Documentation: Merge x86-specific boot options doc into kernel-parame…

…ters.txt

Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst is causing unnecessary
confusion by being a second place where one can put x86 boot options.
Move them into the main one.

Drop removed ones like "acpi=ht", while at it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202190011.11979-1-bp@kernel.org

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst

@@ -194,8 +194,6 @@ is applicable::
 	WDT	Watchdog support is enabled.
 	X86-32	X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
 	X86-64	X86-64 architecture is enabled.
-			More X86-64 boot options can be found in
-			Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst.
 	X86	Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
 	X86_UV	SGI UV support is enabled.
 	XEN	Xen support is enabled
@@ -213,7 +211,6 @@ Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
 need or coordination with <Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst>.
 
 There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
-See for example <Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst>.
 
 Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
 a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
 			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
 			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
+			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.
 			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
 				default _serial_ console on ARM64
 			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
@@ -405,6 +409,8 @@
 			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
 			APC and your system crashes randomly.
 
+	apic		[APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
+
 	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
 			Change the output verbosity while booting
 			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
@@ -424,6 +430,10 @@
 			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
 			      shot down by NMI
 
+	apicpmtimer	Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
+			apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
+			broken.
+
 	autoconf=	[IPV6]
 			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
 
@@ -1726,6 +1736,8 @@
 
 			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
 
+	gbpages		[X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
+
 	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
 			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
 			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
@@ -2008,12 +2020,21 @@
 
 	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
 			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
-			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
-			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
-			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
-			Not recommended.
+
+			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.
+
 			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
 			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
+
 			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
 
 	idxd.sva=	[HW]
@@ -2311,20 +2332,73 @@
 		relaxed
 
 	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
+
 		off
+			Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
+
 		force
+			Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
+			it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
+			memory).
+
 		noforce
+			Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
+			needed. (default).
+
 		biomerge
 		panic
 		nopanic
 		merge
 		nomerge
+
 		soft
-		pt		[X86]
-		nopt		[X86]
-		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
+			Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
+			Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
+			of an available hardware IOMMU.
+
+			[X86]
+		pt
+			[X86]
+		nopt
+			[PPC/POWERNV]
+		nobypass
 			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
 
+		[X86]
+		AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
+
+		<size>
+			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[=<order>]
+			Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
+			32MB<<order.  (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
+
+		merge
+			Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
+			(experimental).
+
+		nomerge
+			Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
+
+		noaperture
+			Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
+
+		noagp
+			Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
+
+		panic
+			Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
+
 	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
 			Format: { "0" | "1" }
 			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
@@ -3259,9 +3333,77 @@
 			devices can be requested on-demand with the
 			/dev/loop-control interface.
 
-	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
+	mce=		[X86-{32,64}]
+
+			Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
+
+		off
+			disable machine check
+
+		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.
+
+		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.
+
+		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.
+
+		no_lmce
+			do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
+			to broadcast MCEs.
+
+		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.
+
+		nobootlog
+			disable boot machine check logging.
+
+		monarchtimeout (number)
+			sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
+			checks. 0 to disable.
+
+		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.
+
+		recovery
+			force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
+
+			Everything else is in sysfs now.
 
-	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
 
 	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
 			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
@@ -3887,6 +4029,8 @@
 	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
 			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
 
+	noapictimer	[APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
+
 	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
 
 	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
@@ -3934,6 +4078,8 @@
 			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
 			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
 
+	nogbpages	[X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
+
 	no_hash_pointers
 			[KNL,EARLY]
 			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
@@ -3960,6 +4106,8 @@
 			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
 			useful when using JTAG debugger.
 
+	nohpet		[X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
+
 	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
 
 	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
@@ -4111,8 +4259,10 @@
 
 	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
 
-	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
-			broken timer IRQ sources.
+	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
+			timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
+			work around problems with incorrect timer
+			initialization on some boards.
 
 	no_uaccess_flush
 	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
@@ -4192,6 +4342,11 @@
 			If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
 			divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
 
+	numa=noacpi	[X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
+
+	numa=nohmat	[X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
+			soft-reserved memory partitioning.
+
 	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
 			NUMA balancing.
 			Allowed values are enable and disable
@@ -5710,6 +5865,55 @@
 			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
 					to be used for rebooting.
 
+		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.
+
+		bios
+			Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
+
+		cold
+			Set the cold reboot flag
+
+		default
+			There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
+			- you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
+			Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
+			think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
+			or newer board) using this option will ignore the
+			built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
+			reboot actions.
+
+		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.
+
+		force
+			Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
+			more reliable in some cases.
+
+		kbd
+			Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
+
+		pci
+			Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
+			trigger reboot.
+
+		triple
+			Force a triple fault (init)
+
+		warm
+			Don't set the cold reboot flag
+
+			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.
+
+
 	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
 			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
 			this parameter is to delay the start of the
@@ -6101,7 +6305,16 @@
 
 	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
 
-	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
+	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
+
+		debug
+			Enable debug messages.
+
+		nosnp
+			Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
+			only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
+			in memory accesses when users do not want to run
+			SEV-SNP guests.
 
 	shapers=	[NET]
 			Maximal number of shapers.