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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index fb95fad81c79..ff5018b39ed0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] disable the cpufreq sub-system + cpufreq.default_governor= + [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or + policy to use. This governor must be registered in the + kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. + cpu_init_udelay=N [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs @@ -1207,26 +1212,28 @@ Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} efi= [EFI] - Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", - "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", - "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } - old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI - runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] + Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", + "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", + "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma", + "old_map" } + debug: enable misc debug output. + disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all + PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 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 - debug: enable misc debug output nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the memory range for a memory mapping driver to claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this reservation and treat the memory by its base type (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). - disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all - PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub + novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub + old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI + runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of @@ -2786,7 +2793,7 @@ touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at - http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git + https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git mitigations= [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for @@ -3079,6 +3086,8 @@ no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces kernel to use 4-level paging instead. + nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. + no_console_suspend [HW] Never suspend the console Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and @@ -4038,6 +4047,14 @@ latencies, which will choose a value aligned with the appropriate hardware boundaries. + rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] + Minimum number of objects which are cached and + maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal + to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the + pressure to page allocator, also it makes the + whole algorithm to behave better in low memory + condition. + rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] Set delay from grace-period initialization to first attempt to force quiescent states. @@ -4258,6 +4275,20 @@ Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. + rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] + Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used + to test the interaction of RCU updaters and + task-exit processing. + + rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] + The number of times in a given read-then-exit + episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads + is spawned. + + rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] + The delay, in seconds, between successive + read-then-exit testing episodes. + rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode @@ -4407,6 +4438,45 @@ reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor to be used for rebooting. + refscale.holdoff= [KNL] + Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of + this parameter is to delay the start of the + test until boot completes in order to avoid + interference. + + refscale.loops= [KNL] + Set the number of loops over the synchronization + primitive under test. Increasing this number + reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, + but the default has already reduced the per-pass + noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 + x86 laptops. + + refscale.nreaders= [KNL] + Set number of readers. The default value of -1 + selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number + of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. + + refscale.nruns= [KNL] + Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto + the console log. + + refscale.readdelay= [KNL] + Set the read-side critical-section duration, + measured in microseconds. + + refscale.scale_type= [KNL] + Specify the read-protection implementation to test. + + refscale.shutdown= [KNL] + Shut down the system at the end of the performance + test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when + rcuperf is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave + it running) when rcuperf is built as a module. + + refscale.verbose= [KNL] + Enable additional printk() statements. + relax_domain_level= [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. @@ -5082,6 +5152,13 @@ Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing until after init has spawned. + torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] + Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, + even if there were no errors. This can be a + very costly operation when many torture tests + are running concurrently, especially on systems + with rotating-rust storage. + tp720= [HW,PS2] tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] |