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Signed-off-by: Changbin Du --- Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst | 326 ++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 278 ------------------ Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst | 10 + 4 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 278 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst delete mode 100644 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst index 19323c5b89ce..e7becb146c30 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst @@ -27,3 +27,4 @@ Linux x86 Support resctrl_ui usb-legacy-support i386/index + x86_64/index diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2378f30c694a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst @@ -0,0 +1,326 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================== +AMD64 Specific Boot Options +=========================== + +There are many others (usually documented in driver documentation), but +only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here. + +Machine check +============= +Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables. + + mce=off + Disable machine check + mce=no_cmci + Disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that + Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is + not recommended, but it might be handy if your hardware + is misbehaving. + Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than with + due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get duplicated + error logs. + mce=dont_log_ce + Don't make logs for corrected errors. All events reported + as corrected are silently cleared by OS. + This option will be useful if you have no interest in any + of corrected errors. + mce=ignore_ce + Disable features for corrected errors, e.g. polling timer + and CMCI. All events reported as corrected are not cleared + by OS and remained in its error banks. + Usually this disablement is not recommended, however if + there is an agent checking/clearing corrected errors + (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conflicting + with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent, + then this option will be a help. + mce=no_lmce + Do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method + to broadcast MCEs. + mce=bootlog + Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting. + Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older because some BIOS + leave bogus ones. + If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though + to make sure you log even machine check events that result + in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default. + mce=nobootlog + Disable boot machine check logging. + mce=tolerancelevel[,monarchtimeout] (number,number) + tolerance levels: + 0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only) + Default is 1 + Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable. + monarchtimeout: + Sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine checks. 0 + to disable. + mce=bios_cmci_threshold + Don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot option + prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI threshold set by the + bios. Without this option, Linux always sets the CMCI + threshold to 1. Enabling this may make memory predictive failure + analysis less effective if the bios sets thresholds for memory + errors since we will not see details for all errors. + mce=recovery + Force-enable recoverable machine check code paths + + nomce (for compatibility with i386) + same as mce=off + + Everything else is in sysfs now. + +APICs +===== + + apic + Use IO-APIC. Default + + noapic + Don't use the IO-APIC. + + disableapic + Don't use the local APIC + + nolapic + Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility) + + pirq=... + See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt + + noapictimer + Don't set up the APIC timer + + no_timer_check + Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around + problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards. + + apicpmtimer + Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies + apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally broken. + +Timing +====== + + notsc + Deprecated, use tsc=unstable instead. + + nohpet + Don't use the HPET timer. + +Idle loop +========= + + idle=poll + Don't do power saving in the idle loop using HLT, but poll for rescheduling + event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful + to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also + makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate. + Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T + CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop. + It may also interact badly with hyperthreading. + +Rebooting +========= + + reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] [, [w]arm | [c]old] + * bios - Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset + * warm - Don't set the cold reboot flag + * cold - Set the cold reboot flag + * triple - Force a triple fault (init) + * kbd - Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) + * acpi - Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not configured or + the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset + using the keyboard controller. + * efi - Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or + the EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using + the keyboard controller. + + Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory + systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check. + Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized + on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems. + + reboot=force + Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot more reliable + in some cases. + +Non Executable Mappings +======================= + + noexec=on|off + * on - Enable(default) + * off - Disable + +NUMA +==== + + numa=off + Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. + + numa=noacpi + Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup + + numa=fake=[MG] + If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with nodes of + size interleaved over physical nodes. + + numa=fake= + If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes + interleaved over physical nodes. + + numa=fake=U + If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each + physical node into N emulated nodes. + +ACPI +==== + + acpi=off + Don't enable ACPI + acpi=ht + Use ACPI boot table parsing, but don't enable ACPI interpreter + acpi=force + Force ACPI on (currently not needed) + acpi=strict + Disable out of spec ACPI workarounds. + acpi_sci={edge,level,high,low} + Set up ACPI SCI interrupt. + acpi=noirq + Don't route interrupts + acpi=nocmcff + Disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. This + disables parsing the HEST CMC error source to check if + firmware has set the FF flag. This may result in + duplicate corrected error reports. + +PCI +=== + + pci=off + Don't use PCI + pci=conf1 + Use conf1 access. + pci=conf2 + Use conf2 access. + pci=rom + Assign ROMs. + pci=assign-busses + Assign busses + pci=irqmask=MASK + Set PCI interrupt mask to MASK + pci=lastbus=NUMBER + Scan up to NUMBER busses, no matter what the mptable says. + pci=noacpi + Don't use ACPI to set up PCI interrupt routing. + +IOMMU (input/output memory management unit) +=========================================== +Multiple x86-64 PCI-DMA mapping implementations exist, for example: + + 1. : use no hardware/software IOMMU at all + (e.g. because you have < 3 GB memory). + Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU" + + 2. : AMD GART based hardware IOMMU. + Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU" + + 3. : Software IOMMU implementation. Used + e.g. if there is no hardware IOMMU in the system and it is need because + you have >3GB memory or told the kernel to us it (iommu=soft)) + Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering + for IO (SWIOTLB)" + + 4. : IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU. Used in IBM + pSeries and xSeries servers. This hardware IOMMU supports DMA address + mapping with memory protection, etc. + Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using Calgary IOMMU" + +:: + + iommu=[][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce] + [,memaper[=]][,merge][,fullflush][,nomerge] + [,noaperture][,calgary] + +General iommu options: + + off + Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU. + noforce + Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not needed. (default). + force + Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when it is + not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB memory). + soft + Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for + Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage + of an available hardware IOMMU. + +iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU: + + + Set the size of the remapping area in bytes. + allowed + Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets. + fullflush + Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default). + nofullflush + Don't use IOMMU fullflush. + memaper[=] + Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<[,force] + + Prereserve that many 128K pages for the software IO bounce buffering. + force + Force all IO through the software TLB. + +Settings for the IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU currently found in IBM +pSeries and xSeries machines + + calgary=[64k,128k,256k,512k,1M,2M,4M,8M] + Set the size of each PCI slot's translation table when using the + Calgary IOMMU. This is the size of the translation table itself + in main memory. The smallest table, 64k, covers an IO space of + 32MB; the largest, 8MB table, can cover an IO space of 4GB. + Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. + calgary=[translate_empty_slots] + Enable translation even on slots that have no devices attached to + them, in case a device will be hotplugged in the future. + calgary=[disable=] + Disable translation on a given PHB. For + example, the built-in graphics adapter resides on the first bridge + (PCI bus number 0); if translation (isolation) is enabled on this + bridge, X servers that access the hardware directly from user + space might stop working. Use this option if you have devices that + are accessed from userspace directly on some PCI host bridge. + panic + Always panic when IOMMU overflows + + +Miscellaneous +============= + + nogbpages + Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. + gbpages + Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt deleted file mode 100644 index abc53886655e..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,278 +0,0 @@ -AMD64 specific boot options - -There are many others (usually documented in driver documentation), but -only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here. - -Machine check - - Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables. - - mce=off - Disable machine check - mce=no_cmci - Disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that - Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is - not recommended, but it might be handy if your hardware - is misbehaving. - Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than with - due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get duplicated - error logs. - mce=dont_log_ce - Don't make logs for corrected errors. All events reported - as corrected are silently cleared by OS. - This option will be useful if you have no interest in any - of corrected errors. - mce=ignore_ce - Disable features for corrected errors, e.g. polling timer - and CMCI. All events reported as corrected are not cleared - by OS and remained in its error banks. - Usually this disablement is not recommended, however if - there is an agent checking/clearing corrected errors - (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conflicting - with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent, - then this option will be a help. - mce=no_lmce - Do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method - to broadcast MCEs. - mce=bootlog - Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting. - Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older because some BIOS - leave bogus ones. - If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though - to make sure you log even machine check events that result - in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default. - mce=nobootlog - Disable boot machine check logging. - mce=tolerancelevel[,monarchtimeout] (number,number) - tolerance levels: - 0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors - 1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors - 2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors - 3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only) - Default is 1 - Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable. - monarchtimeout: - Sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine checks. 