1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 482 no delay (0). 483 Format: integer 484 485 bootconfig [KNL] 486 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 487 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 488 489 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 490 491 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 492 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 493 kernel args too. 494 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 495 bttv.tuner= 496 497 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 498 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 499 at a time. 500 501 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 502 503 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 504 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 505 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 506 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 507 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 508 This option provides an override for these situations. 509 510 carrier_timeout= 511 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 512 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 513 it waits 120 seconds. 514 515 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 516 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 517 trust validation. 518 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 519 520 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 521 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 522 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 523 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 524 others). 525 526 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 529 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 530 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 531 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 532 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 533 a single hierarchy 534 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 535 subsystem 536 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 537 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 538 created 539 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 540 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 541 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 542 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 543 stall information accounting feature 544 545 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 546 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 547 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 548 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 549 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 550 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 551 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 552 all v1 hierarchies. 553 554 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 555 Format: <string> 556 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 557 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 558 559 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 560 Format: { "0" | "1" } 561 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 562 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 563 any implied execute protection). 564 1 -- check protection requested by application. 565 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 566 Value can be changed at runtime via 567 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 568 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 569 570 cio_ignore= [S390] 571 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 572 573 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 574 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 575 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 576 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 577 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 578 ones should be. 579 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 580 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 581 instability issue. However, not all features have names 582 in /proc/cpuinfo. 583 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 584 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 585 or using the feature without checking anything 586 will still see it. This just prevents it from 587 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 588 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 589 some critical bits. 590 591 clk_ignore_unused 592 [CLK] 593 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 594 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 595 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 596 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 597 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 598 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 599 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 600 platform with proper driver support. For more 601 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 602 603 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 604 [Deprecated] 605 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 606 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 607 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 608 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 609 610 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 611 Format: <string> 612 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 613 with the name specified. 614 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 615 the platform: 616 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 617 [ACPI] acpi_pm 618 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 619 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 620 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 621 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 622 [MIPS] MIPS 623 [PARISC] cr16 624 [S390] tod 625 [SH] SuperH 626 [SPARC64] tick 627 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 628 629 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 630 [ARM,ARM64] 631 Format: <bool> 632 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 633 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 634 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 635 systems. 636 637 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 638 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 639 external delays before the clock will be marked 640 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 641 three attempts to read the clock under test. 642 643 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 644 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 645 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 646 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 647 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 648 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 649 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 650 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 651 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 652 653 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 654 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 655 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 656 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 657 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 658 659 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 660 [KNL,CMA] 661 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 662 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 663 placement constraint by the physical address range of 664 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 665 altogether. For more information, see 666 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 667 668 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 669 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 670 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 671 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 672 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 673 specificed, the default value is 0. 674 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 675 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 676 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 677 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 678 679 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 680 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 681 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 682 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 683 a hypervisor. 684 Default: yes 685 686 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 687 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 688 allocations, by default set to 256K. 689 690 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 691 Format: 692 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 693 694 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 695 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 696 697 com90xx= [HW,NET] 698 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 699 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 700 701 condev= [HW,S390] console device 702 conmode= 703 704 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 705 706 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 707 708 ttyS<n>[,options] 709 ttyUSB0[,options] 710 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 711 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 712 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 713 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 714 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 715 716 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 717 information. See 718 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 719 alternative. 720 721 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 722 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 723 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 724 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 725 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 726 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 727 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 728 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 729 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 730 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 731 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 732 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 733 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 734 the h/w is not re-initialized. 735 736 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 737 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 738 739 { null | "" } 740 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 741 console messages discarded. 742 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 743 kernel command line. 744 745 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 746 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 747 console=brl,ttyS0 748 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 749 750 console_msg_format= 751 [KNL] Change console messages format 752 default 753 By default we print messages on consoles in 754 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 755 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 756 `printk_time' param). 757 syslog 758 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 759 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 760 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 761 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 762 from /proc/kmsg. 763 764 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 765 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 766 Defaults to 0. 767 768 coredump_filter= 769 [KNL] Change the default value for 770 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 771 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 772 773 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 774 [ARM,ARM64] 775 Format: <bool> 776 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 777 0: default value, disable debugging 778 1: enable debugging at boot time 779 780 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 781 Format: 782 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 783 784 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 785 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 786 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 787 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 788 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 789 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 790 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 791 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 792 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 793 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 794 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 795 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 796 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 797 798 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 799 disable the cpuidle sub-system 800 801 cpuidle.governor= 802 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 803 804 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 805 disable the cpufreq sub-system 806 807 cpufreq.default_governor= 808 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 809 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 810 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 811 812 cpu_init_udelay=N 813 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 814 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 815 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 816 Default: 10000 817 818 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 819 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 820 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 821 succeeds in any situation. 822 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 823 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 824 kernel more unstable. 825 826 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 827 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 828 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 829 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 830 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 831 is selected automatically. 832 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 833 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 834 hasn't been specified. 835 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 836 837 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 838 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 839 in the running system. The syntax of range is 840 start-[end] where start and end are both 841 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 842 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 843 844 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 845 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 846 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 847 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 848 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 849 available. 850 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 851 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 852 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 853 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 854 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 855 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 856 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 857 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 858 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 859 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 860 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 861 for second kernel instead. 862 0: to disable low allocation. 863 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 864 or memory reserved is below 4G. 865 866 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 867 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 868 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 869 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 870 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 871 872 cryptomgr.notests 873 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 874 875 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 876 Format: <dma> 877 878 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 879 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 880 881 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 882 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 883 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 884 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 885 to resolve the hang situation. 886 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 887 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 888 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 889 but more data) 890 891 dasd= [HW,NET] 892 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 893 894 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 895 (one device per port) 896 Format: <port#>,<type> 897 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 898 899 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 900 901 debug_boot_weak_hash 902 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 903 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 904 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 905 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 906 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 907 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 908 909 debug_locks_verbose= 910 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 911 Format: <int> 912 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 913 self-tests. 914 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 915 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 916 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 917 useful to lockdep developers. 918 919 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 920 921 no_debug_objects 922 [KNL] Disable object debugging 923 924 debug_guardpage_minorder= 925 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 926 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 927 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 928 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 929 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 930 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 931 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 932 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 933 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 934 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 935 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 936 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 937 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 938 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 939 bypassed) which are not detectable by 940 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 941 tracking down these problems. 942 943 debug_pagealloc= 944 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 945 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 946 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 947 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 948 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 949 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 950 on: enable the feature 951 952 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 953 and debugfs internal clients. 954 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 955 on: All functions are enabled. 956 no-mount: 957 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 958 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 959 its content. There is nothing to mount. 960 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 961 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 962 or directories within debugfs. 963 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 964 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 965 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 966 967 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 968 969 default_hugepagesz= 970 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 971 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 972 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 973 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 974 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 975 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 976 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 977 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 978 Format: size[KMG] 979 980 deferred_probe_timeout= 981 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 982 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 983 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 984 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 985 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 986 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 987 successful driver registration. This option will also 988 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 989 retrying. 990 991 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 992 993 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 994 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 995 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 996 hardware. 997 998 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 999 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1000 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1001 blacklisted features. 1002 1003 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1004 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1005 (disabled by default). 1006 1007 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1008 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1009 capability is set. 1010 1011 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1012 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1013 1014 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1015 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1016 1017 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1018 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1019 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1020 level 1 and decompression (default) 1021 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1022 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1023 only (compression on level 1) 1024 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1025 only (decompression) 1026 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1027 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1028 1029 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1030 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1031 1032 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1033 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1034 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1035 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1036 miss to occur. 1037 1038 stress_slb [PPC] 1039 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1040 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1041 on kernel addresses. 1042 1043 disable= [IPV6] 1044 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1045 1046 disable_radix [PPC] 1047 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1048 1049 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1050 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1051 invalidate. 1052 1053 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1054 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1055 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1056 1057 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1058 Format: <int> 1059 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1060 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1061 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1062 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1063 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1064 INIT from AP to BSP. 1065 1066 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1067 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1068 to workaround buggy firmware. 1069 1070 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1071 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1072 1073 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1074 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1075 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1076 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1077 1078 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1079 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1080 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1081 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1082 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1083 1084 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1085 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1086 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1087 1088 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1089 1090 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1091 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1092 1093 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1094 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1095 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1096 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1097 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1098 architectural default is too low. 1099 1100 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1101 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1102 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1103 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1104 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1105 driver later using sysfs. 1106 1107 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1108 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1109 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1110 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1111 match the *. 1112 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1113 1114 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1115 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1116 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1117 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1118 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1119 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1120 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1121 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1122 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1123 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1124 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1125 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1126 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1127 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1128 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1129 data set with no connector name will be used for 1130 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1131 1132 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1133 1134 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1135 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1136 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1137 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1138 exists). 1139 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1140 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1141 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1142 1143 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1144 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1145 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1146 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1147 1148 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1149 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1150 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1151 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1152 for details. 1153 1154 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1155 in some Intel CPUs. 1156 1157 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 1158 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 1159 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 1160 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 1161 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 1162 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 1163 1164 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1165 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1166 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1167 which are not unmapped. 1168 1169 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1170 1171 When used with no options, the early console is 1172 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1173 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1174 the platform. 1175 1176 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1177 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1178 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1179 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1180 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1181 configured. 1182 1183 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1184 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1185 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1186 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1187 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1188 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1189 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1190 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1191 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1192 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1193 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1194 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1195 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1196 1197 pl011,<addr> 1198 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1199 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1200 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1201 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1202 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1203 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1204 the device registers. 1205 1206 liteuart,<addr> 1207 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1208 specified address. The serial port must already be 1209 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1210 1211 meson,<addr> 1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1213 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1214 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1215 supported. 1216 1217 msm_serial,<addr> 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1219 port at the specified address. The serial port 1220 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1221 yet supported. 1222 1223 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1225 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1226 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1227 yet supported. 1228 1229 owl,<addr> 1230 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1231 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1232 specified address. The serial port must already be 1233 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1234 1235 rda,<addr> 1236 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1237 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1238 specified address. The serial port must already be 1239 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1240 1241 sbi 1242 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1243 console. 1244 1245 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1246 1247 s3c2410,<addr> 1248 s3c2412,<addr> 1249 s3c2440,<addr> 1250 s3c6400,<addr> 1251 s5pv210,<addr> 1252 exynos4210,<addr> 1253 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1254 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1255 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1256 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1257 Options are not yet supported. 1258 1259 lantiq,<addr> 1260 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1261 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1262 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1263 yet supported. 1264 1265 lpuart,<addr> 1266 lpuart32,<addr> 1267 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1268 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1269 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1270 port must already be setup and configured. 1271 1272 ec_imx21,<addr> 1273 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1274 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1275 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1276 must already be setup and configured. 1277 1278 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1280 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1281 address. The serial port must already be setup 1282 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 qcom_geni,<addr> 1285 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1286 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1287 specified address. The serial port must already be 1288 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1289 1290 efifb,[options] 1291 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1292 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1293 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1294 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1295 mapped with the correct attributes. 