1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 404 405 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 406 407 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 408 EzKey and similar keyboards 409 410 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 411 412 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 413 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 414 415 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 416 keyboards 417 418 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 419 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 420 421 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 422 Use software keyboard repeat 423 424 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 425 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 426 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 427 enabled until the next reboot 428 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 429 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 430 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 431 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 432 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 433 userspace auditd. 434 Default: unset 435 436 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 437 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 438 Default: 64 439 440 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 441 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 442 Format: { "0" | "1" } 443 0 - Disable the BAU. 444 1 - Enable the BAU. 445 unset - Disable the BAU. 446 447 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 448 Format: <io>,<mode> 449 450 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 451 Format: <io>,<mode> 452 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 453 454 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 455 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 456 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 457 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 458 459 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 460 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 461 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 462 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 463 464 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 465 embedded devices based on command line input. 466 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 467 468 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 469 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 470 no delay (0). 471 Format: integer 472 473 bootconfig [KNL] 474 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 475 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 476 477 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 478 479 bert_disable [ACPI] 480 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 481 482 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 483 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 484 485 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 486 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 487 kernel args too. 488 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 489 bttv.tuner= 490 491 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 492 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 493 at a time. 494 495 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 496 497 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 498 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 499 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 500 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 501 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 502 This option provides an override for these situations. 503 504 carrier_timeout= 505 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 506 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 507 it waits 120 seconds. 508 509 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 510 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 511 trust validation. 512 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 513 514 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 515 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 516 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 517 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 518 others). 519 520 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 521 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 522 523 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 524 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 525 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 526 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 527 a single hierarchy 528 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 529 subsystem 530 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 531 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 532 created 533 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 534 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 535 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 536 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 537 stall information accounting feature 538 539 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 540 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 541 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 542 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 543 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 544 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 545 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 546 all v1 hierarchies. 547 548 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 549 Format: <string> 550 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 551 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 552 553 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 554 Format: { "0" | "1" } 555 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 556 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 557 any implied execute protection). 558 1 -- check protection requested by application. 559 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 560 Value can be changed at runtime via 561 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 562 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 563 564 cio_ignore= [S390] 565 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 566 clk_ignore_unused 567 [CLK] 568 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 569 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 570 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 571 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 572 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 573 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 574 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 575 platform with proper driver support. For more 576 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 577 578 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 579 [Deprecated] 580 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 581 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 582 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 583 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 584 585 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 586 Format: <string> 587 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 588 with the name specified. 589 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 590 the platform: 591 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 592 [ACPI] acpi_pm 593 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 594 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 595 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 596 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 597 [MIPS] MIPS 598 [PARISC] cr16 599 [S390] tod 600 [SH] SuperH 601 [SPARC64] tick 602 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 603 604 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 605 [ARM,ARM64] 606 Format: <bool> 607 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 608 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 609 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 610 systems. 611 612 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 613 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 614 external delays before the clock will be marked 615 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 616 three attempts to read the clock under test. 617 618 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 619 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 620 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 621 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 622 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 623 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 624 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 625 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 626 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 627 628 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 629 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 630 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 631 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 632 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 633 634 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 635 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 636 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 637 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 638 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 639 ones should be. 640 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 641 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 642 instability issue. However, not all features have names 643 in /proc/cpuinfo. 644 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 645 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 646 or using the feature without checking anything 647 will still see it. This just prevents it from 648 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 649 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 650 some critical bits. 651 652 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 653 [KNL,CMA] 654 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 655 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 656 placement constraint by the physical address range of 657 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 658 altogether. For more information, see 659 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 660 661 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 662 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 663 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 664 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 665 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 666 specificed, the default value is 0. 667 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 668 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 669 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 670 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 671 672 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 673 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 674 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 675 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 676 a hypervisor. 677 Default: yes 678 679 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 680 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 681 allocations, by default set to 256K. 682 683 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 684 Format: 685 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 686 687 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 688 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 689 690 com90xx= [HW,NET] 691 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 692 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 693 694 condev= [HW,S390] console device 695 conmode= 696 697 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 698 699 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 700 701 ttyS<n>[,options] 702 ttyUSB0[,options] 703 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 704 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 705 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 706 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 707 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 708 709 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 710 information. See 711 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 712 alternative. 713 714 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 715 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 716 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 717 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 718 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 719 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 720 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 721 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 722 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 723 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 724 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 725 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 726 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 727 the h/w is not re-initialized. 728 729 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 730 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 731 732 { null | "" } 733 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 734 console messages discarded. 735 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 736 kernel command line. 737 738 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 739 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 740 console=brl,ttyS0 741 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 742 743 console_msg_format= 744 [KNL] Change console messages format 745 default 746 By default we print messages on consoles in 747 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 748 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 749 `printk_time' param). 750 syslog 751 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 752 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 753 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 754 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 755 from /proc/kmsg. 756 757 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 758 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 759 Defaults to 0. 760 761 coredump_filter= 762 [KNL] Change the default value for 763 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 764 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 765 766 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 767 [ARM,ARM64] 768 Format: <bool> 769 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 770 0: default value, disable debugging 771 1: enable debugging at boot time 772 773 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 774 disable the cpuidle sub-system 775 776 cpuidle.governor= 777 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 778 779 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 780 disable the cpufreq sub-system 781 782 cpufreq.default_governor= 783 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 784 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 785 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 786 787 cpu_init_udelay=N 788 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 789 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 790 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 791 Default: 10000 792 793 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 794 Format: 795 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 796 797 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 798 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 799 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 800 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 801 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 802 is selected automatically. 803 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 804 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 805 hasn't been specified. 806 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 807 808 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 809 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 810 in the running system. The syntax of range is 811 start-[end] where start and end are both 812 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 813 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 814 815 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 816 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 817 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 818 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 819 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 820 available. 821 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 822 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 823 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 824 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 825 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 826 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 827 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 828 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 829 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 830 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 831 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 832 for second kernel instead. 833 0: to disable low allocation. 834 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 835 or memory reserved is below 4G. 836 837 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 838 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 839 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 840 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 841 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 842 843 cryptomgr.notests 844 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 845 846 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 847 Format: <dma> 848 849 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 850 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 851 852 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 853 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 854 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 855 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 856 to resolve the hang situation. 857 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 858 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 859 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 860 but more data) 861 862 dasd= [HW,NET] 863 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 864 865 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 866 (one device per port) 867 Format: <port#>,<type> 868 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 869 870 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 871 872 debug_boot_weak_hash 873 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 874 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 875 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 876 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 877 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 878 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 879 880 debug_locks_verbose= 881 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 882 Format: <int> 883 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 884 self-tests. 885 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 886 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 887 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 888 useful to lockdep developers. 889 890 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 891 892 no_debug_objects 893 [KNL] Disable object debugging 894 895 debug_guardpage_minorder= 896 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 897 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 898 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 899 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 900 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 901 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 902 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 903 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 904 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 905 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 906 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 907 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 908 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 909 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 910 bypassed) which are not detectable by 911 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 912 tracking down these problems. 913 914 debug_pagealloc= 915 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 916 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 917 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 918 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 919 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 920 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 921 on: enable the feature 922 923 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 924 and debugfs internal clients. 925 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 926 on: All functions are enabled. 927 no-mount: 928 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 929 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 930 its content. There is nothing to mount. 931 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 932 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 933 or directories within debugfs. 934 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 935 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 936 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 937 938 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 939 940 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 941 Format: <area>[,<node>] 942 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 943 944 default_hugepagesz= 945 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 946 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 947 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 948 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 949 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 950 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 951 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 952 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 953 Format: size[KMG] 954 955 deferred_probe_timeout= 956 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 957 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 958 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 959 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 960 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 961 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 962 retrying. 963 964 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 965 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 966 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 967 hardware. 968 969 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 970 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 971 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 972 blacklisted features. 973 974 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 975 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 976 (disabled by default). 977 978 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 979 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 980 capability is set. 981 982 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 983 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 984 985 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 986 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 987 988 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 989 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 990 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 991 level 1 and decompression (default) 992 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 993 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 994 only (compression on level 1) 995 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 996 only (decompression) 997 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 998 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 999 1000 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1001 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1002 1003 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1004 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1005 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1006 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1007 miss to occur. 1008 1009 stress_slb [PPC] 1010 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1011 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1012 on kernel addresses. 1013 1014 disable= [IPV6] 1015 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1016 1017 hardened_usercopy= 1018 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1019 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1020 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1021 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1022 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1023 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1024 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1025 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1026 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1027 1028 disable_radix [PPC] 1029 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1030 1031 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1032 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1033 invalidate. 1034 1035 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1036 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1037 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1038 1039 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1040 Format: <int> 1041 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1042 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1043 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1044 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1045 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1046 INIT from AP to BSP. 1047 1048 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1049 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1050 to workaround buggy firmware. 1051 1052 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1053 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1054 1055 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1056 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1057 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1058 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1059 1060 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1061 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1062 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1063 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1064 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1065 1066 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1067 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1068 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1069 1070 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1071 1072 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1073 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1074 1075 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1076 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1077 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1078 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1079 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1080 architectural default is too low. 1081 1082 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1083 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1084 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1085 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1086 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1087 driver later using sysfs. 1088 1089 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1090 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1091 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1092 1093 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1094 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1095 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1096 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1097 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1098 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1099 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1100 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1101 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1102 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1103 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1104 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1105 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1106 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1107 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1108 data set with no connector name will be used for 1109 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1110 1111 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1112 1113 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1114 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1115 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1116 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1117 exists). 1118 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1119 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1120 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1121 1122 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1123 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1124 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1125 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1126 1127 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1128 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1129 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1130 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1131 for details. 1132 1133 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1134 in some Intel CPUs. 1135 1136 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1137 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1138 1139 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1140 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1141 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1142 which are not unmapped. 1143 1144 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1145 1146 When used with no options, the early console is 1147 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1148 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1149 the platform. 1150 1151 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1152 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1153 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1154 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1155 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1156 configured. 1157 1158 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1159 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1160 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1161 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1162 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1163 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1164 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1165 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1166 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1167 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1168 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1169 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1170 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1171 1172 pl011,<addr> 1173 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1174 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1175 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1176 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1177 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1178 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1179 the device registers. 1180 1181 liteuart,<addr> 1182 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1183 specified address. The serial port must already be 1184 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1185 1186 meson,<addr> 1187 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1188 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1189 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1190 supported. 1191 1192 msm_serial,<addr> 1193 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1194 port at the specified address. The serial port 1195 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1196 yet supported. 