1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64] 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,riscv64] 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 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or 14 "acpi=force" 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/arch/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 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 325 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 326 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 327 328 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 329 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 330 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 331 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 332 IOMMU initialization. 333 334 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 335 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 336 remapping modes: 337 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 338 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 339 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 340 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 341 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 342 343 amd_pstate= [X86] 344 disable 345 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 346 scaling driver for the supported processors 347 passive 348 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 349 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 350 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 351 tries to match the same performance level if it is 352 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 353 active 354 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 355 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 356 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 357 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 358 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 359 frequency. 360 guided 361 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 362 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 363 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 364 to the current workload. 365 366 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 367 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 368 Format: <a>,<b> 369 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 370 371 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 372 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 373 connected to one of 16 gameports 374 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 375 376 apc= [HW,SPARC] 377 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 378 Format: noidle 379 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 380 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 381 APC and your system crashes randomly. 382 383 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 384 Change the output verbosity while booting 385 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 386 Change the amount of debugging information output 387 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 388 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 389 driver name. 390 Format: apic=driver_name 391 Examples: apic=bigsmp 392 393 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 394 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 395 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 396 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 397 backup of CPU 0 398 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 399 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 400 shot down by NMI 401 402 autoconf= [IPV6] 403 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 404 405 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 406 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 407 408 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 411 0 -- disable. 412 1 -- enable. 413 Default value is set via kernel config option. 414 415 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 416 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 417 418 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 419 Identification support 420 421 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 422 Set instructions support 423 424 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 425 support 426 427 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 428 support 429 430 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 431 Extension support 432 433 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 434 Extension support 435 436 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 437 438 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 439 440 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 441 EzKey and similar keyboards 442 443 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 444 445 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 446 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 447 448 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 449 keyboards 450 451 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 452 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 453 454 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 455 Use software keyboard repeat 456 457 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 458 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 459 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 460 enabled until the next reboot 461 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 462 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 463 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 464 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 465 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 466 userspace auditd. 467 Default: unset 468 469 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 470 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 471 Default: 64 472 473 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 474 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 475 Format: { "0" | "1" } 476 0 - Disable the BAU. 477 1 - Enable the BAU. 478 unset - Disable the BAU. 479 480 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 481 Format: <io>,<mode> 482 483 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 484 Format: <io>,<mode> 485 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 486 487 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 488 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 489 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 490 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 491 492 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 493 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 494 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 495 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 496 497 bert_disable [ACPI] 498 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 499 500 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 501 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 502 503 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 504 embedded devices based on command line input. 505 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 506 507 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 508 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 509 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 510 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 511 erroneous and ignored. 512 Format: integer 513 514 bootconfig [KNL] 515 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 516 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 517 518 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 519 520 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 521 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 522 kernel args too. 523 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 524 bttv.tuner= 525 526 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 527 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 528 at a time. 529 530 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 531 532 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 533 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 534 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 535 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 536 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 537 This option provides an override for these situations. 538 539 carrier_timeout= 540 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 541 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 542 it waits 120 seconds. 543 544 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 545 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 546 trust validation. 547 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 548 549 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 550 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 551 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 552 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 553 others). 554 555 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 556 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 557 558 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 559 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 560 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 561 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 562 a single hierarchy 563 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 564 subsystem 565 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 566 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 567 created 568 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 569 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 570 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 571 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 572 stall information accounting feature 573 574 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 575 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 576 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 577 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 578 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 579 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 580 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 581 all v1 hierarchies. 582 583 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 584 Format: { "true" | "false" } 585 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 586 587 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 588 Format: <string> 589 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 590 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 591 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 592 593 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 594 Format: { "0" | "1" } 595 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 596 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 597 any implied execute protection). 598 1 -- check protection requested by application. 599 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 600 Value can be changed at runtime via 601 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 602 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 603 604 cio_ignore= [S390] 605 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 606 607 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 608 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 609 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 610 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 611 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 612 ones should be. 613 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 614 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 615 instability issue. However, not all features have names 616 in /proc/cpuinfo. 617 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 618 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 619 or using the feature without checking anything 620 will still see it. This just prevents it from 621 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 622 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 623 some critical bits. 624 625 clk_ignore_unused 626 [CLK] 627 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 628 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 629 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 630 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 631 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 632 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 633 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 634 platform with proper driver support. For more 635 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 636 637 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 638 [Deprecated] 639 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 640 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 641 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 642 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 643 644 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 645 Format: <string> 646 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 647 with the name specified. 648 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 649 the platform: 650 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 651 [ACPI] acpi_pm 652 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 653 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 654 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 655 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 656 [MIPS] MIPS 657 [PARISC] cr16 658 [S390] tod 659 [SH] SuperH 660 [SPARC64] tick 661 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 662 663 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 664 [ARM,ARM64] 665 Format: <bool> 666 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 667 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 668 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 669 systems. 670 671 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 672 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 673 external delays before the clock will be marked 674 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 675 three attempts to read the clock under test. 676 677 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 678 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 679 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 680 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 681 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 682 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 683 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 684 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 685 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 686 687 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 688 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 689 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 690 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 691 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 692 693 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 694 [KNL,CMA] 695 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 696 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 697 placement constraint by the physical address range of 698 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 699 altogether. For more information, see 700 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 701 702 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 703 [KNL,CMA] 704 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 705 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 706 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 707 specified, the default value is 0. 708 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 709 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 710 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 711 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 712 713 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 714 [KNL,CMA] 715 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 716 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 717 area for the specified node. 718 719 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 720 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 721 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 722 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 723 724 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 725 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 726 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 727 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 728 a hypervisor. 729 Default: yes 730 731 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 732 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 733 allocations, by default set to 256K. 734 735 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 736 Format: 737 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 738 739 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 740 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 741 742 com90xx= [HW,NET] 743 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 744 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 745 746 condev= [HW,S390] console device 747 conmode= 748 749 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 750 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 751 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 752 the console buffer is full. In this case the 753 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 754 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 755 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 756 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 757 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 758 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 759 760 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 761 762 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 763 764 ttyS<n>[,options] 765 ttyUSB0[,options] 766 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 767 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 768 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 769 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 770 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 771 772 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 773 information. See 774 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 775 alternative. 776 777 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 778 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 779 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 780 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 781 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 782 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 783 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 784 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 785 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 786 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 787 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 788 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 789 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 790 the h/w is not re-initialized. 791 792 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 793 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 794 795 { null | "" } 796 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 797 console messages discarded. 798 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 799 kernel command line. 800 801 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 802 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 803 console=brl,ttyS0 804 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 805 806 console_msg_format= 807 [KNL] Change console messages format 808 default 809 By default we print messages on consoles in 810 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 811 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 812 `printk_time' param). 813 syslog 814 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 815 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 816 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 817 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 818 from /proc/kmsg. 819 820 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 821 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 822 Defaults to 0. 823 824 coredump_filter= 825 [KNL] Change the default value for 826 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 827 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 828 829 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 830 [ARM,ARM64] 831 Format: <bool> 832 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 833 0: default value, disable debugging 834 1: enable debugging at boot time 835 836 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 837 Format: 838 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 839 840 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 841 disable the cpuidle sub-system 842 843 cpuidle.governor= 844 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 845 846 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 847 disable the cpufreq sub-system 848 849 cpufreq.default_governor= 850 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 851 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 852 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 853 854 cpu_init_udelay=N 855 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 856 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 857 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 858 Default: 10000 859 860 cpuhp.parallel= 861 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 862 Format: <bool> 863 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 864 the parameter has no effect. 865 866 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 867 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 868 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 869 succeeds in any situation. 870 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 871 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 872 kernel more unstable. 873 874 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 875 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 876 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 877 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 878 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 879 is selected automatically. 880 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and 881 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 882 hasn't been specified. 883 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 884 885 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 886 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 887 in the running system. The syntax of range is 888 start-[end] where start and end are both 889 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 890 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 891 892 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 893 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G. 894 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 895 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 896 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 897 below 4G, if available. 898 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 899 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 900 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 901 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 902 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 903 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 904 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 905 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 906 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 907 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 908 size is platform dependent. 909 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 910 --> arm64: 128MiB 911 --> riscv: 128MiB 912 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 913 for second kernel instead. 914 0: to disable low allocation. 915 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 916 or memory reserved is below 4G. 917 918 cryptomgr.notests 919 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 920 921 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 922 Format: <dma> 923 924 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 925 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 926 927 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 928 function call handling. When switched on, 929 additional debug data is printed to the console 930 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 931 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 932 the hang situation. The default value of this 933 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 934 Kconfig option. 935 936 dasd= [HW,NET] 937 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 938 939 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 940 (one device per port) 941 Format: <port#>,<type> 942 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 943 944 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 945 946 debug_boot_weak_hash 947 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 948 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 949 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 950 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 951 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 952 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 953 954 debug_locks_verbose= 955 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 956 Format: <int> 957 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 958 self-tests. 959 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 960 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 961 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 962 useful to lockdep developers. 963 964 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 965 966 debug_guardpage_minorder= 967 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 968 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 969 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 970 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 971 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 972 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 973 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 974 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 975 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 976 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 977 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 978 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 979 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 980 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 981 bypassed) which are not detectable by 982 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 983 tracking down these problems. 984 985 debug_pagealloc= 986 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 987 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 988 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 989 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 990 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 991 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 992 on: enable the feature 993 994 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 995 and debugfs internal clients. 996 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 997 on: All functions are enabled. 998 no-mount: 999 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1000 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1001 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1002 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1003 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1004 or directories within debugfs. 1005 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1006 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1007 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1008 1009 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1010 1011 default_hugepagesz= 1012 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1013 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1014 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1015 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1016 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1017 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1018 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1019 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1020 Format: size[KMG] 1021 1022 deferred_probe_timeout= 1023 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1024 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1025 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1026 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1027 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1028 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1029 successful driver registration. This option will also 1030 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1031 retrying. 1032 1033 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1034 1035 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1036 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1037 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1038 hardware. 1039 1040 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1041 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1042 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1043 blacklisted features. 1044 1045 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1046 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1047 (disabled by default). 1048 1049 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1050 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1051 capability is set. 1052 1053 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1054 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1055 1056 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1057 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1058 1059 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1060 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1061 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1062 level 1 and decompression (default) 1063 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1064 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1065 only (compression on level 1) 1066 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1067 only (decompression) 1068 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1069 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1070 1071 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1072 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1073 1074 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1075 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1076 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1077 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1078 miss to occur. 1079 1080 disable= [IPV6] 1081 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1082 1083 disable_radix [PPC] 1084 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1085 1086 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1087 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1088 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1089 1090 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1091 Format: <int> 1092 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1093 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1094 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1095 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1096 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1097 INIT from AP to BSP. 1098 1099 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1100 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1101 to workaround buggy firmware. 1102 1103 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1104 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1105 1106 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1107 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1108 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1109 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1110 1111 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1112 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1113 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1114 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1115 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1116 1117 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1118 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1119 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1120 1121 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1122 1123 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1124 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1125 1126 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1127 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1128 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1129 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1130 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1131 architectural default is too low. 1132 1133 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1134 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1135 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1136 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1137 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1138 driver later using sysfs. 1139 1140 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1141 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1142 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1143 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1144 match the *. 1145 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1146 1147 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1148 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1149 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1150 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1151 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1152 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1153 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1154 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1155 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1156 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1157 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1158 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1159 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1160 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1161 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1162 data set with no connector name will be used for 1163 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1164 1165 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1166 1167 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1168 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1169 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1170 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1171 exists). 1172 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1173 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1174 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1175 1176 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1177 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1178 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1179 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1180 1181 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1182 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1183 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1184 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1185 for details. 1186 1187 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1188 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1189 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1190 which are not unmapped. 1191 1192 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1193 1194 When used with no options, the early console is 1195 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1196 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1197 the platform. 1198 1199 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1200 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1201 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1202 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1203 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1204 configured. 1205 1206 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1207 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1208 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1209 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1210 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1211 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1212 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1213 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1214 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1215 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1216 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1217 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1218 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1219 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1220 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1221 1222 pl011,<addr> 1223 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1225 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1226 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1227 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1228 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1229 the device registers. 1230 1231 liteuart,<addr> 1232 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1233 specified address. The serial port must already be 1234 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1235 1236 meson,<addr> 1237 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1238 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1239 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1240 supported. 1241 1242 msm_serial,<addr> 1243 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1244 port at the specified address. The serial port 1245 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1246 yet supported. 1247 1248 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1249 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1250 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1251 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1252 yet supported. 1253 1254 owl,<addr> 1255 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1256 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1257 specified address. The serial port must already be 1258 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1259 1260 rda,<addr> 1261 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1262 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1263 specified address. The serial port must already be 1264 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1265 1266 sbi 1267 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1268 console. 1269 1270 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1271 1272 s3c2410,<addr> 1273 s3c2412,<addr> 1274 s3c2440,<addr> 1275 s3c6400,<addr> 1276 s5pv210,<addr> 1277 exynos4210,<addr> 1278 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1279 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1280 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1281 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1282 Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 lantiq,<addr> 1285 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1286 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1287 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1288 yet supported. 1289 1290 lpuart,<addr> 1291 lpuart32,<addr> 1292 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1293 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1294 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1295 port must already be setup and configured. 1296 1297 ec_imx21,<addr> 1298 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1299 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1300 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1301 must already be setup and configured. 1302 1303 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1304 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1305 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1306 address. The serial port must already be setup 1307 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1308 1309 qcom_geni,<addr> 1310 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1311 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1312 specified address. The serial port must already be 1313 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1314 1315 efifb,[options] 1316 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1317 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1318 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1319 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1320 mapped with the correct attributes. 1321 1322 linflex,<addr> 1323 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1324 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1325 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1326 already be setup and configured. 1327 1328 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1329 earlyprintk=vga 1330 earlyprintk=sclp 1331 earlyprintk=xen 1332 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1333 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1334 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1335 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1336 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1337 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1338 1339 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1340 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1341 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1342 1343 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1344 takes over. 1345 1346 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1347 be used at a time. 1348 1349 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1350 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1351 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1352 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1353 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1354 You can find the port for a given device in 1355 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1356 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1357 1358 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1359 very good. 1360 1361 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1362 the real console. 1363 1364 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1365 1366 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1367 1368 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1369 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1370 UART class. 1371 1372 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1373 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1374 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1375 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1376 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1377 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1378 default: on. 1379 1380 edd= [EDD] 1381 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1382 1383 efi= [EFI] 1384 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1385 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1386 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1387 debug: enable misc debug output. 1388 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1389 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1390 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1391 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1392 firmware implementations. 1393 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1394 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1395 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1396 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1397 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1398 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1399 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1400 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1401 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1402 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1403 1404 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1405 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1406 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1407 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1408 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1409 1410 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1411 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1412 updating original EFI memory map. 1413 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1414 from ss to ss+nn. 1415 1416 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1417 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1418 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1419 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1420 1421 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1422 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1423 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1424 1425 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1426 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1427 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1428 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1429 "soft reserved". 1430 1431 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1432 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1433 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1434 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1435 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1436 1437 1438 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1439 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1440 1441 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1442 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1443 1444 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1445 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1446 1447 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1448 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1449 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1450 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1451 1452 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1453 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1454 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1455 1456 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1457 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1458 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1459 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1460 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1461 1462 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1463 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1464 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1465 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1466 1467 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1468 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1469 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1470 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1471 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1472 1473 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1474 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1475 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1476 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1477 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1478 Default value is 0. 1479 Value can be changed at runtime via 1480 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1481 1482 erst_disable [ACPI] 1483 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1484 support. 1485 1486 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1487 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1488 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1489 1490 evm= [EVM] 1491 Format: { "fix" } 1492 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1493 current integrity status. 1494 1495 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1496 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1497 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1498 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1499 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1500 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1501 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1502 1503 failslab= 1504 fail_usercopy= 1505 fail_page_alloc= 1506 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1507 General fault injection mechanism. 1508 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1509 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1510 1511 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1512 Format: { initns | none } 1513 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1514 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1515 1516 floppy= [HW] 1517 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1518 1519 forcepae [X86-32] 1520 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1521 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1522 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1523 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1524 and may cause unknown problems. 1525 1526 ftrace=[tracer] 1527 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1528 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1529 boot debugging. 1530 1531 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1532 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1533 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1534 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1535 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1536 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1537 start up functionality. 1538 1539 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1540 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1541 line parameter. 1542 1543 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1544 1545 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1546 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1547 1548 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1549 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1550 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1551 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1552 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1553 oops. 1554 1555 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1556 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1557 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1558 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1559 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1560 tracing directory. 1561 1562 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1563 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1564 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1565 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1566 tracing directory. 1567 1568 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1569 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1570 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1571 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1572 that can be changed at run time by the 1573 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1574 1575 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1576 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1577 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1578 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1579 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1580 1581 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1582 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1583 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1584 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1585 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1586 1587 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1588 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1589 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1590 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1591 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1592 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1593 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1594 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1595 suppliers). 1596 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1597 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1598 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1599 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1600 up (sync_state() calls). 1601 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1602 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1603 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1604 1605 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1606 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1607 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1608 Format: <bool> 1609 1610 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1611 [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished 1612 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1613 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1614 calls. 1615 Format: { strict | timeout } 1616 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1617 probe successfully. 1618 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1619 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1620 received their sync_state() calls after 1621 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1622 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1623 1624 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1625 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1626 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1627 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1628 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1629 1630 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1631 1632 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1633 Format: off | on 1634 default: on 1635 1636 gather_data_sampling= 1637 [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1638 mitigation. 1639 1640 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1641 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1642 previously stored in vector registers. 1643 1644 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1645 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1646 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1647 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1648 1649 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1650 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1651 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1652 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1653 1654 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1655 1656 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1657 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1658 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1659 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1660 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1661 1662 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1663 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1664 android emulator 1665 1666 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1667 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1668 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1669 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1670 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1671 1672 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1673 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1674 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1675 GPT to be used instead. 1676 1677 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1678 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1679 Format: 0 | 1 1680 Default: 0 1681 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1682 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1683 Format: 0 | 1 1684 Default: 0 1685 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1686 Format: 0 | 1 1687 Default: 0 1688 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1689 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1690 Default: 1024 1691 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1692 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1693 Default: 1024 1694 1695 hardened_usercopy= 1696 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1697 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1698 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1699 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1700 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1701 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1702 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1703 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1704 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1705 1706 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1707 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1708 backtraces on all cpus. 1709 Format: 0 | 1 1710 1711 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1712 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1713 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1714 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1715 1716 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1717 1718 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1719 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1720 1721 hest_disable [ACPI] 1722 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1723 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1724 logic will be disabled. 1725 1726 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1727 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1728 present during boot. 1729 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1730 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1731 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1732 (that will set all pages holding image data 1733 during restoration read-only). 1734 1735 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1736 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1737 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1738 size on bigger boxes. 1739 1740 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1741 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1742 Default: "on" 1743 1744 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1745 1746 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1747 Format: <string> 1748 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1749 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1750 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1751 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1752 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1753 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1754 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1755 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1756 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1757 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1758 1759 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1760 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1761 verbose } 1762 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1763 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1764 VIA, nVidia) 1765 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1766 1767 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1768 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1769 1770 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1771 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1772 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1773 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1774 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1775 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1776 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1777 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1778 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1779 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1780 1781 hugepagesz= 1782 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1783 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1784 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1785 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1786 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1787 architecture dependent. See also 1788 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1789 Format: size[KMG] 1790 1791 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1792 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1793 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1794 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1795 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1796 1797 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1798 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1799 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1800 1801 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1802 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1803 enabled. 1804 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1805 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1806 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1807 Format: { on | off (default) } 1808 1809 on: enable HVO 1810 off: disable HVO 1811 1812 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1813 the default is on. 1814 1815 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1816 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1817 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1818 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1819 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1820 1821 hung_task_panic= 1822 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1823 Format: 0 | 1 1824 1825 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1826 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1827 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1828 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1829 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1830 1831 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1832 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1833 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1834 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1835 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1836 1837 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1838 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1839 guest on lock contention. 1840 1841 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1842 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1843 registered from board initialization code. 1844 Format: 1845 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1846 1847 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1848 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1849 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1850 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1851 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1852 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1853 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1854 keyboard and cannot control its state 1855 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1856 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1857 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1858 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1859 for the AUX port 1860 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1861 controller 1862 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1863 controllers 1864 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1865 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1866 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1867 transitions, or never reset 1868 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1869 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1870 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1871 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1872 architectures force reset to be always executed 1873 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1874 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1875 i8042.probe_defer 1876 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1877 1878 i810= [HW,DRM] 1879 1880 i915.invert_brightness= 1881 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1882 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1883 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1884 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1885 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1886 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1887 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1888 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1889 value switches the backlight off. 1890 -1 -- never invert brightness 1891 0 -- machine default 1892 1 -- force brightness inversion 1893 1894 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1895 Format: <bool> 1896 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1897 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1898 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1899 1900 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1901 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1902 1903 1904 idle= [X86] 1905 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1906 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1907 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1908 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1909 Not recommended. 1910 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1911 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1912 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1913 1914 idxd.sva= [HW] 1915 Format: <bool> 1916 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1917 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1918 true (1). 1919 1920 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1921 Format: <bool> 1922 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1923 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1924 1925 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1926 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1927 Default: strict 1928 1929 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1930 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1931 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1932 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1933 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1934 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1935 encoding mode. 1936 1937 Available settings are as follows: 1938 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1939 supported by the FPU 1940 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1941 by the FPU 1942 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1943 by the FPU 1944 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1945 supported by the FPU 1946 1947 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1948 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1949 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1950 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1951 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1952 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1953 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1954 MIPS64 CPUs. 1955 1956 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1957 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1958 except where unsupported by hardware. 1959 1960 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1961 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1962 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1963 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1964 could change it dynamically, usually by 1965 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1966 1967 ignore_rlimit_data 1968 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1969 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1970 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1971 1972 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1973 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1974 1975 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1976 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1977 default: "enforce" 1978 1979 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1980 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1981 owned by uid=0. 1982 1983 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1984 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1985 measurements, instead of host native format. 1986 1987 ima_hash= [IMA] 1988 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1989 | sha512 | ... } 1990 default: "sha1" 1991 1992 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1993 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1994 1995 ima_policy= [IMA] 1996 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1997 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1998 fail_securely | critical_data" 1999 2000 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2001 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2002 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2003 uid=0. 2004 2005 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2006 all files owned by root. 2007 2008 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2009 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2010 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2011 2012 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2013 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2014 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2015 flag. 2016 2017 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2018 critical data. 2019 2020 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2021 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2022 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2023 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2024 opened for read by uid=0. 2025 2026 ima_template= [IMA] 2027 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2028 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2029 "ima-sigv2" } 2030 Default: "ima-ng" 2031 2032 ima_template_fmt= 2033 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2034 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2035 2036 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2037 Format: <min_file_size> 2038 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2039 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2040 2041 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2042 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2043 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2044 2045 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2046 Format: <bufsize> 2047 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2048 2049 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2050 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2051 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2052 2053 init= [KNL] 2054 Format: <full_path> 2055 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2056 process. 2057 2058 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2059 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2060 startup. 2061 2062 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2063 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2064 modules and initcalls. 2065 2066 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2067 Format: <bool> 2068 Default: 1 2069 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2070 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2071 with devices being probed and 2072 initialized. This should normally just work, 2073 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2074 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2075 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2076 late_ initcalls. 2077 2078 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2079 2080 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2081 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2082 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2083 setting. 2084 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2085 Default is 0, 0 2086 2087 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2088 zeroes. 