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@@ -703,6 +703,11 @@
cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
disable the cpufreq sub-system
+ cpufreq.default_governor=
+ [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
+ policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
+ kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
+
cpu_init_udelay=N
[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
@@ -827,6 +832,21 @@
useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
on: enable the feature
+ debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
+ and debugfs internal clients.
+ Format: { on, no-mount, off }
+ on: All functions are enabled.
+ no-mount:
+ Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
+ access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
+ its content. There is nothing to mount.
+ off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
+ get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
+ or directories within debugfs.
+ This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
+ debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
+ Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
+
debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
@@ -896,6 +916,10 @@
disable_radix [PPC]
Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
+ radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
+ Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
+ invalidate.
+
disable_tlbie [PPC]
Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
@@ -1207,26 +1231,28 @@
Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
efi= [EFI]
- Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
- "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
- "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
- old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
- runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
+ Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
+ "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
+ "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma",
+ "old_map" }
+ debug: enable misc debug output.
+ disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
+ PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
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").
- disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
- PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
+ novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
+ old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
+ runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
@@ -2786,7 +2812,7 @@
touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
- http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
+ https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
mitigations=
[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
@@ -3079,6 +3105,8 @@
no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
+ nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
+
no_console_suspend
[HW] Never suspend the console
Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
@@ -4038,6 +4066,14 @@
latencies, which will choose a value aligned
with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
+ rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
+ Minimum number of objects which are cached and
+ maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
+ to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
+ pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
+ whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
+ condition.
+
rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Set delay from grace-period initialization to
first attempt to force quiescent states.
@@ -4258,6 +4294,20 @@
Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
+ rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
+ Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
+ to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
+ task-exit processing.
+
+ rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
+ The number of times in a given read-then-exit
+ episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
+ is spawned.
+
+ rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
+ The delay, in seconds, between successive
+ read-then-exit testing episodes.
+
rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
@@ -4407,6 +4457,45 @@
reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
to be used for rebooting.
+ refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
+ Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
+ this parameter is to delay the start of the
+ test until boot completes in order to avoid
+ interference.
+
+ refscale.loops= [KNL]
+ Set the number of loops over the synchronization
+ primitive under test. Increasing this number
+ reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
+ but the default has already reduced the per-pass
+ noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
+ x86 laptops.
+
+ refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
+ Set number of readers. The default value of -1
+ selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
+ of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
+
+ refscale.nruns= [KNL]
+ Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
+ the console log.
+
+ refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
+ Set the read-side critical-section duration,
+ measured in microseconds.
+
+ refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
+ Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
+
+ refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
+ Shut down the system at the end of the performance
+ test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
+ rcuperf is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
+ it running) when rcuperf is built as a module.
+
+ refscale.verbose= [KNL]
+ Enable additional printk() statements.
+
relax_domain_level=
[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
@@ -4604,7 +4693,7 @@
fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
- slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
+ slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB]
Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
@@ -5082,6 +5171,13 @@
Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
until after init has spawned.
+ torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
+ Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
+ even if there were no errors. This can be a
+ very costly operation when many torture tests
+ are running concurrently, especially on systems
+ with rotating-rust storage.
+
tp720= [HW,PS2]
tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
@@ -5712,8 +5808,9 @@
panic() code such as dumping handler.
xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
- Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
- optimizations.
+ Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
+ This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
+ has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
xen_nopv [X86]
Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
@@ -5739,6 +5836,11 @@
as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
+ nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM]
+ Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
+ which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
+ contention.
+
xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Format:
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]