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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 7dbe5ec9d9cd..4df73da11adc 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -829,6 +829,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help tracking down these problems. + debug_pagealloc= + [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this + parameter enables the feature at boot time. In + default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge + chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable + it at boot time and the system will work mostly same + with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. + on: enable the feature + debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging decnet.addr= [HW,NET] @@ -1015,10 +1024,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} efi= [EFI] - Format: { "old_map" } + Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime" } old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by default. + nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI + boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some + firmware implementations. + noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of @@ -1224,9 +1237,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. 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) - Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time - using hugepages= and not freed afterwards. + (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 @@ -1260,7 +1271,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing for the AUX port i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing - controller. Default: true. + controller i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX controllers i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller @@ -1303,6 +1314,18 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. + ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem + Format: <int> + Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on + platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by + setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The + default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. + On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the + PCI bus for the first and the second port, which + are then probed. On systems without PCI the value + of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it + was 0x3. + ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. @@ -1353,6 +1376,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" } Default: "ima-ng" + ima_template_fmt= + [IMA] Define a custom template format. + Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } + ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage Format: <min_file_size> Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. @@ -1430,6 +1457,18 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. disable Do not enable intel_pstate as the default scaling driver for the supported processors + force + Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default + in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver + instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such + as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI + P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore + should be used with caution. This option does not work with + processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver + or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. + no_hwp + Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) + if available. intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) @@ -1583,6 +1622,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable Valid arguments: on, off Default: on + Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, + the default is off. kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 @@ -2232,7 +2273,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. - noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support. + noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. noexec [IA-64] @@ -2485,12 +2526,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. OSS [HW,OSS] See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt + page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. + Storage of the information about who allocated + each page is disabled in default. With this switch, + we can turn it on. + on: enable the feature + panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting timeout = 0: wait forever timeout < 0: reboot immediately Format: <timeout> + panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump + on a WARN(). + crash_kexec_post_notifiers Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always @@ -2922,6 +2972,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum value is one, and maximum value is HZ. + rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] + Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU + per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also + used for the priority of the RCU boost threads + (rcub/N). Valid values are 1-99 and the default + is 1 (the least-favored priority). + rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which defaults to the square root of the number of @@ -3071,6 +3128,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. messages. Disable with a value less than or equal to zero. + 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, @@ -3394,6 +3460,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. Useful for debugging. + tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] + 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 + "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. + tdfx= [HW,DRM] test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] @@ -3465,6 +3538,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. Default is on. + topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] + Format: {off} + Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) + topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this + LPAR. + tp720= [HW,PS2] tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] @@ -3477,7 +3556,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. are saved. trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] - [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size. + [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. trace_event=[event-list] [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order @@ -3500,6 +3579,24 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" section. + tp_printk[FTRACE] + Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the + tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up + where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the + option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a + ftrace_dump_on_oops. + + To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, + echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk + Note, echoing 1 into this file without the + tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. + + ** CAUTION ** + + Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high + frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause + the system to live lock. + traceoff_on_warning [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can @@ -3597,7 +3694,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. usb-storage.delay_use= [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is - scanned for Logical Units (default 5). + scanned for Logical Units (default 1). usb-storage.quirks= [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or |