2089 Format: 0 | 1 2090 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2091 2092 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2093 Format: 0 | 1 2094 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2095 2096 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2097 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2098 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2099 override in debugfs after boot. 2100 2101 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2102 Format: <irq> 2103 2104 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2105 2106 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2107 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2108 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2109 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2110 2111 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2112 on 2113 Enable intel iommu driver. 2114 off 2115 Disable intel iommu driver. 2116 igfx_off [Default Off] 2117 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2118 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2119 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2120 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2121 DMA. 2122 strict [Default Off] 2123 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2124 sp_off [Default Off] 2125 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2126 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2127 not be supported. 2128 sm_on 2129 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2130 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2131 translation. 2132 sm_off 2133 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2134 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2135 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2136 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2137 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2138 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2139 mapping is enabled. 2140 Note that using this option lowers the security 2141 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2142 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2143 2144 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2145 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2146 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2147 2148 intel_pstate= [X86] 2149 disable 2150 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2151 scaling driver for the supported processors 2152 active 2153 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2154 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2155 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2156 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2157 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2158 performance. The way they both operate depends 2159 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2160 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2161 and possibly on the processor model. 2162 passive 2163 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2164 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2165 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2166 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2167 feature. 2168 force 2169 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2170 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2171 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2172 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2173 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2174 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2175 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2176 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2177 no_hwp 2178 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2179 if available. 2180 hwp_only 2181 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2182 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2183 support_acpi_ppc 2184 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2185 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2186 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2187 then this feature is turned on by default. 2188 per_cpu_perf_limits 2189 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2190 cpufreq sysfs interface 2191 2192 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2193 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2194 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2195 nosid disable Source ID checking 2196 no_x2apic_optout 2197 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2198 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2199 2200 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2201 strict regions from userspace. 2202 relaxed 2203 2204 iommu= [X86] 2205 off 2206 force 2207 noforce 2208 biomerge 2209 panic 2210 nopanic 2211 merge 2212 nomerge 2213 soft 2214 pt [X86] 2215 nopt [X86] 2216 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2217 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2218 2219 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2220 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2221 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2222 falling back to the full range if needed. 2223 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2224 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2225 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2226 2227 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2228 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2229 0 - Lazy mode. 2230 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2231 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2232 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2233 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2234 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2235 1 - Strict mode. 2236 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2237 synchronously. 2238 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2239 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2240 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2241 2242 iommu.passthrough= 2243 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2244 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2245 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2246 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2247 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2248 2249 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2250 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2251 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2252 2253 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2254 0x80 2255 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2256 0xed 2257 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2258 udelay 2259 Simple two microseconds delay 2260 none 2261 No delay 2262 2263 ip= [IP_PNP] 2264 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2265 2266 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2267 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2268 2269 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2270 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2271 2272 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2273 [ARM, ARM64] 2274 Format: <bool> 2275 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2276 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2277 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2278 2279 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2280 [ARM, ARM64] 2281 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2282 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2283 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2284 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2285 LPIs. 2286 2287 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2288 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2289 requires the kernel to be built with 2290 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2291 2292 irqfixup [HW] 2293 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2294 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2295 firmware running. 2296 2297 irqpoll [HW] 2298 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2299 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2300 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2301 firmware running. 2302 2303 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2304 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2305 2306 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2307 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2308 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2309 2310 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2311 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2312 2313 nohz 2314 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2315 2316 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2317 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2318 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2319 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2320 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2321 2322 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2323 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2324 be configured manually after bootup. 2325 2326 domain 2327 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2328 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2329 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2330 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2331 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2332 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2333 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2334 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2335 2336 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2337 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2338 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2339 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2340 2341 managed_irq 2342 2343 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2344 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2345 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2346 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2347 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2348 2349 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2350 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2351 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2352 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2353 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2354 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2355 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2356 2357 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2358 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2359 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2360 only delivered when tasks running on those 2361 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2362 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2363 queues. 2364 2365 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2366 2367 iucv= [HW,NET] 2368 2369 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2370 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2371 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2372 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2373 2374 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2375 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2376 write the parameter as: 2377 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2378 2379 Deprecated formats: 2380 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2381 write the parameter as: 2382 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2383 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2384 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2385 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2386 2387 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2388 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2389 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2390 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2391 2392 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2393 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2394 write the parameter as: 2395 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2396 2397 Deprecated formats: 2398 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2399 write the parameter as: 2400 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2401 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2402 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2403 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2404 2405 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2406 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2407 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2408 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2409 2410 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2411 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2412 write the parameter as: 2413 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2414 2415 Deprecated formats: 2416 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2417 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2418 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2419 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2420 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2421 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2422 2423 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2424 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2425 2426 kasan_multi_shot 2427 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2428 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2429 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2430 invalid access. 2431 2432 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2433 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2434 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2435 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2436 the real console. 2437 2438 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2439 2440 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2441 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2442 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2443 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2444 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2445 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2446 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2447 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2448 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2449 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2450 2451 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2452 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2453 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2454 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2455 zone if it does not. 2456 2457 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2458 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2459 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2460 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2461 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2462 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2463 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2464 2465 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2466 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2467 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2468 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2469 optional and is the number seconds in between 2470 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2471 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2472 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2473 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2474 the kernel debugger. 2475 2476 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2477 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2478 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2479 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2480 keyboard only format: kbd 2481 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2482 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2483 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2484 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2485 2486 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2487 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2488 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2489 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2490 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2491 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2492 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2493 2494 The name of the early console should be specified 2495 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2496 the early console might be different than the tty 2497 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2498 blank and the first boot console that implements 2499 read() will be picked. 2500 2501 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2502 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2503 2504 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2505 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2506 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2507 2508 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2509 Valid arguments: on, off 2510 Default: on 2511 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2512 the default is off. 2513 2514 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2515 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2516 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2517 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2518 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2519 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2520 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2521 2522 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2523 2524 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2525 Boot Parameter" section. 2526 2527 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2528 and kernel address spaces. 2529 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2530 0: force disabled 2531 1: force enabled 2532 2533 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2534 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2535 default value can be overridden via 2536 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2537 Default is 1 (enabled) 2538 2539 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2540 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2541 2542 kvm.eager_page_split= 2543 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2544 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2545 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2546 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2547 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2548 required to split huge pages lazily. 2549 2550 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2551 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2552 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2553 still be used for reads. 2554 2555 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2556 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2557 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2558 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2559 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2560 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2561 cleared. 2562 2563 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2564 2565 Default is Y (on). 2566 2567 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2568 Default is false (don't support). 2569 2570 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2571 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2572 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2573 force : Always deploy workaround. 2574 off : Never deploy workaround. 2575 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2576 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2577 2578 Default is 'auto'. 2579 2580 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2581 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2582 2583 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2584 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2585 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2586 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2587 period (see below). The default is 60. 2588 2589 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2590 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2591 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2592 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2593 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2594 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2595 2596 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2597 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2598 2599 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2600 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2601 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2602 for NPT. 2603 2604 kvm-arm.mode= 2605 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2606 2607 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2608 2609 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2610 protected guests. 2611 2612 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2613 state is kept private from the host. 2614 2615 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2616 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2617 hardware. 2618 2619 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2620 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2621 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2622 used with extreme caution. 2623 2624 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2625 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2626 system registers 2627 2628 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2629 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2630 system registers 2631 2632 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2633 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2634 system registers 2635 2636 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2637 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2638 LPIs. 2639 2640 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2641 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2642 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2643 allocation. 2644 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2645 Format: <integer> 2646 Default: 5 2647 2648 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2649 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2650 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2651 for EPT. 2652 2653 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2654 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2655 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2656 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2657 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2658 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2659 Default is 1 (enabled). 2660 2661 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2662 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2663 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2664 hardware lacks support for it. 2665 2666 kvm-intel.nested= 2667 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2668 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2669 2670 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2671 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2672 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2673 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2674 hardware lacks support for it. 2675 2676 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2677 CVE-2018-3620. 2678 2679 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2680 2681 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2682 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2683 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2684 never: Disables the mitigation 2685 2686 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2687 2688 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2689 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2690 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2691 for it. 2692 2693 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2694 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2695 2696 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2697 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2698 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2699 2700 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2701 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2702 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2703 not have direct access. 2704 2705 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2706 options are: 2707 2708 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2709 2710 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2711 affected CPUs 2712 2713 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2714 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2715 2716 full 2717 Provides all available mitigations for the 2718 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2719 enables all mitigations in the 2720 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2721 2722 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2723 sysfs interface is still possible after 2724 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2725 when the first VM is started in a 2726 potentially insecure configuration, 2727 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2728 2729 full,force 2730 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2731 flush runtime control. Implies the 2732 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2733 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2734 2735 flush 2736 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2737 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2738 L1D flush. 2739 2740 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2741 sysfs interface is still possible after 2742 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2743 when the first VM is started in a 2744 potentially insecure configuration, 2745 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2746 2747 flush,nosmt 2748 2749 Disables SMT and enables the default 2750 hypervisor mitigation. 2751 2752 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2753 sysfs interface is still possible after 2754 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2755 when the first VM is started in a 2756 potentially insecure configuration, 2757 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2758 2759 flush,nowarn 2760 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2761 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2762 insecure configuration. 2763 2764 off 2765 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2766 emit any warnings. 2767 It also drops the swap size and available 2768 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2769 bare metal. 2770 2771 Default is 'flush'. 2772 2773 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2774 2775 l2cr= [PPC] 2776 2777 l3cr= [PPC] 2778 2779 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2780 disabled it. 2781 2782 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2783 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2784 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2785 Format: notscdeadline 2786 2787 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2788 in C2 power state. 2789 2790 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2791 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2792 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2793 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2794 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2795 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2796 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2797 2798 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2799 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2800 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2801 2802 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2803 when set. 2804 Format: <int> 2805 2806 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2807 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2808 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2809 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2810 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2811 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2812 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2813 to all ports, links and devices. 2814 2815 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2816 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2817 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2818 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2819 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2820 host link and device attached to it. 2821 2822 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2823 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2824 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2825 The following configurations can be forced. 2826 2827 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2828 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2829 2830 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2831 2832 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2833 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2834 allowed. 2835 2836 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2837 resets. 2838 2839 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2840 link recovery. 2841 2842 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2843 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2844 detection. 2845 2846 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2847 2848 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2849 2850 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2851 2852 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2853 2854 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2855 2856 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2857 2858 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2859 2860 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2861 2862 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2863 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2864 2865 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2866 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2867 2868 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2869 identify device data log. 2870 2871 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2872 purpose log directory. 2873 2874 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2875 2876 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2877 1024 sectors. 2878 2879 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2880 65535 sectors. 2881 2882 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2883 2884 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2885 should be skipped. 2886 2887 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2888 support for devices supporting this feature. 2889 2890 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2891 2892 * disable: Disable this device. 2893 2894 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2895 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2896 2897 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2898 2899 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2900 Format: <integer> 2901 2902 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2903 Format: <integer> 2904 2905 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2906 Format: <integer> 2907 2908 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2909 Format: <integer> 2910 2911 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2912 { integrity | confidentiality } 2913 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2914 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2915 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2916 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2917 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2918 are also disabled. 2919 2920 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 2921 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 2922 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 2923 will result in a splat once they do complete. 2924 2925 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 2926 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 2927 to be bound. 2928 2929 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 2930 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 2931 to be bound. 2932 2933 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 2934 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 2935 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 2936 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 2937 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 2938 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 2939 2940 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 2941 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 2942 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 2943 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 2944 2945 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 2946 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 2947 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 2948 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 2949 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 2950 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 2951 2952 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2953 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2954 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2955 number of online CPUs. 2956 2957 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2958 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2959 2960 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2961 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2962 2963 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2964 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2965 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2966 2967 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 2968 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 2969 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 2970 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 2971 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 2972 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 2973 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 2974 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 2975 disable boosting. 2976 2977 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 2978 Number that determines how often and for how 2979 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 2980 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 2981 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 2982 constant as the number of writers increases. 2983 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 2984 increases with the number of writers. 2985 2986 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2987 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2988 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2989 mode during the locktorture test. 2990 2991 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2992 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2993 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2994 2995 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2996 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2997 2998 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2999 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3000 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3001 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3002 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3003 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3004 3005 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3006 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3007 3008 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3009 Enable additional printk() statements. 