1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or 25 "acpi=force" are available 26 27 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 28 29 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 30 Format: <int> 31 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 32 1,0: use 1st APIC table 33 default: 0 34 35 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 36 { vendor | video | native | none } 37 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 38 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 39 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 40 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 41 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 42 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 43 44 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 45 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 46 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 47 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 48 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 49 50 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 51 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 52 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 53 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 54 This option is useful for developers to identify the 55 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 56 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 57 58 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 59 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 60 Format: <int> 61 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 62 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 63 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 64 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 65 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 66 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 67 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 68 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 69 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 70 debug layers and levels. 71 72 Enable processor driver info messages: 73 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 74 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 75 object while interpreting AML: 76 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 77 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 78 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 79 80 Some values produce so much output that the system is 81 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 82 if you need to capture more output. 83 84 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 85 { strict | lax | no } 86 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 87 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 88 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 89 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 90 can interfere with legacy drivers. 91 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 92 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 93 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 94 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 95 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 96 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 97 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 98 no further checks are performed. 99 100 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 101 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 102 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 103 size limitation. 104 105 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 106 ACPI will balance active IRQs 107 default in APIC mode 108 109 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 111 default in PIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 114 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 115 116 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 117 use by PCI 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 121 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 122 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 123 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 124 the GPE dispatcher. 125 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 126 GPE floodings. 127 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 128 129 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 131 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 132 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 133 auto-serialization feature. 134 This feature is enabled by default. 135 This option allows to turn off the feature. 136 137 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 138 kernels. 139 140 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 141 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 142 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 143 installed automatically and they will appear under 144 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 145 This option turns off this feature. 146 Note that specifying this option does not affect 147 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 148 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 149 150 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 151 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 152 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 153 154 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 155 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 156 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 157 second kernel for kdump. 158 159 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 160 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 161 162 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 163 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 164 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 165 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 166 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 167 168 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 169 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 170 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 171 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 172 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 173 strings 174 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 175 strings 176 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 177 178 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 179 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 180 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 181 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 182 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 183 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 184 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 185 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 186 care about the state of the feature group strings which 187 should be controlled by the OSPM. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 190 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 191 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 192 193 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 194 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 195 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 196 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 197 multiple times through kernel command line is also 198 meaningless. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 201 FALSE. 202 203 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 204 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 205 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 206 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 207 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 208 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 209 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 210 there are quirks related to this string. This command 211 is useful when one want to control the state of the 212 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 213 the OSPM features. 214 Examples: 215 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 216 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 217 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 218 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 219 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 220 equivalent to 221 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 222 and 223 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 224 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 225 226 acpi_pm_good [X86] 227 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 228 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 229 and always returns good values. 230 231 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 232 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 233 234 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 235 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 236 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 237 238 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 239 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 240 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 241 sci_force_enable, nobl } 242 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 243 s3_bios and s3_mode. 244 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 245 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 246 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 247 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 248 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 249 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 250 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 251 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 252 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 253 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 254 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 255 used (or even warned about) during resume. 256 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 257 control method, with respect to putting devices into 258 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 259 of _PTS is used by default). 260 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 261 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 262 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 263 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 264 but some broken systems don't work without it). 265 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 266 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 267 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 268 269 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 270 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 271 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 272 273 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 274 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 275 276 agp= [AGP] 277 { off | try_unsupported } 278 off: disable AGP support 279 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 280 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 281 282 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 283 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 284 285 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 286 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 287 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 288 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 289 290 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 291 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 292 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 293 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 294 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 295 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 296 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 297 298 32: only for 32-bit processes 299 64: only for 64-bit processes 300 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 301 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 302 303 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 304 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 305 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 306 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 307 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 308 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 309 310 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 311 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 312 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 313 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 314 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 315 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 316 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 317 318 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 319 information. 320 321 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 322 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 323 Possible values are: 324 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 325 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 326 the system 327 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 328 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 329 allowed anymore to lift isolation 330 requirements as needed. This option 331 does not override iommu=pt 332 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 333 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 334 option with care. 335 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 336 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 337 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 338 339 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 340 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 341 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 342 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 343 IOMMU initialization. 344 345 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 346 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 347 remapping modes: 348 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 349 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 350 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 351 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 352 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 353 354 amd_pstate= [X86] 355 disable 356 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 357 scaling driver for the supported processors 358 passive 359 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 360 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 361 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 362 tries to match the same performance level if it is 363 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 364 active 365 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 366 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 367 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 368 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 369 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 370 frequency. 