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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 6c42061ca20e..a8d0afde7f85 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1,3 +1,101 @@ + ACPI ACPI support is enabled. + AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled. + ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled. + APIC APIC support is enabled. + APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. + APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled. + ARM ARM architecture is enabled. + ARM64 ARM64 architecture is enabled. + AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support 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 + EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd. + EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled + EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled + EVM Extended Verification Module + FB The frame buffer device is enabled. + FTRACE Function tracing enabled. + GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled. + HIBERNATION HIBERNATION is enabled. + HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. + HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled. + IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled. + IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. + IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled. + ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. + ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. + ISOL CPU Isolation is enabled. + JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. + KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled. + KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled. + LIBATA Libata driver is enabled + LOONGARCH LoongArch architecture is enabled. + LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. + LP Printer support is enabled. + M68k M68k architecture is enabled. + These options have more detailed description inside of + Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst. + MDA MDA console support is enabled. + MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled. + MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. + MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). + MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled. + NET Appropriate network support is enabled. + NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. + NUMA NUMA support is enabled. + OF Devicetree is enabled. + PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. + PCI PCI bus support is enabled. + PCIE PCI Express support is enabled. + PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. + PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. + PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled. + PPT Parallel port support is enabled. + PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. + PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. + RAM RAM disk support is enabled. + RDT Intel Resource Director Technology. + RISCV RISCV architecture is enabled. + S390 S390 architecture is enabled. + SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. + A lot of drivers have their options described inside + the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory. + SDW SoundWire support is enabled. + SECURITY Different security models are enabled. + SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. + SERIAL Serial support is enabled. + SH SuperH architecture is enabled. + SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. + SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled. + SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled. + SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled. + TPM TPM drivers are enabled. + UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled. + USB USB support is enabled. + USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. + V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. + VGA The VGA console has been enabled. + VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled. + VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. + WDT Watchdog support is enabled. + X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled. + X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled. + X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64) + X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled. + XEN Xen support is enabled + XTENSA xtensa architecture is enabled. + +In addition, the following text indicates that the option + + BOOT Is a boot loader parameter. + BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor. + KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter. + + +Kernel parameters + accept_memory= [MM] Format: { eager | lazy } default: lazy @@ -669,6 +767,14 @@ nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. + check_pages= [MM,EARLY] Enable sanity checking of pages after + allocations / before freeing. This adds checks to catch + double-frees, use-after-frees, and other sources of + page corruption by inspecting page internals (flags, + mapcount/refcount, memcg_data, etc.). + Format: { "0" | "1" } + Default: 0 (1 if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set) + checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. Format: { "0" | "1" } See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. @@ -1013,7 +1119,7 @@ It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used or memory reserved is below 4G. crashkernel=size[KMG],cma - [KNL, X86] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from + [KNL, X86, ppc] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range @@ -1113,12 +1219,8 @@ debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace and debugfs internal clients. - Format: { on, no-mount, off } + Format: { on, off } on: All functions are enabled. - no-mount: - Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can - access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read - its content. There is nothing to mount. off: Filesystem is not registered and clients get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files or directories within debugfs. @@ -1907,6 +2009,16 @@ /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG is set. Default value is 5. + hibernate_compression_threads= + [HIBERNATION] + Set the number of threads used for compressing or decompressing + hibernation images. + + Format: <integer> + Default: 3 + Minimum: 1 + Example: hibernate_compression_threads=4 + 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 @@ -2010,14 +2122,20 @@ the added memory block itself do not be affected. hung_task_panic= - [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. - Format: 0 | 1 + [KNL] Number of hung tasks to trigger kernel panic. + Format: <int> + + When set to a non-zero value, a kernel panic will be triggered if + the number of detected hung tasks reaches this value. + + 0: don't panic + 1: panic immediately on first hung task + N: panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan - A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a - hung task is detected. The default value is controlled - by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time - option. The value selected by this boot parameter can - be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. + The default value is controlled by the + CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time option. The value + selected by this boot parameter can be changed later by the + kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 @@ -6207,7 +6325,7 @@ rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, - mba, smba, bmec, abmc. + mba, smba, bmec, abmc, sdciae. E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: rdt=cmt,!mba @@ -6404,7 +6522,7 @@ that don't. off - no mitigation - auto - automatically select a migitation + auto - automatically select a mitigation auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, disabling SMT if necessary for the full mitigation (only on Zen1 @@ -6500,6 +6618,10 @@ Memory area to be used by remote processor image, managed by CMA. + rseq_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable restartable sequence + debug mode. Defaults to CONFIG_RSEQ_DEBUG_DEFAULT_ENABLE. + Format: <bool> + 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. @@ -7150,7 +7272,7 @@ limit. Default value is 8191 pools. stacktrace [FTRACE] - Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. + Enable the stack tracer on boot up. stacktrace_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer @@ -7192,6 +7314,9 @@ them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults on kernel addresses. + no_slb_preload [PPC,EARLY] + Disables slb preloading for userspace. + sunrpc.min_resvport= sunrpc.max_resvport= [NFS,SUNRPC] |