3010 3011 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3012 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3013 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3014 3015 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3016 Format: <irq> 3017 3018 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3019 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3020 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3021 loglevels are defined as follows: 3022 3023 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3024 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3025 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3026 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3027 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3028 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3029 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3030 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3031 3032 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 3033 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 3034 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 3035 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 3036 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 3037 that allows to increase the default size depending on 3038 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 3039 3040 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3041 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3042 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3043 kernel boot problems. 3044 3045 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3046 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3047 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3048 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3049 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3050 attached printers to be reset. Using 3051 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3052 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3053 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3054 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3055 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3056 port specification list means that device IDs 3057 from each port should be examined, to see if 3058 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3059 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3060 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3061 3062 lpj=n [KNL] 3063 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3064 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3065 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3066 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3067 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3068 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3069 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3070 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3071 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3072 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3073 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3074 hardware. 3075 3076 ltpc= [NET] 3077 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 3078 3079 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3080 3081 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3082 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3083 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3084 3085 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 3086 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 3087 Example: machvec=hpzx1 3088 3089 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3090 different yeeloong laptops. 3091 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3092 3093 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 3094 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 3095 3096 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3097 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3098 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3099 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3100 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3101 only takes effect during system bootup. 3102 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3103 which also disables the IO APIC. 3104 3105 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3106 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3107 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3108 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3109 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3110 /dev/loop-control interface. 3111 3112 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3113 3114 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3115 3116 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3117 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3118 3119 mdacon= [MDA] 3120 Format: <first>,<last> 3121 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3122 3123 mds= [X86,INTEL] 3124 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3125 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3126 3127 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3128 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3129 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3130 3131 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3132 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3133 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3134 not have direct access. 3135 3136 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3137 options are: 3138 3139 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3140 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3141 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3142 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3143 3144 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3145 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3146 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3147 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3148 too. 3149 3150 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3151 mds=full. 3152 3153 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3154 3155 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3156 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3157 3158 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3159 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3160 3161 1 for test; 3162 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3163 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3164 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3165 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3166 3167 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3168 high memory is not affected. 3169 3170 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3171 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3172 3173 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3174 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3175 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3176 belonging to unused RAM. 3177 3178 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3179 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3180 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3181 3182 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3183 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3184 firmware. 3185 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3186 ss[KMG]. 3187 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3188 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3189 3190 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3191 memory. 3192 3193 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3194 3195 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3196 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3197 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3198 3199 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3200 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3201 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3202 set according to the 3203 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3204 option. 3205 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3206 3207 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3208 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3209 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3210 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3211 option description. 3212 3213 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3214 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3215 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3216 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3217 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3218 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3219 comma delimited. 3220 Example: 3221 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3222 3223 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3224 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3225 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3226 3227 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3228 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3229 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3230 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3231 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3232 or 3233 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3234 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3235 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3236 will be eaten. 3237 3238 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3239 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3240 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3241 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3242 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3243 3244 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3245 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3246 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3247 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3248 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3249 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3250 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3251 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3252 3253 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3254 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3255 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3256 Setting this option will scan the memory 3257 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3258 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3259 from using the memory being corrupted. 3260 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3261 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3262 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3263 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3264 3265 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3266 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3267 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3268 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3269 corruption in more or less memory. 3270 3271 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3272 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3273 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3274 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3275 3276 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3277 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3278 Format: {on | off (default)} 3279 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3280 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3281 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3282 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3283 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3284 lot of memory without requiring additional 3285 memory to do so. 3286 This feature is disabled by default because it 3287 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3288 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3289 memory blocks). 3290 The state of the flag can be read in 3291 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3292 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3293 the feature is not effective. 3294 3295 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3296 Format: <integer> 3297 default : 0 <disable> 3298 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3299 performed. Each pass selects another test 3300 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3301 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3302 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3303 regions that are detected. 3304 3305 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3306 Valid arguments: on, off 3307 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3308 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3309 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3310 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3311 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3312 3313 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3314 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3315 3316 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3317 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3318 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3319 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3320 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3321 3322 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3323 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3324 platforms. 3325 3326 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3327 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3328 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3329 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3330 3331 mga= [HW,DRM] 3332 3333 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3334 physical address is ignored. 3335 3336 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3337 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3338 Default: "0tb" 3339 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3340 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3341 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3342 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3343 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3344 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3345 unconfigured. 3346 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3347 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3348 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3349 VGA shield. 3350 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3351 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3352 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3353 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3354 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3355 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3356 3357 mitigations= 3358 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3359 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3360 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3361 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3362 3363 off 3364 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3365 improves system performance, but it may also 3366 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3367 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3368 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3369 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3370 l1tf=off [X86] 3371 mds=off [X86] 3372 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3373 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3374 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3375 nobp=0 [S390] 3376 nopti [X86,PPC] 3377 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3378 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3379 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3380 retbleed=off [X86] 3381 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3382 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3383 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3384 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3385 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3386 3387 Exceptions: 3388 This does not have any effect on 3389 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3390 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3391 3392 auto (default) 3393 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3394 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3395 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3396 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3397 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3398 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3399 3400 auto,nosmt 3401 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3402 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3403 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3404 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3405 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3406 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3407 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3408 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3409 3410 mminit_loglevel= 3411 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3412 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3413 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3414 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3415 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3416 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3417 3418 mmio_stale_data= 3419 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3420 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3421 3422 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3423 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3424 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3425 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3426 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3427 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3428 3429 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3430 options are: 3431 3432 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3433 3434 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3435 vulnerable CPUs. 3436 3437 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3438 3439 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3440 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3441 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3442 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3443 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3444 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3445 3446 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3447 mmio_stale_data=full. 3448 3449 For details see: 3450 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3451 3452 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3453 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3454 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3455 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3456 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3457 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3458 3459 module.async_probe=<bool> 3460 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3461 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3462 specific module, use the module specific control that 3463 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3464 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3465 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3466 the specific module. 3467 3468 module.enable_dups_trace 3469 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3470 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3471 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3472 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3473 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3474 module.sig_enforce 3475 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3476 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3477 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3478 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3479 3480 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3481 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3482 3483 mousedev.tap_time= 3484 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3485 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3486 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3487 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3488 Format: <msecs> 3489 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3490 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3491 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3492 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3493 3494 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3495 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3496 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3497 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3498 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3499 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3500 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3501 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3502 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3503 is not too small. 3504 3505 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3506 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3507 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3508 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3509 allocations. Use with caution! 3510 3511 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3512 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3513 3514 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3515 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3516 3517 mtdparts= [MTD] 3518 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3519 3520 mtdset= [ARM] 3521 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3522 3523 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3524 3525 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3526 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3527 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3528 3529 mtrr=debug [X86] 3530 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3531 registers at boot time. 3532 3533 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3534 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3535 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3536 3537 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3538 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3539 Default is 1. 3540 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3541 using up MTRRs. 3542 3543 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3544 Format: <integer> 3545 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3546 Default : 1 3547 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3548 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3549 3550 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3551 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3552 at a time. 3553 3554 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3555 3556 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3557 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3558 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3559 something different and driver-specific. 3560 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3561 file if at all. 3562 3563 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3564 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3565 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3566 waits 4 seconds. 3567 3568 nf_conntrack.acct= 3569 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3570 0 to disable accounting 3571 1 to enable accounting 3572 Default value is 0. 3573 3574 nfs.cache_getent= 3575 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3576 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3577 3578 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3579 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3580 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3581 3582 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3583 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3584 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3585 requests. 3586 3587 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3588 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3589 channel should listen. 3590 3591 nfs.enable_ino64= 3592 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3593 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3594 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3595 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3596 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3597 3598 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3599 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3600 entries. 3601 3602 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3603 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3604 slots the client will assign to the callback 3605 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3606 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3607 a particular server. 3608 3609 nfs.max_session_slots= 3610 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3611 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3612 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3613 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3614 Note that there is little point in setting this 3615 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3616 3617 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3618 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3619 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3620 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3621 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3622 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3623 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3624 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3625 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3626 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3627 back to using the idmapper. 3628 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3629 3630 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3631 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3632 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3633 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3634 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3635 3636 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3637 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3638 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3639 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3640 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3641 after the locks are lost. 3642 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3643 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3644 parameter to '1'. 3645 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3646 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3647 3648 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3649 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3650 information in exchange_id requests. 3651 If zero, no implementation identification information 3652 will be sent. 3653 The default is to send the implementation identification 3654 information. 3655 3656 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3657 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3658 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3659 3660 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3661 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3662 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3663 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3664 3665 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3666 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3667 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3668 the destination of the copy. 3669 3670 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3671 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3672 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3673 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3674 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3675 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3676 3677 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3678 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3679 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3680 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3681 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3682 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3683 this parameter. 3684 3685 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3686 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3687 3688 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3689 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3690 3691 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3692 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3693 3694 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3695 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3696 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3697 3698 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3699 when a NMI is triggered. 3700 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3701 3702 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3703 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3704 Valid num: 0 or 1 3705 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3706 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3707 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3708 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3709 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3710 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3711 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3712 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3713 need the box quickly up again. 3714 3715 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3716 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3717 3718 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3719 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3720 is present. 3721 3722 no4lvl [RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces 3723 kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3724 3725 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3726 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3727 3728 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3729 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3730 but will impact performance. 3731 3732 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3733 3734 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3735 (CPU alternatives feature). 3736 3737 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3738 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3739 3740 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3741 3742 nocache [ARM] 3743 3744 no_console_suspend 3745 [HW] Never suspend the console 3746 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3747 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3748 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3749 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3750 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3751 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3752 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3753 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3754 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3755 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3756 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3757 turn on/off it dynamically. 3758 3759 no_debug_objects 3760 [KNL] Disable object debugging 3761 3762 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3763 3764 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3765 3766 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3767 3768 noexec [IA-64] 3769 3770 noexec32 [X86-64] 3771 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3772 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3773 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3774 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3775 read implies executable mappings 3776 3777 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3778 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3779 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3780 3781 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3782 3783 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3784 3785 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3786 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3787 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3788 3789 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3790 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3791 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3792 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3793 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3794 real-time systems. 3795 3796 no_hash_pointers 3797 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3798 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3799 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3800 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3801 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3802 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3803 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3804 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3805 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3806 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3807 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3808 kernels. 3809 3810 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3811 3812 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to 3813 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3814 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3815 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3816 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3817 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3818 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3819 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3820 3821 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3822 3823 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3824 3825 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3826 Valid arguments: on, off 3827 Default: on 3828 3829 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3830 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3831 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3832 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3833 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3834 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3835 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3836 just as if they had also been called out in the 3837 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3838 3839 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3840 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3841 3842 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3843 initial RAM disk. 3844 3845 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3846 remapping. 3847 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3848 3849 nointroute [IA-64] 3850 3851 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3852 3853 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3854 3855 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3856 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3857 3858 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3859 3860 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3861 3862 nokaslr [KNL] 3863 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3864 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3865 Layout Randomization). 3866 3867 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3868 fault handling. 3869 3870 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3871 3872 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3873 3874 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3875 3876 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3877 3878 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3879 3880 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3881 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3882 3883 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3884 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3885 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3886 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3887 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3888 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3889 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3890 3891 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3892 3893 nomodule Disable module load 3894 3895 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3896 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3897 irq. 3898 3899 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3900 pagetables) support. 