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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst | 39 |
3 files changed, 56 insertions, 14 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 b74e13312fdc..6571fbfdb2a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -857,7 +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 @@ -1864,13 +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) @@ -1897,6 +1890,10 @@ [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common system registers + kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= + [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of + LPIs. + kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) @@ -3211,6 +3208,10 @@ 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 @@ -3249,13 +3250,15 @@ instead using the legacy FADT method profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile - Format: [schedule,]<number> + Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> + Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" + [defaults to kernel profiling] Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. - Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for - statistical time based profiling. Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. + Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for + statistical time based profiling. prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk before loading. 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. |