1197 1198 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1199 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1200 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1201 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1202 yet supported. 1203 1204 owl,<addr> 1205 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1206 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1207 specified address. The serial port must already be 1208 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1209 1210 rda,<addr> 1211 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1212 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1213 specified address. The serial port must already be 1214 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1215 1216 sbi 1217 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1218 console. 1219 1220 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1221 1222 s3c2410,<addr> 1223 s3c2412,<addr> 1224 s3c2440,<addr> 1225 s3c6400,<addr> 1226 s5pv210,<addr> 1227 exynos4210,<addr> 1228 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1229 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1230 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1231 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1232 Options are not yet supported. 1233 1234 lantiq,<addr> 1235 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1236 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1237 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1238 yet supported. 1239 1240 lpuart,<addr> 1241 lpuart32,<addr> 1242 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1243 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1244 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1245 port must already be setup and configured. 1246 1247 ec_imx21,<addr> 1248 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1249 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1250 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1251 must already be setup and configured. 1252 1253 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1254 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1255 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1256 address. The serial port must already be setup 1257 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1258 1259 qcom_geni,<addr> 1260 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1261 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1262 specified address. The serial port must already be 1263 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1264 1265 efifb,[options] 1266 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1267 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1268 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1269 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1270 mapped with the correct attributes. 1271 1272 linflex,<addr> 1273 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1274 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1275 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1276 already be setup and configured. 1277 1278 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1279 earlyprintk=vga 1280 earlyprintk=sclp 1281 earlyprintk=xen 1282 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1283 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1284 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1285 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1286 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1287 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1288 1289 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1290 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1291 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1292 1293 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1294 takes over. 1295 1296 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1297 be used at a time. 1298 1299 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1300 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1301 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1302 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1303 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1304 You can find the port for a given device in 1305 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1306 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1307 1308 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1309 very good. 1310 1311 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1312 the real console. 1313 1314 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1315 1316 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1317 1318 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1319 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1320 UART class. 1321 1322 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1323 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1324 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1325 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1326 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1327 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1328 default: on. 1329 1330 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1331 ekgdboc=kbd 1332 1333 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1334 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1335 1336 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1337 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1338 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1339 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1340 1341 edd= [EDD] 1342 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1343 1344 efi= [EFI] 1345 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1346 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1347 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1348 debug: enable misc debug output. 1349 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1350 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1351 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1352 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1353 firmware implementations. 1354 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1355 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1356 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1357 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1358 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1359 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1360 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1361 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1362 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1363 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1364 1365 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1366 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1367 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1368 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1369 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1370 1371 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1372 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1373 updating original EFI memory map. 1374 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1375 from ss to ss+nn. 1376 1377 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1378 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1379 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1380 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1381 1382 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1383 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1384 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1385 1386 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1387 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1388 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1389 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1390 "soft reserved". 1391 1392 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1393 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1394 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1395 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1396 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1397 1398 1399 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1400 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1401 1402 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1403 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1404 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1405 1406 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1407 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1408 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1409 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1410 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1411 1412 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1413 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1414 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1415 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1416 1417 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1418 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1419 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1420 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1421 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1422 1423 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1424 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1425 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1426 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1427 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1428 Default value is 0. 1429 Value can be changed at runtime via 1430 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1431 1432 erst_disable [ACPI] 1433 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1434 support. 1435 1436 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1437 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1438 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1439 1440 evm= [EVM] 1441 Format: { "fix" } 1442 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1443 current integrity status. 1444 1445 failslab= 1446 fail_usercopy= 1447 fail_page_alloc= 1448 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1449 General fault injection mechanism. 1450 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1451 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1452 1453 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1454 Format: { initns | none } 1455 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1456 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1457 1458 floppy= [HW] 1459 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1460 1461 force_pal_cache_flush 1462 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1463 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1464 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1465 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1466 1467 forcepae [X86-32] 1468 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1469 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1470 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1471 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1472 and may cause unknown problems. 1473 1474 ftrace=[tracer] 1475 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1476 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1477 boot debugging. 1478 1479 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1480 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1481 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1482 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1483 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1484 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1485 start up functionality. 1486 1487 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1488 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1489 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1490 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1491 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1492 oops. 1493 1494 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1495 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1496 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1497 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1498 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1499 tracing directory. 1500 1501 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1502 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1503 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1504 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1505 tracing directory. 1506 1507 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1508 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1509 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1510 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1511 that can be changed at run time by the 1512 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1513 1514 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1515 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1516 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1517 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1518 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1519 1520 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1521 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1522 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1523 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1524 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1525 1526 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1527 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1528 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1529 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1530 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1531 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1532 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1533 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1534 suppliers). 1535 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1536 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1537 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1538 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1539 up (sync_state() calls). 1540 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1541 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1542 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1543 1544 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1545 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1546 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1547 Format: <bool> 1548 1549 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1550 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1551 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1552 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1553 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1554 1555 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1556 1557 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1558 Format: off | on 1559 default: on 1560 1561 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1562 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1563 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1564 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1565 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1566 1567 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1568 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1569 android emulator 1570 1571 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1572 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1573 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1574 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1575 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1576 1577 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1578 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1579 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1580 GPT to be used instead. 1581 1582 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1583 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1584 Format: 0 | 1 1585 Default: 0 1586 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1587 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1588 Format: 0 | 1 1589 Default: 0 1590 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1591 Format: 0 | 1 1592 Default: 0 1593 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1594 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1595 Default: 1024 1596 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1597 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1598 Default: 1024 1599 1600 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1601 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1602 backtraces on all cpus. 1603 Format: 0 | 1 1604 1605 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1606 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1607 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1608 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1609 1610 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1611 1612 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1613 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1614 1615 hest_disable [ACPI] 1616 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1617 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1618 logic will be disabled. 1619 1620 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1621 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1622 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1623 size on bigger boxes. 1624 1625 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1626 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1627 Default: "on" 1628 1629 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1630 1631 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1632 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1633 verbose } 1634 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1635 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1636 VIA, nVidia) 1637 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1638 1639 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1640 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1641 1642 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1643 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1644 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1645 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1646 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1647 1648 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1649 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1650 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1651 1652 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1653 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1654 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1655 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1656 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1657 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1658 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1659 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1660 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1661 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1662 1663 hugepagesz= 1664 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1665 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1666 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1667 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1668 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1669 architecture dependent. See also 1670 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1671 Format: size[KMG] 1672 1673 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1674 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP 1675 enabled. 1676 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1677 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1678 Format: { on | off (default) } 1679 1680 on: enable the feature 1681 off: disable the feature 1682 1683 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1684 the default is on. 1685 1686 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1687 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 1688 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1689 1690 hung_task_panic= 1691 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1692 Format: 0 | 1 1693 1694 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1695 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1696 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1697 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1698 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1699 1700 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1701 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1702 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1703 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1704 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1705 1706 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1707 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1708 guest on lock contention. 1709 1710 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1711 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1712 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1713 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1714 the real console. 1715 1716 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1717 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1718 registered from board initialization code. 1719 Format: 1720 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1721 1722 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1723 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1724 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1725 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1726 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1727 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1728 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1729 keyboard and cannot control its state 1730 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1731 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1732 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1733 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1734 for the AUX port 1735 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1736 controller 1737 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1738 controllers 1739 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1740 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1741 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1742 transitions, or never reset 1743 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1744 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1745 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1746 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1747 architectures force reset to be always executed 1748 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1749 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1750 i8042.probe_defer 1751 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1752 1753 i810= [HW,DRM] 1754 1755 i915.invert_brightness= 1756 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1757 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1758 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1759 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1760 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1761 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1762 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1763 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1764 value switches the backlight off. 1765 -1 -- never invert brightness 1766 0 -- machine default 1767 1 -- force brightness inversion 1768 1769 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1770 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1771 1772 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1773 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1774 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1775 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1776 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1777 1778 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1779 Format: <int> 1780 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1781 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1782 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1783 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1784 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1785 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1786 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1787 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1788 was 0x3. 1789 1790 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1791 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1792 1793 idle= [X86] 1794 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1795 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1796 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1797 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1798 Not recommended. 1799 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1800 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1801 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1802 1803 idxd.sva= [HW] 1804 Format: <bool> 1805 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1806 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1807 true (1). 1808 1809 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1810 Format: <bool> 1811 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1812 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1813 1814 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1815 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1816 Default: strict 1817 1818 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1819 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1820 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1821 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1822 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1823 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1824 encoding mode. 1825 1826 Available settings are as follows: 1827 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1828 supported by the FPU 1829 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1830 by the FPU 1831 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1832 by the FPU 1833 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1834 supported by the FPU 1835 1836 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1837 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1838 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1839 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1840 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1841 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1842 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1843 MIPS64 CPUs. 1844 1845 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1846 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1847 except where unsupported by hardware. 1848 1849 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1850 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1851 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1852 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1853 could change it dynamically, usually by 1854 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1855 1856 ignore_rlimit_data 1857 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1858 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1859 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1860 1861 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1862 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1863 1864 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1865 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1866 default: "enforce" 1867 1868 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1869 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1870 owned by uid=0. 1871 1872 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1873 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1874 measurements, instead of host native format. 1875 1876 ima_hash= [IMA] 1877 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1878 | sha512 | ... } 1879 default: "sha1" 1880 1881 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1882 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1883 1884 ima_policy= [IMA] 1885 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1886 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1887 fail_securely | critical_data" 1888 1889 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1890 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1891 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1892 uid=0. 1893 1894 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1895 all files owned by root. 1896 1897 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1898 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1899 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1900 1901 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1902 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1903 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1904 flag. 1905 1906 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1907 critical data. 1908 1909 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1910 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1911 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1912 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1913 opened for read by uid=0. 1914 1915 ima_template= [IMA] 1916 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1917 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1918 "ima-sigv2" } 1919 Default: "ima-ng" 1920 1921 ima_template_fmt= 1922 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1923 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1924 1925 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1926 Format: <min_file_size> 1927 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1928 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1929 1930 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1931 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1932 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1933 1934 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1935 Format: <bufsize> 1936 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1937 1938 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1939 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1940 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1941 1942 init= [KNL] 1943 Format: <full_path> 1944 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1945 process. 1946 1947 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1948 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1949 startup. 1950 1951 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1952 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1953 modules and initcalls. 1954 1955 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1956 Format: <bool> 1957 Default: 1 1958 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1959 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1960 with devices being probed and 1961 initialized. This should normally just work, 1962 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1963 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1964 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1965 late_ initcalls. 1966 1967 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1968 1969 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1970 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1971 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1972 setting. 1973 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1974 Default is 0, 0 1975 1976 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1977 zeroes. 1978 Format: 0 | 1 1979 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1980 1981 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1982 Format: 0 | 1 1983 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1984 1985 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1986 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1987 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1988 override in debugfs after boot. 1989 1990 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1991 Format: <irq> 1992 1993 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1994 1995 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1996 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1997 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1998 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1999 2000 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2001 on 2002 Enable intel iommu driver. 2003 off 2004 Disable intel iommu driver. 