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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index e92d63d3e878..a465d5242774 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -321,6 +321,8 @@ force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this option with care. + pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). + pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table @@ -1467,6 +1469,14 @@ Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of current integrity status. + early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier + stages so cover more early boot allocations. + Please note that as side effect some optimizations + might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized + memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process + might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of + memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. + failslab= fail_usercopy= fail_page_alloc= @@ -2432,6 +2442,12 @@ 0: force disabled 1: force enabled + kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires + CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The + default value can be overridden via + KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. + Default is 1 (enabled) + kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) @@ -3203,6 +3219,7 @@ spectre_v2_user=off [X86] spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] ssbd=force-off [ARM64] + nospectre_bhb [ARM64] l1tf=off [X86] mds=off [X86] tsx_async_abort=off [X86] @@ -3609,7 +3626,7 @@ nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. - nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. + nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1. @@ -3622,11 +3639,15 @@ (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible in the system. - nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this option. + nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch + history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks + with this option. + nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability @@ -3737,9 +3758,9 @@ [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler clock and use the default one. - no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time - accounting. steal time is computed, but won't - influence scheduler behaviour + no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized + steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but + won't influence scheduler behaviour nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. @@ -6028,12 +6049,6 @@ This parameter controls use of the Protected Execution Facility on pSeries. - swapaccount= [KNL] - Format: [0|1] - Enable accounting of swap in memory resource - controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable - it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) - swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs @@ -6836,6 +6851,12 @@ Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late panic() code such as dumping handler. + xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] + Format: <bool> + Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR + access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The + default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. + xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which |