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@@ -1051,6 +1051,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        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)
@@ -1296,6 +1304,10 @@ 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.
 
@@ -1350,6 +1362,9 @@ 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
@@ -1582,6 +1597,12 @@ 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
@@ -1719,6 +1740,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        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
@@ -1962,6 +1988,20 @@ 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.
@@ -2372,6 +2412,27 @@ 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]
                        Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
                        in one batch.
@@ -2837,6 +2898,22 @@ 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]
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