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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index fa4eec22816d..858b6c0b9a15 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ APC and your system crashes randomly. apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller - Change the output verbosity whilst booting + Change the output verbosity while booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. @@ -486,10 +486,14 @@ cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} - cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 - Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } + cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 + Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } + [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. + "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables + named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables + all v1 hierarchies. cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. Format: <string> @@ -674,6 +678,9 @@ cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] disable the cpuidle sub-system + cpuidle.governor= + [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. + cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] disable the cpufreq sub-system @@ -856,6 +863,12 @@ causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT from AP to BSP. + perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] + Format: <bool> + Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. + The feature only exists starting from + Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). + disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if to workaround buggy firmware. @@ -1015,6 +1028,12 @@ specified address. The serial port must already be setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. + rda,<addr> + Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port + of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the + specified address. The serial port must already be + setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. + smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. s3c2410,<addr> @@ -1389,6 +1408,11 @@ hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections from listed z/VM user IDs only. + + hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations + which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the + guest on lock contention. + keep_bootcon [KNL] Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only useful for debugging when something happens in the window @@ -1672,12 +1696,11 @@ By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU has the capability. With this option, super page will not be supported. - ecs_off [Default Off] - By default, extended context tables will be supported if - the hardware advertises that it has support both for the - extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With - this option set, extended tables will not be used even - on hardware which claims to support them. + sm_on [Default Off] + By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the + hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable + mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode + will be used on hardware which claims to support it. tboot_noforce [Default Off] Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which @@ -1753,12 +1776,24 @@ nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. + iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour + Format: { "0" | "1" } + 0 - Lazy mode. + Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred + invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased + throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. + Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by + the relevant IOMMU driver. + 1 - Strict mode (default). + DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs + synchronously. + iommu.passthrough= [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. Format: { "0" | "1" } 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. - unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. + unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in @@ -2073,6 +2108,9 @@ off Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any warnings. + It also drops the swap size and available + RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and + bare metal. Default is 'flush'. @@ -2278,6 +2316,8 @@ ltpc= [NET] Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> + lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. + machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector (machvec) in a generic kernel. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb @@ -2408,7 +2448,7 @@ seconds. Use this parameter to check at some other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. - memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest + memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest Format: <integer> default : 0 <disable> Specifies the number of memtest passes to be @@ -2802,7 +2842,7 @@ check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible in the system. - nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent to spectre_v2=off. @@ -3057,6 +3097,14 @@ timeout < 0: reboot immediately Format: <timeout> + panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. + User can chose combination of the following bits: + bit 0: print all tasks info + bit 1: print system memory info + bit 2: print timer info + bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on + bit 4: print ftrace buffer + panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump on a WARN(). @@ -3480,6 +3528,10 @@ before loading. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. + psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information + tracking. + Format: <bool> + psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports @@ -3544,14 +3596,14 @@ In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. - Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will - be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for - that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" - for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" - is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the - offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and - real-time workloads. It can also improve energy - efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. + Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be + offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that + purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and + "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. + This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, + which can be useful for HPC and real-time + workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency + for asymmetric multiprocessors. rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs @@ -3605,7 +3657,14 @@ Set required age in jiffies for a given grace period before RCU starts soliciting quiescent-state help from - rcu_note_context_switch(). + rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the + kernel will calculate a value based on the most + recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs + and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. + This calculated value may be viewed in + rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to + set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be + cheerfully overwritten. rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] Set delay from grace-period initialization to @@ -3712,24 +3771,6 @@ in microseconds. The default of zero says no holdoff. - rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] - Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive - callback-flood tests. - - rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] - Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive - bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood - test. - - rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] - Set the number of bursts making up a given - callback-flood test. Set this to zero to - disable callback-flood testing. - - rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] - Set the number of callbacks to be registered - in a given burst of a callback-flood test. - rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts in microseconds. @@ -3742,6 +3783,23 @@ Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts in seconds. + rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] + Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing + for the types of RCU supporting this notion. + + rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] + Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning + period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. + + rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] + Number of seconds to wait between successive + forward-progress tests. + + rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] + Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for + need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress + testing. + rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] Use conditional/asynchronous update-side primitives, if available. @@ -3873,12 +3931,6 @@ rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] Run the RCU early boot self tests - rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] - Run the RCU bh early boot self tests - - rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] - Run the RCU sched early boot self tests - rdinit= [KNL] Format: <full_path> Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, @@ -4169,9 +4221,13 @@ spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. + The default operation protects the kernel from + user space attacks. - on - unconditionally enable - off - unconditionally disable + on - unconditionally enable, implies + spectre_v2_user=on + off - unconditionally disable, implies + spectre_v2_user=off auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is vulnerable @@ -4181,6 +4237,12 @@ CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the compiler with which the kernel was built. + Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation + against user space to user space task attacks. + + Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and + the user space protections. + Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: retpoline - replace indirect branches @@ -4190,6 +4252,48 @@ Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. + spectre_v2_user= + [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 + (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between + user space tasks + + on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is + enforced by spectre_v2=on + + off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is + enforced by spectre_v2=off + + prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, + but mitigation can be enabled via prctl + per thread. The mitigation control state + is inherited on fork. + + prctl,ibpb + - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is + controlled per thread. IBPB is issued + always when switching between different user + space processes. + + seccomp + - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp + threads will enable the mitigation unless + they explicitly opt out. + + seccomp,ibpb + - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is + controlled per thread. IBPB is issued + always when switching between different + user space processes. + + auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on + the available CPU features and vulnerability. + + Default mitigation: + If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to + spectre_v2_user=auto. + spec_store_bypass_disable= [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) @@ -4614,7 +4718,8 @@ usbcore.old_scheme_first= [USB] Start with the old device initialization - scheme (default 0 = off). + scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices + (default 0 = off). usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by @@ -4831,6 +4936,18 @@ This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is passed to the kernel using a special protocol. + vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. + May slow down system boot speed, especially when + enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. + All options are enabled by default, and this + interface is meant to allow for selectively + enabling or disabling specific virtual memory + debugging features. + + Available options are: + P Enable page structure init time poisoning + - Disable all of the above options + vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to |