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4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24 nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
26 source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
28 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
45 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
48 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
49 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
50 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
53 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
60 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
62 This option is useful for developers to identify the
64 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
69 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
70 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
73 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
76 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
77 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
82 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
85 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
90 if you need to capture more output.
99 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
100 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
101 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
102 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
103 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
110 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
129 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
133 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
135 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
138 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
139 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
141 auto-serialization feature.
143 This option allows to turn off the feature.
156 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
159 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
163 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
164 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
168 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
170 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
173 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
174 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
180 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
182 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
187 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
198 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
212 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
217 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
218 there are quirks related to this string. This command
219 is useful when one want to control the state of the
220 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
228 equivalent to
236 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
244 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
253 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
254 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
256 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
259 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
265 control method, with respect to putting devices into
266 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
270 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
273 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
274 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
275 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
287 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
291 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
295 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
298 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
301 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
303 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
306 32: only for 32-bit processes
307 64: only for 64-bit processes
308 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
309 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
314 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
315 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
316 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
319 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
321 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
322 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
324 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
326 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
329 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
330 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
332 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
333 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
335 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
337 allowed anymore to lift isolation
340 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
341 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
343 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
344 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
345 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
346 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
347 to 4 KiB.
348 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
349 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
352 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
353 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
358 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
361 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
362 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
363 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
364 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
375 tries to match the same performance level if it is
379 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
380 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
381 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
388 to the current workload.
393 Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
396 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
402 connected to one of 16 gameports
406 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
408 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
409 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
412 apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
418 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
422 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
423 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
442 0 -- disable.
443 1 -- enable.
446 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
497 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
499 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
501 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
503 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
514 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
516 0 - Disable the BAU.
517 1 - Enable the BAU.
518 unset - Disable the BAU.
539 Control the ability to open a mounted block device
541 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
553 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
557 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
560 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
562 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay
568 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
569 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
571 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
576 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
585 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
588 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
589 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
598 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
603 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
604 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
612 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
614 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
616 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
618 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
624 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
630 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
641 semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
646 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
648 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
650 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
651 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
652 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
657 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
659 1 -- check protection requested by application.
663 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
671 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
672 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
692 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
696 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
698 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
700 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
702 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
709 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
715 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
722 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
728 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
735 are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
736 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
737 zero says not to check any. Values larger than
738 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
742 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
745 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
748 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
759 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
761 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
763 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
764 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
766 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
775 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
777 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
782 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
788 allocations, by default set to 256K.
790 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
794 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
798 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
806 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
809 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
810 console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
811 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
827 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
839 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
842 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
843 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
848 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
856 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
858 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
859 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
860 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
862 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
864 the h/w is not re-initialized.
870 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
875 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
888 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
890 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
891 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
896 Defaults to 0.
915 disable the cpuidle sub-system
918 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
921 disable the cpufreq sub-system
925 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
929 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
930 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
941 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
950 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
953 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
958 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
959 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
961 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
966 start-[end] where start and end are both
968 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
971 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
973 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
979 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
984 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
985 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
988 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
989 --> arm64: 128MiB
990 --> riscv: 128MiB
991 --> loongarch: 128MiB
994 0: to disable low allocation.
1004 it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
1008 is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1015 can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1017 possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1021 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1029 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1031 additional debug data is printed to the console
1033 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1044 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1051 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
1052 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1057 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1060 self-tests.
1061 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1062 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1063 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1064 useful to lockdep developers.
1076 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1078 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1092 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1093 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1096 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1098 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1100 no-mount:
1102 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1103 its content. There is nothing to mount.
1105 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1109 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1118 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
1121 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1125 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1126 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1135 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1156 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1178 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1180 miss to occur.
1194 to workaround buggy firmware.