2005 igfx_off [Default Off] 2006 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2007 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2008 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2009 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2010 DMA. 2011 strict [Default Off] 2012 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2013 sp_off [Default Off] 2014 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2015 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2016 not be supported. 2017 sm_on 2018 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2019 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2020 translation. 2021 sm_off 2022 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2023 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2024 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2025 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2026 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2027 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2028 mapping is enabled. 2029 Note that using this option lowers the security 2030 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2031 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2032 2033 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2034 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2035 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2036 2037 intel_pstate= [X86] 2038 disable 2039 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2040 scaling driver for the supported processors 2041 passive 2042 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2043 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2044 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2045 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2046 feature. 2047 force 2048 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2049 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2050 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2051 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2052 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2053 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2054 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2055 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2056 no_hwp 2057 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2058 if available. 2059 hwp_only 2060 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2061 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2062 support_acpi_ppc 2063 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2064 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2065 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2066 then this feature is turned on by default. 2067 per_cpu_perf_limits 2068 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2069 cpufreq sysfs interface 2070 2071 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2072 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2073 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2074 nosid disable Source ID checking 2075 no_x2apic_optout 2076 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2077 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2078 2079 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2080 strict regions from userspace. 2081 relaxed 2082 2083 iommu= [X86] 2084 off 2085 force 2086 noforce 2087 biomerge 2088 panic 2089 nopanic 2090 merge 2091 nomerge 2092 soft 2093 pt [X86] 2094 nopt [X86] 2095 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2096 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2097 2098 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2099 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2100 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2101 falling back to the full range if needed. 2102 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2103 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2104 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2105 2106 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2107 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2108 0 - Lazy mode. 2109 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2110 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2111 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2112 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2113 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2114 1 - Strict mode. 2115 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2116 synchronously. 2117 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2118 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2119 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2120 2121 iommu.passthrough= 2122 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2123 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2124 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2125 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2126 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2127 2128 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2129 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2130 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2131 2132 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2133 0x80 2134 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2135 0xed 2136 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2137 udelay 2138 Simple two microseconds delay 2139 none 2140 No delay 2141 2142 ip= [IP_PNP] 2143 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2144 2145 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2146 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2147 2148 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2149 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2150 2151 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2152 [ARM, ARM64] 2153 Format: <bool> 2154 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2155 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2156 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2157 2158 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2159 [ARM, ARM64] 2160 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2161 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2162 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2163 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2164 LPIs. 2165 2166 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2167 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2168 requires the kernel to be built with 2169 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2170 2171 irqfixup [HW] 2172 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2173 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2174 firmware running. 2175 2176 irqpoll [HW] 2177 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2178 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2179 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2180 firmware running. 2181 2182 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2183 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2184 2185 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2186 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2187 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2188 2189 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2190 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2191 2192 nohz 2193 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2194 2195 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2196 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2197 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2198 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2199 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2200 2201 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2202 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2203 be configured manually after bootup. 2204 2205 domain 2206 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2207 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2208 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2209 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2210 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2211 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2212 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2213 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2214 2215 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2216 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2217 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2218 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2219 2220 managed_irq 2221 2222 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2223 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2224 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2225 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2226 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2227 2228 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2229 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2230 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2231 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2232 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2233 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2234 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2235 2236 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2237 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2238 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2239 only delivered when tasks running on those 2240 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2241 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2242 queues. 2243 2244 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2245 2246 iucv= [HW,NET] 2247 2248 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2249 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2250 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2251 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2252 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2253 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2254 2255 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2256 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2257 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2258 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2259 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2260 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2261 2262 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2263 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2264 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2265 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2266 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2267 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2268 2269 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2270 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2271 2272 nokaslr [KNL] 2273 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2274 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2275 Layout Randomization). 2276 2277 kasan_multi_shot 2278 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2279 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2280 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2281 invalid access. 2282 2283 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2284 2285 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2286 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2287 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2288 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2289 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2290 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2291 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2292 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2293 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2294 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2295 2296 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2297 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2298 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2299 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2300 zone if it does not. 2301 2302 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2303 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2304 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2305 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2306 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2307 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2308 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2309 2310 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2311 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2312 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2313 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2314 optional and is the number seconds in between 2315 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2316 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2317 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2318 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2319 the kernel debugger. 2320 2321 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2322 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2323 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2324 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2325 keyboard only format: kbd 2326 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2327 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2328 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2329 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2330 2331 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2332 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2333 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2334 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2335 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2336 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2337 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2338 2339 The name of the early console should be specified 2340 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2341 the early console might be different than the tty 2342 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2343 blank and the first boot console that implements 2344 read() will be picked. 2345 2346 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2347 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2348 2349 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2350 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2351 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2352 2353 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2354 Valid arguments: on, off 2355 Default: on 2356 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2357 the default is off. 2358 2359 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2360 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2361 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2362 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2363 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2364 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2365 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2366 2367 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2368 2369 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2370 Boot Parameter" section. 2371 2372 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2373 and kernel address spaces. 2374 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2375 0: force disabled 2376 1: force enabled 2377 2378 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2379 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2380 2381 kvm.eager_page_split= 2382 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2383 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2384 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2385 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2386 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2387 required to split huge pages lazily. 2388 2389 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2390 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2391 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2392 still be used for reads. 2393 2394 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2395 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2396 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2397 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2398 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2399 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2400 cleared. 2401 2402 Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting 2403 huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU. 2404 2405 Default is Y (on). 2406 2407 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2408 Default is false (don't support). 2409 2410 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2411 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2412 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2413 force : Always deploy workaround. 2414 off : Never deploy workaround. 2415 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2416 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2417 2418 Default is 'auto'. 2419 2420 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2421 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2422 2423 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2424 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2425 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2426 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2427 period (see below). The default is 60. 2428 2429 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2430 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2431 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2432 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2433 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2434 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2435 2436 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2437 Default is 1 (enabled) 2438 2439 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2440 for all guests. 2441 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2442 2443 kvm-arm.mode= 2444 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2445 2446 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2447 2448 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2449 protected guests. 2450 2451 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2452 state is kept private from the host. 2453 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2454 2455 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2456 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2457 for the host. 2458 2459 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2460 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2461 system registers 2462 2463 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2464 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2465 system registers 2466 2467 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2468 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2469 system registers 2470 2471 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2472 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2473 LPIs. 2474 2475 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2476 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2477 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2478 allocation. 2479 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2480 Format: <integer> 2481 Default: 5 2482 2483 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2484 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2485 Default is 1 (enabled) 2486 2487 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2488 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2489 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2490 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2491 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2492 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2493 Default is 1 (enabled) 2494 2495 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2496 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2497 Default is 1 (enabled) 2498 2499 kvm-intel.nested= 2500 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2501 Default is 0 (disabled) 2502 2503 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2504 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2505 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2506 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2507 2508 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2509 CVE-2018-3620. 2510 2511 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2512 2513 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2514 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2515 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2516 never: Disables the mitigation 2517 2518 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2519 2520 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2521 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2522 Default is 1 (enabled) 2523 2524 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2525 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2526 2527 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2528 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2529 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2530 2531 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2532 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2533 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2534 not have direct access. 2535 2536 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2537 options are: 2538 2539 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2540 2541 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2542 affected CPUs 2543 2544 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2545 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2546 2547 full 2548 Provides all available mitigations for the 2549 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2550 enables all mitigations in the 2551 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2552 2553 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2554 sysfs interface is still possible after 2555 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2556 when the first VM is started in a 2557 potentially insecure configuration, 2558 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2559 2560 full,force 2561 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2562 flush runtime control. Implies the 2563 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2564 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2565 2566 flush 2567 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2568 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2569 L1D flush. 2570 2571 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2572 sysfs interface is still possible after 2573 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2574 when the first VM is started in a 2575 potentially insecure configuration, 2576 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2577 2578 flush,nosmt 2579 2580 Disables SMT and enables the default 2581 hypervisor mitigation. 2582 2583 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2584 sysfs interface is still possible after 2585 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2586 when the first VM is started in a 2587 potentially insecure configuration, 2588 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2589 2590 flush,nowarn 2591 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2592 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2593 insecure configuration. 2594 2595 off 2596 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2597 emit any warnings. 2598 It also drops the swap size and available 2599 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2600 bare metal. 2601 2602 Default is 'flush'. 2603 2604 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2605 2606 l2cr= [PPC] 2607 2608 l3cr= [PPC] 2609 2610 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2611 disabled it. 2612 2613 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2614 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2615 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2616 Format: notscdeadline 2617 2618 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2619 in C2 power state. 2620 2621 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2622 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2623 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2624 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2625 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2626 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2627 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2628 2629 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2630 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2631 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2632 2633 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2634 when set. 2635 Format: <int> 2636 2637 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2638 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2639 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2640 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2641 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2642 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2643 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2644 to all ports, links and devices. 2645 2646 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2647 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2648 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2649 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2650 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2651 host link and device attached to it. 2652 2653 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2654 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2655 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2656 The following configurations can be forced. 2657 2658 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2659 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2660 2661 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2662 2663 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2664 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2665 allowed. 2666 2667 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2668 resets. 2669 2670 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2671 link recovery. 2672 2673 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2674 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2675 detection. 2676 2677 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2678 2679 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2680 2681 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2682 2683 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2684 2685 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2686 2687 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2688 2689 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2690 2691 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2692 2693 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2694 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2695 2696 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2697 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2698 2699 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2700 identify device data log. 2701 2702 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2703 purpose log directory. 2704 2705 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2706 2707 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2708 1024 sectors. 2709 2710 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2711 65535 sectors. 2712 2713 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2714 2715 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2716 should be skipped. 2717 2718 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2719 2720 * disable: Disable this device. 2721 2722 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2723 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2724 2725 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2726 2727 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2728 2729 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2730 Format: <integer> 2731 2732 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2733 Format: <integer> 2734 2735 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2736 Format: <integer> 2737 2738 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2739 Format: <integer> 2740 2741 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2742 { integrity | confidentiality } 2743 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2744 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2745 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2746 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2747 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2748 are also disabled. 2749 2750 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2751 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2752 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2753 number of online CPUs. 2754 2755 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2756 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2757 2758 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2759 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2760 2761 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2762 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2763 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2764 2765 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2766 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2767 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2768 mode during the locktorture test. 2769 2770 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2771 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2772 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2773 2774 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2775 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2776 2777 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2778 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2779 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2780 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2781 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2782 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2783 2784 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2785 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2786 2787 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2788 Enable additional printk() statements. 2789 2790 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2791 Format: <irq> 2792 2793 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2794 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2795 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2796 loglevels are defined as follows: 2797 2798 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2799 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2800 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2801 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2802 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2803 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2804 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2805 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2806 2807 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2808 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2809 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2810 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2811 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2812 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2813 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2814 2815 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2816 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2817 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2818 kernel boot problems. 2819 2820 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2821 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2822 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2823 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2824 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2825 attached printers to be reset. Using 2826 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2827 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2828 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2829 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2830 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2831 port specification list means that device IDs 2832 from each port should be examined, to see if 2833 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2834 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2835 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2836 2837 lpj=n [KNL] 2838 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2839 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2840 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2841 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2842 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2843 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2844 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2845 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2846 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2847 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2848 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2849 hardware. 