bit faster than trapping
                                     and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
                                     better than they would in emulation mode.