1200 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1201 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1208 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1212 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1220 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1221 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1222 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1223 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1227 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1229 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1230 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1236 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1247 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1248 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1251 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1254 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1263 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1266 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1276 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1279 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1280 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1285 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1286 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1291 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1302 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1307 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1318 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1320 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1321 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1323 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1327 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1331 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1335 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1344 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1350 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1356 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1362 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1368 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1374 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1392 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1406 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1411 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1417 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1425 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1452 Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1455 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1482 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1486 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1488 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1491 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1509 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1510 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1511 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1525 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1528 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1537 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1545 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1552 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1553 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1556 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1557 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1562 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1564 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1569 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1570 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1585 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1588 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1591 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1603 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1607 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1611 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1613 forcepae [X86-32]
1620 fred= [X86-64]
1628 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1636 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1645 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1658 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1671 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1673 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1678 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1680 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1684 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1687 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1691 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1693 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
1704 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1713 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1714 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1717 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1718 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1719 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1728 probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1732 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1734 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1742 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1744 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1748 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1757 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1765 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1767 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1774 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1784 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1787 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1791 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1793 GPT to be used instead.
1803 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1816 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1819 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1827 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1833 By default, when pointers are printed to the console
1843 auto - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled.
1844 always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is
1846 never - Never hash pointers. This option should only
1854 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1862 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1872 during restoration read-only).
1874 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1879 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1882 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1887 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
1892 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1894 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1907 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1908 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1916 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1924 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1927 hugepages= [HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1929 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1931 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1933 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1934 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1940 used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
1945 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1949 [HW] The number of threads that should be used to
1951 used to improve system bootup time when allocating
1955 Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
1965 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1969 try to allocate from the CMA areas.
1978 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1998 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
2000 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
2006 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
2012 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
2028 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2029 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2037 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property
2038 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property
2039 Anything else Set a string device-property
2042 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2043 touchscreen-inverted-y
2045 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2046 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2047 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2052 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2054 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2057 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2064 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2068 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2074 architectures force reset to be always executed
2076 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2083 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2087 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2089 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2090 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2092 -1 -- never invert brightness
2093 0 -- machine default
2094 1 -- force brightness inversion
2096 ia32_emulation= [X86-64]
2098 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2112 to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2120 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2123 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2128 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2134 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2144 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
2151 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2153 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2160 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2164 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2165 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2174 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2175 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2209 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2241 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2242 "ima-sigv2" }
2243 Default: "ima-ng"
2256 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2264 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2269 Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2281 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2286 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2297 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2298 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
2315 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2333 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
2343 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2344 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2358 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2372 could harm performance of some high-throughput
2377 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2381 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2388 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2390 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2391 P-state selection algorithms provided by
2394 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2399 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2401 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2405 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2406 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2408 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2411 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2424 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2427 Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2430 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2435 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2440 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2466 Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2478 AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2497 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2501 Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2504 Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2514 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2515 falling back to the full range if needed.
2516 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2518 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2522 0 - Lazy mode.
2526 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2528 1 - Strict mode.
2531 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2533 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2536 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2538 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2539 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2540 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2542 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2557 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2560 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2580 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2586 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2589 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2593 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2594 requires the kernel to be built with
2598 [RISC-V,EARLY]
2599 Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2600 as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2601 and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2602 to multiple harts.
2606 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2612 long-running IRQs in the system.
2617 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2624 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2625 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2627 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2633 offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2635 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2636 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2642 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2648 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2650 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2658 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2672 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2684 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2688 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
2689 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2693 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2699 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2702 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2706 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
2707 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2711 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2717 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2720 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2724 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
2725 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2729 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2735 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2738 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2746 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2762 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2766 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2772 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2776 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2780 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2789 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2791 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2792 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2797 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2806 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2808 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2809 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2811 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2816 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2826 "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2827 "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2833 ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
2836 kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
2839 It is possible to specify the exact amount of
2844 parameter defines the size of additional per-node
2849 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2852 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2858 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2860 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2863 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2864 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2878 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2883 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2887 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2889 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2890 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2892 required to split huge pages lazily.