2850 2851 ltpc= [NET] 2852 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2853 2854 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2855 2856 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2857 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2858 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2859 2860 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2861 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2862 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2863 2864 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2865 different yeeloong laptops. 2866 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2867 2868 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2869 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2870 2871 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2872 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2873 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2874 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2875 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2876 only takes effect during system bootup. 2877 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2878 which also disables the IO APIC. 2879 2880 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2881 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2882 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2883 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2884 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2885 /dev/loop-control interface. 2886 2887 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2888 2889 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2890 2891 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2892 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2893 2894 mdacon= [MDA] 2895 Format: <first>,<last> 2896 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2897 2898 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2899 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2900 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2901 2902 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2903 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2904 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2905 2906 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2907 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2908 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2909 not have direct access. 2910 2911 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2912 options are: 2913 2914 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2915 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2916 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2917 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2918 2919 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2920 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2921 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2922 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2923 too. 2924 2925 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2926 mds=full. 2927 2928 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2929 2930 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2931 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2932 2933 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2934 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2935 2936 1 for test; 2937 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2938 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2939 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2940 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2941 2942 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 2943 high memory is not affected. 2944 2945 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 2946 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 2947 2948 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2949 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2950 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2951 belonging to unused RAM. 2952 2953 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2954 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2955 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2956 2957 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2958 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 2959 firmware. 2960 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 2961 ss[KMG]. 2962 Multiple different regions can be specified with 2963 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 2964 2965 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2966 memory. 2967 2968 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2969 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2970 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2971 2972 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2973 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2974 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2975 set according to the 2976 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2977 option. 2978 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2979 2980 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2981 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2982 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2983 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2984 option description. 2985 2986 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2987 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2988 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2989 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2990 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2991 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2992 comma delimited. 2993 Example: 2994 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2995 2996 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2997 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2998 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2999 3000 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3001 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3002 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3003 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3004 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3005 or 3006 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3007 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3008 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3009 will be eaten. 3010 3011 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3012 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3013 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3014 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3015 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3016 3017 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3018 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3019 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3020 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3021 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3022 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3023 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3024 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3025 3026 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3027 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3028 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3029 Setting this option will scan the memory 3030 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3031 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3032 from using the memory being corrupted. 3033 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3034 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3035 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3036 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3037 3038 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3039 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3040 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3041 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3042 corruption in more or less memory. 3043 3044 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3045 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3046 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3047 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3048 3049 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3050 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3051 Format: {on | off (default)} 3052 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3053 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 3054 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 3055 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 3056 additional memory to do so. 3057 This feature is disabled by default because it 3058 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3059 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3060 memory blocks). 3061 The state of the flag can be read in 3062 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3063 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3064 the feature is not effective. 3065 3066 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If 3067 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 3068 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 3069 3070 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3071 Format: <integer> 3072 default : 0 <disable> 3073 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3074 performed. Each pass selects another test 3075 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3076 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3077 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3078 regions that are detected. 3079 3080 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3081 Valid arguments: on, off 3082 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3083 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3084 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3085 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3086 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3087 3088 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3089 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3090 3091 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3092 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3093 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3094 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3095 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3096 3097 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3098 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3099 3100 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3101 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3102 platforms. 3103 3104 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3105 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3106 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3107 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3108 3109 mga= [HW,DRM] 3110 3111 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 3112 physical address is ignored. 3113 3114 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3115 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3116 Default: "0tb" 3117 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3118 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3119 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3120 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3121 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3122 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3123 unconfigured. 3124 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3125 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3126 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3127 VGA shield. 3128 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3129 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3130 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3131 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3132 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3133 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3134 3135 mitigations= 3136 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3137 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3138 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3139 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3140 3141 off 3142 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3143 improves system performance, but it may also 3144 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3145 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3146 kpti=0 [ARM64] 3147 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3148 nobp=0 [S390] 3149 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3150 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3151 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3152 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3153 l1tf=off [X86] 3154 mds=off [X86] 3155 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3156 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3157 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3158 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3159 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3160 3161 Exceptions: 3162 This does not have any effect on 3163 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3164 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3165 3166 auto (default) 3167 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3168 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3169 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3170 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3171 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3172 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3173 3174 auto,nosmt 3175 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3176 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3177 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3178 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3179 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3180 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3181 3182 mminit_loglevel= 3183 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3184 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3185 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3186 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3187 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3188 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3189 3190 module.sig_enforce 3191 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3192 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3193 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3194 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3195 3196 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3197 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3198 3199 mousedev.tap_time= 3200 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3201 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3202 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3203 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3204 Format: <msecs> 3205 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3206 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3207 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3208 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3209 3210 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3211 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3212 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3213 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3214 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3215 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3216 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3217 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3218 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3219 is not too small. 3220 3221 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3222 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3223 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3224 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3225 allocations. Use with caution! 3226 3227 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3228 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3229 3230 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3231 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3232 3233 mtdparts= [MTD] 3234 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3235 3236 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3237 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3238 at a time. 3239 3240 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3241 3242 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3243 3244 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3245 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3246 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3247 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3248 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3249 3250 mtdset= [ARM] 3251 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3252 3253 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3254 3255 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3256 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3257 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3258 3259 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3260 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3261 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3262 3263 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3264 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3265 Default is 1. 3266 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3267 using up MTRRs. 3268 3269 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3270 Format: <integer> 3271 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3272 Default : 1 3273 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3274 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3275 3276 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3277 3278 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3279 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3280 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3281 something different and driver-specific. 3282 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3283 file if at all. 3284 3285 nf_conntrack.acct= 3286 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3287 0 to disable accounting 3288 1 to enable accounting 3289 Default value is 0. 3290 3291 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3292 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3293 3294 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3295 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3296 3297 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3298 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3299 3300 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3301 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3302 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3303 requests. 3304 3305 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3306 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3307 channel should listen. 3308 3309 nfs.cache_getent= 3310 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3311 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3312 3313 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3314 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3315 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3316 3317 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3318 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3319 entries. 3320 3321 nfs.enable_ino64= 3322 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3323 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3324 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3325 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3326 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3327 3328 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3329 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3330 slots the client will assign to the callback 3331 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3332 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3333 a particular server. 3334 3335 nfs.max_session_slots= 3336 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3337 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3338 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3339 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3340 Note that there is little point in setting this 3341 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3342 3343 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3344 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3345 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3346 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3347 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3348 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3349 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3350 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3351 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3352 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3353 back to using the idmapper. 3354 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3355 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3356 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3357 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3358 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3359 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3360 3361 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3362 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3363 information in exchange_id requests. 3364 If zero, no implementation identification information 3365 will be sent. 3366 The default is to send the implementation identification 3367 information. 3368 3369 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3370 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3371 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3372 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3373 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3374 after the locks are lost. 3375 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3376 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3377 parameter to '1'. 3378 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3379 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3380 3381 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3382 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3383 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3384 3385 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3386 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3387 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3388 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3389 3390 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3391 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3392 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3393 the destination of the copy. 3394 3395 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3396 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3397 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3398 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3399 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3400 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3401 this parameter. 3402 3403 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3404 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3405 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3406 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3407 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3408 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3409 3410 3411 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3412 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3413 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3414 3415 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3416 when a NMI is triggered. 3417 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3418 3419 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3420 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3421 Valid num: 0 or 1 3422 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3423 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3424 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3425 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3426 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3427 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3428 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3429 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3430 need the box quickly up again. 3431 3432 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3433 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3434 3435 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3436 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3437 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3438 waits 4 seconds. 3439 3440 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3441 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3442 is present. 3443 3444 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3445 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3446 3447 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3448 3449 no_console_suspend 3450 [HW] Never suspend the console 3451 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3452 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3453 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3454 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3455 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3456 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3457 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3458 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3459 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3460 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3461 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3462 turn on/off it dynamically. 3463 3464 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3465 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3466 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3467 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3468 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3469 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3470 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3471 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3472 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3473 is set. 3474 3475 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3476 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3477 but will impact performance. 3478 3479 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3480 3481 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3482 (CPU alternatives feature). 3483 3484 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3485 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3486 3487 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3488 3489 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3490 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3491 3492 nocache [ARM] 3493 3494 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 3495 3496 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3497 3498 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3499 3500 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3501 3502 noexec [IA-64] 3503 3504 nosmap [PPC] 3505 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3506 even if it is supported by processor. 3507 3508 nosmep [PPC64s] 3509 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3510 even if it is supported by processor. 3511 3512 noexec32 [X86-64] 3513 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3514 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3515 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3516 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3517 read implies executable mappings 3518 3519 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3520 3521 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3522 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3523 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3524 3525 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3526 3527 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3528 3529 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3530 Equivalent to smt=1. 3531 3532 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3533 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3534 via the sysfs control file. 3535 3536 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3537 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3538 possible in the system. 3539 3540 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3541 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3542 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3543 option. 3544 3545 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3546 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3547 3548 no_uaccess_flush 3549 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3550 3551 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3552 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3553 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3554 3555 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3556 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3557 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3558 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3559 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3560 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3561 3562 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3563 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3564 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3565 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3566 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3567 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3568 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3569 3570 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3571 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3572 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3573 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3574 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3575 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3576 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3577 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3578 3579 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3580 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3581 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3582 3583 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3584 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3585 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3586 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3587 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3588 real-time systems. 3589 3590 no_hash_pointers 3591 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3592 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3593 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3594 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3595 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3596 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3597 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3598 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3599 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3600 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3601 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3602 kernels. 3603 3604 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3605 3606 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3607 Valid arguments: on, off 3608 Default: on 3609 3610 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3611 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3612 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3613 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3614 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3615 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3616 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3617 just as if they had also been called out in the 3618 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3619 3620 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3621 3622 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3623 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3624 3625 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3626 broken timer IRQ sources. 