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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index f5af86b3c4a2..a3ea40b22fb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1407,18 +1407,15 @@ earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] + earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}] earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}] earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] earlyprintk=bios - earlyprintk=mmio,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}] 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. - Only 32-bit memory addresses are supported for "mmio" - and "pciserial" devices. - Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly. @@ -1831,6 +1828,13 @@ lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to compress/decompress hibernation image. + hibernate.pm_test_delay= + [HIBERNATION] + Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test + mode before resuming the system (see + /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG + is set. Default value is 5. + highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem @@ -2205,6 +2209,23 @@ different crypto accelerators. This option can be used to achieve best performance for particular HW. + indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect + Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated + microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB. + + on: Enable mitigation (default). + off: Disable mitigation. + force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default + mitigation. + vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by + guest/host isolation part of ITS. + stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is + also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default + mitigation. + + For details see: + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst + init= [KNL] Format: <full_path> Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init @@ -2728,6 +2749,31 @@ kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. + kho= [KEXEC,EARLY] + Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" } + Enables or disables Kexec HandOver. + "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled + "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled + + kho_scratch= [KEXEC,EARLY] + Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn% + Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO + scratch regions are physically contiguous memory + ranges that can only be used for non-kernel + allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily + fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced + kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to + bootstrap itself. + + It is possible to specify the exact amount of + memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]" + where the first parameter defines the size of a low + memory scratch area, the second parameter defines + the size of a global scratch area and the third + parameter defines the size of additional per-node + scratch areas. The form "nn%" defines scale factor + (in percents) of memory that was used during boot. + kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip Ethernet adapter MAC address. @@ -3696,6 +3742,7 @@ expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] gather_data_sampling=off [X86] + indirect_target_selection=off [X86] kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] l1tf=off [X86] mds=off [X86] @@ -4265,10 +4312,10 @@ nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". - nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). + nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1. - [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). + [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone via the sysfs control file. @@ -5657,6 +5704,31 @@ are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted they are all non-zero. + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL] + Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting + to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from + running. Default is true. + + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL] + Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during + active lag testing periods. This controls how many + grace periods differences we tolerate between + rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag. + The default is always set to 8. + + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL] + Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag + testing in minutes. This is the total time for + one complete cycle of active and inactive + testing periods. Default is 30 minutes. + + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL] + Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active + within each cycle, in minutes. During this time, + the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the + value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is + 5 minutes. + rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU @@ -6253,7 +6325,7 @@ port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. root= [KNL] Root filesystem - Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, + Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind, see the early_lookup_bdev comment in block/early-lookup.c for details. Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial @@ -6280,6 +6352,11 @@ Memory area to be used by remote processor image, managed by CMA. + rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling + when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to + !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED. + Format: <bool> + rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot S [KNL] Run init in single mode @@ -7535,6 +7612,22 @@ Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be reported either. + unaligned_scalar_speed= + [RISCV] + Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} + Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This + is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip + the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All + CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed. + + unaligned_vector_speed= + [RISCV] + Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} + Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This + is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip + the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All + CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed. + unknown_nmi_panic [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. |