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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 69 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst | 39 |
3 files changed, 91 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst index 12278a926370..fdf72429f801 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ shortcut for ``print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG)``. For ``print_hex_dump_debug()``/``print_hex_dump_bytes()``, format string is its ``prefix_str`` argument, if it is constant string; or ``hexdump`` -in case ``prefix_str`` is build dynamically. +in case ``prefix_str`` is built dynamically. Dynamic debug has even more useful features: @@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ line line number matches the callsite line number exactly. A range of line numbers matches any callsite between the first and last line number inclusive. An empty first number means - the first line in the file, an empty line number means the - last number in the file. Examples:: + the first line in the file, an empty last line number means the + last line number in the file. Examples:: line 1603 // exactly line 1603 line 1600-1605 // the six lines from line 1600 to line 1605 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index a0532127807f..b44217290e57 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -709,6 +709,9 @@ 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 @@ -854,7 +857,7 @@ The filter can be disabled or changed to another driver later using sysfs. - drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] + drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets @@ -1713,6 +1716,13 @@ irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask The argument is a cpu list, as described above. + irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= + [ARM, ARM64] + Format: <bool> + Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page + of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range + exposed by the device tree is too small. + irqfixup [HW] When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken @@ -1727,20 +1737,33 @@ isapnp= [ISAPNP] Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> - isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. - The argument is a cpu list, as described above. + isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. + [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] + Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> + + Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances + specified in the flag list (default: domain): + + nohz + Disable the tick when a single task runs. + domain + Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling + algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way + is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to + the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly + advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load + balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. + It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can + move in and out of an isolated set anytime. + + You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via + the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. + <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is + "number of CPUs in system - 1". + + The format of <cpu-list> is described above. - This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs - to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling - algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an - "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. - <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is - "number of CPUs in system - 1". - This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The - alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all - tasks in the system -- can cause problems and - suboptimal load balancer performance. iucv= [HW,NET] @@ -1841,13 +1864,6 @@ Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, the default is off. - kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode - Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 - kmemcheck=0 (disabled) - kmemcheck=1 (enabled) - kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode) - Default: 2 (one-shot mode) - kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) @@ -2548,6 +2564,9 @@ noalign [KNL,ARM] + noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching + (CPU alternatives feature). + noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any IOAPICs that may be present in the system. @@ -3185,6 +3204,10 @@ allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). There is some performance impact when enabling this. + ppc_tm= [PPC] + Format: {"off"} + Disable Hardware Transactional Memory + print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals @@ -3541,6 +3564,9 @@ rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. + rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] + Disable interrupts while stalling if set. + rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] Time (s) between statistics printk()s. @@ -4202,6 +4228,9 @@ Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting can add overhead. + [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this + marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and + avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] TurboGraFX parallel port interface diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst index 6a4cd1f159ca..de50a8561774 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst @@ -197,3 +197,42 @@ information is missing. To recover from this mode, one needs to flash a valid NVM image to the host host controller in the same way it is done in the previous chapter. + +Networking over Thunderbolt cable +--------------------------------- +Thunderbolt technology allows software communication across two hosts +connected by a Thunderbolt cable. + +It is possible to tunnel any kind of traffic over Thunderbolt link but +currently we only support Apple ThunderboltIP protocol. + +If the other host is running Windows or macOS only thing you need to +do is to connect Thunderbolt cable between the two hosts, the +``thunderbolt-net`` is loaded automatically. If the other host is also +Linux you should load ``thunderbolt-net`` manually on one host (it does +not matter which one):: + + # modprobe thunderbolt-net + +This triggers module load on the other host automatically. If the driver +is built-in to the kernel image, there is no need to do anything. + +The driver will create one virtual ethernet interface per Thunderbolt +port which are named like ``thunderbolt0`` and so on. From this point +you can either use standard userspace tools like ``ifconfig`` to +configure the interface or let your GUI to handle it automatically. + +Forcing power +------------- +Many OEMs include a method that can be used to force the power of a +thunderbolt controller to an "On" state even if nothing is connected. +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 + + To force the power to on, write 1 to this attribute file. + To disable force power, write 0 to this attribute file. + +Note: it's currently not possible to query the force power state of a platform. |