3901 3902 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3903 3904 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3905 in some Intel CPUs. 3906 3907 nopti [X86-64] 3908 Equivalent to pti=off 3909 3910 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3911 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3912 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3913 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3914 3915 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3916 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3917 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3918 contention. 3919 3920 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3921 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3922 3923 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3924 with UP alternatives 3925 3926 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3927 space. 3928 3929 nosbagart [IA-64] 3930 3931 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3932 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3933 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3934 3935 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3936 3937 nosmap [PPC] 3938 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3939 even if it is supported by processor. 3940 3941 nosmep [PPC64s] 3942 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3943 even if it is supported by processor. 3944 3945 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3946 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3947 3948 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3949 Equivalent to smt=1. 3950 3951 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3952 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3953 via the sysfs control file. 3954 3955 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3956 3957 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3958 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3959 3960 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3961 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3962 with this option. 3963 3964 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3965 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3966 possible in the system. 3967 3968 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3969 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3970 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3971 option. 3972 3973 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3974 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3975 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3976 3977 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3978 3979 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3980 broken timer IRQ sources. 3981 3982 no_uaccess_flush 3983 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3984 3985 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3986 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3987 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3988 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3989 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3990 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3991 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3992 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3993 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3994 is set. 3995 3996 no-vmw-sched-clock 3997 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3998 clock and use the default one. 3999 4000 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4001 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4002 4003 nowb [ARM] 4004 4005 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4006 4007 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4008 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4009 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4010 4011 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4012 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4013 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4014 4015 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4016 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4017 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4018 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4019 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4020 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4021 4022 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4023 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4024 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4025 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4026 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4027 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4028 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4029 4030 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 4031 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 4032 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 4033 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 4034 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 4035 parameter's value. 4036 Format: integer between 1 and 255 4037 Default: 255 4038 4039 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 4040 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 4041 SAL PALO. 4042 4043 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4044 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4045 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4046 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4047 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4048 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4049 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4050 hot plugging. 4051 4052 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4053 4054 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 4055 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 4056 4057 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4058 NUMA balancing. 4059 Allowed values are enable and disable 4060 4061 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4062 'node', 'default' can be specified 4063 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4064 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4065 4066 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4067 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4068 info. 4069 4070 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4071 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4072 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4073 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4074 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4075 interrupts *may* be lost! 4076 4077 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4078 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4079 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4080 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4081 4082 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4083 4084 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4085 4086 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4087 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4088 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4089 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4090 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4091 4092 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4093 process, but there is a small probability of 4094 deadlocking the machine. 4095 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4096 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4097 4098 page_alloc.shuffle= 4099 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4100 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 4101 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 4102 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 4103 cache, and this parameter can be used to 4104 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 4105 can be read from sysfs at: 4106 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4107 4108 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4109 Storage of the information about who allocated 4110 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4111 we can turn it on. 4112 on: enable the feature 4113 4114 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4115 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4116 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4117 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4118 on: turn on poisoning 4119 4120 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4121 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4122 Format: <integer> 4123 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4124 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER. 4125 4126 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4127 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4128 timeout = 0: wait forever 4129 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4130 Format: <timeout> 4131 4132 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4133 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4134 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4135 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4136 called with any of the flags in this set. 4137 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4138 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4139 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4140 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4141 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4142 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4143 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4144 4145 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4146 on a WARN(). 4147 4148 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4149 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4150 bit 0: print all tasks info 4151 bit 1: print system memory info 4152 bit 2: print timer info 4153 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4154 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4155 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4156 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4157 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4158 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4159 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4160 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4161 4162 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4163 connected to, default is 0. 4164 Format: <parport#> 4165 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4166 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4167 Format: <mode> 4168 4169 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4170 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4171 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4172 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4173 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4174 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4175 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4176 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4177 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4178 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4179 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4180 are specified on the command line, starting 4181 with parport0. 4182 4183 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4184 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4185 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4186 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4187 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4188 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4189 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4190 4191 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4192 Format: <int> 4193 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4194 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4195 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4196 4197 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4198 Format: <int> 4199 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4200 changes. Disabled by default. 4201 4202 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4203 Format: <int> 4204 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4205 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4206 Disabled by default. 4207 4208 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4209 Format: <int> 4210 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4211 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4212 Disabled by default. 4213 4214 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4215 Format: <int> 4216 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4217 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4218 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4219 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4220 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4221 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4222 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4223 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4224 all channels. 4225 4226 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4227 Format: <int> 4228 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4229 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4230 respectively. Disabled by default. 4231 4232 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4233 Format: <int> 4234 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4235 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4236 respectively. Disabled by default. 4237 4238 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4239 Format: <int> 4240 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4241 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4242 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4243 All modes allowed by default. 4244 4245 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4246 Format: <int> 4247 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4248 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4249 4250 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4251 Format: <int> 4252 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4253 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4254 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4255 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4256 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4257 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4258 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4259 By default all supported ports are probed. 4260 4261 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4262 Format: <int> 4263 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4264 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4265 4266 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4267 Format: <int> 4268 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4269 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4270 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4271 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4272 0 otherwise. 4273 4274 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4275 Format: <int> 4276 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4277 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4278 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4279 allowed by default. 4280 4281 pause_on_oops=<int> 4282 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4283 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4284 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4285 4286 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4287 4288 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4289 4290 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4291 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4292 specified in one of the following formats: 4293 4294 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4295 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4296 4297 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4298 bus/device/function address which may change 4299 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4300 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4301 by other kernel parameters. If the 4302 domain is left unspecified, it is 4303 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4304 to a device through multiple device/function 4305 addresses can be specified after the base 4306 address (this is more robust against 4307 renumbering issues). The second format 4308 selects devices using IDs from the 4309 configuration space which may match multiple 4310 devices in the system. 4311 4312 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4313 changes anything 4314 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4315 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4316 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4317 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4318 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4319 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4320 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4321 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4322 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4323 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4324 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4325 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4326 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4327 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4328 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4329 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4330 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4331 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4332 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4333 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4334 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4335 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4336 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4337 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4338 Configuration 4339 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4340 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4341 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4342 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4343 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4344 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4345 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4346 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4347 should never be necessary. 4348 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4349 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4350 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4351 when the system masks IRQs. 4352 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4353 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4354 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4355 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4356 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4357 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4358 on several machines and they hang the machine 4359 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4360 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4361 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4362 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4363 motherboard. 4364 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4365 Use with caution as certain devices share 4366 address decoders between ROMs and other 4367 resources. 4368 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4369 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4370 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4371 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4372 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4373 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4374 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4375 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4376 this way. 4377 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4378 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4379 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4380 F0000h-100000h range. 4381 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4382 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4383 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4384 explicitly which ones they are. 4385 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4386 numbers ourselves, overriding 4387 whatever the firmware may have done. 4388 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4389 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4390 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4391 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4392 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4393 IRQ routing is enabled. 4394 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4395 or for PCI scanning. 4396 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4397 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4398 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4399 please report a bug. 4400 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4401 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4402 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4403 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4404 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4405 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4406 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4407 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4408 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4409 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4410 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4411 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4412 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4413 so this option is a temporary workaround 4414 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4415 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4416 handle more pci cards 4417 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4418 This might help on some broken boards which 4419 machine check when some devices' config space 4420 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4421 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4422 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4423 This sorting is done to get a device 4424 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4425 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4426 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4427 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4428 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4429 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4430 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4431 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4432 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4433 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4434 or bus can support) for best performance. 4435 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4436 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4437 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4438 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4439 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4440 that hot-added devices will work. 4441 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4442 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4443 The default value is 256 bytes. 4444 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4445 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4446 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4447 resource_alignment= 4448 Format: 4449 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4450 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4451 aligned memory resources. How to 4452 specify the device is described above. 4453 If <order of align> is not specified, 4454 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4455 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4456 windows need to be expanded. 4457 To specify the alignment for several 4458 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4459 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4460 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4461 for 4096-byte alignment. 4462 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4463 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4464 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4465 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4466 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4467 the default. 4468 off: Turn ECRC off 4469 on: Turn ECRC on. 4470 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4471 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4472 Default size is 256 bytes. 4473 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4474 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4475 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4476 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4477 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4478 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4479 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4480 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4481 MMIO_PREF window. 4482 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4483 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4484 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4485 Default is 1. 4486 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4487 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4488 accommodate resources required by all child 4489 devices. 4490 off: Turn realloc off 4491 on: Turn realloc on 4492 realloc same as realloc=on 4493 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4494 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4495 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4496 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4497 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4498 port. 4499 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4500 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4501 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4502 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4503 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4504 taints the kernel. 4505 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4506 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4507 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4508 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4509 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4510 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4511 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4512 this removes isolation between devices and 4513 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4514 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4515 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4516 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4517 one PCI domain per PCI function 4518 4519 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4520 Management. 4521 off Disable ASPM. 4522 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4523 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4524 4525 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4526 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4527 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4528 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4529 also tries to use these services. 4530 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4531 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4532 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4533 hotplug). 4534 4535 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4536 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4537 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4538 4539 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4540 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4541 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4542 4543 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4544 4545 pd_ignore_unused 4546 [PM] 4547 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4548 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4549 for debug and development, but should not be 4550 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4551 4552 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4553 boot time. 4554 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4555 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4556 4557 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4558 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4559 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4560 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4561 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4562 and performance comparison. 4563 4564 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4565 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4566 4567 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4568 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4569 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4570 4571 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4572 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4573 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4574 4575 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4576 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4577 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4578 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4579 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4580 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4581 remains 0. 4582 4583 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4584 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4585 4586 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4587 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4588 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4589 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4590 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4591 possible settings and some assignment information. 4592 4593 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4594 { off } 4595 4596 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4597 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4598 4599 pnp_reserve_irq= 4600 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4601 4602 pnp_reserve_dma= 4603 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4604 4605 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4606 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4607 4608 pnp_reserve_mem= 4609 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4610 autoconfiguration. 4611 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4612 4613 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4614 Default is 21. 4615 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4616 may be specified. 4617 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4618 4619 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4620 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4621 platform machine description specific power_save 4622 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4623 execution priority. 4624 4625 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4626 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4627 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4628 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4629 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4630 4631 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4632 Format: {"off"} 4633 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4634 4635 preempt= [KNL] 4636 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4637 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4638 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4639 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4640 can be preempted anytime. 4641 4642 print-fatal-signals= 4643 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4644 4645 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4646 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4647 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4648 coredump - etc. 4649 4650 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4651 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4652 4653 default: off. 4654 4655 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4656 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4657 panics 4658 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4659 default: disabled 4660 4661 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4662 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4663 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4664 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4665 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4666 in order to provide more debug information. 4667 Format: <bool> 4668 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4669 4670 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4671 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4672 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4673 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4674 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4675 Default: ratelimit 4676 4677 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4678 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4679 4680 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4681 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4682 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4683 4684 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4685 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4686 instead using the legacy FADT method 4687 4688 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4689 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4690 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4691 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4692 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4693 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4694 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4695 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4696 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4697 statistical time based profiling. 4698 4699 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4700 4701 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4702 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4703 that). 4704 Format: <bool> 4705 4706 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4707 tracking. 4708 Format: <bool> 4709 4710 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4711 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4712 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4713 per second. 4714 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4715 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4716 (0 = never). 4717 psmouse.resolution= 4718 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4719 psmouse.smartscroll= 4720 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4721 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4722 4723 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4724 4725 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4726 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4727 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4728 system calls and interrupts. 4729 4730 on - unconditionally enable 4731 off - unconditionally disable 4732 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4733 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4734 4735 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4736 4737 pty.legacy_count= 4738 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4739 default number. 4740 4741 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4742 4743 r128= [HW,DRM] 4744 4745 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4746 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4747 invalidate. 4748 4749 raid= [HW,RAID] 4750 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4751 4752 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4753 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4754 4755 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4756 4757 random.trust_cpu=off 4758 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4759 random number generator (if available) to 4760 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4761 4762 random.trust_bootloader=off 4763 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4764 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4765 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4766 4767 randomize_kstack_offset= 4768 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4769 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4770 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4771 that depend on stack address determinism or 4772 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4773 available on architectures that have defined 4774 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4775 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4776 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4777 4778 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4779 4780 cec_disable [X86] 4781 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4782 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4783 4784 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4785 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4786 as described above. 4787 4788 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4789 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4790 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4791 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4792 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4793 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4794 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4795 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4796 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4797 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4798 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4799 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4800 4801 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4802 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4803 4804 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4805 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4806 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4807 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4808 4809 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4810 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4811 4812 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4813 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4814 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4815 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4816 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4817 This improves the real-time response for the 4818 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4819 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4820 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4821 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4822 4823 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4824 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4825 process in one batch. 4826 4827 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4828 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4829 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4830 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4831 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4832 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4833 4834 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4835 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4836 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4837 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4838 4839 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4840 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4841 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4842 4843 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4844 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4845 RCU grace-period initialization. 4846 4847 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4848 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4849 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4850 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4851 the rcu_node combining tree. 4852 4853 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4854 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4855 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4856 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4857 and maximum value is HZ. 4858 4859 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4860 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4861 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4862 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4863 4864 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4865 Set required age in jiffies for a 4866 given grace period before RCU starts 4867 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4868 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4869 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4870 a value based on the most recent settings 4871 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4872 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4873 This calculated value may be viewed in 4874 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4875 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4876 overwritten. 4877 4878 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4879 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4880 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4881 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4882 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4883 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4884 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4885 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4886 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4887 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4888 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4889 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4890 4891 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4892 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4893 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4894 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4895 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4896 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4897 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4898 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4899 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4900 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4901 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4902 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4903 4904 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4905 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4906 batch limiting is disabled. 4907 4908 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4909 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4910 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4911 4912 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4913 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4914 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4915 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4916 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4917 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4918 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4919 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4920 4921 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4922 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4923 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4924 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4925 4926 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4927 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4928 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4929 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4930 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4931 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4932 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4933 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4934 4935 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4936 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4937 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4938 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4939 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4940 4941 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4942 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4943 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4944 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4945 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4946 4947 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4948 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4949 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4950 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4951 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4952 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4953 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4954 4955 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4956 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4957 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4958 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4959 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4960 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4961 condition. 4962 4963 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4964 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4965 each group, which defaults to the square root 4966 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4967 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4968 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4969 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4970 4971 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4972 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4973 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4974 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4975 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4976 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4977 4978 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 4979 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 4980 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 4981 By default, this limit is checked only once 4982 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 4983 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 4984 4985 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4986 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4987 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4988 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4989 Larger delays increase the probability of 4990 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4991 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4992 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4993 4994 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4995 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4996 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4997 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4998 4999 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5000 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5001 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5002 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5003 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5004 5005 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5006 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5007 to zero. 5008 5009 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5010 Measure performance of asynchronous 5011 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5012 5013 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5014 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5015 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5016 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5017 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5018 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5019 5020 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5021 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5022 grace-period primitives. 5023 5024 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5025 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5026 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5027 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5028 interference. 5029 5030 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5031 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5032 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5033 5034 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5035 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5036 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5037 Defaults to 1. 5038 5039 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5040 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5041 5042 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5043 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5044 If this parameter has the same value as 5045 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5046 and double-argument variants are tested. 5047 5048 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5049 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5050 If this parameter has the same value as 5051 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5052 and double-argument variants are tested. 5053 5054 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5055 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5056 5057 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5058 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5059 5060 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5061 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5062 of allocations and frees. 5063 5064 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5065 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5066 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5067 but instead allows better measurement of things 5068 like CPU consumption. 5069 5070 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5071 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5072 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5073 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5074 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5075 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5076 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5077 a single reader. 5078 5079 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5080 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5081 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5082 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5083 5084 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5085 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5086 5087 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5088 Shut the system down after performance tests 5089 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5090 testing. 5091 5092 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5093 Enable additional printk() statements. 5094 5095 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5096 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5097 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5098 no holdoff. 5099 5100 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5101 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5102 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5103 says no holdoff. 5104 5105 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5106 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5107 in microseconds. 5108 5109 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5110 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5111 in microseconds. 5112 5113 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5114 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5115 in seconds. 5116 5117 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5118 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5119 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5120 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5121 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5122 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5123 of CPUs to be used. 5124 5125 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5126 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5127 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5128 5129 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5130 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5131 forward-progress tests. 5132 5133 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5134 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5135 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5136 testing. 5137 5138 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5139 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5140 primitives, if available. 5141 5142 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5143 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5144 5145 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5146 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5147 update-side primitives, if available. 5148 5149 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5150 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5151 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5152 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5153 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5154 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5155 they are all non-zero. 5156 5157 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5158 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5159 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5160 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5161 5162 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5163 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5164 This can of course result in splats, and is 5165 intended to test the ability of things like 5166 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5167 such leaks. 5168 5169 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5170 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5171 5172 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5173 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5174 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5175 test, hence the "fake". 5176 5177 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5178 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5179 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5180 5181 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5182 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5183 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5184 5185 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5186 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5187 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5188 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5189 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5190 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5191 5192 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5193 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5194 5195 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5196 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5197 5198 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5199 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5200 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5201 5202 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5203 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5204 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5205 task-exit processing. 5206 5207 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5208 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5209 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5210 is spawned. 5211 5212 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5213 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5214 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5215 5216 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5217 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5218 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5219 during the rcutorture test. 5220 5221 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5222 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5223 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5224 5225 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5226 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5227 warnings, zero to disable. 5228 5229 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5230 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5231 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5232 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5233 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5234 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5235 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5236 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5237 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5238 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5239 5240 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5241 5242 5243 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5244 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5245 5246 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5247 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5248 5249 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5250 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5251 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5252 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5253 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5254 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5255 5256 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5257 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5258 5259 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5260 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5261 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5262 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5263 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5264 5265 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5266 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5267 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5268 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5269 5270 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5271 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5272 5273 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5274 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5275 5276 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5277 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5278 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5279 5280 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5281 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5282 5283 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5284 Enable additional printk() statements. 5285 5286 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5287 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5288 stall warning. 5289 5290 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5291 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5292 5293 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5294 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5295 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5296 during early boot, that is, during the time 5297 before the init task is spawned. 5298 5299 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5300 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5301 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5302 value is 300 seconds. 5303 5304 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5305 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5306 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5307 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5308 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5309 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5310 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5311 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5312 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5313 5314 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5315 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5316 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5317 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5318 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5319 5320 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5321 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5322 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5323 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5324 5325 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5326 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5327 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5328 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5329 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5330 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5331 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5332 5333 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5334 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5335 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5336 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5337 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5338 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5339 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5340 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5341 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5342 5343 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5344 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5345 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5346 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5347 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5348 5349 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5350 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5351 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5352 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5353 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5354 grace-period processing. 5355 5356 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5357 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5358 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5359 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5360 a single callback queue. This switching only 5361 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5362 set to the default value of -1. 5363 5364 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5365 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5366 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5367 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5368 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5369 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5370 the default value of -1. 5371 5372 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5373 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5374 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5375 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5376 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5377 for use in testing. 5378 5379 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5380 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5381 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5382 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5383 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5384 but lengthens grace periods. 5385 5386 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5387 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5388 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5389 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5390 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5391 callback flooding. 5392 5393 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5394 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5395 informational messages, which give some indication 5396 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5397 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5398 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5399 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5400 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5401 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5402 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5403 5404 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5405 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5406 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5407 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5408 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5409 the value three, so that the first informational 5410 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5411 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5412 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5413 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5414 5415 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5416 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5417 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5418 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5419 A change in value does not take effect until 5420 the beginning of the next grace period. 5421 5422 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5423 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5424 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5425 A negative value will take the default. A value 5426 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5427 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5428 5429 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5430 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5431 Rude asynchronous callback batching for 5432 call_rcu_tasks_rude(). A negative value 5433 will take the default. A value of zero will 5434 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5435 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(). 5436 5437 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5438 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5439 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5440 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5441 will take the default. A value of zero will 5442 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5443 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5444 5445 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5446 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5447 5448 rdinit= [KNL] 5449 Format: <full_path> 5450 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5451 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5452 5453 rdrand= [X86] 5454 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5455 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5456 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5457 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5458 path). 5459 5460 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5461 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5462 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5463 mba, smba, bmec. 5464 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5465 rdt=cmt,!mba 5466 5467 reboot= [KNL] 5468 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5469 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5470 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5471 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5472 [[,]f[orce] 5473 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5474 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5475 reboot only), 5476 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5477 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5478 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5479 to be used for rebooting. 5480 5481 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5482 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5483 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5484 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5485 interference. 5486 5487 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5488 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5489 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5490 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5491 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5492 5493 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5494 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5495 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5496 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5497 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5498 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5499 x86 laptops. 5500 5501 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5502 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5503 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5504 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5505 5506 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5507 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5508 the console log. 5509 5510 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5511 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5512 measured in microseconds. 5513 5514 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5515 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5516 5517 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5518 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5519 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5520 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5521 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5522 5523 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5524 Enable additional printk() statements. 5525 5526 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5527 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5528 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5529 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5530 specified. 5531 5532 relax_domain_level= 5533 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5534 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5535 5536 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5537 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5538 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5539 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5540 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5541 5542 reservetop= [X86-32] 5543 Format: nn[KMG] 5544 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5545 address space. 5546 5547 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5548 during initialization. 5549 5550 resume= [SWSUSP] 5551 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5552 Format: 5553 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5554 5555 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5556 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5557 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5558 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5559 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5560 5561 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5562 read the resume files 5563 5564 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5565 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5566 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5567 5568 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5569 5570 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5571 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5572 vulnerability. 5573 5574 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5575 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5576 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5577 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5578 that don't. 5579 5580 off - no mitigation 5581 auto - automatically select a migitation 5582 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5583 disabling SMT if necessary for 5584 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5585 and older without STIBP). 