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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/namespace.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index a0a4732eedbb..122f2d2f3e96 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1168,7 +1168,8 @@ Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} efi= [EFI] - Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } + Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", + "nosoftreserve" } old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by default. @@ -1177,6 +1178,12 @@ firmware implementations. noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support debug: enable misc debug output + nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) + attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the + memory range for a memory mapping driver to + claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this + reservation and treat the memory by its base type + (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of @@ -1189,15 +1196,21 @@ updating original EFI memory map. Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is from ss to ss+nn. + If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. + If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the + EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to + range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. + Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap - related feature. For example, you can do debugging of + related features. For example, you can do debugging of Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box - doesn't support it. + doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as + "soft reserved". efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/namespace.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/namespace.rst index 835521baeb89..3eb763d6656d 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/namespace.rst +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/namespace.rst @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ Description Tables contain information used for the creation of the struct acpi_device objects represented by the given row (xSDT means DSDT or SSDT). -The forth column of the above table indicates the 'bus_id' generation +The fourth column of the above table indicates the 'bus_id' generation rule of the struct acpi_device object: _HID: |