1296 1297 linflex,<addr> 1298 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1299 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1300 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1301 already be setup and configured. 1302 1303 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1304 earlyprintk=vga 1305 earlyprintk=sclp 1306 earlyprintk=xen 1307 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1308 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1309 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1310 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1311 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1312 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1313 1314 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1315 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1316 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1317 1318 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1319 takes over. 1320 1321 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1322 be used at a time. 1323 1324 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1325 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1326 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1327 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1328 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1329 You can find the port for a given device in 1330 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1331 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1332 1333 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1334 very good. 1335 1336 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1337 the real console. 1338 1339 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1340 1341 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1342 1343 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1344 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1345 UART class. 1346 1347 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1348 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1349 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1350 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1351 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1352 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1353 default: on. 1354 1355 edd= [EDD] 1356 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1357 1358 efi= [EFI] 1359 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1360 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1361 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1362 debug: enable misc debug output. 1363 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1364 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1365 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1366 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1367 firmware implementations. 1368 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1369 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1370 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1371 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1372 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1373 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1374 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1375 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1376 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1377 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1378 1379 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1380 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1381 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1382 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1383 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1384 1385 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1386 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1387 updating original EFI memory map. 1388 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1389 from ss to ss+nn. 1390 1391 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1392 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1393 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1394 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1395 1396 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1397 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1398 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1399 1400 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1401 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1402 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1403 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1404 "soft reserved". 1405 1406 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1407 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1408 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1409 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1410 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1411 1412 1413 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1414 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1415 1416 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1417 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1418 1419 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1420 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1421 1422 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1423 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1424 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1425 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1426 1427 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1428 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1429 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1430 1431 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1432 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1433 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1434 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1435 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1436 1437 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1438 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1439 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1440 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1441 1442 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1443 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1444 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1445 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1446 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1447 1448 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1449 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1450 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1451 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1452 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1453 Default value is 0. 1454 Value can be changed at runtime via 1455 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1456 1457 erst_disable [ACPI] 1458 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1459 support. 1460 1461 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1462 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1463 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1464 1465 evm= [EVM] 1466 Format: { "fix" } 1467 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1468 current integrity status. 1469 1470 failslab= 1471 fail_usercopy= 1472 fail_page_alloc= 1473 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1474 General fault injection mechanism. 1475 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1476 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1477 1478 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1479 Format: { initns | none } 1480 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1481 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1482 1483 floppy= [HW] 1484 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1485 1486 force_pal_cache_flush 1487 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1488 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1489 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1490 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1491 1492 forcepae [X86-32] 1493 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1494 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1495 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1496 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1497 and may cause unknown problems. 1498 1499 ftrace=[tracer] 1500 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1501 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1502 boot debugging. 1503 1504 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1505 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1506 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1507 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1508 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1509 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1510 start up functionality. 1511 1512 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1513 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1514 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1515 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1516 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1517 oops. 1518 1519 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1520 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1521 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1522 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1523 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1524 tracing directory. 1525 1526 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1527 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1528 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1529 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1530 tracing directory. 1531 1532 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1533 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1534 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1535 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1536 that can be changed at run time by the 1537 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1538 1539 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1540 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1541 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1542 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1543 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1544 1545 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1546 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1547 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1548 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1549 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1550 1551 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1552 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1553 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1554 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1555 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1556 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1557 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1558 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1559 suppliers). 1560 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1561 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1562 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1563 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1564 up (sync_state() calls). 1565 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1566 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1567 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1568 1569 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1570 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1571 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1572 Format: <bool> 1573 1574 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1575 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1576 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1577 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1578 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1579 1580 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1581 1582 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1583 Format: off | on 1584 default: on 1585 1586 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1587 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1588 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1589 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1590 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1591 1592 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1593 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1594 android emulator 1595 1596 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1597 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1598 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1599 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1600 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1601 1602 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1603 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1604 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1605 GPT to be used instead. 1606 1607 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1608 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1609 Format: 0 | 1 1610 Default: 0 1611 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1612 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1613 Format: 0 | 1 1614 Default: 0 1615 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1616 Format: 0 | 1 1617 Default: 0 1618 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1619 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1620 Default: 1024 1621 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1622 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1623 Default: 1024 1624 1625 hardened_usercopy= 1626 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1627 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1628 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1629 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1630 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1631 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1632 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1633 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1634 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1635 1636 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1637 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1638 backtraces on all cpus. 1639 Format: 0 | 1 1640 1641 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1642 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1643 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1644 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1645 1646 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1647 1648 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1649 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1650 1651 hest_disable [ACPI] 1652 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1653 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1654 logic will be disabled. 1655 1656 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1657 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1658 present during boot. 1659 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1660 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1661 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1662 (that will set all pages holding image data 1663 during restoration read-only). 1664 1665 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1666 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1667 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1668 size on bigger boxes. 1669 1670 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1671 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1672 Default: "on" 1673 1674 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1675 1676 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1677 Format: <string> 1678 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1679 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1680 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1681 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1682 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1683 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1684 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1685 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1686 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1687 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1688 1689 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1690 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1691 verbose } 1692 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1693 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1694 VIA, nVidia) 1695 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1696 1697 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1698 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1699 1700 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1701 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1702 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1703 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1704 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1705 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1706 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1707 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1708 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1709 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1710 1711 hugepagesz= 1712 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1713 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1714 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1715 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1716 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1717 architecture dependent. See also 1718 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1719 Format: size[KMG] 1720 1721 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1722 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1723 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1724 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1725 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1726 1727 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1728 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1729 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1730 1731 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1732 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1733 enabled. 1734 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1735 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1736 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1737 Format: { on | off (default) } 1738 1739 on: enable HVO 1740 off: disable HVO 1741 1742 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1743 the default is on. 1744 1745 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1746 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1747 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1748 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1749 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1750 1751 hung_task_panic= 1752 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1753 Format: 0 | 1 1754 1755 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1756 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1757 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1758 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1759 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1760 1761 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1762 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1763 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1764 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1765 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1766 1767 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1768 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1769 guest on lock contention. 1770 1771 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1772 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1773 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1774 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1775 the real console. 1776 1777 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1778 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1779 registered from board initialization code. 1780 Format: 1781 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1782 1783 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1784 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1785 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1786 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1787 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1788 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1789 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1790 keyboard and cannot control its state 1791 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1792 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1793 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1794 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1795 for the AUX port 1796 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1797 controller 1798 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1799 controllers 1800 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1801 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1802 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1803 transitions, or never reset 1804 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1805 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1806 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1807 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1808 architectures force reset to be always executed 1809 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1810 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1811 i8042.probe_defer 1812 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1813 1814 i810= [HW,DRM] 1815 1816 i915.invert_brightness= 1817 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1818 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1819 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1820 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1821 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1822 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1823 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1824 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1825 value switches the backlight off. 1826 -1 -- never invert brightness 1827 0 -- machine default 1828 1 -- force brightness inversion 1829 1830 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1831 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1832 1833 1834 idle= [X86] 1835 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1836 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1837 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1838 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1839 Not recommended. 1840 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1841 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1842 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1843 1844 idxd.sva= [HW] 1845 Format: <bool> 1846 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1847 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1848 true (1). 1849 1850 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1851 Format: <bool> 1852 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1853 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1854 1855 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1856 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1857 Default: strict 1858 1859 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1860 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1861 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1862 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1863 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1864 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1865 encoding mode. 1866 1867 Available settings are as follows: 1868 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1869 supported by the FPU 1870 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1871 by the FPU 1872 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1873 by the FPU 1874 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1875 supported by the FPU 1876 1877 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1878 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1879 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1880 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1881 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1882 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1883 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1884 MIPS64 CPUs. 1885 1886 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1887 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1888 except where unsupported by hardware. 1889 1890 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1891 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1892 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1893 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1894 could change it dynamically, usually by 1895 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1896 1897 ignore_rlimit_data 1898 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1899 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1900 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1901 1902 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1903 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1904 1905 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1906 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1907 default: "enforce" 1908 1909 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1910 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1911 owned by uid=0. 1912 1913 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1914 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1915 measurements, instead of host native format. 1916 1917 ima_hash= [IMA] 1918 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1919 | sha512 | ... } 1920 default: "sha1" 1921 1922 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1923 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1924 1925 ima_policy= [IMA] 1926 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1927 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1928 fail_securely | critical_data" 1929 1930 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1931 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1932 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1933 uid=0. 1934 1935 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1936 all files owned by root. 1937 1938 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1939 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1940 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1941 1942 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1943 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1944 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1945 flag. 1946 1947 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1948 critical data. 1949 1950 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1951 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1952 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1953 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1954 opened for read by uid=0. 1955 1956 ima_template= [IMA] 1957 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1958 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1959 "ima-sigv2" } 1960 Default: "ima-ng" 1961 1962 ima_template_fmt= 1963 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1964 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1965 1966 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1967 Format: <min_file_size> 1968 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1969 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1970 1971 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1972 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1973 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1974 1975 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1976 Format: <bufsize> 1977 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1978 1979 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1980 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1981 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1982 1983 init= [KNL] 1984 Format: <full_path> 1985 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1986 process. 1987 1988 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1989 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1990 startup. 1991 1992 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1993 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1994 modules and initcalls. 1995 1996 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1997 Format: <bool> 1998 Default: 1 1999 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2000 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2001 with devices being probed and 2002 initialized. This should normally just work, 2003 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2004 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2005 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2006 late_ initcalls. 2007 2008 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2009 2010 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2011 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2012 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2013 setting. 2014 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2015 Default is 0, 0 2016 2017 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2018 zeroes. 2019 Format: 0 | 1 2020 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2021 2022 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2023 Format: 0 | 1 2024 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2025 2026 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2027 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2028 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2029 override in debugfs after boot. 2030 2031 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2032 Format: <irq> 2033 2034 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2035 2036 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2037 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2038 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2039 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2040 2041 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2042 on 2043 Enable intel iommu driver. 2044 off 2045 Disable intel iommu driver. 2046 igfx_off [Default Off] 2047 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2048 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2049 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2050 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2051 DMA. 2052 strict [Default Off] 2053 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2054 sp_off [Default Off] 2055 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2056 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2057 not be supported. 2058 sm_on 2059 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2060 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2061 translation. 2062 sm_off 2063 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2064 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2065 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2066 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2067 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2068 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2069 mapping is enabled. 2070 Note that using this option lowers the security 2071 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2072 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2073 2074 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2075 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2076 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2077 2078 intel_pstate= [X86] 2079 disable 2080 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2081 scaling driver for the supported processors 2082 passive 2083 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2084 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2085 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2086 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2087 feature. 2088 force 2089 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2090 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2091 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2092 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2093 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2094 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2095 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2096 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2097 no_hwp 2098 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2099 if available. 