371 guided 372 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 373 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 374 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 375 to the current workload. 376 377 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 378 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 379 Format: <a>,<b> 380 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 381 382 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 383 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 384 connected to one of 16 gameports 385 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 386 387 apc= [HW,SPARC] 388 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 389 Format: noidle 390 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 391 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 392 APC and your system crashes randomly. 393 394 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 395 Change the output verbosity while booting 396 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 397 Change the amount of debugging information output 398 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 399 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 400 driver name. 401 Format: apic=driver_name 402 Examples: apic=bigsmp 403 404 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 405 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 406 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 407 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 408 backup of CPU 0 409 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 410 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 411 shot down by NMI 412 413 autoconf= [IPV6] 414 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 415 416 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 417 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 418 419 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 420 Format: { "0" | "1" } 421 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 422 0 -- disable. 423 1 -- enable. 424 Default value is set via kernel config option. 425 426 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 427 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 428 429 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 430 Identification support 431 432 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 433 Set instructions support 434 435 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 436 support 437 438 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 439 support 440 441 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 442 Extension support 443 444 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 445 Extension support 446 447 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 448 449 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 450 451 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 452 EzKey and similar keyboards 453 454 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 455 456 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 457 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 458 459 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 460 keyboards 461 462 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 463 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 464 465 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 466 Use software keyboard repeat 467 468 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 469 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 470 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 471 enabled until the next reboot 472 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 473 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 474 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 475 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 476 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 477 userspace auditd. 478 Default: unset 479 480 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 481 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 482 Default: 64 483 484 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 485 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 486 Format: { "0" | "1" } 487 0 - Disable the BAU. 488 1 - Enable the BAU. 489 unset - Disable the BAU. 490 491 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 492 Format: <io>,<mode> 493 494 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 495 Format: <io>,<mode> 496 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 497 498 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 499 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 500 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 501 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 502 503 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 504 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 505 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 506 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 507 508 bert_disable [ACPI] 509 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 510 511 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 512 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 513 514 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 515 embedded devices based on command line input. 516 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 517 518 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 519 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 520 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 521 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 522 erroneous and ignored. 523 Format: integer 524 525 bootconfig [KNL] 526 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 527 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 528 529 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 530 531 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 532 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 533 kernel args too. 534 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 535 bttv.tuner= 536 537 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 538 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 539 at a time. 540 541 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 542 543 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 544 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 545 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 546 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 547 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 548 This option provides an override for these situations. 549 550 carrier_timeout= 551 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 552 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 553 it waits 120 seconds. 554 555 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 556 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 557 trust validation. 558 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 559 560 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 561 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 562 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 563 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 564 others). 565 566 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 567 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 568 569 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 570 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 571 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 572 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 573 a single hierarchy 574 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 575 subsystem 576 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 577 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 578 created 579 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 580 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 581 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 582 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 583 stall information accounting feature 584 585 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 586 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 587 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 588 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 589 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 590 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 591 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 592 all v1 hierarchies. 593 594 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 595 Format: { "true" | "false" } 596 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 597 598 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 599 Format: <string> 600 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 601 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 602 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 603 604 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 605 Format: { "0" | "1" } 606 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 607 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 608 any implied execute protection). 609 1 -- check protection requested by application. 610 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 611 Value can be changed at runtime via 612 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 613 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 614 615 cio_ignore= [S390] 616 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 617 618 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 619 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 620 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 621 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 622 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 623 ones should be. 624 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 625 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 626 instability issue. However, not all features have names 627 in /proc/cpuinfo. 628 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 629 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 630 or using the feature without checking anything 631 will still see it. This just prevents it from 632 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 633 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 634 some critical bits. 635 636 clk_ignore_unused 637 [CLK] 638 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 639 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 640 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 641 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 642 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 643 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 644 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 645 platform with proper driver support. For more 646 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 647 648 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 649 [Deprecated] 650 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 651 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 652 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 653 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 654 655 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 656 Format: <string> 657 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 658 with the name specified. 659 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 660 the platform: 661 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 662 [ACPI] acpi_pm 663 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 664 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 665 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 666 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 667 [MIPS] MIPS 668 [PARISC] cr16 669 [S390] tod 670 [SH] SuperH 671 [SPARC64] tick 672 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 673 674 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 675 [ARM,ARM64] 676 Format: <bool> 677 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 678 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 679 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 680 systems. 681 682 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 683 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 684 external delays before the clock will be marked 685 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 686 three attempts to read the clock under test. 687 688 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 689 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 690 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 691 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 692 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 693 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 694 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 695 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 696 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 697 698 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 699 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 700 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 701 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 702 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 703 704 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 705 [KNL,CMA] 706 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 707 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 708 placement constraint by the physical address range of 709 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 710 altogether. For more information, see 711 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 712 713 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 714 [KNL,CMA] 715 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 716 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 717 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 718 specified, the default value is 0. 719 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 720 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 721 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 722 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 723 724 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 725 [KNL,CMA] 726 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 727 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 728 area for the specified node. 729 730 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 731 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 732 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 733 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 734 735 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 736 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 737 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 738 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 739 a hypervisor. 