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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 747a55abf494..3edc5ce0e2a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2606,6 +2606,11 @@ for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken firmware running. + irqhandler.duration_warn_us= [KNL] + Warn if an IRQ handler exceeds the specified duration + threshold in microseconds. Useful for identifying + long-running IRQs in the system. + irqpoll [HW] When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers for it. Also check all handlers each timer @@ -3700,7 +3705,7 @@ looking for corruption. Enabling this will both detect corruption and prevent the kernel from using the memory being corrupted. - However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if + However, it's intended as a diagnostic tool; if repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always affects the same memory, you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that memory. @@ -3767,8 +3772,16 @@ mga= [HW,DRM] - microcode.force_minrev= [X86] - Format: <bool> + microcode= [X86] Control the behavior of the microcode loader. + Available options, comma separated: + + base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32> + Set the base microcode revision of each thread when in + debug mode. + + dis_ucode_ldr: disable the microcode loader + + force_minrev: Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. @@ -3829,6 +3842,7 @@ srbds=off [X86,INTEL] ssbd=force-off [ARM64] tsx_async_abort=off [X86] + vmscape=off [X86] Exceptions: This does not have any effect on @@ -4589,7 +4603,7 @@ bit 2: print timer info bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on bit 4: print ftrace buffer - bit 5: replay all messages on consoles at the end of panic + bit 5: replay all kernel messages on consoles at the end of panic bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, @@ -6154,7 +6168,7 @@ rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, - mba, smba, bmec. + mba, smba, bmec, abmc. E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: rdt=cmt,!mba @@ -6405,8 +6419,9 @@ rodata= [KNL,EARLY] on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. - full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only - [arm64] + noalias Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain + writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside + of the kernel image. [arm64] rockchip.usb_uart [EARLY] @@ -6428,6 +6443,9 @@ rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string + initramfs_options= [KNL] + Specify mount options for for the initramfs mount. + rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. @@ -7382,7 +7400,7 @@ (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but depending on the architecture, may not be in sync between CPUs. - global - Event time stamps are synchronize across + global - Event time stamps are synchronized across CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, but better for some race conditions. counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) @@ -7502,12 +7520,12 @@ section. trace_trigger=[trigger-list] - [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. + [FTRACE] Add an event trigger on specific events. Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional filter. - The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." - Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. + The format is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." + Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma delimited. For example: @@ -7515,7 +7533,7 @@ The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" - event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). + event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE). See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst @@ -8041,6 +8059,16 @@ vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. Format: <command> + vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks. + VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace + hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels. + + off - disable the mitigation + ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier + (IBPB) mitigation (default) + force - force vulnerability detection even on + unaffected processors + vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy |