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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 75 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 54 |
11 files changed, 209 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index 5fb526900023..5aad534233cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Configuring the kernel Compiling the kernel -------------------- - - Make sure you have at least gcc 4.6 available. + - Make sure you have at least gcc 4.9 available. For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`. Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index e454957683c9..fa4018afa5a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1356,8 +1356,8 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. thp_fault_alloc Number of transparent hugepages which were allocated to satisfy - a page fault, including COW faults. This counter is not present - when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is not set. + a page fault. This counter is not present when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE + is not set. thp_collapse_alloc Number of transparent hugepages which were allocated to allow @@ -1483,8 +1483,7 @@ IO Interface Files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ io.stat - A read-only nested-keyed file which exists on non-root - cgroups. + A read-only nested-keyed file. Lines are keyed by $MAJ:$MIN device numbers and not ordered. The following nested keys are defined. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/index.rst index ec62fcc8eece..6cf8adc86fa8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/index.rst @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Device Mapper dm-clone dm-crypt dm-dust + dm-ebs dm-flakey dm-init dm-integrity diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst index bc3abfb33476..a683976fad6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst @@ -395,6 +395,13 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt. Note that this option is incompatible with data=journal. + inlinecrypt + When possible, encrypt/decrypt the contents of encrypted files using the + blk-crypto framework rather than filesystem-layer encryption. This + allows the use of inline encryption hardware. The on-disk format is + unaffected. For more details, see + Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst. + Data Mode ========= There are 3 different data modes: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst index e4ee8b2db604..2baad0bfb09d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ It exists in the sparse memory mapping model, and it is also somewhat similar to the mem_map variable, both of them are used to translate an address. +MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS +---------------- + +Defines the maximum supported physical address space memory. + page ---- @@ -399,6 +404,17 @@ KERNELPACMASK The mask to extract the Pointer Authentication Code from a kernel virtual address. +TCR_EL1.T1SZ +------------ + +Indicates the size offset of the memory region addressed by TTBR1_EL1. +The region size is 2^(64-T1SZ) bytes. + +TTBR1_EL1 is the table base address register specified by ARMv8-A +architecture which is used to lookup the page-tables for the Virtual +addresses in the higher VA range (refer to ARMv8 ARM document for +more details). + arm === diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index d325726ff425..ff5018b39ed0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] disable the cpufreq sub-system + cpufreq.default_governor= + [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or + policy to use. This governor must be registered in the + kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. + cpu_init_udelay=N [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs @@ -3081,6 +3086,8 @@ no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces kernel to use 4-level paging instead. + nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. + no_console_suspend [HW] Never suspend the console Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and @@ -4040,6 +4047,14 @@ latencies, which will choose a value aligned with the appropriate hardware boundaries. + rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] + Minimum number of objects which are cached and + maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal + to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the + pressure to page allocator, also it makes the + whole algorithm to behave better in low memory + condition. + rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] Set delay from grace-period initialization to first attempt to force quiescent states. @@ -4260,6 +4275,20 @@ Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. + rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] + Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used + to test the interaction of RCU updaters and + task-exit processing. + + rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] + The number of times in a given read-then-exit + episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads + is spawned. + + rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] + The delay, in seconds, between successive + read-then-exit testing episodes. + rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode @@ -4409,6 +4438,45 @@ reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor to be used for rebooting. + refscale.holdoff= [KNL] + Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of + this parameter is to delay the start of the + test until boot completes in order to avoid + interference. + + refscale.loops= [KNL] + Set the number of loops over the synchronization + primitive under test. Increasing this number + reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, + but the default has already reduced the per-pass + noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 + x86 laptops. + + refscale.nreaders= [KNL] + Set number of readers. The default value of -1 + selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number + of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. + + refscale.nruns= [KNL] + Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto + the console log. + + refscale.readdelay= [KNL] + Set the read-side critical-section duration, + measured in microseconds. + + refscale.scale_type= [KNL] + Specify the read-protection implementation to test. + + refscale.shutdown= [KNL] + Shut down the system at the end of the performance + test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when + rcuperf is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave + it running) when rcuperf is built as a module. + + refscale.verbose= [KNL] + Enable additional printk() statements. + relax_domain_level= [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. @@ -5084,6 +5152,13 @@ Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing until after init has spawned. + torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] + Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, + even if there were no errors. This can be a + very costly operation when many torture tests + are running concurrently, especially on systems + with rotating-rust storage. + tp720= [HW,PS2] tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst index 69b7ce905cba..5e477869df18 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ detailed description): - WAN enable and disable - UWB enable and disable - LCD Shadow (PrivacyGuard) enable and disable + - Lap mode sensor A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure @@ -1432,6 +1433,20 @@ The first command ensures the best viewing angle and the latter one turns on the feature, restricting the viewing angles. +DYTC Lapmode sensor +------------------ + +sysfs: dytc_lapmode + +Newer thinkpads and mobile workstations have the ability to determine if +the device is in deskmode or lapmode. This feature is used by user space +to decide if WWAN transmission can be increased to maximum power and is +also useful for understanding the different thermal modes available as +they differ between desk and lap mode. + +The property is read-only. If the platform doesn't have support the sysfs +class is not created. + EXPERIMENTAL: UWB ----------------- @@ -1470,6 +1485,23 @@ For more details about which buttons will appear depending on the mode, please review the laptop's user guide: http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/user_guides/x1carbon_2_ug_en.pdf +Battery charge control +---------------------- + +sysfs attributes: +/sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/charge_control_{start,end}_threshold + +These two attributes are created for those batteries that are supported by the +driver. They enable the user to control the battery charge thresholds of the +given battery. Both values may be read and set. `charge_control_start_threshold` +accepts an integer between 0 and 99 (inclusive); this value represents a battery +percentage level, below which charging will begin. `charge_control_end_threshold` +accepts an integer between 1 and 100 (inclusive); this value represents a battery +percentage level, above which charging will stop. + +The exact semantics of the attributes may be found in +Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power. + Multiple Commands, Module Parameters ------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 6a233e42be08..b2acd0d395ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -305,8 +305,7 @@ monitor how successfully the system is providing huge pages for use. thp_fault_alloc is incremented every time a huge page is successfully - allocated to handle a page fault. This applies to both the - first time a page is faulted and for COW faults. + allocated to handle a page fault. thp_collapse_alloc is incremented by khugepaged when it has found diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst index 0c74a7784964..368e612145d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst @@ -147,9 +147,9 @@ CPUs in it. The next major initialization step for a new policy object is to attach a scaling governor to it (to begin with, that is the default scaling governor -determined by the kernel configuration, but it may be changed later -via ``sysfs``). First, a pointer to the new policy object is passed to the -governor's ``->init()`` callback which is expected to initialize all of the +determined by the kernel command line or configuration, but it may be changed +later via ``sysfs``). First, a pointer to the new policy object is passed to +the governor's ``->init()`` callback which is expected to initialize all of the data structures necessary to handle the given policy and, possibly, to add a governor ``sysfs`` interface to it. Next, the governor is started by invoking its ``->start()`` callback. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst index f8487b1276f0..9db924904d2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst @@ -431,6 +431,17 @@ argument is passed to the kernel in the command line. supported in the current configuration, writes to this attribute will fail with an appropriate error. +``energy_efficiency`` + This attribute is only present on platforms, which have CPUs matching + Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake desktop CPU model. By default + energy efficiency optimizations are disabled on these CPU models in HWP + mode by this driver. Enabling energy efficiency may limit maximum + operating frequency in both HWP and non HWP mode. In non HWP mode, + optimizations are done only in the turbo frequency range. In HWP mode, + optimizations are done in the entire frequency range. Setting this + attribute to "1" enables energy efficiency optimizations and setting + to "0" disables energy efficiency optimizations. + Interpretation of Policy Attributes ----------------------------------- @@ -554,7 +565,11 @@ somewhere between the two extremes: Strings written to the ``energy_performance_preference`` attribute are internally translated to integer values written to the processor's Energy-Performance Preference (EPP) knob (if supported) or its -Energy-Performance Bias (EPB) knob. +Energy-Performance Bias (EPB) knob. It is also possible to write a positive +integer value between 0 to 255, if the EPP feature is present. If the EPP +feature is not present, writing integer value to this attribute is not +supported. In this case, user can use + "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/power/energy_perf_bias" interface. [Note that tasks may by migrated from one CPU to another by the scheduler's load-balancing algorithm and if different energy vs performance hints are diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 292e3d0188f6..2ae9669eb22c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1094,6 +1094,60 @@ Enables/disables scheduler statistics. Enabling this feature incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. +sched_util_clamp_min: +===================== + +Max allowed *minimum* utilization. + +Default value is 1024, which is the maximum possible value. + +It means that any requested uclamp.min value cannot be greater than +sched_util_clamp_min, i.e., it is restricted to the range +[0:sched_util_clamp_min]. + +sched_util_clamp_max: +===================== + +Max allowed *maximum* utilization. + +Default value is 1024, which is the maximum possible value. + +It means that any requested uclamp.max value cannot be greater than +sched_util_clamp_max, i.e., it is restricted to the range +[0:sched_util_clamp_max]. + +sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default: +================================ + +By default Linux is tuned for performance. Which means that RT tasks always run +at the highest frequency and most capable (highest capacity) CPU (in +heterogeneous systems). + +Uclamp achieves this by setting the requested uclamp.min of all RT tasks to +1024 by default, which effectively boosts the tasks to run at the highest +frequency and biases them to run on the biggest CPU. + +This knob allows admins to change the default behavior when uclamp is being +used. In battery powered devices particularly, running at the maximum +capacity and frequency will increase energy consumption and shorten the battery +life. + +This knob is only effective for RT tasks which the user hasn't modified their +requested uclamp.min value via sched_setattr() syscall. + +This knob will not escape the range constraint imposed by sched_util_clamp_min +defined above. + +For example if + + sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default = 800 + sched_util_clamp_min = 600 + +Then the boost will be clamped to 600 because 800 is outside of the permissible +range of [0:600]. This could happen for instance if a powersave mode will +restrict all boosts temporarily by modifying sched_util_clamp_min. As soon as +this restriction is lifted, the requested sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default +will take effect. seccomp ======= |