5586 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5587 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5588 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5589 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5590 on Intel. 5591 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5592 when STIBP is not available. This is 5593 the alternative for systems which do not 5594 have STIBP. 5595 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5596 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5597 systems. 5598 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5599 is not available. This is the alternative for 5600 systems which do not have STIBP. 5601 5602 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5603 time according to the CPU. 5604 5605 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5606 5607 rfkill.default_state= 5608 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5609 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5610 1 Unblocked. 5611 5612 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5613 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5614 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5615 blocked and the previous configuration. 5616 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5617 blocked and everything unblocked. 5618 5619 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5620 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5621 5622 ring3mwait=disable 5623 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5624 CPUs. 5625 5626 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV] 5627 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5628 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5629 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5630 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5631 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5632 5633 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5634 5635 rodata= [KNL] 5636 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5637 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5638 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5639 [arm64] 5640 5641 rockchip.usb_uart 5642 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5643 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5644 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5645 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5646 5647 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5648 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5649 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5650 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5651 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5652 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5653 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5654 5655 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5656 mount the root filesystem 5657 5658 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5659 5660 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5661 5662 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5663 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5664 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5665 5666 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5667 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5668 filesystem. 5669 5670 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5671 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5672 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5673 managed by CMA. 5674 5675 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5676 5677 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5678 5679 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5680 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5681 strict 5682 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5683 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5684 which is faster. 5685 5686 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5687 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5688 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5689 factor of the size of main memory. 5690 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5691 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5692 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5693 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5694 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5695 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5696 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5697 5698 sa1100ir [NET] 5699 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5700 5701 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5702 5703 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5704 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5705 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5706 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5707 5708 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5709 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5710 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5711 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5712 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5713 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5714 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5715 value. 5716 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5717 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5718 1 64 ms 5719 2 128 ms 5720 and so on. 5721 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5722 Default is 0. 5723 5724 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5725 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5726 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5727 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5728 tests. 5729 5730 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5731 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5732 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5733 default) disables this feature. Please note 5734 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5735 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5736 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5737 5738 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5739 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5740 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5741 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5742 equal to the number of CPUs. 5743 5744 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5745 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5746 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5747 5748 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5749 Number seconds to wait between successive 5750 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5751 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5752 5753 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5754 The number of seconds following the start of the 5755 test after which to shut down the system. The 5756 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5757 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5758 5759 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5760 The number of seconds between outputting the 5761 current test statistics to the console. A value 5762 of zero disables statistics output. 5763 5764 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5765 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5766 to the set of CPUs under test. 5767 5768 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5769 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5770 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5771 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5772 functions. 5773 5774 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5775 Enable additional printk() statements. 5776 5777 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5778 The probability weighting to use for the 5779 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5780 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5781 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5782 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5783 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5784 5785 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5786 The probability weighting to use for the 5787 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5788 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5789 5790 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5791 The probability weighting to use for the 5792 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5793 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5794 Note well that setting a high probability for 5795 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5796 on the system. 5797 5798 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5799 The probability weighting to use for the 5800 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5801 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5802 and weight_many. 5803 5804 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5805 The probability weighting to use for the 5806 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5807 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5808 weight_many. 5809 5810 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5811 The probability weighting to use for the 5812 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5813 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5814 and weight_many. 5815 5816 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5817 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5818 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5819 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5820 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5821 1 -- enable. 5822 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5823 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5824 5825 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5826 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5827 "lsm=" parameter. 5828 5829 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5830 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5831 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5832 0 -- disable. 5833 1 -- enable. 5834 Default value is 1. 5835 5836 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5837 5838 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5839 5840 shapers= [NET] 5841 Maximal number of shapers. 5842 5843 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5844 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5845 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5846 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5847 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5848 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5849 apic=verbose is specified. 5850 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5851 5852 simeth= [IA-64] 5853 simscsi= 5854 5855 slram= [HW,MTD] 5856 5857 slab_merge [MM] 5858 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5859 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5860 5861 slab_nomerge [MM] 5862 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5863 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5864 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5865 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5866 layout control by attackers can usually be 5867 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5868 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5869 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5870 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5871 own. 5872 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5873 5874 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5875 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5876 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5877 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5878 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5879 5880 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5881 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5882 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5883 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5884 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5885 last alloc / free. For more information see 5886 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5887 5888 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5889 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5890 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5891 fragmentation. For more information see 5892 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5893 5894 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5895 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5896 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5897 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5898 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5899 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5900 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5901 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5902 5903 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5904 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5905 lower than slub_max_order. 5906 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5907 5908 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5909 Same with slab_merge. 5910 5911 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5912 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5913 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5914 5915 smart2= [HW] 5916 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5917 5918 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5919 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5920 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5921 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5922 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5923 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5924 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5925 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5926 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5927 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5928 5929 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 5930 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 5931 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 5932 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 5933 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 5934 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 5935 5936 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5937 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5938 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5939 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5940 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5941 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5942 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5943 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5944 1: Fast pin select (default) 5945 2: ATC IRMode 5946 5947 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5948 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5949 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5950 actual hardware limit. 5951 Format: <integer> 5952 Default: -1 (no limit) 5953 5954 softlockup_panic= 5955 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5956 Format: 0 | 1 5957 5958 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5959 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5960 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5961 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5962 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5963 5964 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5965 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5966 backtraces on all cpus. 5967 Format: 0 | 1 5968 5969 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5970 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5971 5972 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5973 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5974 The default operation protects the kernel from 5975 user space attacks. 5976 5977 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5978 spectre_v2_user=on 5979 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5980 spectre_v2_user=off 5981 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5982 vulnerable 5983 5984 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5985 mitigation method at run time according to the 5986 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5987 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5988 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5989 5990 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5991 against user space to user space task attacks. 5992 5993 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5994 the user space protections. 5995 5996 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5997 5998 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5999 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6000 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6001 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6002 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6003 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6004 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6005 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6006 6007 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6008 spectre_v2=auto. 6009 6010 spectre_v2_user= 6011 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6012 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6013 user space tasks 6014 6015 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6016 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6017 6018 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6019 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6020 6021 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6022 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6023 per thread. The mitigation control state 6024 is inherited on fork. 6025 6026 prctl,ibpb 6027 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6028 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6029 always when switching between different user 6030 space processes. 6031 6032 seccomp 6033 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6034 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6035 they explicitly opt out. 6036 6037 seccomp,ibpb 6038 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6039 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6040 always when switching between different 6041 user space processes. 6042 6043 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6044 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6045 6046 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6047 6048 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6049 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6050 6051 spec_rstack_overflow= 6052 [X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6053 6054 off - Disable mitigation 6055 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6056 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6057 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6058 kernel entry 6059 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6060 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6061 6062 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6063 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6064 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6065 6066 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6067 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6068 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6069 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6070 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6071 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6072 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6073 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6074 6075 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6076 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6077 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6078 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6079 6080 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6081 Bypass optimization is used. 6082 6083 On x86 the options are: 6084 6085 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6086 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6087 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6088 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6089 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6090 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6091 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6092 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6093 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6094 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6095 for a process by default. The state of the control 6096 is inherited on fork. 6097 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6098 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6099 6100 Default mitigations: 6101 X86: "prctl" 6102 6103 On powerpc the options are: 6104 6105 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6106 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6107 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6108 exit. 6109 off - No action. 6110 6111 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6112 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6113 6114 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 6115 spia_fio_base= 6116 spia_pedr= 6117 spia_peddr= 6118 6119 split_lock_detect= 6120 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6121 6122 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6123 instructions that access data across cache line 6124 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6125 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6126 bus lock detection. 6127 6128 off - not enabled 6129 6130 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6131 about applications triggering the #AC 6132 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6133 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6134 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6135 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6136 enabled in hardware. 6137 6138 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6139 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6140 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6141 both features are enabled in hardware. 6142 6143 ratelimit:N - 6144 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6145 per second for bus lock detection. 6146 0 < N <= 1000. 6147 6148 N/A for split lock detection. 6149 6150 6151 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6152 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6153 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6154 mode. 6155 6156 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6157 CPL > 0. 6158 6159 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 6160 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6161 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6162 6163 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6164 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6165 number generator. 6166 6167 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6168 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6169 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6170 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6171 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6172 6173 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6174 the following option: 6175 6176 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6177 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6178 6179 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6180 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6181 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6182 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6183 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6184 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6185 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6186 (decide at boot). 6187 6188 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6189 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6190 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6191 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6192 6193 0: Never. 6194 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6195 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6196 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6197 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6198 6199 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6200 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6201 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6202 6203 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6204 Specifies how frequently to check for 6205 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6206 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6207 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6208 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6209 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6210 are ignored. 6211 6212 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6213 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6214 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6215 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6216 grace period will be considered for automatic 6217 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6218 expediting. 6219 6220 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6221 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6222 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6223 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6224 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6225 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6226 6227 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6228 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6229 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6230 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6231 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6232 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6233 6234 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6235 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6236 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6237 6238 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6239 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6240 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6241 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6242 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6243 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6244 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6245 6246 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 6247 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6248 6249 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6250 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6251 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6252 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6253 6254 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6255 for both kernel and userspace 6256 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6257 for both kernel and userspace 6258 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6259 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6260 to allow userspace to register its 6261 interest in being mitigated too. 6262 6263 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6264 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6265 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6266 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6267 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6268 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6269 6270 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6271 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6272 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6273 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6274 to false. 6275 6276 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6277 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6278 6279 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6280 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6281 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6282 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6283 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6284 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6285 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6286 6287 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6288 Format: <num> 6289 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6290 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6291 as the initial boot-console. 6292 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6293 6294 sti_font= [HW] 6295 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6296 6297 stifb= [HW] 6298 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6299 6300 strict_sas_size= 6301 [X86] 6302 Format: <bool> 6303 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6304 against the required signal frame size which 6305 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6306 be used to filter out binaries which have 6307 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6308 6309 stress_hpt [PPC] 6310 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6311 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6312 faults on kernel addresses. 6313 6314 stress_slb [PPC] 6315 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6316 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6317 on kernel addresses. 6318 6319 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6320 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6321 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6322 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6323 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6324 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6325 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6326 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6327 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6328 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6329 maximum port values. 6330 6331 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6332 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6333 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6334 process in parallel from a single connection. 6335 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6336 6337 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6338 [NFS] 6339 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6340 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6341 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6342 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6343 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6344 NFS server is running. 6345 6346 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6347 automatically using heuristics 6348 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6349 percpu one pool for each CPU 6350 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6351 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6352 6353 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6354 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6355 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6356 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6357 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6358 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6359 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6360 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6361 6362 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6363 [SUSPEND] 6364 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6365 mode before resuming the system (see 6366 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6367 is set. Default value is 5. 6368 6369 svm= [PPC] 6370 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6371 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6372 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6373 6374 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6375 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6376 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6377 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6378 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6379 to a power of 2. 6380 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6381 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6382 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6383 6384 switches= [HW,M68k] 6385 6386 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6387 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6388 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6389 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6390 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6391 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6392 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6393 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6394 6395 sysrq_always_enabled 6396 [KNL] 6397 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6398 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6399 Useful for debugging. 6400 6401 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6402 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6403 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6404 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6405 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6406 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6407 6408 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6409 6410 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6411 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6412 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6413 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6414 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6415 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6416 The system is woken from this state using a 6417 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6418 6419 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6420 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6421 6422 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6423 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6424 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6425 6426 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6427 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6428 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6429 6430 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6431 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6432 6433 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6434 -1: disable all passive trip points 6435 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6436 value 6437 6438 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6439 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6440 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6441 0: no polling (default) 6442 6443 threadirqs [KNL] 6444 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6445 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6446 6447 topology= [S390] 6448 Format: {off | on} 6449 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6450 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6451 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6452 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6453 Default is on. 6454 6455 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6456 Format: {off} 6457 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6458 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6459 LPAR. 6460 6461 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6462 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6463 until after init has spawned. 6464 6465 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6466 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6467 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6468 very costly operation when many torture tests 6469 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6470 with rotating-rust storage. 