3627 3628 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3629 3630 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3631 initial RAM disk. 3632 3633 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3634 remapping. 3635 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3636 3637 nointroute [IA-64] 3638 3639 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3640 3641 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3642 3643 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3644 3645 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3646 fault handling. 3647 3648 no-vmw-sched-clock 3649 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3650 clock and use the default one. 3651 3652 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3653 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3654 influence scheduler behaviour 3655 3656 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3657 3658 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3659 3660 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3661 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3662 3663 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3664 3665 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3666 3667 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3668 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3669 3670 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3671 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3672 irq. 3673 3674 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3675 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3676 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3677 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3678 3679 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3680 3681 nomodule Disable module load 3682 3683 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3684 pagetables) support. 3685 3686 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3687 3688 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3689 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3690 3691 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3692 with UP alternatives 3693 3694 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3695 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3696 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3697 available to user space applications. 3698 3699 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3700 space. 3701 3702 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3703 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3704 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3705 3706 nosbagart [IA-64] 3707 3708 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3709 3710 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3711 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3712 3713 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3714 3715 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3716 3717 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3718 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3719 3720 nowb [ARM] 3721 3722 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3723 3724 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3725 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3726 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3727 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3728 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3729 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3730 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3731 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3732 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3733 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3734 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3735 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3736 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3737 3738 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3739 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3740 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3741 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3742 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3743 parameter's value. 3744 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3745 Default: 255 3746 3747 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3748 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3749 SAL PALO. 3750 3751 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3752 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3753 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3754 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3755 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3756 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3757 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3758 hot plugging. 3759 3760 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3761 3762 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3763 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3764 3765 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3766 NUMA balancing. 3767 Allowed values are enable and disable 3768 3769 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3770 'node', 'default' can be specified 3771 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3772 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3773 3774 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3775 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3776 info. 3777 3778 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3779 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3780 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3781 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3782 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3783 interrupts *may* be lost! 3784 3785 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3786 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3787 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3788 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3789 3790 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3791 process, but there is a small probability of 3792 deadlocking the machine. 3793 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3794 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3795 3796 page_alloc.shuffle= 3797 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3798 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3799 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3800 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3801 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3802 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3803 can be read from sysfs at: 3804 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3805 3806 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3807 Storage of the information about who allocated 3808 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3809 we can turn it on. 3810 on: enable the feature 3811 3812 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3813 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3814 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3815 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3816 on: turn on poisoning 3817 3818 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3819 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3820 Format: <integer> 3821 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3822 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3823 3824 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3825 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3826 timeout = 0: wait forever 3827 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3828 Format: <timeout> 3829 3830 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3831 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3832 bit 0: print all tasks info 3833 bit 1: print system memory info 3834 bit 2: print timer info 3835 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3836 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3837 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3838 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3839 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3840 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3841 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3842 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3843 3844 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3845 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3846 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3847 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3848 called with any of the flags in this set. 3849 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3850 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3851 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3852 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3853 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3854 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3855 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3856 3857 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3858 on a WARN(). 3859 3860 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3861 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3862 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3863 succeeds in any situation. 3864 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3865 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3866 kernel more unstable. 3867 3868 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3869 connected to, default is 0. 3870 Format: <parport#> 3871 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3872 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3873 Format: <mode> 3874 3875 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3876 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3877 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3878 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3879 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3880 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3881 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3882 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3883 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3884 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3885 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3886 are specified on the command line, starting 3887 with parport0. 3888 3889 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3890 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3891 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3892 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3893 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3894 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3895 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3896 3897 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3898 Format: <int> 3899 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3900 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3901 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3902 3903 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3904 Format: <int> 3905 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3906 changes. Disabled by default. 3907 3908 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3909 Format: <int> 3910 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3911 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3912 Disabled by default. 3913 3914 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3915 Format: <int> 3916 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3917 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3918 Disabled by default. 3919 3920 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3921 Format: <int> 3922 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3923 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3924 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3925 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3926 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3927 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3928 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3929 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3930 all channels. 3931 3932 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3933 Format: <int> 3934 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3935 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3936 respectively. Disabled by default. 3937 3938 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3939 Format: <int> 3940 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3941 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3942 respectively. Disabled by default. 3943 3944 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3945 Format: <int> 3946 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3947 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3948 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3949 All modes allowed by default. 3950 3951 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3952 Format: <int> 3953 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3954 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3955 3956 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3957 Format: <int> 3958 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3959 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3960 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3961 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3962 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3963 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3964 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3965 By default all supported ports are probed. 3966 3967 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3968 Format: <int> 3969 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3970 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3971 3972 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3973 Format: <int> 3974 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3975 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3976 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3977 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3978 0 otherwise. 3979 3980 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3981 Format: <int> 3982 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3983 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3984 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3985 allowed by default. 3986 3987 pause_on_oops= 3988 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3989 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3990 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3991 3992 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3993 3994 pcd. [PARIDE] 3995 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3996 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3997 3998 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3999 4000 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4001 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4002 specified in one of the following formats: 4003 4004 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4005 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4006 4007 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4008 bus/device/function address which may change 4009 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4010 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4011 by other kernel parameters. If the 4012 domain is left unspecified, it is 4013 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4014 to a device through multiple device/function 4015 addresses can be specified after the base 4016 address (this is more robust against 4017 renumbering issues). The second format 4018 selects devices using IDs from the 4019 configuration space which may match multiple 4020 devices in the system. 4021 4022 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4023 changes anything 4024 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4025 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4026 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4027 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4028 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4029 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4030 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4031 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4032 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4033 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4034 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4035 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4036 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4037 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4038 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4039 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4040 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4041 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4042 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4043 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4044 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4045 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4046 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4047 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4048 Configuration 4049 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4050 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4051 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4052 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4053 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4054 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4055 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4056 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4057 should never be necessary. 4058 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4059 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4060 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4061 when the system masks IRQs. 4062 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4063 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4064 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4065 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4066 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4067 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4068 on several machines and they hang the machine 4069 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4070 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4071 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4072 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4073 motherboard. 4074 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4075 Use with caution as certain devices share 4076 address decoders between ROMs and other 4077 resources. 4078 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4079 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4080 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4081 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4082 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4083 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4084 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4085 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4086 this way. 4087 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4088 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4089 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4090 F0000h-100000h range. 4091 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4092 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4093 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4094 explicitly which ones they are. 4095 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4096 numbers ourselves, overriding 4097 whatever the firmware may have done. 4098 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4099 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4100 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4101 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4102 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4103 IRQ routing is enabled. 4104 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4105 or for PCI scanning. 4106 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4107 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4108 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4109 please report a bug. 4110 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4111 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4112 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4113 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4114 so this option is a temporary workaround 4115 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4116 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4117 handle more pci cards 4118 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4119 This might help on some broken boards which 4120 machine check when some devices' config space 4121 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4122 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4123 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4124 This sorting is done to get a device 4125 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4126 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4127 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4128 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4129 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4130 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4131 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4132 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4133 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4134 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4135 or bus can support) for best performance. 4136 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4137 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4138 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4139 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4140 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4141 that hot-added devices will work. 4142 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4143 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4144 The default value is 256 bytes. 4145 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4146 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4147 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4148 resource_alignment= 4149 Format: 4150 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4151 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4152 aligned memory resources. How to 4153 specify the device is described above. 4154 If <order of align> is not specified, 4155 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4156 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4157 windows need to be expanded. 4158 To specify the alignment for several 4159 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4160 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4161 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4162 for 4096-byte alignment. 4163 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4164 end-to-end CRC checking). 4165 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4166 the default. 4167 off: Turn ECRC off 4168 on: Turn ECRC on. 4169 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4170 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4171 Default size is 256 bytes. 4172 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4173 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4174 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4175 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4176 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4177 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4178 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4179 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4180 MMIO_PREF window. 4181 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4182 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4183 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4184 Default is 1. 4185 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4186 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4187 accommodate resources required by all child 4188 devices. 4189 off: Turn realloc off 4190 on: Turn realloc on 4191 realloc same as realloc=on 4192 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4193 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4194 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4195 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4196 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4197 port. 4198 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4199 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4200 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4201 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4202 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4203 taints the kernel. 4204 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4205 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4206 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4207 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4208 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4209 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4210 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4211 this removes isolation between devices and 4212 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4213 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4214 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4215 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4216 one PCI domain per PCI function 4217 4218 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4219 Management. 4220 off Disable ASPM. 4221 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4222 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4223 4224 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4225 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4226 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4227 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4228 also tries to use these services. 4229 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4230 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4231 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4232 hotplug). 4233 4234 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4235 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4236 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4237 4238 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4239 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4240 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4241 4242 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4243 4244 pd_ignore_unused 4245 [PM] 4246 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4247 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4248 for debug and development, but should not be 4249 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4250 4251 pd. [PARIDE] 4252 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4253 4254 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4255 boot time. 4256 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4257 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4258 4259 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4260 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4261 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4262 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4263 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4264 and performance comparison. 4265 4266 pf. [PARIDE] 4267 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4268 4269 pg. [PARIDE] 4270 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4271 4272 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4273 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4274 4275 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4276 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4277 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4278 4279 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4280 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4281 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4282 4283 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4284 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4285 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4286 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4287 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4288 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4289 remains 0. 4290 4291 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4292 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4293 4294 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4295 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4296 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4297 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4298 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4299 possible settings and some assignment information. 4300 4301 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4302 { off } 4303 4304 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4305 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4306 4307 pnp_reserve_irq= 4308 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4309 4310 pnp_reserve_dma= 4311 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4312 4313 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4314 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4315 4316 pnp_reserve_mem= 4317 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4318 autoconfiguration. 4319 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4320 4321 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4322 Default is 21. 4323 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4324 may be specified. 4325 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4326 4327 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4328 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4329 platform machine description specific power_save 4330 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4331 execution priority. 4332 4333 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4334 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4335 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4336 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4337 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4338 4339 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4340 Format: {"off"} 4341 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4342 4343 preempt= [KNL] 4344 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4345 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4346 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4347 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4348 can be preempted anytime. 4349 4350 print-fatal-signals= 4351 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4352 4353 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4354 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4355 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4356 coredump - etc. 4357 4358 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4359 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4360 4361 default: off. 4362 4363 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4364 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4365 panics 4366 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4367 default: disabled 4368 4369 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4370 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4371 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4372 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4373 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4374 in order to provide more debug information. 