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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ffad13fdf..76d68c5df 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -472,6 +472,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. + apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting + Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } + bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 + all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a + backup of CPU 0 + none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is + useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be + shot down by NMI + autoconf= [IPV6] See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. @@ -599,6 +608,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} + cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. + Format: <string> + nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. + nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. + checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. Format: { "0" | "1" } See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. @@ -721,16 +735,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] + uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, switching to the matching ttyS device later. MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit - (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32). - If none of [io|mmio|mmio32], <addr> is assumed to be - equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in the - same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, + (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). + If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed + to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in + the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, the h/w is not re-initialized. hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for @@ -1002,10 +1017,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. pl011,<addr> + pl011,mmio32,<addr> Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port must already be setup and configured. Options are not - yet supported. + yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only + the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write + the device registers. msm_serial,<addr> Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial @@ -1436,6 +1454,41 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states + ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode + Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } + Default: strict + + Choose which programs will be accepted for execution + based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by + the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value + of an ELF file header flag individually set by each + binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to + support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN + encoding mode. + + Available settings are as follows: + strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding + supported by the FPU + legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported + by the FPU + 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported + by the FPU + relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether + supported by the FPU + + The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN + encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has + been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of + 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, + 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and + 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on + legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or + MIPS64 CPUs. + + The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution + mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, + except where unsupported by hardware. + ignore_loglevel [KNL] Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. @@ -1443,6 +1496,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. could change it dynamically, usually by /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. + ignore_rlimit_data + Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, + print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via + /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. + ihash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. @@ -2575,8 +2633,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter - nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem - nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). @@ -2733,10 +2789,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. hardware access methods are allowed. Use this if you experience crashes upon bootup and you suspect they are caused by the BIOS. - conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration - Mechanism 1. - conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration - Mechanism 2. + conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access + Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, + data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). + conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access + Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for + the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets + bus number. The config space is then accessed + through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). + See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info + on the configuration access mechanisms. noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. @@ -2978,6 +3040,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. may be specified. Format: <port>,<port>.... + ppc_strict_facility_enable + [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, + Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically + allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). + There is some performance impact when enabling this. + print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals @@ -3050,9 +3118,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. raid= [HW,RAID] See Documentation/md.txt. - ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM] - See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. - ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. @@ -3296,18 +3361,35 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] Enable additional printk() statements. + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] + Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. + + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] + Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. + rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] Use expedited grace-period primitives, for example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, but can increase CPU utilization, degrade real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. - - rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] - Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. - - rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] - Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. + No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. + + rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] + Use only normal grace-period primitives, + for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of + synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves + real-time latency, CPU utilization, and + energy efficiency, but can expose users to + increased grace-period latency. This parameter + overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on + CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. + + rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] + Once boot has completed (that is, after + rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use + only normal grace-period primitives. No effect + on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning @@ -3446,6 +3528,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. + Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature + incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler + but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. + 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. @@ -3874,6 +3961,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. usbcore.usbfs_snoop= [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). + usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= + [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB + (default = 65536). + usbcore.blinkenlights= [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). @@ -3894,6 +3985,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). + usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem + usbhid.mousepoll= [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. @@ -3966,9 +4059,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. HIGHMEM regardless of setting of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. - uuid_debug= (Boolean) whether to enable debugging of TuxOnIce's - uuid support. - vdso= [X86,SH] On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: @@ -4117,6 +4207,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. or other driver-specific files in the Documentation/watchdog/ directory. + workqueue.watchdog_thresh= + If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can + warn stall conditions and dump internal state to + help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall + detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold + duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and + it can be updated at runtime by writing to the + corresponding sysfs file. + workqueue.disable_numa By default, all work items queued to unbound workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're @@ -4141,6 +4240,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. The default value of this parameter is determined by the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. + workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu + Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work + items queued without explicit CPU specified are put + on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true + and while local CPU is still preferred work items + may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option + forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out + usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. + When enabled, memory and cache locality will be + impacted. + x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of default x2apic cluster mode on platforms supporting x2apic. |