1 files changed, 58 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 60b98cea06fc..1205505798cc 100644
--- 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
@@ -724,13 +738,13 @@ 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=     [IA-64,PPC,SH,X86]
+        elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
                         Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
-                        image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
-                        pass this option to capture kernel.
+                        image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
+                        kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
                         See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
 
         enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
@@ -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.
@@ -954,6 +973,9 @@ 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.
@@ -1014,10 +1036,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         has the capability. With this option, super page will
                         not be supported.
         intremap=       [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
-                        Format: { on (default) | off | nosid }
                         on      enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
                         off     disable Interrupt Remapping
                         nosid   disable Source ID checking
+                        no_x2apic_optout
+                                BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
 
         inttest=        [IA-64]
 
@@ -1181,6 +1204,10 @@ 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
@@ -1642,6 +1669,11 @@ 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,
@@ -1777,6 +1809,11 @@ 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.
 
@@ -2245,6 +2282,13 @@ 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.
@@ -2380,7 +2424,7 @@ 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.
@@ -2711,10 +2755,11 @@ 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.