4375 Format: <bool> 4376 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4377 4378 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4379 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4380 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4381 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4382 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4383 Default: ratelimit 4384 4385 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4386 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4387 4388 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4389 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4390 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4391 4392 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4393 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4394 instead using the legacy FADT method 4395 4396 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4397 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4398 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4399 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4400 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4401 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4402 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4403 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4404 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4405 statistical time based profiling. 4406 4407 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4408 4409 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4410 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4411 that). 4412 Format: <bool> 4413 4414 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4415 tracking. 4416 Format: <bool> 4417 4418 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4419 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4420 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4421 per second. 4422 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4423 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4424 (0 = never). 4425 psmouse.resolution= 4426 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4427 psmouse.smartscroll= 4428 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4429 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4430 4431 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4432 4433 pt. [PARIDE] 4434 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4435 4436 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4437 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4438 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4439 system calls and interrupts. 4440 4441 on - unconditionally enable 4442 off - unconditionally disable 4443 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4444 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4445 4446 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4447 4448 nopti [X86-64] 4449 Equivalent to pti=off 4450 4451 pty.legacy_count= 4452 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4453 default number. 4454 4455 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4456 4457 r128= [HW,DRM] 4458 4459 raid= [HW,RAID] 4460 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4461 4462 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4463 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4464 4465 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4466 4467 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4468 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4469 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4470 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4471 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4472 4473 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4474 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4475 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4476 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4477 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4478 4479 randomize_kstack_offset= 4480 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4481 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4482 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4483 that depend on stack address determinism or 4484 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4485 available on architectures that have defined 4486 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4487 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4488 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4489 4490 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4491 4492 cec_disable [X86] 4493 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4494 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4495 4496 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4497 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4498 as described above. 4499 4500 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4501 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4502 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4503 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4504 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4505 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4506 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4507 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4508 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4509 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4510 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4511 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4512 4513 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4514 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4515 4516 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4517 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4518 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4519 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4520 4521 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4522 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4523 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4524 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4525 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4526 This improves the real-time response for the 4527 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4528 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4529 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4530 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4531 4532 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4533 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4534 process in one batch. 4535 4536 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4537 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4538 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4539 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4540 4541 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4542 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4543 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4544 4545 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4546 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4547 RCU grace-period initialization. 4548 4549 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4550 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4551 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4552 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4553 the rcu_node combining tree. 4554 4555 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4556 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4557 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4558 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4559 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4560 4561 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4562 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4563 to zero. 4564 4565 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4566 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4567 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4568 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4569 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4570 4571 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4572 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4573 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4574 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4575 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4576 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4577 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4578 4579 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4580 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4581 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4582 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4583 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4584 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4585 condition. 4586 4587 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4588 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4589 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4590 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4591 4592 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4593 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4594 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4595 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4596 and maximum value is HZ. 4597 4598 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4599 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4600 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4601 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4602 4603 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4604 Set required age in jiffies for a 4605 given grace period before RCU starts 4606 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4607 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4608 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4609 a value based on the most recent settings 4610 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4611 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4612 This calculated value may be viewed in 4613 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4614 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4615 overwritten. 4616 4617 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4618 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4619 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4620 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4621 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4622 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4623 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4624 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4625 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4626 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4627 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4628 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4629 4630 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4631 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4632 each group, which defaults to the square root 4633 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4634 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4635 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4636 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4637 4638 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4639 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4640 batch limiting is disabled. 4641 4642 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4643 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4644 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4645 4646 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4647 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4648 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4649 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4650 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4651 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4652 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4653 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4654 4655 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4656 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4657 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4658 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4659 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4660 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4661 4662 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4663 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4664 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4665 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4666 Larger delays increase the probability of 4667 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4668 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4669 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4670 4671 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4672 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4673 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4674 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4675 4676 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4677 Measure performance of asynchronous 4678 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4679 4680 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4681 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4682 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4683 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4684 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4685 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4686 4687 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4688 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4689 grace-period primitives. 4690 4691 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4692 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4693 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4694 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4695 interference. 4696 4697 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4698 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4699 4700 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4701 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4702 If this parameter has the same value as 4703 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4704 and double-argument variants are tested. 4705 4706 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4707 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4708 If this parameter has the same value as 4709 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4710 and double-argument variants are tested. 4711 4712 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4713 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4714 4715 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4716 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4717 4718 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4719 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4720 of allocations and frees. 4721 4722 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4723 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4724 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4725 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4726 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4727 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4728 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4729 a single reader. 4730 4731 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4732 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4733 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4734 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4735 4736 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4737 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4738 4739 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4740 Shut the system down after performance tests 4741 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4742 testing. 4743 4744 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4745 Enable additional printk() statements. 4746 4747 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4748 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4749 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4750 no holdoff. 4751 4752 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4753 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4754 in microseconds. 4755 4756 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4757 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4758 in microseconds. 4759 4760 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4761 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4762 in seconds. 4763 4764 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4765 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4766 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4767 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4768 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4769 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4770 of CPUs to be used. 4771 4772 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4773 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4774 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4775 4776 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4777 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4778 forward-progress tests. 4779 4780 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4781 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4782 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4783 testing. 4784 4785 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4786 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4787 primitives, if available. 4788 4789 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4790 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4791 4792 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4793 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4794 update-side primitives, if available. 4795 4796 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4797 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4798 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4799 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4800 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4801 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4802 they are all non-zero. 4803 4804 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4805 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4806 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4807 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4808 4809 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4810 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4811 This can of course result in splats, and is 4812 intended to test the ability of things like 4813 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4814 such leaks. 4815 4816 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4817 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4818 4819 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4820 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4821 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4822 test, hence the "fake". 4823 4824 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4825 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4826 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4827 4828 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4829 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4830 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4831 4832 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4833 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4834 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4835 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4836 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4837 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4838 4839 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4840 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4841 4842 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4843 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4844 4845 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4846 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4847 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4848 4849 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4850 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4851 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4852 task-exit processing. 4853 4854 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4855 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4856 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4857 is spawned. 4858 4859 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4860 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4861 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4862 4863 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4864 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4865 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4866 during the rcutorture test. 4867 4868 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4869 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4870 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4871 4872 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4873 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4874 warnings, zero to disable. 4875 4876 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4877 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4878 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4879 to any other stall-related activity. 4880 4881 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4882 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4883 4884 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4885 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4886 4887 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4888 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4889 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4890 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4891 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4892 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4893 4894 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4895 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4896 4897 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4898 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4899 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4900 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4901 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4902 4903 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4904 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4905 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4906 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4907 4908 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4909 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4910 4911 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4912 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4913 4914 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4915 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4916 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4917 4918 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4919 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4920 4921 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4922 Enable additional printk() statements. 4923 4924 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4925 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4926 stall warning. 4927 4928 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4929 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4930 4931 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4932 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4933 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4934 during early boot, that is, during the time 4935 before the init task is spawned. 4936 4937 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4938 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4939 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 4940 value is 300 seconds. 4941 4942 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4943 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 4944 messages. The value is in milliseconds 4945 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 4946 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 4947 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 4948 Setting this to zero causes the value from 4949 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 4950 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 4951 4952 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4953 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4954 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4955 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4956 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4957 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4958 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4959 4960 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4961 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4962 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4963 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4964 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4965 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4966 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4967 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4968 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4969 4970 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4971 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4972 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4973 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4974 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4975 4976 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4977 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4978 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4979 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4980 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4981 grace-period processing. 4982 4983 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 4984 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 4985 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 4986 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 4987 a single callback queue. This switching only 4988 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 4989 set to the default value of -1. 4990 4991 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 4992 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 4993 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 4994 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 4995 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 4996 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 4997 the default value of -1. 4998 4999 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5000 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5001 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5002 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5003 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5004 for use in testing. 5005 5006 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5007 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5008 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5009 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5010 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5011 but lengthens grace periods. 5012 5013 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5014 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5015 informational messages, which give some indication 5016 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5017 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5018 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5019 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5020 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5021 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5022 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5023 5024 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5025 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5026 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5027 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5028 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5029 the value three, so that the first informational 5030 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5031 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5032 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5033 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5034 5035 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5036 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5037 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5038 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5039 A change in value does not take effect until 5040 the beginning of the next grace period. 5041 5042 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5043 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5044 5045 rdinit= [KNL] 5046 Format: <full_path> 5047 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5048 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5049 5050 rdrand= [X86] 5051 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5052 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5053 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5054 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5055 path). 5056 5057 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5058 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5059 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5060 mba. 5061 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5062 rdt=cmt,!mba 5063 5064 reboot= [KNL] 5065 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5066 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5067 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5068 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5069 [[,]f[orce] 5070 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5071 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5072 reboot only), 5073 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5074 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5075 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5076 to be used for rebooting. 5077 5078 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5079 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5080 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5081 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5082 interference. 5083 5084 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5085 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5086 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5087 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5088 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5089 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5090 x86 laptops. 5091 5092 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5093 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5094 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5095 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5096 5097 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5098 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5099 the console log. 5100 5101 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5102 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5103 measured in microseconds. 5104 5105 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5106 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5107 5108 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5109 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5110 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5111 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5112 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5113 5114 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5115 Enable additional printk() statements. 5116 5117 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5118 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5119 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5120 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5121 specified. 5122 5123 relax_domain_level= 5124 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5125 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5126 5127 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5128 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5129 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5130 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5131 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5132 5133 reservetop= [X86-32] 5134 Format: nn[KMG] 5135 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5136 address space. 5137 5138 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5139 during initialization. 5140 5141 resume= [SWSUSP] 5142 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5143 Format: 5144 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5145 5146 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5147 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5148 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5149 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5150 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5151 5152 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5153 read the resume files 5154 5155 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5156 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5157 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5158 5159 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 5160 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 5161 present during boot. 5162 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 5163 no Disable hibernation and resume. 