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oprofile.timer= [HW]
Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
+ oprofile.force_arch_perfmon=1 [X86]
+ Force use of architectural perfmon instead of
+ the CPU specific event set.
+ This might be useful if you have older oprofile
+ userland or if you want common events over Intel CPUs.
+
osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.