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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 7bc83f3d9bdf..fb95fad81c79 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ shot down by NMI autoconf= [IPV6] - See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as kernel args too. - bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst + bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst bttv.tuner= bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more information. See - Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an + Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an alternative. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] @@ -831,15 +831,18 @@ decnet.addr= [HW,NET] Format: <area>[,<node>] - See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. + See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. default_hugepagesz= - [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default - HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by - the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and - default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. - Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size - if not specified. + [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is + the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages + APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size + used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs + filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the + architecture's default huge page size. Huge page + sizes are architecture dependent. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: size[KMG] deferred_probe_timeout= [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for @@ -871,8 +874,13 @@ can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB miss to occur. + stress_slb [PPC] + Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes + them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults + on kernel addresses. + disable= [IPV6] - See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. hardened_usercopy= [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether @@ -912,7 +920,7 @@ to workaround buggy firmware. disable_ipv6= [IPV6] - See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous @@ -1190,6 +1198,11 @@ This is designed to be used in conjunction with the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga + This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter + but can only be used if the backing tty is available + very early in the boot process. For early debugging + via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. + edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} @@ -1432,7 +1445,7 @@ hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate backtraces on all cpus. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on @@ -1479,19 +1492,30 @@ hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. - hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. - hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. - On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified - multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve - huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on - x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G - (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). + hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. + If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies + the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. + If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command + line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for + the default huge page size. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: <integer> + + hugepagesz= + [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in + conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge + pages of a specific size at boot. The pair + hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for + each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are + architecture dependent. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: size[KMG] hung_task_panic= [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 - A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a + A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a hung task is detected. The default value is controlled by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time option. The value selected by this boot parameter can @@ -1748,6 +1772,13 @@ initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk + initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to + load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or + specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this + setting. + Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] + Default is 0, 0 + init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with zeroes. Format: 0 | 1 @@ -2105,6 +2136,21 @@ kms, kbd format: kms,kbd kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] + kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] + If the boot console provides the ability to read + characters and can work in polling mode, you can use + this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend + until the normal console is registered. Intended to + be used together with the kgdboc parameter which + specifies the normal console to transition to. + + The name of the early console should be specified + as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of + the early console might be different than the tty + name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value + blank and the first boot console that implements + read() will be picked. + kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. @@ -2705,7 +2751,7 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters - See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. + See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode @@ -3329,7 +3375,7 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. - See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more + See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more info. olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands @@ -3401,6 +3447,19 @@ bit 4: print ftrace buffer bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer + panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() + Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] + Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags + that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is + called with any of the flags in this set. + The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to + prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl + /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the + bitmask set on panic_on_taint. + See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for + extra details on the taint flags that users can pick + to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. + panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump on a WARN(). @@ -3669,6 +3728,8 @@ may put more devices in an IOMMU group. force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. + norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of + one PCI domain per PCI function pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power Management. @@ -4210,12 +4271,24 @@ Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall warnings, zero to disable. + rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] + Sleep while stalling if set. This will result + in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition + to any other stall-related activity. + rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] Disable interrupts while stalling if set. + rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] + Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU + grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall + warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu + and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the + kthread is starved first, then the CPU. + rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] Time (s) between statistics printk()s. @@ -4286,6 +4359,13 @@ only normal grace-period primitives. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. + rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] + Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will + avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning + of a given grace period. Setting a large + number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, + but lengthens grace periods. + rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning messages. Disable with a value less than or equal @@ -4587,9 +4667,9 @@ softlockup_panic= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 - A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector + A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 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 @@ -4598,7 +4678,7 @@ softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate backtraces on all cpus. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst @@ -4757,6 +4837,26 @@ the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" mode. + srbds= [X86,INTEL] + Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling + (SRBDS) mitigation. + + Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like + exploit which can leak bits from the random + number generator. + + By default, this issue is mitigated by + microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause + the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become + much slower. Among other effects, this will + result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. + + The microcode mitigation can be disabled with + the following option: + + off: Disable mitigation and remove + performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED + srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] Specifies how frequently to check for grace-period sequence counter wrap for the @@ -4891,6 +4991,15 @@ switches= [HW,M68k] + sysctl.*= [KNL] + Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init + process, as if the value was written to the respective + /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as + separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values + are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered + later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. + Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 + sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev on older distributions. When this option is enabled @@ -4910,7 +5019,7 @@ Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics - cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt + cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. tdfx= [HW,DRM] @@ -5067,6 +5176,12 @@ interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not acceptable). + tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given + value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery + procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems + with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. + Format: <unsigned int> + tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that support TSX control. |