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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 99 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mono.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst | 2 |
5 files changed, 84 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index 63066db39910..af5a437198d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -170,11 +170,6 @@ Configuring the kernel your existing ./.config file and asking about new config symbols. - "make silentoldconfig" - Like above, but avoids cluttering the screen - with questions already answered. - Additionally updates the dependencies. - "make olddefconfig" Like above, but sets new symbols to their default values without prompting. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index b2598cc9834c..7242cbda15dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ parameter is applicable:: 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. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 78cdf6a637fc..39ac9d4fad7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled GPE floodings. Format: <int> - Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f. acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] Disable auto-serialization of AML methods @@ -223,7 +222,7 @@ acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, - old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } + old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on s3_bios and s3_mode. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep @@ -239,6 +238,9 @@ sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, but some broken systems don't work without it). + nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to + behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system + suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards @@ -328,11 +330,15 @@ not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. - apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Change the output verbosity whilst booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. + For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC + driver name. + Format: apic=driver_name + Examples: apic=bigsmp apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } @@ -640,6 +646,20 @@ console=brl,ttyS0 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. + console_msg_format= + [KNL] Change console messages format + default + By default we print messages on consoles in + "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be + printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or + `printk_time' param). + syslog + Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" + IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel + prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() + syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading + from /proc/kmsg. + consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. Defaults to 0. @@ -709,9 +729,6 @@ It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used or memory reserved is below 4G. - crossrelease_fullstack - [KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release - cryptomgr.notests [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests @@ -1737,7 +1754,7 @@ isapnp= [ISAPNP] Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> - isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. + isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> @@ -2049,9 +2066,6 @@ This tests the locking primitive's ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. - locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] - Start locktorture running at boot time. - locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] Specify the locking implementation to test. @@ -2538,6 +2552,9 @@ This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and need the box quickly up again. + These settings can be accessed at runtime via + the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. + netpoll.carrier_timeout= [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll @@ -2622,6 +2639,11 @@ nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1. + nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 + (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may + allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent + to spectre_v2=off. + noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. @@ -2662,7 +2684,7 @@ Valid arguments: on, off Default: on - nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] + nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] The argument is a cpu list, as described above. In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped @@ -2736,8 +2758,6 @@ norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space - noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops - noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions with UP alternatives @@ -3094,6 +3114,12 @@ pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we only look for one device below a PCIe downstream port. + big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe + root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware + can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. + Adding the window is slightly risky (it may + conflict with unreported devices), so this + taints the kernel. pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power Management. @@ -3282,6 +3308,21 @@ pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. + pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and + kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature + removes hardening, but improves performance of + system calls and interrupts. + + on - unconditionally enable + off - unconditionally disable + auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is + vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. + + nopti [X86_64] + Equivalent to pti=off + pty.legacy_count= [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in default number. @@ -3459,9 +3500,6 @@ the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. N, where N is the number of CPUs - rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT] - Start rcuperf running at boot time. - rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] Specify the RCU implementation to test. @@ -3595,9 +3633,6 @@ Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. - rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT] - Start rcutorture running at boot time. - rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] Specify the RCU implementation to test. @@ -3655,7 +3690,8 @@ rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: - cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba. + cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, + mba. E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: rdt=cmt,!mba @@ -3935,6 +3971,29 @@ sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt + spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 + (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. + + on - unconditionally enable + off - unconditionally disable + auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is + vulnerable + + Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a + mitigation method at run time according to the + CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the + CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the + compiler with which the kernel was built. + + Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: + + retpoline - replace indirect branches + retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline + retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to + spectre_v2=auto. + spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] spia_fio_base= spia_pedr= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mono.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mono.rst index cdddc099af64..59e6d59f0ed9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mono.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mono.rst @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ This will allow you to execute Mono-based .NET binaries just like any other program after you have done the following: 1) You MUST FIRST install the Mono CLR support, either by downloading - a binary package, a source tarball or by installing from CVS. Binary + a binary package, a source tarball or by installing from Git. Binary packages for several distributions can be found at: - http://go-mono.com/download.html + http://www.mono-project.com/download/ Instructions for compiling Mono can be found at: - http://www.go-mono.com/compiling.html + http://www.mono-project.com/docs/compiling-mono/linux/ Once the Mono CLR support has been installed, just check that ``/usr/bin/mono`` (which could be located elsewhere, for example diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst index de50a8561774..9b55952039a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ If supported by your machine this will be exposed by the WMI bus with a sysfs attribute called "force_power". For example the intel-wmi-thunderbolt driver exposes this attribute in: - /sys/devices/platform/PNP0C14:00/wmi_bus/wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00/86CCFD48-205E-4A77-9C48-2021CBEDE341/force_power + /sys/bus/wmi/devices/86CCFD48-205E-4A77-9C48-2021CBEDE341/force_power To force the power to on, write 1 to this attribute file. To disable force power, write 0 to this attribute file. |