2100 hwp_only 2101 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2102 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2103 support_acpi_ppc 2104 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2105 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2106 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2107 then this feature is turned on by default. 2108 per_cpu_perf_limits 2109 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2110 cpufreq sysfs interface 2111 2112 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2113 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2114 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2115 nosid disable Source ID checking 2116 no_x2apic_optout 2117 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2118 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2119 2120 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2121 strict regions from userspace. 2122 relaxed 2123 2124 iommu= [X86] 2125 off 2126 force 2127 noforce 2128 biomerge 2129 panic 2130 nopanic 2131 merge 2132 nomerge 2133 soft 2134 pt [X86] 2135 nopt [X86] 2136 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2137 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2138 2139 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2140 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2141 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2142 falling back to the full range if needed. 2143 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2144 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2145 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2146 2147 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2148 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2149 0 - Lazy mode. 2150 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2151 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2152 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2153 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2154 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2155 1 - Strict mode. 2156 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2157 synchronously. 2158 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2159 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2160 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2161 2162 iommu.passthrough= 2163 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2164 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2165 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2166 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2167 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2168 2169 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2170 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2171 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2172 2173 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2174 0x80 2175 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2176 0xed 2177 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2178 udelay 2179 Simple two microseconds delay 2180 none 2181 No delay 2182 2183 ip= [IP_PNP] 2184 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2185 2186 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2187 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2188 2189 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2190 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2191 2192 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2193 [ARM, ARM64] 2194 Format: <bool> 2195 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2196 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2197 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2198 2199 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2200 [ARM, ARM64] 2201 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2202 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2203 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2204 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2205 LPIs. 2206 2207 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2208 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2209 requires the kernel to be built with 2210 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2211 2212 irqfixup [HW] 2213 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2214 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2215 firmware running. 2216 2217 irqpoll [HW] 2218 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2219 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2220 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2221 firmware running. 2222 2223 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2224 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2225 2226 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2227 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2228 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2229 2230 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2231 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2232 2233 nohz 2234 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2235 2236 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2237 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2238 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2239 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2240 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2241 2242 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2243 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2244 be configured manually after bootup. 2245 2246 domain 2247 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2248 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2249 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2250 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2251 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2252 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2253 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2254 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2255 2256 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2257 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2258 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2259 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2260 2261 managed_irq 2262 2263 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2264 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2265 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2266 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2267 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2268 2269 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2270 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2271 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2272 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2273 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2274 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2275 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2276 2277 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2278 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2279 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2280 only delivered when tasks running on those 2281 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2282 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2283 queues. 2284 2285 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2286 2287 iucv= [HW,NET] 2288 2289 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2290 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2291 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2292 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2293 For example: 2294 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2295 write the parameter as: 2296 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2297 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2298 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2299 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2300 2301 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2302 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2303 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2304 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2305 For example: 2306 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2307 write the parameter as: 2308 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2309 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2310 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2311 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2312 2313 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2314 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2315 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2316 2317 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2318 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2319 write the parameter as: 2320 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2321 2322 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2323 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2324 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2325 2326 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2327 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2328 2329 nokaslr [KNL] 2330 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2331 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2332 Layout Randomization). 2333 2334 kasan_multi_shot 2335 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2336 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2337 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2338 invalid access. 2339 2340 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2341 2342 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2343 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2344 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2345 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2346 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2347 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2348 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2349 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2350 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2351 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2352 2353 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2354 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2355 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2356 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2357 zone if it does not. 2358 2359 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2360 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2361 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2362 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2363 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2364 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2365 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2366 2367 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2368 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2369 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2370 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2371 optional and is the number seconds in between 2372 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2373 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2374 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2375 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2376 the kernel debugger. 2377 2378 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2379 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2380 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2381 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2382 keyboard only format: kbd 2383 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2384 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2385 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2386 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2387 2388 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2389 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2390 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2391 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2392 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2393 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2394 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2395 2396 The name of the early console should be specified 2397 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2398 the early console might be different than the tty 2399 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2400 blank and the first boot console that implements 2401 read() will be picked. 2402 2403 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2404 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2405 2406 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2407 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2408 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2409 2410 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2411 Valid arguments: on, off 2412 Default: on 2413 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2414 the default is off. 2415 2416 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2417 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2418 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2419 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2420 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2421 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2422 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2423 2424 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2425 2426 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2427 Boot Parameter" section. 2428 2429 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2430 and kernel address spaces. 2431 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2432 0: force disabled 2433 1: force enabled 2434 2435 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2436 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2437 2438 kvm.eager_page_split= 2439 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2440 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2441 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2442 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2443 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2444 required to split huge pages lazily. 2445 2446 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2447 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2448 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2449 still be used for reads. 2450 2451 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2452 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2453 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2454 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2455 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2456 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2457 cleared. 2458 2459 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2460 2461 Default is Y (on). 2462 2463 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2464 Default is false (don't support). 2465 2466 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2467 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2468 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2469 force : Always deploy workaround. 2470 off : Never deploy workaround. 2471 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2472 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2473 2474 Default is 'auto'. 2475 2476 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2477 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2478 2479 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2480 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2481 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2482 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2483 period (see below). The default is 60. 2484 2485 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2486 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2487 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2488 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2489 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2490 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2491 2492 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2493 Default is 1 (enabled) 2494 2495 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2496 for all guests. 2497 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2498 2499 kvm-arm.mode= 2500 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2501 2502 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2503 2504 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2505 protected guests. 2506 2507 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2508 state is kept private from the host. 2509 2510 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2511 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2512 for the host. 2513 2514 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2515 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2516 system registers 2517 2518 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2519 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2520 system registers 2521 2522 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2523 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2524 system registers 2525 2526 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2527 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2528 LPIs. 2529 2530 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2531 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2532 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2533 allocation. 2534 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2535 Format: <integer> 2536 Default: 5 2537 2538 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2539 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2540 Default is 1 (enabled) 2541 2542 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2543 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2544 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2545 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2546 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2547 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2548 Default is 1 (enabled) 2549 2550 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2551 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2552 Default is 1 (enabled) 2553 2554 kvm-intel.nested= 2555 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2556 Default is 0 (disabled) 2557 2558 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2559 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2560 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2561 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2562 2563 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2564 CVE-2018-3620. 2565 2566 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2567 2568 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2569 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2570 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2571 never: Disables the mitigation 2572 2573 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2574 2575 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2576 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2577 Default is 1 (enabled) 2578 2579 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2580 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2581 2582 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2583 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2584 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2585 2586 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2587 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2588 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2589 not have direct access. 2590 2591 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2592 options are: 2593 2594 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2595 2596 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2597 affected CPUs 2598 2599 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2600 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2601 2602 full 2603 Provides all available mitigations for the 2604 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2605 enables all mitigations in the 2606 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2607 2608 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2609 sysfs interface is still possible after 2610 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2611 when the first VM is started in a 2612 potentially insecure configuration, 2613 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2614 2615 full,force 2616 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2617 flush runtime control. Implies the 2618 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2619 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2620 2621 flush 2622 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2623 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2624 L1D flush. 2625 2626 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2627 sysfs interface is still possible after 2628 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2629 when the first VM is started in a 2630 potentially insecure configuration, 2631 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2632 2633 flush,nosmt 2634 2635 Disables SMT and enables the default 2636 hypervisor mitigation. 2637 2638 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2639 sysfs interface is still possible after 2640 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2641 when the first VM is started in a 2642 potentially insecure configuration, 2643 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2644 2645 flush,nowarn 2646 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2647 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2648 insecure configuration. 2649 2650 off 2651 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2652 emit any warnings. 2653 It also drops the swap size and available 2654 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2655 bare metal. 2656 2657 Default is 'flush'. 2658 2659 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2660 2661 l2cr= [PPC] 2662 2663 l3cr= [PPC] 2664 2665 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2666 disabled it. 2667 2668 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2669 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2670 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2671 Format: notscdeadline 2672 2673 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2674 in C2 power state. 2675 2676 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2677 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2678 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2679 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2680 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2681 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2682 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2683 2684 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2685 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2686 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2687 2688 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2689 when set. 2690 Format: <int> 2691 2692 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2693 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2694 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2695 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2696 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2697 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2698 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2699 to all ports, links and devices. 2700 2701 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2702 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2703 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2704 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2705 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2706 host link and device attached to it. 2707 2708 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2709 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2710 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2711 The following configurations can be forced. 2712 2713 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2714 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2715 2716 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2717 2718 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2719 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2720 allowed. 2721 2722 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2723 resets. 2724 2725 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2726 link recovery. 2727 2728 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2729 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2730 detection. 2731 2732 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2733 2734 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2735 2736 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2737 2738 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2739 2740 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2741 2742 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2743 2744 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2745 2746 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2747 2748 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2749 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2750 2751 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2752 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2753 2754 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2755 identify device data log. 2756 2757 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2758 purpose log directory. 2759 2760 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2761 2762 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2763 1024 sectors. 2764 2765 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2766 65535 sectors. 2767 2768 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2769 2770 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2771 should be skipped. 2772 2773 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2774 2775 * disable: Disable this device. 2776 2777 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2778 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2779 2780 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2781 2782 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2783 Format: <integer> 2784 2785 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2786 Format: <integer> 2787 2788 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2789 Format: <integer> 2790 2791 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2792 Format: <integer> 2793 2794 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2795 { integrity | confidentiality } 2796 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2797 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2798 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2799 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2800 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2801 are also disabled. 2802 2803 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2804 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2805 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2806 number of online CPUs. 2807 2808 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2809 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2810 2811 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2812 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2813 2814 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2815 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2816 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2817 2818 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2819 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2820 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2821 mode during the locktorture test. 2822 2823 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2824 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2825 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2826 2827 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2828 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2829 2830 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2831 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2832 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2833 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2834 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2835 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2836 2837 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2838 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2839 2840 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2841 Enable additional printk() statements. 2842 2843 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2844 Format: <irq> 2845 2846 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2847 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2848 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2849 loglevels are defined as follows: 2850 2851 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2852 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2853 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2854 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2855 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2856 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2857 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2858 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2859 2860 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2861 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2862 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2863 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2864 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2865 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2866 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2867 2868 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2869 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2870 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2871 kernel boot problems. 2872 2873 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2874 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2875 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2876 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2877 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2878 attached printers to be reset. Using 2879 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2880 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2881 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2882 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2883 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2884 port specification list means that device IDs 2885 from each port should be examined, to see if 2886 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2887 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2888 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2889 2890 lpj=n [KNL] 2891 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2892 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2893 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2894 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2895 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2896 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2897 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2898 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2899 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2900 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2901 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2902 hardware. 2903 2904 ltpc= [NET] 2905 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2906 2907 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2908 2909 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2910 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2911 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2912 2913 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2914 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2915 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2916 2917 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2918 different yeeloong laptops. 2919 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2920 2921 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2922 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2923 2924 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2925 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2926 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2927 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2928 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2929 only takes effect during system bootup. 2930 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2931 which also disables the IO APIC. 2932 2933 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2934 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2935 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2936 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2937 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2938 /dev/loop-control interface. 2939 2940 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2941 2942 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2943 2944 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2945 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2946 2947 mdacon= [MDA] 2948 Format: <first>,<last> 2949 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2950 2951 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2952 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2953 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2954 2955 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2956 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2957 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2958 2959 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2960 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2961 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2962 not have direct access. 2963 2964 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2965 options are: 2966 2967 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2968 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2969 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2970 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2971 2972 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2973 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2974 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2975 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2976 too. 2977 2978 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2979 mds=full. 2980 2981 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2982 2983 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2984 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2985 2986 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2987 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2988 2989 1 for test; 2990 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2991 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2992 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2993 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2994 2995 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 2996 high memory is not affected. 2997 2998 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 2999 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3000 3001 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3002 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3003 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3004 belonging to unused RAM. 3005 3006 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3007 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3008 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3009 3010 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3011 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3012 firmware. 3013 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3014 ss[KMG]. 3015 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3016 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3017 3018 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3019 memory. 3020 3021 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3022 3023 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3024 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3025 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3026 3027 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3028 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3029 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3030 set according to the 3031 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3032 option. 3033 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3034 3035 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3036 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3037 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3038 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3039 option description. 3040 3041 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3042 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3043 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3044 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3045 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3046 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3047 comma delimited. 3048 Example: 3049 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3050 3051 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3052 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3053 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3054 3055 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3056 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3057 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3058 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3059 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3060 or 3061 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3062 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3063 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3064 will be eaten. 3065 3066 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3067 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3068 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3069 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3070 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3071 3072 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3073 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3074 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3075 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3076 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3077 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3078 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3079 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3080 3081 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3082 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3083 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3084 Setting this option will scan the memory 3085 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3086 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3087 from using the memory being corrupted. 3088 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3089 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3090 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3091 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3092 3093 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3094 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3095 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3096 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3097 corruption in more or less memory. 3098 3099 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3100 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3101 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3102 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3103 3104 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3105 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3106 Format: {on | off (default)} 3107 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3108 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3109 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3110 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3111 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3112 lot of memory without requiring additional 3113 memory to do so. 3114 This feature is disabled by default because it 3115 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3116 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3117 memory blocks). 3118 The state of the flag can be read in 3119 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3120 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3121 the feature is not effective. 3122 3123 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3124 Format: <integer> 3125 default : 0 <disable> 3126 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3127 performed. Each pass selects another test 3128 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3129 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3130 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3131 regions that are detected. 3132 3133 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3134 Valid arguments: on, off 3135 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3136 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3137 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3138 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3139 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3140 3141 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3142 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3143 3144 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3145 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3146 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3147 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3148 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3149 3150 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3151 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3152 3153 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3154 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3155 platforms. 3156 3157 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3158 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3159 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3160 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3161 3162 mga= [HW,DRM] 3163 3164 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3165 physical address is ignored. 3166 3167 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3168 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3169 Default: "0tb" 3170 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3171 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3172 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3173 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3174 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3175 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3176 unconfigured. 3177 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3178 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3179 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3180 VGA shield. 3181 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3182 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3183 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3184 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3185 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3186 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3187 3188 mitigations= 3189 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3190 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3191 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3192 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3193 3194 off 3195 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3196 improves system performance, but it may also 3197 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3198 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3199 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3200 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3201 nobp=0 [S390] 3202 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3203 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3204 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3205 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3206 l1tf=off [X86] 3207 mds=off [X86] 3208 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3209 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3210 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3211 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3212 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3213 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3214 retbleed=off [X86] 3215 3216 Exceptions: 3217 This does not have any effect on 3218 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3219 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3220 3221 auto (default) 3222 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3223 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3224 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3225 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3226 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3227 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3228 3229 auto,nosmt 3230 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3231 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3232 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3233 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3234 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3235 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3236 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3237 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3238 3239 mminit_loglevel= 3240 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3241 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3242 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3243 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3244 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3245 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3246 3247 mmio_stale_data= 3248 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3249 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3250 3251 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3252 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3253 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3254 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3255 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3256 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3257 3258 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3259 options are: 3260 3261 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3262 3263 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3264 vulnerable CPUs. 3265 3266 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3267 3268 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3269 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3270 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3271 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3272 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3273 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3274 3275 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3276 mmio_stale_data=full. 3277 3278 For details see: 3279 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3280 3281 module.async_probe=<bool> 3282 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3283 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3284 specific module, use the module specific control that 3285 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3286 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3287 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3288 the specific module. 3289 3290 module.sig_enforce 3291 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3292 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3293 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3294 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3295 3296 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3297 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3298 3299 mousedev.tap_time= 3300 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3301 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3302 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3303 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3304 Format: <msecs> 3305 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3306 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3307 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3308 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3309 3310 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3311 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3312 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3313 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3314 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3315 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3316 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3317 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3318 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3319 is not too small. 3320 3321 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3322 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3323 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3324 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3325 allocations. Use with caution! 3326 3327 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3328 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3329 3330 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3331 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3332 3333 mtdparts= [MTD] 3334 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3335 3336 mtdset= [ARM] 3337 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3338 3339 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3340 3341 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3342 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3343 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3344 3345 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3346 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3347 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3348 3349 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3350 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3351 Default is 1. 3352 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3353 using up MTRRs. 3354 3355 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3356 Format: <integer> 3357 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3358 Default : 1 3359 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3360 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3361 3362 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3363 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3364 at a time. 3365 3366 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3367 3368 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3369 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3370 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3371 something different and driver-specific. 3372 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3373 file if at all. 3374 3375 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3376 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3377 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3378 waits 4 seconds. 3379 3380 nf_conntrack.acct= 3381 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3382 0 to disable accounting 3383 1 to enable accounting 3384 Default value is 0. 3385 3386 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3387 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3388 3389 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3390 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3391 3392 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3393 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3394 3395 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3396 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3397 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3398 requests. 3399 3400 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3401 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3402 channel should listen. 3403 3404 nfs.cache_getent= 3405 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3406 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3407 3408 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3409 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3410 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3411 3412 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3413 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3414 entries. 3415 3416 nfs.enable_ino64= 3417 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3418 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3419 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3420 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3421 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3422 3423 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3424 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3425 slots the client will assign to the callback 3426 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3427 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3428 a particular server. 3429 3430 nfs.max_session_slots= 3431 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3432 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3433 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3434 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3435 Note that there is little point in setting this 3436 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3437 3438 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3439 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3440 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3441 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3442 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3443 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3444 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3445 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3446 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3447 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3448 back to using the idmapper. 3449 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3450 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3451 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3452 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3453 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3454 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3455 3456 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3457 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3458 information in exchange_id requests. 3459 If zero, no implementation identification information 3460 will be sent. 3461 The default is to send the implementation identification 3462 information. 3463 3464 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3465 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3466 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3467 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3468 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3469 after the locks are lost. 3470 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3471 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3472 parameter to '1'. 3473 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3474 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3475 3476 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3477 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3478 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3479 3480 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3481 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3482 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3483 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3484 3485 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3486 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3487 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3488 the destination of the copy. 3489 3490 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3491 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3492 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3493 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3494 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3495 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3496 this parameter. 3497 3498 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3499 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3500 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3501 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3502 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3503 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3504 3505 3506 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3507 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3508 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3509 3510 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3511 when a NMI is triggered. 3512 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3513 3514 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3515 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3516 Valid num: 0 or 1 3517 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3518 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3519 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3520 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3521 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3522 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3523 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3524 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3525 need the box quickly up again. 3526 3527 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3528 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3529 3530 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3531 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3532 is present. 3533 3534 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3535 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3536 3537 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3538 3539 no_console_suspend 3540 [HW] Never suspend the console 3541 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3542 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3543 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3544 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3545 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3546 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3547 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3548 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3549 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3550 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3551 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3552 turn on/off it dynamically. 3553 3554 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3555 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3556 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3557 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3558 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3559 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3560 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3561 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3562 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3563 is set. 3564 3565 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3566 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3567 but will impact performance. 3568 3569 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3570 3571 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3572 (CPU alternatives feature). 3573 3574 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3575 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3576 3577 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3578 3579 nocache [ARM] 3580 3581 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3582 3583 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3584 3585 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3586 3587 noexec [IA-64] 3588 3589 nosmap [PPC] 3590 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3591 even if it is supported by processor. 3592 3593 nosmep [PPC64s] 3594 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3595 even if it is supported by processor. 3596 3597 noexec32 [X86-64] 3598 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3599 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3600 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3601 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3602 read implies executable mappings 3603 3604 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3605 3606 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3607 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3608 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3609 3610 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3611 3612 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3613 3614 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3615 Equivalent to smt=1. 3616 3617 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3618 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3619 via the sysfs control file. 3620 3621 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3622 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3623 possible in the system. 3624 3625 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3626 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3627 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3628 option. 3629 3630 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3631 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3632 3633 no_uaccess_flush 3634 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3635 3636 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3637 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3638 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3639 3640 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3641 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3642 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3643 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3644 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3645 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3646 3647 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3648 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3649 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3650 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3651 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3652 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3653 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3654 3655 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3656 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3657 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3658 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3659 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3660 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3661 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3662 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3663 3664 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3665 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3666 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3667 3668 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3669 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3670 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3671 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3672 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3673 real-time systems. 3674 3675 no_hash_pointers 3676 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3677 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3678 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3679 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3680 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3681 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3682 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3683 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3684 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3685 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3686 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3687 kernels. 3688 3689 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3690 3691 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3692 Valid arguments: on, off 3693 Default: on 3694 3695 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3696 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3697 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3698 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3699 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3700 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3701 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3702 just as if they had also been called out in the 3703 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3704 3705 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3706 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3707 3708 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3709 3710 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3711 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3712 3713 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3714 broken timer IRQ sources. 3715 3716 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3717 3718 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3719 initial RAM disk. 3720 3721 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3722 remapping. 3723 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3724 3725 nointroute [IA-64] 3726 3727 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3728 3729 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3730 3731 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3732 3733 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3734 fault handling. 3735 3736 no-vmw-sched-clock 3737 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3738 clock and use the default one. 3739 3740 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3741 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3742 influence scheduler behaviour 3743 3744 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3745 3746 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3747 3748 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3749 3750 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3751 3752 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3753 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3754 3755 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3756 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3757 irq. 3758 3759 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3760 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3761 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3762 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3763 3764 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3765 3766 nomodule Disable module load 3767 3768 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3769 pagetables) support. 