2895 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2896 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2917 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
2925 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
2926 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
2942 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2946 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2952 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2957 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2960 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2961 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2965 kvm-amd.ciphertext_hiding_asids=
2967 to SNP private memory from reading ciphertext. Instead,
2970 If ciphertext hiding is enabled, the joint SEV-ES and
2971 SEV-SNP ASID space is partitioned into separate SEV-ES
2972 and SEV-SNP ASID ranges, with the SEV-SNP range being
2973 [1..max_snp_asid] and the SEV-ES range being
2977 A non-zero value enables SEV-SNP ciphertext hiding and
2978 adjusts the ASID ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests.
2979 KVM caps the number of SEV-SNP ASIDs at the maximum
2980 possible value, e.g. specifying -1u will assign all
2981 joint SEV-ES and SEV-SNP ASIDs to SEV-SNP. Note,
2982 assigning all joint ASIDs to SEV-SNP, i.e. configuring
2983 max_snp_asid == min_sev_asid-1, will effectively make
2984 SEV-ES unusable.
2986 kvm-arm.mode=
2992 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2999 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
3003 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
3004 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
3005 for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
3006 "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
3007 command-line.
3011 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
3012 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
3015 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
3016 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
3019 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
3020 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
3023 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
3027 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
3028 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
3036 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
3037 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
3053 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
3054 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3058 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
3059 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
3060 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
3062 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
3066 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3071 kvm-intel.nested=
3075 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3081 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3082 CVE-2018-3620.
3093 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3101 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3102 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3107 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3113 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
3178 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3184 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3188 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3189 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3211 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma-
3218 to all ports, links and devices.
3220 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3223 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
3225 host link and device attached to it.
3227 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
3237 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3244 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3271 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3273 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3276 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3279 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3281 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3284 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3287 * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3320 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3321 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3322 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3324 to extract confidential information from the kernel
3333 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3334 to be bound.
3337 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3338 to be bound.
3341 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3342 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that
3344 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0,
3349 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults
3350 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable.
3354 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3355 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable.
3360 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3361 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3365 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3368 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3371 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3372 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3375 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3376 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3377 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3378 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3380 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3381 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes
3394 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
3395 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3400 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3406 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3407 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3409 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3410 transition abruptly to and from idle.
3413 Specify the locking implementation to test.
3419 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3420 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3427 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3438 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
3446 parameter that allows to increase the default size
3450 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3451 This may be used to provide more screen space for
3455 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3459 specified in addition to the ports) causes
3460 attached printers to be reset. Using
3462 to associate lp devices with, starting with
3463 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3467 from each port should be examined, to see if
3468 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3473 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3474 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3475 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3478 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3479 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3481 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3494 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3498 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3502 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3506 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3509 devices can be requested on-demand with the
3510 /dev/loop-control interface.
3512 mce= [X86-{32,64}]
3526 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3549 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3550 to broadcast MCEs.
3557 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3558 enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3566 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3567 checks. 0 to disable.
3570 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3573 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3579 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3585 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3589 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3592 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3595 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3596 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3601 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3607 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3608 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3610 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3612 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3614 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3615 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3618 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3621 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3627 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3631 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3633 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3634 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3636 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3639 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3643 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3645 belonging to unused RAM.
3652 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3659 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3665 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3666 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3671 set according to the
3674 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3684 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3685 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3686 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3694 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3698 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3699 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3709 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3713 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3715 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3723 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3730 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3732 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3737 use. Use this parameter to scan for
3742 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
3746 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3752 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3754 memory to do so.
3767 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3774 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3780 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3784 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
3785 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3786 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3787 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3789 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3791 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3799 base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32>
3813 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3814 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3815 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3819 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3820 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3823 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3824 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3828 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3833 arch-independent options, each of which is an
3834 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3842 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3843 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3864 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3876 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3878 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3879 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3883 if needed. This is for users who always want to
3885 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3892 supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
3893 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
3901 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3911 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3912 is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3917 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3919 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3922 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3927 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3928 disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3931 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3935 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3945 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3946 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3961 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3965 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3970 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3981 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3990 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3991 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3997 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
4000 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
4010 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
4028 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
4038 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
4039 something different and driver-specific.