6471 6472 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6473 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6474 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6475 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6476 6477 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6478 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6479 6480 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6481 6482 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6483 Format: integer pcr id 6484 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6485 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6486 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6487 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6488 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6489 are saved. 6490 6491 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6492 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6493 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6494 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6495 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6496 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6497 6498 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6499 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6500 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6501 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6502 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6503 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6504 6505 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6506 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6507 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6508 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6509 6510 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6511 to stop the printing of events to console at 6512 late_initcall_sync. 6513 6514 ** CAUTION ** 6515 6516 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6517 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6518 the system to live lock. 6519 6520 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6521 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6522 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6523 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6524 make the system inoperable. 6525 6526 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6527 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6528 6529 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6530 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6531 6532 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6533 at boot up. 6534 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6535 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6536 depending on the architecture, may not be 6537 in sync between CPUs. 6538 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6539 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6540 but better for some race conditions. 6541 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6542 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6543 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6544 once per event. 6545 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6546 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6547 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6548 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6549 stamps. 6550 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6551 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6552 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6553 6554 trace_event=[event-list] 6555 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6556 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6557 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6558 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6559 6560 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6561 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6562 This will be listed in: 6563 6564 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6565 6566 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6567 via: 6568 6569 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6570 6571 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6572 unique. 6573 6574 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6575 6576 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6577 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6578 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6579 6580 trace_options=[option-list] 6581 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6582 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6583 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6584 to echo the option name into 6585 6586 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6587 6588 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6589 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6590 6591 trace_options=stacktrace 6592 6593 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6594 section. 6595 6596 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6597 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6598 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6599 filter. 6600 6601 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6602 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6603 6604 For example: 6605 6606 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6607 6608 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6609 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6610 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6611 6612 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6613 6614 6615 traceoff_on_warning 6616 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6617 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6618 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6619 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6620 6621 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6622 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6623 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6624 6625 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6626 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6627 6628 transparent_hugepage= 6629 [KNL] 6630 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6631 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6632 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6633 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6634 for more details. 6635 6636 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6637 Format: <string> 6638 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6639 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6640 sources: 6641 - "tpm" 6642 - "tee" 6643 - "caam" 6644 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6645 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6646 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6647 successfully during iteration. 6648 6649 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6650 Format: <string> 6651 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6652 Can be one of: 6653 - "kernel" 6654 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6655 - "default" 6656 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6657 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6658 6659 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6660 Format: <string> 6661 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6662 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6663 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6664 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6665 virtualized environment. 6666 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6667 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6668 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6669 can add overhead. 6670 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6671 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6672 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6673 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6674 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6675 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6676 acceptable). 6677 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6678 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6679 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6680 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6681 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6682 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6683 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6684 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6685 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6686 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6687 6688 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6689 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6690 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6691 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6692 Format: <unsigned int> 6693 6694 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6695 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6696 support TSX control. 6697 6698 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6699 6700 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6701 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6702 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6703 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6704 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6705 with leaving it enabled. 6706 6707 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6708 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6709 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6710 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6711 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6712 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6713 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6714 6715 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6716 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6717 6718 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6719 6720 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6721 for more details. 6722 6723 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6724 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6725 6726 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6727 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6728 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6729 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6730 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6731 conditions. 6732 6733 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6734 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6735 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6736 access. 6737 6738 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6739 options are: 6740 6741 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6742 if TSX is enabled. 6743 6744 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6745 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6746 is not disabled because CPU is not 6747 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6748 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6749 6750 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6751 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6752 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6753 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6754 6755 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6756 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6757 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6758 required and doesn't provide any additional 6759 mitigation. 6760 6761 For details see: 6762 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6763 6764 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6765 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6766 Format: 6767 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6768 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6769 6770 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6771 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6772 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6773 help "seeing" what's going on. 6774 6775 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6776 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6777 6778 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6779 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6780 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6781 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6782 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6783 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6784 reported either. 6785 6786 unknown_nmi_panic 6787 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6788 6789 unwind_debug [X86-64] 6790 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 6791 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 6792 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 6793 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 6794 6795 usbcore.authorized_default= 6796 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6797 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 6798 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6799 if device connected to internal port) 6800 6801 usbcore.autosuspend= 6802 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6803 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6804 is the time required before an idle device will be 6805 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6806 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6807 6808 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6809 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6810 6811 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6812 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6813 (default = 65536). 6814 6815 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6816 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6817 6818 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6819 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6820 scheme (default 0 = off). 6821 6822 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6823 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6824 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6825 6826 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6827 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6828 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6829 6830 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6831 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6832 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6833 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6834 6835 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6836 6837 usbcore.quirks= 6838 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6839 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6840 commas. Each entry has the form 6841 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6842 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6843 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6844 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6845 the following meanings: 6846 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6847 descriptors must not be fetched using 6848 a 255-byte read); 6849 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6850 correctly so reset it instead); 6851 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6852 Set-Interface requests); 6853 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6854 handle its Configuration or Interface 6855 strings); 6856 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6857 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6858 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6859 more interface descriptions than the 6860 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6861 talking to these interfaces); 6862 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6863 during initialization, after we read 6864 the device descriptor); 6865 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6866 high speed and super speed interrupt 6867 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6868 require the interval in microframes (1 6869 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6870 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6871 (bInterval-1). 6872 Devices with this quirk report their 6873 bInterval as the result of this 6874 calculation instead of the exponent 6875 variable used in the calculation); 6876 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6877 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6878 requests); 6879 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6880 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6881 remote wakeup capability); 6882 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6883 Power Management); 6884 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6885 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6886 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6887 calculation); 6888 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6889 to be disconnected before suspend to 6890 prevent spurious wakeup); 6891 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6892 pause after every control message); 6893 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6894 delay after resetting its port); 6895 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6896 6897 usbhid.mousepoll= 6898 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6899 6900 usbhid.jspoll= 6901 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6902 6903 usbhid.kbpoll= 6904 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6905 6906 usb-storage.delay_use= 6907 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6908 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6909 6910 usb-storage.quirks= 6911 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6912 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6913 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6914 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6915 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6916 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6917 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6918 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6919 of sense data, not on uas); 6920 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6921 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6922 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6923 device capacity by one sector); 6924 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6925 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6926 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6927 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6928 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6929 command, uas only); 6930 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6931 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6932 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6933 reported device capacity by one 6934 sector if the number is odd); 6935 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6936 device); 6937 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6938 command, uas only); 6939 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6940 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6941 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6942 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6943 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6944 not on uas); 6945 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6946 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6947 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6948 reported by the device, not on uas); 6949 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6950 by default, not on uas); 6951 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6952 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6953 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6954 Logical Unit); 6955 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6956 commands, uas only); 6957 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6958 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6959 medium is write-protected). 6960 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6961 even if the device claims no cache, 6962 not on uas) 6963 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6964 6965 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6966 Format: <int> 6967 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6968 1 - undefined instruction events 6969 2 - system calls 6970 4 - invalid data aborts 6971 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6972 16 - SIGBUS faults 6973 Example: user_debug=31 6974 6975 userpte= 6976 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6977 6978 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6979 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6980 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6981 6982 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6983 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6984 6985 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6986 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6987 6988 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6989 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6990 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6991 6992 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6993 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6994 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6995 6996 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6997 alias for vdso32=0. 6998 6999 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7000 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7001 7002 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 7003 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 7004 7005 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 7006 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7007 7008 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7009 Format: [0|1] 7010 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7011 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7012 level and then send out the event to user space through 7013 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7014 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7015 brightness level. 7016 default: 1 7017 7018 virtio_mmio.device= 7019 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7020 7021 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7022 where: 7023 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7024 like K, M and G) 7025 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7026 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7027 request_irq()) 7028 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7029 example: 7030 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7031 7032 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7033 7034 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7035 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7036 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7037 Use vga=ask for menu. 7038 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7039 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7040 7041 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7042 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7043 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7044 All options are enabled by default, and this 7045 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7046 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7047 debugging features. 7048 7049 Available options are: 7050 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7051 - Disable all of the above options 7052 7053 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 7054 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 7055 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 7056 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 7057 mapped kernel RAM. 7058 7059 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 7060 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7061 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7062 7063 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7064 Format: <command> 7065 7066 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7067 Format: <command> 7068 7069 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7070 Format: <command> 7071 7072 vsyscall= [X86-64] 7073 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7074 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7075 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7076 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7077 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7078 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7079 7080 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7081 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7082 readable. 7083 7084 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7085 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7086 page is not readable. 7087 7088 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7089 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7090 might break your system. 7091 7092 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7093 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7094 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7095 7096 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7097 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7098 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7099 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7100 7101 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7102 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7103 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7104 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7105 ranging from 0-255. 7106 7107 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7108 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7109 Change the default green palette of the console. 7110 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7111 ranging from 0-255. 7112 7113 vt.default_red= [VT] 7114 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7115 Change the default red palette of the console. 7116 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7117 ranging from 0-255. 7118 7119 vt.default_utf8= 7120 [VT] 7121 Format=<0|1> 7122 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7123 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7124 newly opened terminals. 7125 7126 vt.global_cursor_default= 7127 [VT] 7128 Format=<-1|0|1> 7129 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7130 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7131 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7132 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7133 cursors, 1 will display them. 7134 7135 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7136 Default: 2 = green. 7137 7138 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7139 Default: 3 = cyan. 7140 7141 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7142 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7143 or other driver-specific files in the 7144 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7145 7146 watchdog_thresh= 7147 [KNL] 7148 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7149 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7150 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7151 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7152 seconds. 7153 7154 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7155 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7156 to use in unbound workqueues. 7157 Format: <cpu-list> 7158 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7159 unbound workqueues. 7160 7161 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7162 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7163 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7164 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7165 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7166 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7167 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7168 corresponding sysfs file. 7169 7170 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7171 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7172 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7173 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7174 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7175 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7176 7177 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7178 will report the work functions which violate this 7179 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7180 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7181 7182 workqueue.power_efficient 7183 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7184 they show better performance thanks to cache 7185 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7186 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7187 7188 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7189 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7190 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7191 power usage at the cost of small performance 7192 overhead. 7193 7194 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7195 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7196 7197 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7198 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7199 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7200 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7201 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7202 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7203 7204 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7205 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7206 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7207 updated accordignly. 7208 7209 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7210 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7211 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7212 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7213 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7214 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7215 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7216 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7217 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7218 impacted. 7219 7220 writecombine= [LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of 7221 ioremap_wc(). 7222 7223 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7224 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7225 7226 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7227 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7228 supporting x2apic. 7229 7230 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7231 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7232 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7233 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7234 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7235 domains. 7236 7237 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 7238 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7239 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7240 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7241 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7242 nics -- unplug network devices 7243 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7244 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7245 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7246 the unplug protocol 7247 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7248 7249 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 7250 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7251 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7252 7253 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 7254 Format: <bool> 7255 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7256 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7257 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7258 7259 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 7260 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 7261 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 7262 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7263 7264 xen_nopv [X86] 7265 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7266 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7267 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7268 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7269 7270 xen_no_vector_callback 7271 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7272 event channel interrupts. 7273 7274 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7275 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7276 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7277 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7278 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7279 7280 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 7281 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7282 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7283 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7284 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7285 more timer interrupts. 7286 7287 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7288 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7289 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7290 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7291 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7292 max. Default is 180. 7293 7294 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7295 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7296 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7297 7298 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7299 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7300 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7301 7302 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7303 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7304 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7305 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7306 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7307 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7308 7309 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7310 Format: 7311 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7312 7313 xive= [PPC] 7314 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7315 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7316 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7317 7318 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7319 controller on both pseries and powernv 7320 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7321 7322 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7323 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7324 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7325 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7326 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7327 7328 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7329 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7330 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7331 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7332 7333 xmon [PPC] 7334 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7335 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7336 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7337 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7338 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7339 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7340 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7341 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7342 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7343 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7344 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7345 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7346 can be written using xmon commands. 7347 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7348 memory, and other data can't be written using 7349 xmon commands. 7350 off xmon is disabled. 7351 7352