3770 3771 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3772 3773 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3774 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3775 3776 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3777 with UP alternatives 3778 3779 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3780 space. 3781 3782 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3783 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3784 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3785 3786 nosbagart [IA-64] 3787 3788 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3789 3790 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3791 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3792 3793 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3794 3795 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3796 3797 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3798 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3799 3800 nowb [ARM] 3801 3802 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3803 3804 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3805 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3806 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3807 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3808 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3809 parameter's value. 3810 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3811 Default: 255 3812 3813 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3814 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3815 SAL PALO. 3816 3817 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3818 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3819 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3820 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3821 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3822 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3823 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3824 hot plugging. 3825 3826 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3827 3828 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3829 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3830 3831 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3832 NUMA balancing. 3833 Allowed values are enable and disable 3834 3835 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3836 'node', 'default' can be specified 3837 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3838 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3839 3840 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3841 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3842 info. 3843 3844 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3845 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3846 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3847 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3848 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3849 interrupts *may* be lost! 3850 3851 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3852 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3853 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3854 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3855 3856 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3857 3858 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3859 3860 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3861 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3862 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3863 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3864 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3865 3866 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3867 process, but there is a small probability of 3868 deadlocking the machine. 3869 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3870 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3871 3872 page_alloc.shuffle= 3873 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3874 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3875 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3876 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3877 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3878 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3879 can be read from sysfs at: 3880 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3881 3882 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3883 Storage of the information about who allocated 3884 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3885 we can turn it on. 3886 on: enable the feature 3887 3888 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3889 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3890 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3891 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3892 on: turn on poisoning 3893 3894 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3895 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3896 Format: <integer> 3897 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3898 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3899 3900 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3901 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3902 timeout = 0: wait forever 3903 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3904 Format: <timeout> 3905 3906 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3907 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3908 bit 0: print all tasks info 3909 bit 1: print system memory info 3910 bit 2: print timer info 3911 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3912 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3913 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3914 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3915 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3916 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3917 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3918 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3919 3920 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3921 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3922 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3923 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3924 called with any of the flags in this set. 3925 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3926 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3927 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3928 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3929 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3930 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3931 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3932 3933 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3934 on a WARN(). 3935 3936 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3937 connected to, default is 0. 3938 Format: <parport#> 3939 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3940 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3941 Format: <mode> 3942 3943 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3944 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3945 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3946 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3947 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3948 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3949 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3950 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3951 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3952 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3953 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3954 are specified on the command line, starting 3955 with parport0. 3956 3957 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3958 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3959 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3960 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3961 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3962 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3963 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3964 3965 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3966 Format: <int> 3967 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3968 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3969 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3970 3971 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3972 Format: <int> 3973 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3974 changes. Disabled by default. 3975 3976 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3977 Format: <int> 3978 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3979 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3980 Disabled by default. 3981 3982 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3983 Format: <int> 3984 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3985 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3986 Disabled by default. 3987 3988 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3989 Format: <int> 3990 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3991 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3992 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3993 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3994 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3995 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3996 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3997 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3998 all channels. 3999 4000 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4001 Format: <int> 4002 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4003 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4004 respectively. Disabled by default. 4005 4006 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4007 Format: <int> 4008 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4009 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4010 respectively. Disabled by default. 4011 4012 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4013 Format: <int> 4014 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4015 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4016 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4017 All modes allowed by default. 4018 4019 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4020 Format: <int> 4021 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4022 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4023 4024 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4025 Format: <int> 4026 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4027 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4028 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4029 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4030 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4031 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4032 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4033 By default all supported ports are probed. 4034 4035 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4036 Format: <int> 4037 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4038 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4039 4040 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4041 Format: <int> 4042 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4043 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4044 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4045 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4046 0 otherwise. 4047 4048 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4049 Format: <int> 4050 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4051 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4052 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4053 allowed by default. 4054 4055 pause_on_oops= 4056 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4057 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4058 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4059 4060 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4061 4062 pcd. [PARIDE] 4063 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4064 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4065 4066 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4067 4068 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4069 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4070 specified in one of the following formats: 4071 4072 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4073 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4074 4075 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4076 bus/device/function address which may change 4077 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4078 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4079 by other kernel parameters. If the 4080 domain is left unspecified, it is 4081 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4082 to a device through multiple device/function 4083 addresses can be specified after the base 4084 address (this is more robust against 4085 renumbering issues). The second format 4086 selects devices using IDs from the 4087 configuration space which may match multiple 4088 devices in the system. 4089 4090 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4091 changes anything 4092 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4093 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4094 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4095 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4096 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4097 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4098 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4099 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4100 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4101 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4102 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4103 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4104 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4105 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4106 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4107 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4108 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4109 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4110 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4111 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4112 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4113 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4114 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4115 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4116 Configuration 4117 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4118 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4119 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4120 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4121 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4122 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4123 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4124 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4125 should never be necessary. 4126 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4127 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4128 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4129 when the system masks IRQs. 4130 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4131 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4132 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4133 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4134 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4135 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4136 on several machines and they hang the machine 4137 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4138 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4139 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4140 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4141 motherboard. 4142 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4143 Use with caution as certain devices share 4144 address decoders between ROMs and other 4145 resources. 4146 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4147 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4148 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4149 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4150 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4151 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4152 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4153 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4154 this way. 4155 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4156 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4157 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4158 F0000h-100000h range. 4159 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4160 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4161 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4162 explicitly which ones they are. 4163 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4164 numbers ourselves, overriding 4165 whatever the firmware may have done. 4166 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4167 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4168 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4169 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4170 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4171 IRQ routing is enabled. 4172 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4173 or for PCI scanning. 4174 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4175 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4176 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4177 please report a bug. 4178 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4179 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4180 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4181 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4182 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4183 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4184 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4185 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4186 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4187 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4188 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4189 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4190 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4191 so this option is a temporary workaround 4192 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4193 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4194 handle more pci cards 4195 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4196 This might help on some broken boards which 4197 machine check when some devices' config space 4198 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4199 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4200 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4201 This sorting is done to get a device 4202 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4203 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4204 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4205 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4206 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4207 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4208 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4209 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4210 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4211 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4212 or bus can support) for best performance. 4213 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4214 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4215 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4216 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4217 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4218 that hot-added devices will work. 4219 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4220 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4221 The default value is 256 bytes. 4222 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4223 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4224 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4225 resource_alignment= 4226 Format: 4227 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4228 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4229 aligned memory resources. How to 4230 specify the device is described above. 4231 If <order of align> is not specified, 4232 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4233 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4234 windows need to be expanded. 4235 To specify the alignment for several 4236 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4237 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4238 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4239 for 4096-byte alignment. 4240 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4241 end-to-end CRC checking). 4242 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4243 the default. 4244 off: Turn ECRC off 4245 on: Turn ECRC on. 4246 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4247 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4248 Default size is 256 bytes. 4249 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4250 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4251 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4252 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4253 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4254 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4255 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4256 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4257 MMIO_PREF window. 4258 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4259 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4260 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4261 Default is 1. 4262 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4263 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4264 accommodate resources required by all child 4265 devices. 4266 off: Turn realloc off 4267 on: Turn realloc on 4268 realloc same as realloc=on 4269 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4270 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4271 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4272 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4273 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4274 port. 4275 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4276 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4277 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4278 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4279 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4280 taints the kernel. 4281 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4282 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4283 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4284 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4285 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4286 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4287 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4288 this removes isolation between devices and 4289 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4290 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4291 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4292 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4293 one PCI domain per PCI function 4294 4295 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4296 Management. 4297 off Disable ASPM. 4298 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4299 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4300 4301 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4302 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4303 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4304 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4305 also tries to use these services. 4306 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4307 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4308 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4309 hotplug). 4310 4311 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4312 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4313 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4314 4315 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4316 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4317 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4318 4319 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4320 4321 pd_ignore_unused 4322 [PM] 4323 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4324 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4325 for debug and development, but should not be 4326 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4327 4328 pd. [PARIDE] 4329 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4330 4331 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4332 boot time. 4333 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4334 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4335 4336 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4337 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4338 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4339 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4340 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4341 and performance comparison. 4342 4343 pf. [PARIDE] 4344 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4345 4346 pg. [PARIDE] 4347 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4348 4349 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4350 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4351 4352 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4353 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4354 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4355 4356 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4357 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4358 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4359 4360 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4361 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4362 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4363 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4364 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4365 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4366 remains 0. 4367 4368 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4369 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4370 4371 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4372 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4373 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4374 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4375 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4376 possible settings and some assignment information. 4377 4378 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4379 { off } 4380 4381 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4382 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4383 4384 pnp_reserve_irq= 4385 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4386 4387 pnp_reserve_dma= 4388 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4389 4390 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4391 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4392 4393 pnp_reserve_mem= 4394 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4395 autoconfiguration. 4396 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4397 4398 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4399 Default is 21. 4400 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4401 may be specified. 4402 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4403 4404 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4405 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4406 platform machine description specific power_save 4407 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4408 execution priority. 4409 4410 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4411 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4412 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4413 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4414 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4415 4416 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4417 Format: {"off"} 4418 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4419 4420 preempt= [KNL] 4421 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4422 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4423 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4424 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4425 can be preempted anytime. 4426 4427 print-fatal-signals= 4428 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4429 4430 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4431 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4432 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4433 coredump - etc. 4434 4435 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4436 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4437 4438 default: off. 4439 4440 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4441 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4442 panics 4443 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4444 default: disabled 4445 4446 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4447 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4448 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4449 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4450 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4451 in order to provide more debug information. 4452 Format: <bool> 4453 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4454 4455 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4456 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4457 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4458 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4459 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4460 Default: ratelimit 4461 4462 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4463 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4464 4465 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4466 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4467 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4468 4469 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4470 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4471 instead using the legacy FADT method 4472 4473 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4474 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4475 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4476 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4477 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4478 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4479 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4480 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4481 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4482 statistical time based profiling. 4483 4484 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4485 4486 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4487 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4488 that). 4489 Format: <bool> 4490 4491 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4492 tracking. 4493 Format: <bool> 4494 4495 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4496 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4497 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4498 per second. 4499 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4500 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4501 (0 = never). 4502 psmouse.resolution= 4503 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4504 psmouse.smartscroll= 4505 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4506 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4507 4508 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4509 4510 pt. [PARIDE] 4511 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4512 4513 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4514 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4515 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4516 system calls and interrupts. 4517 4518 on - unconditionally enable 4519 off - unconditionally disable 4520 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4521 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4522 4523 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4524 4525 nopti [X86-64] 4526 Equivalent to pti=off 4527 4528 pty.legacy_count= 4529 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4530 default number. 