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author | Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> | 2013-11-01 21:17:16 (GMT) |
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committer | Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> | 2013-11-03 22:47:10 (GMT) |
commit | 31110de40dca4d4aeff4f253b3def948b88fa590 (patch) | |
tree | 0d811783836d52f15e37b4244de54f44ed4f93ad /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
parent | ae60d5d27c429b13cf28a09ab8b9d30682433c5a (diff) | |
parent | 8bb495e3f02401ee6f76d1b1d77f3ac9f079e376 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-31110de40dca4d4aeff4f253b3def948b88fa590.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'v3.10' into sdk-kernel-3.10
git rebase --continue
Linux 3.10
Conflicts:
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
arch/ia64/kvm/Makefile
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/Makefile
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/b4420qds.dts
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/b4860qds.dts
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/b4qds.dts
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/b4420si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/b4420si-pre.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/b4860si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/b4860si-pre.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/b4si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1010si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p2041si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p3041si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p4080si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p5020si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p5040si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/qonverge-usb2-dr-0.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/qoriq-sec5.0-0.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/t4240si-post.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/t4240si-pre.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/p1025rdb_36b.dts
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/t4240qds.dts
arch/powerpc/configs/corenet64_smp_defconfig
arch/powerpc/configs/mpc85xx_defconfig
arch/powerpc/configs/mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_fsl_booke.S
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/irq.h
arch/powerpc/kvm/mpic.c
arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/b4_qds.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/t4240_qds.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/smp.c
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_85xx_l2ctlr.c
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_msi.c
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.h
arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
arch/x86/kvm/Makefile
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
drivers/Kconfig
drivers/clk/Kconfig
drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c
drivers/crypto/caam/intern.h
drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c
drivers/crypto/caam/regs.h
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ethtool.c
drivers/iommu/Makefile
drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c
drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
drivers/iommu/iommu.c
drivers/iommu/msm_iommu.c
drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c
drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c
drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c
drivers/misc/Makefile
drivers/mmc/card/block.c
drivers/mmc/card/queue.c
drivers/mmc/core/core.c
drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c
drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c501.c
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/3c503.c
drivers/net/ethernet/dec/ewrk3.c
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.c
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c507.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-ds3232.c
drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/ccg/u_ether.c
drivers/usb/gadget/fsl_udc_core.c
drivers/usb/otg/fsl_otg.c
drivers/vfio/vfio.c
drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
include/linux/iommu.h
include/linux/kvm_host.h
include/linux/mmc/sdhci.h
include/linux/msi.h
include/linux/netdev_features.h
include/linux/pci.h
include/linux/skbuff.h
include/net/ip6_route.h
include/net/sch_generic.h
include/net/xfrm.h
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
net/core/netpoll.c
virt/kvm/irqchip.c
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
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1 files changed, 174 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 2f04b62..614a89c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ 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: @@ -468,6 +477,13 @@ 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] @@ -567,6 +583,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, switching to the matching ttyS device later. The options are the same as for ttyS, above. + hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for + both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance @@ -604,6 +622,26 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. + crashkernel=size[KMG],high + [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel + to allocate physical memory region from top, so could + be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. + Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if + available. + It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. + crashkernel=size[KMG],low + [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high + is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region + above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system + that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb + requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would + try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically. + This one let user to specify own low range under 4G + for second kernel instead. + 0: to disable low allocation. + It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used + or memory reserved is below 4G. + cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] Format: <dma> @@ -755,18 +793,31 @@ 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. @@ -774,6 +825,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console. + The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. + ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging ekgdboc=kbd @@ -783,6 +836,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} + efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] + Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of + your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if + you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and + fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. + eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. @@ -973,6 +1032,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections from listed z/VM user IDs only. + hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to + hardware thread id mappings. + Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> + keep_bootcon [KNL] Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only useful for debugging when something happens in the window @@ -1042,16 +1105,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. idle= [X86] - Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait + Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. Not recommended. - idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but - the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save - as much power as a normal idle loop, use the - MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be - the same as idle=poll. idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states @@ -1134,6 +1192,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state. + intel_pstate= [X86] + disable + Do not enable intel_pstate as the default + scaling driver for the supported processors + intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) off disable Interrupt Remapping @@ -1217,6 +1280,20 @@ 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. @@ -1616,7 +1693,7 @@ 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= @@ -1889,10 +1966,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. - no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt - instruction doesn't work correctly and not to - use it. - no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The only way then for a file to be executed with privilege is to be setuid root or executed by root. @@ -1908,6 +1981,14 @@ 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 @@ -1969,8 +2050,6 @@ 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 @@ -2230,6 +2309,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) + tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. + pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value + supported by all devices below the root complex. + pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS + based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max + Read Request Size) to the largest supported + value (no larger than the MPS that the device + or bus can support) for best performance. + pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which + every device is guaranteed to support. This + configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between + any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of + reduced performance. This also guarantees + that hot-added devices will work. cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. The default value is 256 bytes. @@ -2251,6 +2345,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. the default. off: Turn ECRC off on: Turn ECRC on. + hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is + reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. + Default size is 256 bytes. + hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is + reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. + Default size is 2 megabytes. realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources if allocations done by BIOS are too small to accommodate resources required by all child @@ -2435,9 +2535,12 @@ 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. @@ -2461,6 +2564,17 @@ 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. @@ -2475,16 +2589,15 @@ 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. @@ -2637,6 +2750,11 @@ 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 @@ -2890,6 +3008,27 @@ 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 @@ -3196,6 +3335,15 @@ 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. @@ -3206,9 +3354,6 @@ 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] |