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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 43 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst | 7 |
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 184193bcb262..caf36105a1c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1857,8 +1857,10 @@ following two functions. wbc_init_bio(@wbc, @bio) Should be called for each bio carrying writeback data and - associates the bio with the inode's owner cgroup. Can be - called anytime between bio allocation and submission. + associates the bio with the inode's owner cgroup and the + corresponding request queue. This must be called after + a queue (device) has been associated with the bio and + before submission. wbc_account_io(@wbc, @page, @bytes) Should be called for each data segment being written out. @@ -1877,7 +1879,7 @@ the configuration, the bio may be executed at a lower priority and if the writeback session is holding shared resources, e.g. a journal entry, may lead to priority inversion. There is no one easy solution for the problem. Filesystems can try to work around specific problem -cases by skipping wbc_init_bio() or using bio_associate_blkcg() +cases by skipping wbc_init_bio() or using bio_associate_create_blkg() directly. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 92eb1f42240d..4cdcd1a1bbc3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -856,6 +856,11 @@ causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT from AP to BSP. + disable_counter_freezing [HW] + Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. + The feature only exists starting from + Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). + disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if to workaround buggy firmware. @@ -1385,6 +1390,11 @@ hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections from listed z/VM user IDs only. + + hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations + which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the + guest on lock contention. + keep_bootcon [KNL] Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only useful for debugging when something happens in the window @@ -2274,6 +2284,8 @@ ltpc= [NET] Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> + lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. + machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector (machvec) in a generic kernel. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb @@ -3540,14 +3552,14 @@ In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. - Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will - be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for - that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" - for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" - is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the - offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and - real-time workloads. It can also improve energy - efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. + Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be + offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that + purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and + "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. + This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, + which can be useful for HPC and real-time + workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency + for asymmetric multiprocessors. rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs @@ -3601,7 +3613,14 @@ Set required age in jiffies for a given grace period before RCU starts soliciting quiescent-state help from - rcu_note_context_switch(). + rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the + kernel will calculate a value based on the most + recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs + and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. + This calculated value may be viewed in + rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to + set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be + cheerfully overwritten. rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] Set delay from grace-period initialization to @@ -3869,12 +3888,6 @@ rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] Run the RCU early boot self tests - rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL] - Run the RCU bh early boot self tests - - rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL] - Run the RCU sched early boot self tests - rdinit= [KNL] Format: <full_path> Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst index 8f1d3de449b5..ac6f5c597a56 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst @@ -465,6 +465,13 @@ Next, the following policy attributes have special meaning if policy for the time interval between the last two invocations of the driver's utilization update callback by the CPU scheduler for that CPU. +One more policy attribute is present if the `HWP feature is enabled in the +processor <Active Mode With HWP_>`_: + +``base_frequency`` + Shows the base frequency of the CPU. Any frequency above this will be + in the turbo frequency range. + The meaning of these attributes in the `passive mode <Passive Mode_>`_ is the same as for other scaling drivers. |