4531 4532 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4533 4534 r128= [HW,DRM] 4535 4536 raid= [HW,RAID] 4537 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4538 4539 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4540 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4541 4542 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4543 4544 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4545 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4546 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4547 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4548 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4549 4550 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4551 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4552 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4553 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4554 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4555 4556 randomize_kstack_offset= 4557 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4558 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4559 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4560 that depend on stack address determinism or 4561 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4562 available on architectures that have defined 4563 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4564 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4565 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4566 4567 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4568 4569 cec_disable [X86] 4570 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4571 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4572 4573 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4574 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4575 as described above. 4576 4577 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4578 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4579 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4580 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4581 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4582 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4583 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4584 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4585 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4586 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4587 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4588 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4589 4590 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4591 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4592 4593 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4594 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4595 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4596 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4597 4598 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4599 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4600 4601 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4602 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4603 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4604 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4605 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4606 This improves the real-time response for the 4607 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4608 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4609 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4610 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4611 4612 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4613 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4614 process in one batch. 4615 4616 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4617 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4618 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4619 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4620 4621 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4622 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4623 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4624 4625 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4626 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4627 RCU grace-period initialization. 4628 4629 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4630 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4631 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4632 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4633 the rcu_node combining tree. 4634 4635 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4636 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4637 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4638 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4639 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4640 4641 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4642 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4643 to zero. 4644 4645 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4646 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4647 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4648 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4649 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4650 4651 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4652 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4653 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4654 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4655 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4656 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4657 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4658 4659 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4660 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4661 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4662 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4663 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4664 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4665 condition. 4666 4667 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4668 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4669 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4670 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4671 4672 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4673 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4674 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4675 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4676 and maximum value is HZ. 4677 4678 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4679 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4680 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4681 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4682 4683 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4684 Set required age in jiffies for a 4685 given grace period before RCU starts 4686 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4687 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4688 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4689 a value based on the most recent settings 4690 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4691 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4692 This calculated value may be viewed in 4693 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4694 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4695 overwritten. 4696 4697 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4698 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4699 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4700 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4701 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4702 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4703 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4704 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4705 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4706 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4707 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4708 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4709 4710 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4711 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4712 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4713 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4714 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4715 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4716 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4717 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4718 4719 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4720 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4721 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4722 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4723 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4724 4725 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4726 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4727 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4728 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4729 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4730 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4731 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4732 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4733 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4734 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4735 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4736 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4737 4738 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4739 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4740 each group, which defaults to the square root 4741 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4742 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4743 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4744 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4745 4746 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4747 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4748 batch limiting is disabled. 4749 4750 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4751 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4752 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4753 4754 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4755 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4756 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4757 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4758 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4759 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4760 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4761 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4762 4763 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4764 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4765 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4766 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4767 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4768 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4769 4770 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4771 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4772 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4773 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4774 Larger delays increase the probability of 4775 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4776 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4777 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4778 4779 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4780 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4781 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4782 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4783 4784 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4785 Measure performance of asynchronous 4786 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4787 4788 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4789 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4790 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4791 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4792 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4793 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4794 4795 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4796 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4797 grace-period primitives. 4798 4799 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4800 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4801 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4802 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4803 interference. 4804 4805 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4806 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4807 4808 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4809 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4810 If this parameter has the same value as 4811 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4812 and double-argument variants are tested. 4813 4814 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4815 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4816 If this parameter has the same value as 4817 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4818 and double-argument variants are tested. 4819 4820 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4821 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4822 4823 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4824 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4825 4826 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4827 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4828 of allocations and frees. 4829 4830 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4831 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4832 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4833 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4834 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4835 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4836 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4837 a single reader. 4838 4839 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4840 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4841 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4842 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4843 4844 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4845 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4846 4847 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4848 Shut the system down after performance tests 4849 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4850 testing. 4851 4852 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4853 Enable additional printk() statements. 4854 4855 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4856 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4857 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4858 no holdoff. 4859 4860 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4861 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4862 in microseconds. 4863 4864 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4865 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4866 in microseconds. 4867 4868 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4869 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4870 in seconds. 4871 4872 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4873 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4874 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4875 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4876 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4877 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4878 of CPUs to be used. 4879 4880 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4881 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4882 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4883 4884 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4885 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4886 forward-progress tests. 4887 4888 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4889 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4890 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4891 testing. 4892 4893 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4894 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4895 primitives, if available. 4896 4897 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4898 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4899 4900 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4901 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4902 update-side primitives, if available. 4903 4904 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4905 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4906 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4907 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4908 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4909 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4910 they are all non-zero. 4911 4912 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4913 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4914 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4915 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4916 4917 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4918 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4919 This can of course result in splats, and is 4920 intended to test the ability of things like 4921 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4922 such leaks. 4923 4924 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4925 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4926 4927 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4928 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4929 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4930 test, hence the "fake". 4931 4932 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4933 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4934 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4935 4936 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4937 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4938 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4939 4940 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4941 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4942 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4943 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4944 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4945 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4946 4947 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4948 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4949 4950 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4951 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4952 4953 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4954 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4955 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4956 4957 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4958 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4959 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4960 task-exit processing. 4961 4962 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4963 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4964 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4965 is spawned. 4966 4967 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4968 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4969 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4970 4971 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4972 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4973 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4974 during the rcutorture test. 4975 4976 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4977 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4978 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4979 4980 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4981 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4982 warnings, zero to disable. 4983 4984 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4985 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4986 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4987 to any other stall-related activity. 4988 4989 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4990 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4991 4992 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4993 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4994 4995 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4996 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4997 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4998 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4999 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5000 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5001 5002 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5003 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5004 5005 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5006 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5007 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5008 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5009 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5010 5011 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5012 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5013 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5014 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5015 5016 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5017 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5018 5019 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5020 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5021 5022 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5023 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5024 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5025 5026 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5027 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5028 5029 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5030 Enable additional printk() statements. 5031 5032 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5033 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5034 stall warning. 5035 5036 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5037 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5038 5039 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5040 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5041 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5042 during early boot, that is, during the time 5043 before the init task is spawned. 5044 5045 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5046 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5047 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5048 value is 300 seconds. 5049 5050 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5051 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5052 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5053 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5054 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5055 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5056 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5057 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5058 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5059 5060 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5061 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5062 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5063 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5064 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5065 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5066 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5067 5068 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5069 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5070 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5071 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5072 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5073 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5074 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5075 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5076 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5077 5078 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5079 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5080 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5081 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5082 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5083 5084 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5085 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5086 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5087 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5088 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5089 grace-period processing. 5090 5091 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5092 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5093 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5094 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5095 a single callback queue. This switching only 5096 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5097 set to the default value of -1. 5098 5099 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5100 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5101 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5102 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5103 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5104 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5105 the default value of -1. 5106 5107 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5108 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5109 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5110 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5111 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5112 for use in testing. 5113 5114 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5115 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5116 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5117 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5118 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5119 but lengthens grace periods. 5120 5121 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5122 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5123 informational messages, which give some indication 5124 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5125 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5126 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5127 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5128 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5129 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5130 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5131 5132 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5133 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5134 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5135 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5136 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5137 the value three, so that the first informational 5138 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5139 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5140 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5141 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5142 5143 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5144 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5145 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5146 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5147 A change in value does not take effect until 5148 the beginning of the next grace period. 5149 5150 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5151 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5152 5153 rdinit= [KNL] 5154 Format: <full_path> 5155 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5156 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5157 5158 rdrand= [X86] 5159 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5160 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5161 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5162 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5163 path). 5164 5165 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5166 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5167 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5168 mba. 5169 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5170 rdt=cmt,!mba 5171 5172 reboot= [KNL] 5173 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5174 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5175 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5176 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5177 [[,]f[orce] 5178 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5179 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5180 reboot only), 5181 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5182 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5183 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5184 to be used for rebooting. 5185 5186 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5187 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5188 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5189 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5190 interference. 5191 5192 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5193 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5194 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5195 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5196 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5197 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5198 x86 laptops. 5199 5200 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5201 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5202 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5203 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5204 5205 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5206 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5207 the console log. 5208 5209 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5210 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5211 measured in microseconds. 5212 5213 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5214 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5215 5216 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5217 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5218 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5219 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5220 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5221 5222 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5223 Enable additional printk() statements. 5224 5225 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5226 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5227 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5228 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5229 specified. 5230 5231 relax_domain_level= 5232 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5233 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5234 5235 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5236 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5237 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5238 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5239 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5240 5241 reservetop= [X86-32] 5242 Format: nn[KMG] 5243 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5244 address space. 5245 5246 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5247 during initialization. 5248 5249 resume= [SWSUSP] 5250 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5251 Format: 5252 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5253 5254 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5255 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5256 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5257 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5258 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5259 5260 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5261 read the resume files 5262 5263 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5264 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5265 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5266 5267 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5268 5269 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5270 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5271 vulnerability. 5272 5273 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5274 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5275 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5276 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5277 that don't. 5278 5279 off - no mitigation 5280 auto - automatically select a migitation 5281 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5282 disabling SMT if necessary for 5283 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5284 and older without STIBP). 5285 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5286 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5287 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5288 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5289 on Intel. 5290 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5291 when STIBP is not available. This is 5292 the alternative for systems which do not 5293 have STIBP. 5294 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5295 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5296 systems. 5297 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5298 is not available. This is the alternative for 5299 systems which do not have STIBP. 5300 5301 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5302 time according to the CPU. 5303 5304 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5305 5306 rfkill.default_state= 5307 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5308 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5309 1 Unblocked. 5310 5311 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5312 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5313 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5314 blocked and the previous configuration. 