5164 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 5165 (that will set all pages holding image data 5166 during restoration read-only). 5167 5168 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5169 5170 rfkill.default_state= 5171 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5172 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5173 1 Unblocked. 5174 5175 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5176 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5177 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5178 blocked and the previous configuration. 5179 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5180 blocked and everything unblocked. 5181 5182 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5183 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5184 5185 ring3mwait=disable 5186 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5187 CPUs. 5188 5189 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5190 5191 rodata= [KNL] 5192 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5193 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5194 5195 rockchip.usb_uart 5196 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5197 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5198 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5199 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5200 5201 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5202 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5203 5204 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5205 mount the root filesystem 5206 5207 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5208 5209 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5210 5211 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5212 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5213 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5214 5215 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5216 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5217 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5218 managed by CMA. 5219 5220 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5221 5222 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5223 5224 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5225 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5226 strict 5227 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5228 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5229 which is faster. 5230 5231 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5232 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5233 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5234 factor of the size of main memory. 5235 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5236 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5237 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5238 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5239 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5240 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5241 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5242 5243 sa1100ir [NET] 5244 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5245 5246 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5247 5248 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5249 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5250 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5251 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5252 5253 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5254 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5255 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5256 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5257 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5258 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5259 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5260 value. 5261 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5262 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5263 1 64 ms 5264 2 128 ms 5265 and so on. 5266 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5267 Default is 0. 5268 5269 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5270 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5271 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5272 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5273 tests. 5274 5275 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5276 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5277 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5278 default) disables this feature. Please note 5279 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5280 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5281 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5282 5283 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5284 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5285 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5286 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5287 equal to the number of CPUs. 5288 5289 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5290 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5291 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5292 5293 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5294 Number seconds to wait between successive 5295 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5296 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5297 5298 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5299 The number of seconds following the start of the 5300 test after which to shut down the system. The 5301 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5302 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5303 5304 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5305 The number of seconds between outputting the 5306 current test statistics to the console. A value 5307 of zero disables statistics output. 5308 5309 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5310 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5311 to the set of CPUs under test. 5312 5313 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5314 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5315 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5316 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5317 functions. 5318 5319 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5320 Enable additional printk() statements. 5321 5322 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5323 The probability weighting to use for the 5324 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5325 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5326 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5327 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5328 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5329 5330 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5331 The probability weighting to use for the 5332 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5333 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5334 5335 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5336 The probability weighting to use for the 5337 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5338 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5339 Note well that setting a high probability for 5340 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5341 on the system. 5342 5343 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5344 The probability weighting to use for the 5345 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5346 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5347 and weight_many. 5348 5349 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5350 The probability weighting to use for the 5351 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5352 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5353 weight_many. 5354 5355 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5356 The probability weighting to use for the 5357 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5358 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5359 and weight_many. 5360 5361 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5362 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5363 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5364 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5365 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5366 1 -- enable. 5367 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5368 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5369 5370 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5371 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5372 "lsm=" parameter. 5373 5374 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5375 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5376 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5377 0 -- disable. 5378 1 -- enable. 5379 Default value is 1. 5380 5381 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5382 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5383 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5384 0 -- disable. 5385 1 -- enable. 5386 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5387 5388 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5389 5390 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5391 5392 shapers= [NET] 5393 Maximal number of shapers. 5394 5395 simeth= [IA-64] 5396 simscsi= 5397 5398 slram= [HW,MTD] 5399 5400 slab_merge [MM] 5401 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5402 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5403 5404 slab_nomerge [MM] 5405 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5406 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5407 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5408 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5409 layout control by attackers can usually be 5410 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5411 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5412 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5413 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5414 own. 5415 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5416 5417 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5418 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5419 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5420 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5421 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5422 5423 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5424 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5425 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5426 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5427 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5428 last alloc / free. For more information see 5429 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5430 5431 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5432 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5433 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5434 fragmentation. For more information see 5435 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5436 5437 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5438 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5439 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5440 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5441 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5442 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5443 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5444 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5445 5446 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5447 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5448 lower than slub_max_order. 5449 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5450 5451 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5452 Same with slab_merge. 5453 5454 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5455 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5456 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5457 5458 smart2= [HW] 5459 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5460 5461 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5462 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5463 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5464 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5465 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5466 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5467 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5468 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5469 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5470 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5471 5472 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5473 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5474 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5475 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5476 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5477 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5478 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5479 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5480 1: Fast pin select (default) 5481 2: ATC IRMode 5482 5483 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5484 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5485 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5486 actual hardware limit. 5487 Format: <integer> 5488 Default: -1 (no limit) 5489 5490 softlockup_panic= 5491 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5492 Format: 0 | 1 5493 5494 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5495 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5496 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5497 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5498 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5499 5500 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5501 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5502 backtraces on all cpus. 5503 Format: 0 | 1 5504 5505 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5506 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5507 5508 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5509 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5510 The default operation protects the kernel from 5511 user space attacks. 5512 5513 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5514 spectre_v2_user=on 5515 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5516 spectre_v2_user=off 5517 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5518 vulnerable 5519 5520 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5521 mitigation method at run time according to the 5522 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5523 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5524 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5525 5526 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5527 against user space to user space task attacks. 5528 5529 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5530 the user space protections. 5531 5532 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5533 5534 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5535 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5536 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5537 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5538 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5539 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5540 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5541 5542 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5543 spectre_v2=auto. 5544 5545 spectre_v2_user= 5546 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5547 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5548 user space tasks 5549 5550 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5551 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5552 5553 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5554 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5555 5556 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5557 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5558 per thread. The mitigation control state 5559 is inherited on fork. 5560 5561 prctl,ibpb 5562 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5563 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5564 always when switching between different user 5565 space processes. 5566 5567 seccomp 5568 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5569 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5570 they explicitly opt out. 5571 5572 seccomp,ibpb 5573 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5574 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5575 always when switching between different 5576 user space processes. 5577 5578 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5579 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5580 5581 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5582 5583 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5584 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5585 5586 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5587 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5588 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5589 5590 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5591 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5592 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5593 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5594 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5595 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5596 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5597 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5598 5599 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5600 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5601 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5602 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5603 5604 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5605 Bypass optimization is used. 5606 5607 On x86 the options are: 5608 5609 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5610 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5611 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5612 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5613 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5614 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5615 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5616 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5617 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5618 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5619 for a process by default. The state of the control 5620 is inherited on fork. 5621 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5622 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5623 5624 Default mitigations: 5625 X86: "prctl" 5626 5627 On powerpc the options are: 5628 5629 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5630 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5631 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5632 exit. 5633 off - No action. 5634 5635 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5636 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5637 5638 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5639 spia_fio_base= 5640 spia_pedr= 5641 spia_peddr= 5642 5643 split_lock_detect= 5644 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5645 5646 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5647 instructions that access data across cache line 5648 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5649 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5650 bus lock detection. 5651 5652 off - not enabled 5653 5654 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5655 about applications triggering the #AC 5656 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5657 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5658 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5659 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5660 enabled in hardware. 5661 5662 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5663 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5664 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5665 both features are enabled in hardware. 5666 5667 ratelimit:N - 5668 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5669 per second for bus lock detection. 5670 0 < N <= 1000. 5671 5672 N/A for split lock detection. 5673 5674 5675 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5676 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5677 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5678 mode. 5679 5680 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5681 CPL > 0. 5682 5683 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5684 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5685 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5686 5687 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5688 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5689 number generator. 5690 5691 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5692 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5693 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5694 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5695 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5696 5697 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5698 the following option: 5699 5700 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5701 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5702 5703 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5704 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5705 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5706 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5707 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5708 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5709 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5710 (decide at boot). 5711 5712 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5713 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5714 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5715 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5716 5717 0: Never. 5718 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5719 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5720 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5721 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5722 5723 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5724 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5725 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5726 5727 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5728 Specifies how frequently to check for 5729 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5730 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5731 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5732 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5733 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5734 are ignored. 5735 5736 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5737 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5738 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5739 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5740 grace period will be considered for automatic 5741 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5742 expediting. 5743 5744 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5745 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5746 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5747 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5748 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5749 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5750 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5751 5752 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5753 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5754 5755 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5756 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5757 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5758 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5759 5760 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5761 for both kernel and userspace 5762 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5763 for both kernel and userspace 5764 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5765 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5766 to allow userspace to register its 5767 interest in being mitigated too. 5768 5769 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5770 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5771 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5772 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5773 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5774 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5775 5776 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5777 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5778 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5779 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5780 to false. 5781 5782 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5783 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5784 5785 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5786 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5787 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5788 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5789 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5790 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5791 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5792 5793 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5794 Format: <num> 5795 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5796 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5797 as the initial boot-console. 5798 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5799 5800 sti_font= [HW] 5801 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5802 5803 stifb= [HW] 5804 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5805 5806 strict_sas_size= 5807 [X86] 5808 Format: <bool> 5809 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5810 against the required signal frame size which 5811 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5812 be used to filter out binaries which have 5813 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5814 5815 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5816 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5817 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5818 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5819 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5820 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5821 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5822 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5823 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5824 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5825 maximum port values. 5826 5827 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5828 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5829 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5830 process in parallel from a single connection. 5831 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5832 5833 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5834 [NFS] 5835 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5836 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5837 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5838 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5839 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5840 NFS server is running. 5841 5842 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5843 automatically using heuristics 5844 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5845 percpu one pool for each CPU 5846 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5847 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5848 5849 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5850 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5851 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5852 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5853 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5854 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5855 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5856 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5857 5858 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5859 [SUSPEND] 5860 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5861 mode before resuming the system (see 5862 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5863 is set. Default value is 5. 5864 5865 svm= [PPC] 5866 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5867 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5868 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5869 5870 swapaccount=[0|1] 5871 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5872 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5873 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5874 5875 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5876 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5877 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5878 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5879 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5880 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5881 5882 switches= [HW,M68k] 5883 5884 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5885 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5886 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5887 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5888 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5889 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5890 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5891 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5892 5893 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5894 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5895 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5896 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5897 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5898 in older udev will not work anymore. 5899 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5900 the kernel configuration. 5901 5902 sysrq_always_enabled 5903 [KNL] 5904 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5905 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5906 Useful for debugging. 5907 5908 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5909 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5910 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5911 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5912 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5913 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5914 5915 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5916 5917 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5918 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5919 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5920 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5921 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5922 The system is woken from this state using a 5923 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5924 5925 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5926 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5927 5928 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5929 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5930 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5931 5932 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5933 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5934 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5935 5936 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5937 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5938 critical and hot trip points. 