4050 0 to disable accounting
4051 1 to enable accounting
4055 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4056 to update the NFS client cache entries.
4059 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4060 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4064 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4079 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4080 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4082 of returning the full 64-bit number.
4083 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4091 slots the client will assign to the callback
4098 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4100 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4105 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4107 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4111 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4114 back to using the idmapper.
4115 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4118 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4124 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4125 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4129 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4130 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4131 parameter to '1'.
4133 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4140 The default is to send the implementation identification
4145 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4147 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4149 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4153 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4154 server-to-server copies for which this server is
4158 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4159 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4161 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
4166 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4173 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4175 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4176 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4179 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4182 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4183 NMI stack-backtrace request.
4185 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4192 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4193 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4194 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4197 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4199 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4207 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4211 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4212 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4214 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4215 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4219 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4233 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4236 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4237 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4238 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4240 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4250 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4252 noexec32 [X86-64]
4253 This affects only 32-bit executables.
4254 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4256 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4259 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
4260 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4261 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4267 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4269 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4279 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4282 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4284 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4303 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
4311 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4314 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4316 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4322 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4332 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4335 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4337 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4339 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4341 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4343 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4349 not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4352 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4358 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4365 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4370 nopti [X86-64,EARLY]
4371 Equivalent to pti=off
4374 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4380 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4383 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
4386 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4392 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
4393 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4396 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4406 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4410 Equivalent to smt=1.
4416 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4422 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4435 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4442 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4447 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4450 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4451 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4460 no-vmw-sched-clock
4465 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4469 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4476 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4477 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4480 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4481 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4488 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4489 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4495 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4499 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4500 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4503 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4527 soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4536 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4539 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4551 For example, to override I2C bus2:
4554 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4558 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4560 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4565 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4569 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4572 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4574 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4579 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4585 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4607 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4609 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4610 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4613 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4615 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4617 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
4632 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4635 panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4648 This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4655 connected to, default is 0.
4663 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4664 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4670 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4676 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4679 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4685 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4691 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4696 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4702 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4708 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4712 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4720 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4726 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4733 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4739 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4746 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4749 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
4755 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
4756 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4760 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
4762 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4763 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4768 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
4775 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
4792 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4795 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4796 to a device through multiple device/function
4807 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4809 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4810 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4816 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4818 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4819 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4821 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4825 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4828 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4832 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4835 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4836 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4838 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4840 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4841 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4845 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4848 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4849 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4852 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4853 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4856 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4860 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
4863 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
4865 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4866 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4872 F0000h-100000h range.
4874 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4875 secondary buses and you want to tell it
4877 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4890 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
4893 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4894 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4897 If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4898 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4901 hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4902 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4914 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4915 This sorting is done to get a device
4917 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4919 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4920 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4922 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4924 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4927 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4928 every device is guaranteed to support. This
4929 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4932 that hot-added devices will work.
4942 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4943 aligned memory resources. How to
4947 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4948 windows need to be expanded.
4949 To specify the alignment for several
4953 for 4096-byte alignment.
4955 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4979 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4986 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4991 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4993 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
5017 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
5018 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
5019 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
5020 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
5021 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
5022 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
5023 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
5031 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
5033 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
5034 or firmware set it to.
5044 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5045 system-wide.
5051 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5056 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5058 also tries to use these services.
5059 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
5076 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5087 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5094 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5095 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5099 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5108 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5109 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5117 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5118 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5120 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5130 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
5139 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5157 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5169 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5184 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5185 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5186 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5190 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5192 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5194 task returns to user space.
5196 print-fatal-signals=
5202 coredump - etc.