5315 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5316 blocked and everything unblocked. 5317 5318 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5319 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5320 5321 ring3mwait=disable 5322 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5323 CPUs. 5324 5325 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5326 5327 rodata= [KNL] 5328 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5329 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5330 5331 rockchip.usb_uart 5332 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5333 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5334 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5335 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5336 5337 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5338 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5339 5340 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5341 mount the root filesystem 5342 5343 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5344 5345 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5346 5347 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5348 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5349 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5350 5351 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5352 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5353 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5354 managed by CMA. 5355 5356 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5357 5358 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5359 5360 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5361 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5362 strict 5363 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5364 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5365 which is faster. 5366 5367 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5368 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5369 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5370 factor of the size of main memory. 5371 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5372 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5373 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5374 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5375 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5376 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5377 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5378 5379 sa1100ir [NET] 5380 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5381 5382 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5383 5384 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5385 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5386 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5387 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5388 5389 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5390 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5391 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5392 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5393 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5394 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5395 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5396 value. 5397 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5398 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5399 1 64 ms 5400 2 128 ms 5401 and so on. 5402 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5403 Default is 0. 5404 5405 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5406 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5407 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5408 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5409 tests. 5410 5411 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5412 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5413 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5414 default) disables this feature. Please note 5415 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5416 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5417 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5418 5419 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5420 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5421 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5422 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5423 equal to the number of CPUs. 5424 5425 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5426 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5427 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5428 5429 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5430 Number seconds to wait between successive 5431 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5432 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5433 5434 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5435 The number of seconds following the start of the 5436 test after which to shut down the system. The 5437 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5438 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5439 5440 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5441 The number of seconds between outputting the 5442 current test statistics to the console. A value 5443 of zero disables statistics output. 5444 5445 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5446 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5447 to the set of CPUs under test. 5448 5449 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5450 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5451 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5452 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5453 functions. 5454 5455 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5456 Enable additional printk() statements. 5457 5458 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5459 The probability weighting to use for the 5460 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5461 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5462 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5463 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5464 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5465 5466 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5467 The probability weighting to use for the 5468 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5469 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5470 5471 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5472 The probability weighting to use for the 5473 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5474 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5475 Note well that setting a high probability for 5476 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5477 on the system. 5478 5479 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5480 The probability weighting to use for the 5481 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5482 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5483 and weight_many. 5484 5485 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5486 The probability weighting to use for the 5487 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5488 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5489 weight_many. 5490 5491 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5492 The probability weighting to use for the 5493 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5494 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5495 and weight_many. 5496 5497 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5498 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5499 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5500 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5501 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5502 1 -- enable. 5503 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5504 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5505 5506 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5507 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5508 "lsm=" parameter. 5509 5510 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5511 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5512 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5513 0 -- disable. 5514 1 -- enable. 5515 Default value is 1. 5516 5517 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5518 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5519 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5520 0 -- disable. 5521 1 -- enable. 5522 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5523 5524 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5525 5526 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5527 5528 shapers= [NET] 5529 Maximal number of shapers. 5530 5531 simeth= [IA-64] 5532 simscsi= 5533 5534 slram= [HW,MTD] 5535 5536 slab_merge [MM] 5537 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5538 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5539 5540 slab_nomerge [MM] 5541 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5542 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5543 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5544 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5545 layout control by attackers can usually be 5546 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5547 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5548 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5549 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5550 own. 5551 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5552 5553 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5554 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5555 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5556 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5557 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5558 5559 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5560 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5561 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5562 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5563 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5564 last alloc / free. For more information see 5565 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5566 5567 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5568 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5569 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5570 fragmentation. For more information see 5571 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5572 5573 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5574 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5575 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5576 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5577 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5578 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5579 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5580 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5581 5582 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5583 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5584 lower than slub_max_order. 5585 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5586 5587 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5588 Same with slab_merge. 5589 5590 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5591 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5592 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5593 5594 smart2= [HW] 5595 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5596 5597 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5598 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5599 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5600 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5601 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5602 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5603 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5604 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5605 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5606 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5607 5608 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5609 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5610 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5611 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5612 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5613 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5614 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5615 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5616 1: Fast pin select (default) 5617 2: ATC IRMode 5618 5619 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5620 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5621 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5622 actual hardware limit. 5623 Format: <integer> 5624 Default: -1 (no limit) 5625 5626 softlockup_panic= 5627 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5628 Format: 0 | 1 5629 5630 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5631 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5632 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5633 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5634 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5635 5636 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5637 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5638 backtraces on all cpus. 5639 Format: 0 | 1 5640 5641 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5642 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5643 5644 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5645 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5646 The default operation protects the kernel from 5647 user space attacks. 5648 5649 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5650 spectre_v2_user=on 5651 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5652 spectre_v2_user=off 5653 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5654 vulnerable 5655 5656 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5657 mitigation method at run time according to the 5658 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5659 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5660 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5661 5662 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5663 against user space to user space task attacks. 5664 5665 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5666 the user space protections. 5667 5668 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5669 5670 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5671 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5672 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5673 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5674 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5675 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5676 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5677 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5678 5679 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5680 spectre_v2=auto. 5681 5682 spectre_v2_user= 5683 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5684 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5685 user space tasks 5686 5687 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5688 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5689 5690 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5691 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5692 5693 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5694 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5695 per thread. The mitigation control state 5696 is inherited on fork. 5697 5698 prctl,ibpb 5699 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5700 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5701 always when switching between different user 5702 space processes. 5703 5704 seccomp 5705 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5706 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5707 they explicitly opt out. 5708 5709 seccomp,ibpb 5710 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5711 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5712 always when switching between different 5713 user space processes. 5714 5715 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5716 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5717 5718 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5719 5720 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5721 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5722 5723 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5724 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5725 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5726 5727 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5728 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5729 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5730 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5731 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5732 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5733 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5734 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5735 5736 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5737 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5738 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5739 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5740 5741 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5742 Bypass optimization is used. 5743 5744 On x86 the options are: 5745 5746 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5747 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5748 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5749 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5750 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5751 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5752 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5753 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5754 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5755 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5756 for a process by default. The state of the control 5757 is inherited on fork. 5758 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5759 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5760 5761 Default mitigations: 5762 X86: "prctl" 5763 5764 On powerpc the options are: 5765 5766 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5767 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5768 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5769 exit. 5770 off - No action. 5771 5772 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5773 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5774 5775 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5776 spia_fio_base= 5777 spia_pedr= 5778 spia_peddr= 5779 5780 split_lock_detect= 5781 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5782 5783 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5784 instructions that access data across cache line 5785 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5786 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5787 bus lock detection. 5788 5789 off - not enabled 5790 5791 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5792 about applications triggering the #AC 5793 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5794 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5795 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5796 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5797 enabled in hardware. 5798 5799 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5800 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5801 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5802 both features are enabled in hardware. 5803 5804 ratelimit:N - 5805 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5806 per second for bus lock detection. 5807 0 < N <= 1000. 5808 5809 N/A for split lock detection. 5810 5811 5812 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5813 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5814 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5815 mode. 5816 5817 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5818 CPL > 0. 5819 5820 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5821 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5822 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5823 5824 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5825 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5826 number generator. 5827 5828 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5829 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5830 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5831 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5832 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5833 5834 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5835 the following option: 5836 5837 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5838 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5839 5840 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5841 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5842 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5843 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5844 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5845 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5846 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5847 (decide at boot). 5848 5849 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5850 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5851 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5852 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5853 5854 0: Never. 5855 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5856 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5857 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5858 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5859 5860 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5861 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5862 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5863 5864 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5865 Specifies how frequently to check for 5866 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5867 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5868 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5869 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5870 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5871 are ignored. 5872 5873 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5874 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5875 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5876 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5877 grace period will be considered for automatic 5878 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5879 expediting. 5880 5881 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5882 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5883 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5884 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5885 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5886 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5887 5888 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5889 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5890 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5891 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5892 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5893 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5894 5895 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5896 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5897 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5898 5899 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5900 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5901 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5902 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5903 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5904 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5905 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5906 5907 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5908 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5909 5910 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5911 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5912 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5913 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5914 5915 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5916 for both kernel and userspace 5917 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5918 for both kernel and userspace 5919 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5920 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5921 to allow userspace to register its 5922 interest in being mitigated too. 5923 5924 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5925 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5926 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5927 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5928 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5929 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5930 5931 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5932 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5933 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5934 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5935 to false. 5936 5937 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5938 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5939 5940 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5941 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5942 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5943 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5944 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5945 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5946 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5947 5948 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5949 Format: <num> 5950 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5951 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5952 as the initial boot-console. 5953 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5954 5955 sti_font= [HW] 5956 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5957 5958 stifb= [HW] 5959 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5960 5961 strict_sas_size= 5962 [X86] 5963 Format: <bool> 5964 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5965 against the required signal frame size which 5966 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5967 be used to filter out binaries which have 5968 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5969 5970 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5971 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5972 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5973 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5974 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5975 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5976 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5977 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5978 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5979 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5980 maximum port values. 5981 5982 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5983 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5984 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5985 process in parallel from a single connection. 5986 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5987 5988 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5989 [NFS] 5990 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5991 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5992 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5993 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5994 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5995 NFS server is running. 5996 5997 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5998 automatically using heuristics 5999 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6000 percpu one pool for each CPU 6001 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6002 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6003 6004 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6005 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6006 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6007 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6008 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6009 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6010 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6011 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6012 6013 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6014 [SUSPEND] 6015 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6016 mode before resuming the system (see 6017 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6018 is set. Default value is 5. 6019 6020 svm= [PPC] 6021 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6022 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6023 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6024 6025 swapaccount= [KNL] 6026 Format: [0|1] 6027 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 6028 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 6029 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 6030 6031 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6032 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6033 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6034 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6035 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6036 to a power of 2. 6037 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6038 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6039 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6040 6041 switches= [HW,M68k] 6042 6043 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6044 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6045 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6046 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6047 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6048 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6049 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6050 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6051 6052 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6053 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6054 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6055 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6056 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6057 in older udev will not work anymore. 6058 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6059 the kernel configuration. 6060 6061 sysrq_always_enabled 6062 [KNL] 6063 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6064 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6065 Useful for debugging. 6066 6067 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6068 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6069 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6070 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6071 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6072 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6073 6074 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6075 6076 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6077 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6078 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6079 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6080 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6081 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6082 The system is woken from this state using a 6083 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6084 6085 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6086 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6087 6088 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6089 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6090 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6091 6092 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6093 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6094 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6095 6096 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6097 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6098 critical and hot trip points. 6099 6100 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6101 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6102 6103 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6104 -1: disable all passive trip points 6105 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6106 value 6107 6108 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6109 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6110 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6111 0: no polling (default) 6112 6113 threadirqs [KNL] 6114 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6115 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6116 6117 topology= [S390] 6118 Format: {off | on} 6119 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6120 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6121 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6122 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6123 Default is on. 6124 6125 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6126 Format: {off} 6127 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6128 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6129 LPAR. 6130 6131 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6132 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6133 until after init has spawned. 