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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts: drivers/pci/dmar.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ parameter is applicable:
SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
- SWSUSP Software suspend is enabled.
+ SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
+ SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
USB USB support is enabled.
USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
@@ -147,10 +148,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
default: 0
acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
- Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, old_ordering }
+ Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
+ s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
+ used during resume from hibernation.
old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
control method, wrt putting devices into low power
states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
@@ -774,8 +777,22 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
hisax= [HW,ISDN]
See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
- hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages.
- hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
+ hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
+ multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
+ huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
+ x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
+ (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
+ Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
+ using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
+ default_hugepagesz=
+ [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
+ HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
+ the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
+ default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
+ Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
+ if not specified.
i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
@@ -1225,6 +1242,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
mga= [HW,DRM]
+ mminit_loglevel=
+ [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
+ parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
+ the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
+ of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
+ log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
+ so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
+
mousedev.tap_time=
[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
@@ -2040,6 +2065,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA]
+ softlockup_panic=
+ [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
+
sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
See Documentation/sonypi.txt
@@ -2104,6 +2132,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
tdfx= [HW,DRM]
+ test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
+ Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
+ standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
+ enter during system startup. The system is woken from
+ this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
+
thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
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