5204 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5205 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5217 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5218 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5220 in order to provide more debug information.
5225 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5227 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5228 a best-effort basis.
5233 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5234 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5235 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5236 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5239 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5244 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5245 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5247 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5248 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5249 - 'never': never allow mem overrides.
5253 Limit processor to maximum C-state
5257 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5263 [defaults to kernel profiling]
5264 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5265 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5266 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5282 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5287 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5295 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5297 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5302 on - unconditionally enable
5303 off - unconditionally disable
5304 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5305 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5307 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5310 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5322 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5325 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5331 random number generator (if available) to
5336 passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5344 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5350 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
5356 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5361 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5364 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5366 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5370 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
5374 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5377 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5378 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5389 This improves the real-time response for the
5390 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5393 periodically wake up to do the polling.
5396 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5400 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5401 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5404 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is
5407 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5413 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5416 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5417 RCU grace-period cleanup.
5420 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5421 RCU grace-period initialization.
5424 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5425 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5426 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5430 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5431 first attempt to force quiescent states.
5436 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5443 soliciting quiescent-state help from
5450 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
5455 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5458 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5460 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5461 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
5462 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5463 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5468 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5471 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the
5472 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5473 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5474 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5476 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5477 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too
5481 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5484 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped
5486 to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5494 batch limiting is re-enabled.
5498 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5499 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5501 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5502 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5506 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5507 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
5511 Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5512 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5517 order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5519 Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5520 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5529 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5532 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5535 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5542 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5543 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5544 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5549 each group, which defaults to the square root
5551 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5553 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5556 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5558 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5564 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5566 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5571 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5572 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
5575 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5579 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5584 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5585 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
5587 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5591 to zero.
5594 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5605 How to enable it:
5615 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5621 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5622 previously posted callbacks to drain.
5626 grace-period primitives.
5629 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
5630 this parameter is to delay the start of the
5631 test until boot completes in order to avoid
5641 Defaults to 1.
5644 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5647 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5649 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5650 and double-argument variants are tested.
5653 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5655 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5656 and double-argument variants are tested.
5670 does not affect the data-collection interval,
5675 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5677 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5678 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5679 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5680 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5689 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5693 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
5700 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5705 Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5722 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5723 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5725 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5727 of CPUs to be used.
5730 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5731 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5734 Number of seconds to wait between successive
5735 forward-progress tests.
5739 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5743 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5744 normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5747 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5748 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5751 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5752 normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5757 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5758 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5767 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5768 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5777 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5778 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5782 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5785 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5786 update-side primitives, if available.
5789 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5793 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5797 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5802 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5811 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5812 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5821 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5822 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5826 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5827 update-side primitives, if available. If all
5831 they are all non-zero.
5834 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
5835 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
5839 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
5843 The default is always set to 8.
5854 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
5861 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5864 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5866 intended to test the ability of things like
5867 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5879 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5884 callback-offload toggling attempts.
5887 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5888 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
5889 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5890 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5891 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5894 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5897 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5900 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5901 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5905 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to
5906 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to
5913 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
5914 second) between preemptions by a high-priority
5915 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated
5916 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
5920 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5921 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5926 read-then-exit testing episodes.
5929 A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
5931 are entered from low-order bit up, and are
5933 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
5934 and 0x4 light-weight readers.
5937 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
5938 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5943 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5946 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5947 warnings, zero to disable.
5951 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5952 any other stall-related activity. Note that
5955 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5958 in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5964 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5971 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
5977 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5978 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
5986 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5987 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5989 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
6000 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
6001 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero,
6008 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
6012 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
6046 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6047 Setting this to zero causes the value from
6048 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6049 conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6063 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6067 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6071 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6074 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6075 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6076 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
6083 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
6088 it to the value one, that is, converting any
6089 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6090 period to instead use normal non-expedited
6091 grace-period processing.
6096 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6099 set to the default value of -1.
6102 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6103 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6104 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6106 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6107 the default value of -1.