6134 6135 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6136 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6137 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6138 very costly operation when many torture tests 6139 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6140 with rotating-rust storage. 6141 6142 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6143 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6144 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6145 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6146 6147 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6148 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6149 6150 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6151 6152 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6153 Format: integer pcr id 6154 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6155 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6156 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6157 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6158 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6159 are saved. 6160 6161 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6162 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6163 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6164 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6165 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6166 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6167 6168 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6169 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6170 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6171 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6172 6173 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6174 to stop the printing of events to console at 6175 late_initcall_sync. 6176 6177 ** CAUTION ** 6178 6179 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6180 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6181 the system to live lock. 6182 6183 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6184 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6185 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6186 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6187 make the system inoperable. 6188 6189 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6190 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6191 6192 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6193 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6194 6195 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6196 at boot up. 6197 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6198 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6199 depending on the architecture, may not be 6200 in sync between CPUs. 6201 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6202 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6203 but better for some race conditions. 6204 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6205 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6206 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6207 once per event. 6208 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6209 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6210 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6211 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6212 stamps. 6213 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6214 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6215 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6216 6217 trace_event=[event-list] 6218 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6219 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6220 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6221 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6222 6223 trace_options=[option-list] 6224 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6225 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6226 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6227 to echo the option name into 6228 6229 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6230 6231 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6232 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6233 6234 trace_options=stacktrace 6235 6236 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6237 section. 6238 6239 traceoff_on_warning 6240 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6241 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6242 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6243 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6244 6245 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6246 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6247 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6248 6249 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6250 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6251 6252 transparent_hugepage= 6253 [KNL] 6254 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6255 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6256 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6257 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6258 for more details. 6259 6260 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6261 Format: <string> 6262 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6263 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6264 sources: 6265 - "tpm" 6266 - "tee" 6267 - "caam" 6268 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6269 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6270 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6271 successfully during iteration. 6272 6273 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6274 Format: <string> 6275 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6276 Can be one of: 6277 - "kernel" 6278 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6279 - "default" 6280 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6281 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6282 6283 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6284 Format: <string> 6285 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6286 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6287 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6288 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6289 virtualized environment. 6290 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6291 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6292 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6293 can add overhead. 6294 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6295 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6296 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6297 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6298 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6299 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6300 acceptable). 6301 6302 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6303 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6304 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6305 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6306 Format: <unsigned int> 6307 6308 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6309 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6310 support TSX control. 6311 6312 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6313 6314 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6315 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6316 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6317 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6318 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6319 with leaving it enabled. 6320 6321 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6322 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6323 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6324 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6325 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6326 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6327 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6328 6329 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6330 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6331 6332 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6333 6334 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6335 for more details. 6336 6337 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6338 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6339 6340 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6341 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6342 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6343 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6344 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6345 conditions. 6346 6347 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6348 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6349 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6350 access. 6351 6352 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6353 options are: 6354 6355 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6356 if TSX is enabled. 6357 6358 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6359 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6360 is not disabled because CPU is not 6361 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6362 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6363 6364 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6365 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6366 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6367 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6368 6369 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6370 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6371 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6372 required and doesn't provide any additional 6373 mitigation. 6374 6375 For details see: 6376 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6377 6378 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6379 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6380 Format: 6381 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6382 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6383 6384 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6385 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6386 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6387 help "seeing" what's going on. 6388 6389 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6390 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6391 6392 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6393 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6394 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6395 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6396 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6397 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6398 reported either. 6399 6400 unknown_nmi_panic 6401 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6402 6403 usbcore.authorized_default= 6404 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6405 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6406 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6407 if device connected to internal port) 6408 6409 usbcore.autosuspend= 6410 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6411 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6412 is the time required before an idle device will be 6413 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6414 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6415 6416 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6417 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6418 6419 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6420 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6421 (default = 65536). 6422 6423 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6424 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6425 6426 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6427 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6428 scheme (default 0 = off). 6429 6430 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6431 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6432 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6433 6434 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6435 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6436 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6437 6438 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6439 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6440 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6441 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6442 6443 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6444 6445 usbcore.quirks= 6446 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6447 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6448 commas. Each entry has the form 6449 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6450 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6451 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6452 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6453 the following meanings: 6454 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6455 descriptors must not be fetched using 6456 a 255-byte read); 6457 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6458 correctly so reset it instead); 6459 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6460 Set-Interface requests); 6461 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6462 handle its Configuration or Interface 6463 strings); 6464 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6465 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6466 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6467 more interface descriptions than the 6468 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6469 talking to these interfaces); 6470 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6471 during initialization, after we read 6472 the device descriptor); 6473 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6474 high speed and super speed interrupt 6475 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6476 require the interval in microframes (1 6477 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6478 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6479 (bInterval-1). 6480 Devices with this quirk report their 6481 bInterval as the result of this 6482 calculation instead of the exponent 6483 variable used in the calculation); 6484 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6485 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6486 requests); 6487 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6488 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6489 remote wakeup capability); 6490 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6491 Power Management); 6492 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6493 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6494 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6495 calculation); 6496 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6497 to be disconnected before suspend to 6498 prevent spurious wakeup); 6499 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6500 pause after every control message); 6501 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6502 delay after resetting its port); 6503 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6504 6505 usbhid.mousepoll= 6506 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6507 6508 usbhid.jspoll= 6509 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6510 6511 usbhid.kbpoll= 6512 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6513 6514 usb-storage.delay_use= 6515 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6516 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6517 6518 usb-storage.quirks= 6519 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6520 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6521 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6522 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6523 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6524 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6525 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6526 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6527 of sense data, not on uas); 6528 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6529 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6530 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6531 device capacity by one sector); 6532 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6533 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6534 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6535 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6536 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6537 command, uas only); 6538 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6539 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6540 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6541 reported device capacity by one 6542 sector if the number is odd); 6543 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6544 device); 6545 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6546 command, uas only); 6547 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6548 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6549 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6550 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6551 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6552 not on uas); 6553 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6554 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6555 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6556 reported by the device, not on uas); 6557 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6558 by default, not on uas); 6559 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6560 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6561 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6562 Logical Unit); 6563 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6564 commands, uas only); 6565 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6566 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6567 medium is write-protected). 6568 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6569 even if the device claims no cache, 6570 not on uas) 6571 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6572 6573 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6574 Format: <int> 6575 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6576 1 - undefined instruction events 6577 2 - system calls 6578 4 - invalid data aborts 6579 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6580 16 - SIGBUS faults 6581 Example: user_debug=31 6582 6583 userpte= 6584 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6585 6586 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6587 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6588 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6589 6590 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6591 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6592 6593 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6594 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6595 6596 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6597 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6598 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6599 6600 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6601 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6602 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6603 6604 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6605 alias for vdso32=0. 6606 6607 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6608 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6609 6610 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6611 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6612 6613 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6614 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6615 6616 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6617 Format: [0|1] 6618 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6619 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6620 level and then send out the event to user space through 6621 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6622 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6623 brightness level. 6624 default: 1 6625 6626 virtio_mmio.device= 6627 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6628 6629 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6630 where: 6631 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6632 like K, M and G) 6633 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6634 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6635 request_irq()) 6636 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6637 example: 6638 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6639 6640 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6641 6642 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6643 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6644 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6645 Use vga=ask for menu. 6646 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6647 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6648 6649 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6650 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6651 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6652 All options are enabled by default, and this 6653 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6654 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6655 debugging features. 6656 6657 Available options are: 6658 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6659 - Disable all of the above options 6660 6661 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6662 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6663 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6664 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6665 mapped kernel RAM. 6666 6667 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6668 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6669 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6670 6671 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6672 Format: <command> 6673 6674 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6675 Format: <command> 6676 6677 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6678 Format: <command> 6679 6680 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6681 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6682 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6683 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6684 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6685 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6686 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6687 6688 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6689 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6690 page is readable. 6691 6692 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6693 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6694 page is not readable. 6695 6696 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6697 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6698 might break your system. 6699 6700 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6701 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6702 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6703 6704 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6705 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6706 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6707 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6708 6709 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6710 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6711 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6712 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6713 ranging from 0-255. 6714 6715 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6716 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6717 Change the default green palette of the console. 6718 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6719 ranging from 0-255. 6720 6721 vt.default_red= [VT] 6722 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6723 Change the default red palette of the console. 6724 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6725 ranging from 0-255. 6726 6727 vt.default_utf8= 6728 [VT] 6729 Format=<0|1> 6730 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6731 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6732 newly opened terminals. 6733 6734 vt.global_cursor_default= 6735 [VT] 6736 Format=<-1|0|1> 6737 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6738 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6739 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6740 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6741 cursors, 1 will display them. 6742 6743 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6744 Default: 2 = green. 6745 6746 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6747 Default: 3 = cyan. 6748 6749 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6750 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6751 or other driver-specific files in the 6752 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6753 6754 watchdog_thresh= 6755 [KNL] 6756 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6757 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6758 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6759 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6760 seconds. 6761 6762 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6763 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6764 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6765 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6766 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6767 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6768 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6769 corresponding sysfs file. 6770 6771 workqueue.disable_numa 6772 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6773 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6774 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6775 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6776 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6777 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6778 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6779 6780 workqueue.power_efficient 6781 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6782 they show better performance thanks to cache 6783 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6784 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6785 6786 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6787 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6788 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6789 power usage at the cost of small performance 6790 overhead. 6791 6792 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6793 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6794 6795 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6796 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6797 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6798 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6799 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6800 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6801 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6802 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6803 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6804 impacted. 6805 6806 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6807 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6808 supporting x2apic. 6809 6810 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6811 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6812 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6813 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6814 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6815 domains. 6816 6817 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6818 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6819 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6820 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6821 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6822 nics -- unplug network devices 6823 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6824 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6825 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6826 the unplug protocol 6827 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6828 6829 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6830 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6831 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6832 6833 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6834 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6835 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6836 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6837 6838 xen_nopv [X86] 6839 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6840 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6841 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6842 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6843 6844 xen_no_vector_callback 6845 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6846 event channel interrupts. 6847 6848 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6849 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6850 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6851 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6852 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6853 6854 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6855 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6856 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6857 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6858 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6859 more timer interrupts. 6860 6861 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6862 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6863 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6864 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6865 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6866 max. Default is 180. 6867 6868 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6869 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6870 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6871 6872 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6873 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6874 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6875 6876 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6877 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6878 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6879 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6880 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6881 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6882 6883 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6884 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6885 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6886 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6887 6888 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6889 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6890 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6891 contention. 6892 6893 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6894 Format: 6895 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6896 6897 xive= [PPC] 6898 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6899 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6900 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6901 6902 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6903 controller on both pseries and powernv 6904 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6905 6906 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6907 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6908 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6909 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6910 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6911 6912 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6913 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6914 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6915 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6916 6917 xmon [PPC] 6918 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6919 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6920 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6921 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6922 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6923 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6924 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6925 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6926 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6927 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6928 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6929 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6930 can be written using xmon commands. 6931 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6932 memory, and other data can't be written using 6933 xmon commands. 6934 off xmon is disabled. 6935