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@@ -872,6 +872,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                               If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
                               from listed z/VM user IDs only.
 
                               If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
                               from listed z/VM user IDs only.
 
+       keep_bootcon    [KNL]
+                       Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
+                       useful for debugging when something happens in the window
+                       between unregistering the boot console and initializing
+                       the real console.
+
        i2c_bus=        [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
                             or register an additional I2C bus that is not
                             registered from board initialization code.
        i2c_bus=        [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
                             or register an additional I2C bus that is not
                             registered from board initialization code.
@@ -1597,11 +1603,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
 
        nmi_watchdog=   [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
                        Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
 
        nmi_watchdog=   [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
-                       Format: [panic,][num]
+                       Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
                        Valid num: 0
                        0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
                        When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
                        Valid num: 0
                        0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
                        When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
-                       timeout occurs.
+                       timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
+                       default).
                        This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
                        need the box quickly up again.
 
                        This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
                        need the box quickly up again.
 
@@ -1825,6 +1832,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                                perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
                                CPU specific event set.
 
                                perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
                                CPU specific event set.
 
+       oops=panic      Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
+                       but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
+                       This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
+                       Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
+
        OSS             [HW,OSS]
                        See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
 
        OSS             [HW,OSS]
                        See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt