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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index c07815d230bc..4d5a4fe22703 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -450,6 +450,9 @@ bert_disable [ACPI] Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. + bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] + Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. + bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as kernel args too. @@ -522,6 +525,7 @@ Default value is set via a kernel config option. Value can be changed at runtime via /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. + Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. cio_ignore= [S390] See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. @@ -1099,6 +1103,12 @@ A valid base address must be provided, and the serial port must already be setup and configured. + ec_imx21,<addr> + ec_imx6q,<addr> + Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the + Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART + must already be setup and configured. + ar3700_uart,<addr> Start an early, polled-mode console on the Armada 3700 serial port at the specified @@ -1354,6 +1364,24 @@ can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) + fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier + devices by scanning the firmware to infer the + consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is + especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as + it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing + (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state + clean up (only after all consumers have probed), + suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then + suppliers). + Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } + off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. + permissive -- Create device links from firmware info + but use it only for ordering boot state clean + up (sync_state() calls). + on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it + to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. + rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. + gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) @@ -1779,7 +1807,7 @@ provided by tboot because it makes the system vulnerable to DMA attacks. nobounce [Default off] - Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as + Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security risks of DMA attacks. @@ -1883,7 +1911,7 @@ No delay ip= [IP_PNP] - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. @@ -2795,7 +2823,7 @@ <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] mtdparts= [MTD] - See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. + See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries @@ -2853,13 +2881,13 @@ Default value is 0. nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. nfs.callback_nr_threads= [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the @@ -3174,7 +3202,7 @@ [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler clock and use the default one. - no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time + no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour @@ -3285,12 +3313,6 @@ This can be set from sysctl after boot. See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. - of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and - supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the - consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device - will not be probed until all the supplier devices have - probed successfully. - ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more info. @@ -3799,6 +3821,11 @@ before loading. See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. + prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines + isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports + that). + Format: <bool> + psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information tracking. Format: <bool> @@ -3984,6 +4011,15 @@ Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which batch limiting is re-enabled. + rcutree.qovld= [KNL] + Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which + RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively + enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to + help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. + Set to less than zero to make this be set based + on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to + disable more aggressive help enlistment. + rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). @@ -4199,6 +4235,12 @@ rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] + Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and + rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur + during early boot, that is, during the time + before the init task is spawned. + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. @@ -4392,6 +4434,22 @@ incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. + sched_thermal_decay_shift= + [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal + pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the + default decay period of other scheduler pelt + signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting + sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay + period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift + value. + i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms + sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr + 1 64 ms + 2 128 ms + and so on. + Format: integer between 0 and 10 + Default is 0. + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. @@ -4514,10 +4572,10 @@ Format: <integer> A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector - to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This - is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC - which is the respective build-time switch to that - functionality. + to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is + also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl + and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the + respective build-time switch to that functionality. softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate @@ -4659,6 +4717,28 @@ spia_pedr= spia_peddr= + split_lock_detect= + [X86] Enable split lock detection + + When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic + instructions that access data across cache line + boundaries will result in an alignment check exception. + + off - not enabled + + warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings + about applications triggering the #AC + exception. This mode is the default on CPUs + that supports split lock detection. + + fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications + that trigger the #AC exception. + + If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in + firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) + the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" + mode. + srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] Specifies how frequently to check for grace-period sequence counter wrap for the @@ -4871,6 +4951,10 @@ topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this LPAR. + torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] + Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing + until after init has spawned. + tp720= [HW,PS2] tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] |