0 - to disable. - mce=bios_cmci_threshold - Don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot option - prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI threshold set by the - bios. Without this option, Linux always sets the CMCI - threshold to 1. Enabling this may make memory predictive failure - analysis less effective if the bios sets thresholds for memory - errors since we will not see details for all errors. - mce=recovery - Force-enable recoverable machine check code paths - - nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off - - Everything else is in sysfs now. - -APICs - - apic Use IO-APIC. Default - - noapic Don't use the IO-APIC. - - disableapic Don't use the local APIC - - nolapic Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility) - - pirq=... See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt - - noapictimer Don't set up the APIC timer - - no_timer_check Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around - problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards. - apicpmtimer - Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies - apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally - broken. - -Timing - - notsc - Deprecated, use tsc=unstable instead. - - nohpet - Don't use the HPET timer. - -Idle loop - - idle=poll - Don't do power saving in the idle loop using HLT, but poll for rescheduling - event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful - to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also - makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate. - Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T - CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop. - It may also interact badly with hyperthreading. - -Rebooting - - reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] [, [w]arm | [c]old] - bios Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset - warm Don't set the cold reboot flag - cold Set the cold reboot flag - triple Force a triple fault (init) - kbd Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) - acpi Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not configured or the - ACPI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using - the keyboard controller. - efi Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or the - EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using - the keyboard controller. - - Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory - systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check. - Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized - on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems. - - reboot=force - - Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot more reliable - in some cases. - -Non Executable Mappings - - noexec=on|off - - on Enable(default) - off Disable - -NUMA - - numa=off Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. - - numa=noacpi Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup - - numa=fake=[MG] - If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with nodes of - size interleaved over physical nodes. - - numa=fake= - If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes - interleaved over physical nodes. - - numa=fake=U - If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each - physical node into N emulated nodes. - -ACPI - - acpi=off Don't enable ACPI - acpi=ht Use ACPI boot table parsing, but don't enable ACPI - interpreter - acpi=force Force ACPI on (currently not needed) - - acpi=strict Disable out of spec ACPI workarounds. - - acpi_sci={edge,level,high,low} Set up ACPI SCI interrupt. - - acpi=noirq Don't route interrupts - - acpi=nocmcff Disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. This - disables parsing the HEST CMC error source to check if - firmware has set the FF flag. This may result in - duplicate corrected error reports. - -PCI - - pci=off Don't use PCI - pci=conf1 Use conf1 access. - pci=conf2 Use conf2 access. - pci=rom Assign ROMs. - pci=assign-busses Assign busses - pci=irqmask=MASK Set PCI interrupt mask to MASK - pci=lastbus=NUMBER Scan up to NUMBER busses, no matter what the mptable says. - pci=noacpi Don't use ACPI to set up PCI interrupt routing. - -IOMMU (input/output memory management unit) - - Multiple x86-64 PCI-DMA mapping implementations exist, for example: - - 1. : use no hardware/software IOMMU at all - (e.g. because you have < 3 GB memory). - Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU" - - 2. : AMD GART based hardware IOMMU. - Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU" - - 3. : Software IOMMU implementation. Used - e.g. if there is no hardware IOMMU in the system and it is need because - you have >3GB memory or told the kernel to us it (iommu=soft)) - Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering - for IO (SWIOTLB)" - - 4. : IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU. Used in IBM - pSeries and xSeries servers. This hardware IOMMU supports DMA address - mapping with memory protection, etc. - Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using Calgary IOMMU" - - iommu=[][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce] - [,memaper[=]][,merge][,fullflush][,nomerge] - [,noaperture][,calgary] - - General iommu options: - off Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU. - noforce Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not needed. - (default). - force Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when it is - not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB memory). - soft Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for - Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage - of an available hardware IOMMU. - - iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU: - Set the size of the remapping area in bytes. - allowed Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets. - fullflush Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default). - nofullflush Don't use IOMMU fullflush. - memaper[=] Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<[,force] - Prereserve that many 128K pages for the software IO - bounce buffering. - force Force all IO through the software TLB. - - Settings for the IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU currently found in IBM - pSeries and xSeries machines: - - calgary=[64k,128k,256k,512k,1M,2M,4M,8M] - calgary=[translate_empty_slots] - calgary=[disable=] - panic Always panic when IOMMU overflows - - 64k,...,8M - Set the size of each PCI slot's translation table - when using the Calgary IOMMU. This is the size of the translation - table itself in main memory. The smallest table, 64k, covers an IO - space of 32MB; the largest, 8MB table, can cover an IO space of - 4GB. Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself. - - translate_empty_slots - Enable translation even on slots that have - no devices attached to them, in case a device will be hotplugged - in the future. - - disable= - Disable translation on a given PHB. For - example, the built-in graphics adapter resides on the first bridge - (PCI bus number 0); if translation (isolation) is enabled on this - bridge, X servers that access the hardware directly from user - space might stop working. Use this option if you have devices that - are accessed from userspace directly on some PCI host bridge. - -Miscellaneous - - nogbpages - Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. - gbpages - Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a8cf7713cac9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============== +x86_64 Support +============== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + boot-options -- 2.20.1