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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 20e248cc03a9..766087781ecd 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -446,12 +446,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. possible to determine what the correct size should be. This option provides an override for these situations. - capability.disable= - [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally - be used only if an alternative security model is to be - configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be - used if you are entirely sure of the consequences. - ccw_timeout_log [S390] See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. @@ -600,6 +594,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. is selected automatically. Check Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. + crashkernel_low=size[KMG] + [KNL, x86] parts under 4G. + crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory in the running system. The syntax of range is @@ -1045,16 +1042,11 @@ 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 @@ -1137,6 +1129,11 @@ 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 @@ -1503,9 +1500,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory or for test. - [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical - address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices - could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM. + [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together + with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. + Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses + belonging to unused RAM. mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel memory. @@ -1642,6 +1640,42 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations is not too small. + movablemem_map=acpi + [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter is similar to + memmap except it specifies the memory map of + ZONE_MOVABLE. + This option inform the kernel to use Hot Pluggable bit + in flags from SRAT from ACPI BIOS to determine which + memory devices could be hotplugged. The corresponding + memory ranges will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE. + NOTE: Whatever node the kernel resides in will always + be un-hotpluggable. + + movablemem_map=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] + [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter is similar to + memmap except it specifies the memory map of + ZONE_MOVABLE. + If user specifies memory ranges, the info in SRAT will + be ingored. And it works like the following: + - If more ranges are all within one node, then from + lowest ss to the end of the node will be ZONE_MOVABLE. + - If a range is within a node, then from ss to the end + of the node will be ZONE_MOVABLE. + - If a range covers two or more nodes, then from ss to + the end of the 1st node will be ZONE_MOVABLE, and all + the rest nodes will only have ZONE_MOVABLE. + If memmap is specified at the same time, the + movablemem_map will be limited within the memmap + areas. If kernelcore or movablecore is also specified, + movablemem_map will have higher priority to be + satisfied. So the administrator should be careful that + the amount of movablemem_map areas are not too large. + Otherwise kernel won't have enough memory to start. + NOTE: We don't stop users specifying the node the + kernel resides in as hotpluggable so that this + option can be used as a workaround of firmware + bugs. + MTD_Partition= [MTD] Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> @@ -1891,10 +1925,6 @@ 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. @@ -2032,6 +2062,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. + numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. + Allowed values are enable and disable + numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified This can be set from sysctl after boot. @@ -2440,7 +2473,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. real-time workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. - rcu_nocbs_poll [KNL,BOOT] + rcu_nocb_poll [KNL,BOOT] Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, |