6110 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6112 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6120 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6125 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable
6127 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6133 of the problem for those not patient enough to
6135 only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6137 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten
6145 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to
6155 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes.
6183 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6193 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6203 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6208 to be used for rebooting.
6222 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6223 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6227 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6243 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6260 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
6261 this parameter is to delay the start of the
6262 test until boot completes in order to avoid
6266 Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6274 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6275 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6276 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6280 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
6289 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6293 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6297 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6298 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6319 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6321 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6325 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6330 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6332 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6333 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6339 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6344 The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6349 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY]
6354 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6366 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6368 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6371 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6382 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6384 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6388 off - no mitigation
6389 auto - automatically select a migitation
6390 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
6394 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6399 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6403 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6404 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6406 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6411 time according to the CPU.
6413 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6433 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6438 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6441 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6442 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6443 noalias Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain
6451 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6457 block/early-lookup.c for details.
6462 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6472 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6476 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6477 to show up before attempting to mount the root
6482 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6486 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6490 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6499 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6519 solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6547 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6548 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6549 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6554 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
6556 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6561 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6563 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6564 equal to the number of CPUs.
6567 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6568 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6571 Number seconds to wait between successive
6572 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
6573 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6577 test after which to shut down the system. The
6579 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6583 current test statistics to the console. A value
6587 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6588 to the set of CPUs under test.
6592 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6600 The probability weighting to use for the
6602 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
6603 default if all other weights are -1. However,
6605 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6608 The probability weighting to use for the
6610 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6613 The probability weighting to use for the
6621 The probability weighting to use for the
6623 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6627 The probability weighting to use for the
6633 The probability weighting to use for the
6635 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6642 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6646 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6647 1 -- enable.
6651 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6658 0 -- disable.
6659 1 -- enable.
6662 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
6664 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6670 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6672 in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6673 SEV-SNP guests.
6681 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6688 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6693 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6702 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6704 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6714 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6715 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6718 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6720 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6725 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6726 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6731 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6732 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6736 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6741 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6747 policies to be applied at the folio level when
6762 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is
6765 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6768 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6773 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6775 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6777 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6778 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
6779 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
6780 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
6781 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
6782 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
6783 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6789 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6791 be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6793 Default: -1 (no limit)
6796 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6799 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6800 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6803 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6806 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6811 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6818 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6821 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6824 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6825 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6826 off - Disable the mitigation.
6833 on - unconditionally enable, implies
6835 off - unconditionally disable, implies
6837 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6841 mitigation method at run time according to the
6847 against user space to user space task attacks.
6856 retpoline - replace indirect branches
6857 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6858 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
6859 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
6860 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6861 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6862 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6863 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
6865 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6873 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6876 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6879 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6885 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6891 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6896 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6901 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6906 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6910 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6912 off - Disable mitigation
6913 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only
6914 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6915 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6917 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6918 (cloud-specific mitigation)
6924 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6927 to the same memory location may not be observed by
6930 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6935 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6943 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6944 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6945 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6951 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6955 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6963 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6967 off - No action.
6969 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6981 off - not enabled
6983 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6991 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6996 ratelimit:N -
6997 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
7016 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
7022 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
7030 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
7036 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
7037 but takes effect only when the low-order four
7038 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
7043 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
7048 2: When rcutorture decides to.
7054 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7057 Specifies how frequently to check for
7058 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7059 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7070 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
7074 Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7081 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7082 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7088 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7089 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7092 Specifies the number of update-side contention
7095 structure to big form. Note that the value of
7097 set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7102 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7107 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7109 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7113 to allow userspace to register its
7119 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7124 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7127 to false.
7130 Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7131 stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7137 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7139 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7147 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7149 as the initial boot-console.
7164 be used to filter out binaries which have
7169 page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7174 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7183 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7185 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7186 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7197 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7209 to global on non-NUMA machines)
7215 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7216 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7222 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7234 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7235 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7237 to a power of 2.
