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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 551ecf09c8dd..ecc74fa4bfde 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead of the ACPI video.ko driver. + acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr + force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the + 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 + bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use + the older legacy 32 bit addresses. + acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] Disable AML predefined validation mechanism This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make @@ -608,6 +614,11 @@ 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_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 + Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } + Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; + the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. + cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. Format: <string> nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. @@ -666,7 +677,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See - arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific ones should be. @@ -976,6 +987,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more information about the feature. + nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found + in some Intel CPUs. + eagerfpu= [X86] on enable eager fpu restore off disable eager fpu restore @@ -1058,6 +1072,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. A valid base address must be provided, and the serial port must already be setup and configured. + armada3700_uart,<addr> + Start an early, polled-mode console on the + Armada 3700 serial port at the specified + address. The serial port must already be setup + and configured. Options are not yet supported. + earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=efi @@ -1687,6 +1707,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. ip= [IP_PNP] See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask + Format: + <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> + or + <cpu number>-<cpu number> + (must be a positive range in ascending order) + or a mixture + <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> + irqfixup [HW] When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken @@ -1750,7 +1779,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. keepinitrd [HW,ARM] - kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter + kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] + Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror" + This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The @@ -1766,6 +1797,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal zone if it does not. + Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]), + you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror" + option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used + for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used + for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive, + so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same + time. + kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug @@ -2566,6 +2605,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nointroute [IA-64] + noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. + nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver @@ -2582,7 +2623,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel - lowmem mapping on PPC40x. + lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling @@ -2721,6 +2762,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. we can turn it on. on: enable the feature + page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of + poisoning on the buddy allocator. + off: turn off poisoning + on: turn on poisoning + panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting timeout = 0: wait forever @@ -3491,6 +3537,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot + rodata= [KNL] + on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). + off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. + + rockchip.usb_uart + Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port + on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the + debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb + port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. + root= [KNL] Root filesystem See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. @@ -3528,6 +3584,11 @@ 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. @@ -4235,6 +4296,17 @@ 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. |