5939 5940 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5941 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5942 5943 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5944 -1: disable all passive trip points 5945 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5946 value 5947 5948 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5949 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5950 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5951 0: no polling (default) 5952 5953 threadirqs [KNL] 5954 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5955 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5956 5957 topology= [S390] 5958 Format: {off | on} 5959 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5960 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5961 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5962 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5963 Default is on. 5964 5965 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5966 Format: {off} 5967 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5968 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5969 LPAR. 5970 5971 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5972 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5973 until after init has spawned. 5974 5975 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5976 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5977 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5978 very costly operation when many torture tests 5979 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5980 with rotating-rust storage. 5981 5982 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5983 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5984 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5985 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5986 5987 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5988 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5989 5990 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5991 5992 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5993 Format: integer pcr id 5994 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5995 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5996 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5997 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5998 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5999 are saved. 6000 6001 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6002 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6003 6004 trace_event=[event-list] 6005 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6006 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6007 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6008 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6009 6010 trace_options=[option-list] 6011 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6012 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6013 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6014 to echo the option name into 6015 6016 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6017 6018 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6019 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6020 6021 trace_options=stacktrace 6022 6023 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6024 section. 6025 6026 tp_printk[FTRACE] 6027 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6028 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6029 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6030 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6031 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6032 6033 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6034 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6035 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6036 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6037 6038 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6039 to stop the printing of events to console at 6040 late_initcall_sync. 6041 6042 ** CAUTION ** 6043 6044 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6045 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6046 the system to live lock. 6047 6048 tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE] 6049 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6050 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6051 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6052 make the system inoperable. 6053 6054 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6055 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6056 6057 traceoff_on_warning 6058 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6059 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6060 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6061 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6062 6063 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6064 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6065 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6066 6067 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6068 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6069 6070 transparent_hugepage= 6071 [KNL] 6072 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6073 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6074 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6075 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6076 for more details. 6077 6078 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6079 Format: <string> 6080 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6081 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6082 sources: 6083 - "tpm" 6084 - "tee" 6085 - "caam" 6086 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6087 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6088 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6089 successfully during iteration. 6090 6091 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6092 Format: <string> 6093 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6094 Can be one of: 6095 - "kernel" 6096 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6097 - "default" 6098 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6099 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6100 6101 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6102 Format: <string> 6103 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6104 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6105 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6106 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6107 virtualized environment. 6108 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6109 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6110 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6111 can add overhead. 6112 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6113 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6114 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6115 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6116 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6117 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6118 acceptable). 6119 6120 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6121 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6122 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6123 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6124 Format: <unsigned int> 6125 6126 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6127 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6128 support TSX control. 6129 6130 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6131 6132 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6133 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6134 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6135 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6136 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6137 with leaving it enabled. 6138 6139 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6140 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6141 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6142 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6143 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6144 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6145 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6146 6147 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6148 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6149 6150 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6151 6152 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6153 for more details. 6154 6155 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6156 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6157 6158 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6159 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6160 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6161 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6162 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6163 conditions. 6164 6165 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6166 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6167 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6168 access. 6169 6170 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6171 options are: 6172 6173 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6174 if TSX is enabled. 6175 6176 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6177 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6178 is not disabled because CPU is not 6179 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6180 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6181 6182 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6183 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6184 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6185 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6186 6187 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6188 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6189 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6190 required and doesn't provide any additional 6191 mitigation. 6192 6193 For details see: 6194 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6195 6196 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6197 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6198 Format: 6199 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6200 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6201 6202 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6203 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6204 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6205 help "seeing" what's going on. 6206 6207 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6208 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6209 6210 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6211 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6212 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6213 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6214 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6215 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6216 reported either. 6217 6218 unknown_nmi_panic 6219 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6220 6221 usbcore.authorized_default= 6222 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6223 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6224 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6225 if device connected to internal port) 6226 6227 usbcore.autosuspend= 6228 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6229 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6230 is the time required before an idle device will be 6231 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6232 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6233 6234 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6235 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6236 6237 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6238 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6239 (default = 65536). 6240 6241 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6242 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6243 6244 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6245 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6246 scheme (default 0 = off). 6247 6248 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6249 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6250 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6251 6252 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6253 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6254 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6255 6256 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6257 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6258 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6259 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6260 6261 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6262 6263 usbcore.quirks= 6264 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6265 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6266 commas. Each entry has the form 6267 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6268 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6269 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6270 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6271 the following meanings: 6272 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6273 descriptors must not be fetched using 6274 a 255-byte read); 6275 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6276 correctly so reset it instead); 6277 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6278 Set-Interface requests); 6279 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6280 handle its Configuration or Interface 6281 strings); 6282 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6283 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6284 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6285 more interface descriptions than the 6286 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6287 talking to these interfaces); 6288 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6289 during initialization, after we read 6290 the device descriptor); 6291 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6292 high speed and super speed interrupt 6293 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6294 require the interval in microframes (1 6295 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6296 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6297 (bInterval-1). 6298 Devices with this quirk report their 6299 bInterval as the result of this 6300 calculation instead of the exponent 6301 variable used in the calculation); 6302 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6303 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6304 requests); 6305 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6306 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6307 remote wakeup capability); 6308 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6309 Power Management); 6310 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6311 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6312 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6313 calculation); 6314 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6315 to be disconnected before suspend to 6316 prevent spurious wakeup); 6317 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6318 pause after every control message); 6319 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6320 delay after resetting its port); 6321 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6322 6323 usbhid.mousepoll= 6324 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6325 6326 usbhid.jspoll= 6327 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6328 6329 usbhid.kbpoll= 6330 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6331 6332 usb-storage.delay_use= 6333 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6334 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6335 6336 usb-storage.quirks= 6337 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6338 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6339 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6340 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6341 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6342 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6343 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6344 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6345 of sense data, not on uas); 6346 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6347 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6348 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6349 device capacity by one sector); 6350 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6351 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6352 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6353 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6354 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6355 command, uas only); 6356 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6357 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6358 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6359 reported device capacity by one 6360 sector if the number is odd); 6361 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6362 device); 6363 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6364 command, uas only); 6365 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6366 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6367 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6368 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6369 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6370 not on uas); 6371 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6372 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6373 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6374 reported by the device, not on uas); 6375 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6376 by default, not on uas); 6377 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6378 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6379 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6380 Logical Unit); 6381 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6382 commands, uas only); 6383 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6384 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6385 medium is write-protected). 6386 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6387 even if the device claims no cache, 6388 not on uas) 6389 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6390 6391 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6392 Format: <int> 6393 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6394 1 - undefined instruction events 6395 2 - system calls 6396 4 - invalid data aborts 6397 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6398 16 - SIGBUS faults 6399 Example: user_debug=31 6400 6401 userpte= 6402 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6403 6404 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6405 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6406 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6407 6408 vdso= [X86,SH] 6409 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6410 6411 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6412 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6413 6414 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6415 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6416 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6417 6418 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6419 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6420 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6421 6422 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6423 alias for vdso32=0. 6424 6425 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6426 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6427 6428 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6429 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6430 6431 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6432 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6433 6434 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 6435 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6436 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6437 level and then send out the event to user space through 6438 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 6439 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6440 brightness level. 6441 default: 1 6442 6443 virtio_mmio.device= 6444 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6445 6446 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6447 where: 6448 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6449 like K, M and G) 6450 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6451 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6452 request_irq()) 6453 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6454 example: 6455 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6456 6457 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6458 6459 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6460 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6461 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6462 Use vga=ask for menu. 6463 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6464 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6465 6466 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6467 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6468 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6469 All options are enabled by default, and this 6470 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6471 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6472 debugging features. 6473 6474 Available options are: 6475 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6476 - Disable all of the above options 6477 6478 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6479 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6480 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6481 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6482 mapped kernel RAM. 6483 6484 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6485 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6486 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6487 6488 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6489 Format: <command> 6490 6491 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6492 Format: <command> 6493 6494 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6495 Format: <command> 6496 6497 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6498 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6499 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6500 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6501 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6502 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6503 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6504 6505 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6506 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6507 page is readable. 6508 6509 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6510 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6511 page is not readable. 6512 6513 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6514 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6515 might break your system. 6516 6517 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6518 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6519 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6520 6521 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6522 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6523 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6524 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6525 6526 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6527 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6528 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6529 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6530 ranging from 0-255. 6531 6532 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6533 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6534 Change the default green palette of the console. 6535 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6536 ranging from 0-255. 6537 6538 vt.default_red= [VT] 6539 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6540 Change the default red palette of the console. 6541 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6542 ranging from 0-255. 6543 6544 vt.default_utf8= 6545 [VT] 6546 Format=<0|1> 6547 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6548 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6549 newly opened terminals. 6550 6551 vt.global_cursor_default= 6552 [VT] 6553 Format=<-1|0|1> 6554 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6555 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6556 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6557 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6558 cursors, 1 will display them. 6559 6560 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6561 Default: 2 = green. 6562 6563 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6564 Default: 3 = cyan. 6565 6566 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6567 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6568 or other driver-specific files in the 6569 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6570 6571 watchdog_thresh= 6572 [KNL] 6573 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6574 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6575 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6576 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6577 seconds. 6578 6579 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6580 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6581 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6582 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6583 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6584 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6585 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6586 corresponding sysfs file. 6587 6588 workqueue.disable_numa 6589 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6590 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6591 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6592 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6593 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6594 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6595 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6596 6597 workqueue.power_efficient 6598 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6599 they show better performance thanks to cache 6600 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6601 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6602 6603 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6604 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6605 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6606 power usage at the cost of small performance 6607 overhead. 6608 6609 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6610 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6611 6612 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6613 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6614 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6615 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6616 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6617 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6618 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6619 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6620 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6621 impacted. 6622 6623 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6624 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6625 supporting x2apic. 6626 6627 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6628 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6629 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6630 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6631 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6632 domains. 6633 6634 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6635 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6636 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6637 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6638 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6639 nics -- unplug network devices 6640 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6641 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6642 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6643 the unplug protocol 6644 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6645 6646 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6647 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6648 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6649 6650 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6651 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6652 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6653 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6654 6655 xen_nopv [X86] 6656 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6657 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6658 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6659 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6660 6661 xen_no_vector_callback 6662 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6663 event channel interrupts. 6664 6665 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6666 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6667 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6668 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6669 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6670 6671 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6672 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6673 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6674 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6675 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6676 more timer interrupts. 6677 6678 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6679 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6680 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6681 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6682 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6683 max. Default is 180. 6684 6685 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6686 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6687 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6688 6689 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6690 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6691 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6692 6693 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6694 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6695 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6696 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6697 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6698 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6699 6700 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6701 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6702 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6703 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6704 6705 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6706 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6707 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6708 contention. 6709 6710 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6711 Format: 6712 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6713 6714 xive= [PPC] 6715 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6716 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6717 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6718 6719 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6720 controller on both pseries and powernv 6721 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6722 6723 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6724 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6725 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6726 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6727 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6728 6729 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6730 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6731 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6732 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6733 6734 xmon [PPC] 6735 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6736 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6737 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6738 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6739 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6740 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6741 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6742 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6743 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6744 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6745 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6746 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6747 can be written using xmon commands. 6748 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6749 memory, and other data can't be written using 6750 xmon commands. 6751 off xmon is disabled. 6752