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+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ parameter is applicable:
AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
+ CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
+ CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
@@ -320,6 +322,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+ alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
+ Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
+ main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
+ and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
+ do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
+ to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
+
amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
Possible values are:
@@ -465,6 +474,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
cio_ignore= [S390]
See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
+ clk_ignore_unused
+ [CLK]
+ Keep all clocks already enabled by bootloader on,
+ even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
+ for debug and development, but should not be
+ needed on a platform with proper driver support.
+ For more information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
[Deprecated]
@@ -774,19 +790,31 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
- earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
+ earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM]
earlyprintk=vga
earlyprintk=xen
earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
+ earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
+ earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
+ the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
+ default because it has some cosmetic problems.
+
Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
takes over.
Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
- Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
+ Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
+ name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
+ on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
+ replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
+ earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
+ You can find the port for a given device in
+ /proc/tty/driver/serial:
+ 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
very good.
@@ -1249,6 +1277,20 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
iucv= [HW,NET]
+ ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
+ Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
+ mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
+ example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
+ PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
+ ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
+
+ ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
+ Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
+ mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
+ example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
+ PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
+ ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
+
js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
@@ -1648,7 +1690,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
module.sig_enforce
[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
- Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ENFORCE is set, that
+ Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
is always true, so this option does nothing.
mousedev.tap_time=
@@ -1936,6 +1978,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Valid arguments: on, off
Default: on
+ nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
+ In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
+ the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
+ whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
+ the range to maintain the timekeeping.
+ The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
+ rcu_nocbs= set.
+
noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
@@ -1997,8 +2047,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
with UP alternatives
- noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
-
nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND
instruction even if it is supported by the
processor. RDRAND is still available to user
@@ -2484,9 +2532,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
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 "rcuoN" kthreads created for
- that purpose. This reduces OS jitter on the
+ 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.
@@ -2510,6 +2561,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
systems.
+ rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set delay from grace-period initialization to
+ first attempt to force quiescent states.
+ Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
+ and maximum value is HZ.
+
+ rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
+ quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
+ value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+
rcutree.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
Set threshold of queued
RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
@@ -2524,16 +2586,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL,BOOT]
Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
- rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
- Set delay from grace-period initialization to
- first attempt to force quiescent states.
- Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
- and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
+ RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
- rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
- Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
- quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
- value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
+ only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
+ Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
+ prove do nothing more than free memory.
rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
@@ -2686,6 +2747,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
+ rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
+ [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
+ Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
+ managed by CMA.
+
rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
S [KNL] Run init in single mode
@@ -2939,6 +3005,27 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
+ tmem [KNL,XEN]
+ Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
+
+ tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
+ API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
+
+ tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
+ API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
+ the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
+
+ tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
+ to the hypervisor.
+
+ tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
+ Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
+ transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
+ kernel based on different criteria.
+
topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
@@ -3245,6 +3332,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
or other driver-specific files in the
Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
+ workqueue.disable_numa
+ By default, all work items queued to unbound
+ workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
+ issued on, which results in better behavior in
+ general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
+ whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
+ that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
+ workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
+
x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
supporting x2apic.
@@ -3255,9 +3351,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
- xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
- xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
-
xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
Unplug Xen emulated devices
Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]