7238 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7240 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7246 process, as if the value was written to the respective
7255 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7262 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7263 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7270 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7273 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7275 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7281 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7285 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7292 -1: disable all passive trip points
7293 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7298 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7302 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7305 to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7307 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7315 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7321 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7333 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7337 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7341 with rotating-rust storage.
7346 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7349 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7361 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7362 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7372 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7379 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7382 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7385 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7391 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7397 to stop the printing of events to console at
7402 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7404 the system to live lock.
7408 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7413 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7420 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7424 global - Event time stamps are synchronized across
7427 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7428 note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7431 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7432 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7433 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7434 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7436 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7440 trace_event=[event-list]
7442 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7443 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7446 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7454 trace_instance=[instance-info]
7474 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7479 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7480 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7501 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7510 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7517 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7527 trace_options=[option-list]
7529 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7531 to echo the option name into
7535 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7536 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7543 trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7563 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7565 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7572 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7578 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7587 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7588 with respect to transparent hugepages.
7589 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7594 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7596 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7601 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7603 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7611 - "tpm"
7612 - "tee"
7613 - "caam"
7614 - "dcp"
7615 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7622 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7624 - "kernel"
7625 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7626 - "default"
7628 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7631 This is intended to be used in combination with
7636 This is intended to be used in combination with
7649 off - disable the mitigation
7650 on - enable the mitigation (default)
7651 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7652 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions
7659 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
7660 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7662 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7663 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7678 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7696 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7698 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7699 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7703 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7705 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7711 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7714 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7716 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7722 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7724 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7726 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7730 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7731 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7737 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7740 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7743 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7744 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7746 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7748 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7749 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7751 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7758 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7764 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7766 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7772 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7774 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7776 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7777 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7778 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7786 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7794 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7801 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY]
7809 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7811 if device connected to internal port)
7815 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
7818 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7821 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7824 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7828 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7843 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7850 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7853 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7855 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7860 a 255-byte read);
7864 Set-Interface requests);
7873 talking to these interfaces);
7881 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7883 (bInterval-1).
7901 to be disconnected before suspend to
7909 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7913 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7916 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7919 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7921 usb-storage.delay_use=
7928 usb-storage.quirks=
7929 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7930 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
7933 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7935 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7953 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7958 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7975 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7977 medium is write-protected).
7986 1 - undefined instruction events
7987 2 - system calls
7988 4 - invalid data aborts
7989 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7990 16 - SIGBUS faults
7999 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
8000 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
8001 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
8011 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
8018 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
8020 level and then send out the event to user space through
8021 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
8034 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
8042 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
8044 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
8047 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
8053 interface is meant to allow for selectively
8059 - Disable all of the above options
8061 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8062 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8064 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8085 hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
8087 off - disable the mitigation
8088 ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
8090 force - force vulnerability detection even on
8093 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY]
8094 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8096 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
8110 them quite hard to use for exploits but
8120 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8125 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8126 ranging from 0-255.
8131 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8132 ranging from 0-255.
8137 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8138 ranging from 0-255.
8143 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8144 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8149 Format=<-1|0|1>
8150 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8151 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8156 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8159 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8163 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8164 or other driver-specific files in the
8171 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8176 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8177 to use in unbound workqueues.
8178 Format: <cpu-list>
8184 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8188 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8194 stall to trigger panic.
8199 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8201 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8202 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8213 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8220 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8221 they show better performance thanks to cache
8222 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8225 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8226 were observed to contribute significantly to power
8227 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8235 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8239 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8241 This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8247 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8252 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8260 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8261 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8263 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8267 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8269 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8271 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8277 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8278 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8279 nics -- unplug network devices
8280 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8281 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8282 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8284 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8298 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8303 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8313 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8314 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8318 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8326 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8327 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8333 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8338 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8341 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8343 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8354 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8356 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8360 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
8363 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8366 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
8374 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".