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@@ -847,6 +847,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
for translation below 32 bit and if not available
then look in the higher range.
+ strict [Default Off]
+ With this option on every unmap_single operation will
+ result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
+ to batching them for performance.
io_delay= [X86-32,X86-64] I/O delay method
0x80
@@ -954,6 +958,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
l2cr= [PPC]
+ l3cr= [PPC]
+
lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
disabled it.
@@ -1280,8 +1286,16 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
noexec [IA-64]
noexec [X86-32,X86-64]
+ On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
- noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings
+ noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
+
+ noexec32 [X86-64]
+ This affects only 32-bit executables.
+ noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
+ read doesn't imply executable mappings
+ noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
+ read implies executable mappings
nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
register save and restore. The kernel will only save
@@ -1461,10 +1475,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
- nosort [X86-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to
- order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is
- done to get a device order compatible with
- older kernels.
biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
on several machines and they hang the machine