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Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txt
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Correctly the formatting of several additions to the profile= option
that have been added by using <profiletype> and listing the choices
for it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Randy Dunlap authored and Jonathan Corbet committed Nov 20, 2017
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instead using the legacy FADT method

profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Format: [schedule,]<number>
Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
[defaults to kernel profiling]
Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
statistical time based profiling.
Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
statistical time based profiling.

prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
before loading.
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