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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 41644336e3..b72e2049c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -580,6 +580,10 @@ named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables all v1 hierarchies. + cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. + Format: { "true" | "false" } + Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. + cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. Format: <string> nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. @@ -1331,6 +1335,7 @@ earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] + earlyprintk=bios earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by @@ -1361,6 +1366,8 @@ The sclp output can only be used on s390. + The bios output can only be used on SuperH. + The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a PCI device even when its classcode is not of the UART class. @@ -1449,7 +1456,7 @@ See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. - elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] + elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390] Specifies physical address of start of kernel core image elf header and optionally the size. Generally kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. @@ -1512,12 +1519,6 @@ floppy= [HW] See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. - force_pal_cache_flush - [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on - buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this - parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call - ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. - forcepae [X86-32] Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a @@ -1893,6 +1894,12 @@ 0 -- machine default 1 -- force brightness inversion + ia32_emulation= [X86-64] + Format: <bool> + When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit + syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at + boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. + icn= [HW,ISDN] Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] @@ -2220,7 +2227,7 @@ forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting greater than 32-bit addressing. - iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour + iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86, S390] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour Format: { "0" | "1" } 0 - Lazy mode. Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred @@ -2913,6 +2920,38 @@ to extract confidential information from the kernel are also disabled. + locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] + Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock + acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit + will result in a splat once they do complete. + + locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] + Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are + to be bound. + + locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] + Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are + to be bound. + + locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] + Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() + chains to set up. These are used to ensure that + there is a high probability of an RCU grace period + in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, + which disables these call_rcu() chains. + + locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] + Specify the duration in milliseconds for the + occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults + to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. + + locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] + Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that + locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 + (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. + Note that this parameter is ineffective on types + of locks that do not support nested acquisition. + locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. Defaults to being automatically set based on the @@ -2928,6 +2967,25 @@ Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. + locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] + Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority + boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost + only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. + Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an + odd choice, but which should be harmless for + non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling + of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes + disable boosting. + + locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] + Number that determines how often and for how + long priority boosting is exercised. This is + scaled down by the number of writers, so that the + number of boosts per unit time remains roughly + constant as the number of writers increases. + On the other hand, the duration of each boost + increases with the number of writers. + locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle @@ -2950,13 +3008,13 @@ locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] Specify the locking implementation to test. + locktorture.verbose= [KNL] + Enable additional printk() statements. + locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. - locktorture.verbose= [KNL] - Enable additional printk() statements. - logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver Format: <irq> @@ -3275,6 +3333,11 @@ mga= [HW,DRM] + microcode.force_minrev= [X86] + Format: <bool> + Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision + enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. + min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this physical address is ignored. @@ -3533,6 +3596,13 @@ [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback channel should listen. + nfs.delay_retrans= + [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client + retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, + after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. + Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, + and the specified value is >= 0. + nfs.enable_ino64= [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode @@ -4769,6 +4839,13 @@ Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process in one batch. + rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] + Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is + throttled so that userspace tests can safely + hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. + If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery + is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. + rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic @@ -5225,6 +5302,12 @@ Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU stall warning. + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] + Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the + warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig + option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly + do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. @@ -5422,6 +5505,12 @@ test until boot completes in order to avoid interference. + refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] + Number of data elements to use for the forms of + SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number + is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while + zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. + refscale.loops= [KNL] Set the number of loops over the synchronization primitive under test. Increasing this number @@ -5611,9 +5700,10 @@ s390_iommu= [HW,S390] Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode strict - With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in - an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, - which is faster. + With strict flushing every unmap operation will result + in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before + reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to + iommu.strict=1. s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space |