740 Default: yes 741 742 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 743 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 744 allocations, by default set to 256K. 745 746 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 747 Format: 748 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 749 750 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 751 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 752 753 com90xx= [HW,NET] 754 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 755 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 756 757 condev= [HW,S390] console device 758 conmode= 759 760 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 761 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 762 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 763 the console buffer is full. In this case the 764 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 765 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 766 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 767 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 768 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 769 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 770 771 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 772 773 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 774 775 ttyS<n>[,options] 776 ttyUSB0[,options] 777 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 778 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 779 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 780 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 781 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 782 783 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 784 information. See 785 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 786 alternative. 787 788 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 789 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 790 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 791 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 792 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 793 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 794 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 795 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 796 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 797 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 798 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 799 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 800 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 801 the h/w is not re-initialized. 802 803 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 804 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 805 806 { null | "" } 807 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 808 console messages discarded. 809 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 810 kernel command line. 811 812 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 813 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 814 console=brl,ttyS0 815 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 816 817 console_msg_format= 818 [KNL] Change console messages format 819 default 820 By default we print messages on consoles in 821 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 822 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 823 `printk_time' param). 824 syslog 825 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 826 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 827 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 828 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 829 from /proc/kmsg. 830 831 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 832 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 833 Defaults to 0. 834 835 coredump_filter= 836 [KNL] Change the default value for 837 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 838 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 839 840 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 841 [ARM,ARM64] 842 Format: <bool> 843 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 844 0: default value, disable debugging 845 1: enable debugging at boot time 846 847 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 848 Format: 849 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 850 851 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 852 disable the cpuidle sub-system 853 854 cpuidle.governor= 855 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 856 857 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 858 disable the cpufreq sub-system 859 860 cpufreq.default_governor= 861 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 862 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 863 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 864 865 cpu_init_udelay=N 866 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 867 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 868 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 869 Default: 10000 870 871 cpuhp.parallel= 872 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 873 Format: <bool> 874 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 875 the parameter has no effect. 876 877 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 878 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 879 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 880 succeeds in any situation. 881 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 882 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 883 kernel more unstable. 884 885 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 886 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 887 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 888 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 889 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 890 is selected automatically. 891 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and 892 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 893 hasn't been specified. 894 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 895 896 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 897 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 898 in the running system. The syntax of range is 899 start-[end] where start and end are both 900 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 901 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 902 903 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 904 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G. 905 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 906 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 907 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 908 below 4G, if available. 909 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 910 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 911 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 912 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 913 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 914 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 915 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 916 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 917 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 918 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 919 size is platform dependent. 920 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 921 --> arm64: 128MiB 922 --> riscv: 128MiB 923 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 924 for second kernel instead. 925 0: to disable low allocation. 926 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 927 or memory reserved is below 4G. 928 929 cryptomgr.notests 930 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 931 932 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 933 Format: <dma> 934 935 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 936 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 937 938 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 939 function call handling. When switched on, 940 additional debug data is printed to the console 941 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 942 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 943 the hang situation. The default value of this 944 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 945 Kconfig option. 946 947 dasd= [HW,NET] 948 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 949 950 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 951 (one device per port) 952 Format: <port#>,<type> 953 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 954 955 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 956 957 debug_boot_weak_hash 958 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 959 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 960 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 961 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 962 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 963 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 964 965 debug_locks_verbose= 966 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 967 Format: <int> 968 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 969 self-tests. 970 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 971 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 972 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 973 useful to lockdep developers. 974 975 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 976 977 debug_guardpage_minorder= 978 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 979 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 980 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 981 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 982 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 983 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 984 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 985 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 986 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 987 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 988 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 989 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 990 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 991 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 992 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 993 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 994 help tracking down these problems. 995 996 debug_pagealloc= 997 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 998 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 999 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1000 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1001 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1002 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1003 on: enable the feature 1004 1005 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 1006 and debugfs internal clients. 1007 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1008 on: All functions are enabled. 1009 no-mount: 1010 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1011 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1012 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1013 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1014 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1015 or directories within debugfs. 1016 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1017 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1018 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1019 1020 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1021 1022 default_hugepagesz= 1023 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1024 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1025 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1026 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1027 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1028 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1029 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1030 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1031 Format: size[KMG] 1032 1033 deferred_probe_timeout= 1034 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1035 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1036 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1037 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1038 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1039 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1040 successful driver registration. This option will also 1041 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1042 retrying. 1043 1044 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1045 1046 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1047 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1048 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1049 hardware. 1050 1051 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1052 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1053 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1054 blacklisted features. 1055 1056 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1057 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1058 (disabled by default). 1059 1060 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1061 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1062 capability is set. 1063 1064 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1065 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1066 1067 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1068 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1069 1070 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1071 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1072 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1073 level 1 and decompression (default) 1074 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1075 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1076 only (compression on level 1) 1077 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1078 only (decompression) 1079 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1080 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1081 1082 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1083 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1084 1085 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1086 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1087 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1088 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1089 miss to occur. 1090 1091 disable= [IPV6] 1092 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1093 1094 disable_radix [PPC] 1095 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1096 1097 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1098 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1099 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1100 1101 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1102 Format: <int> 1103 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1104 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1105 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1106 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1107 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1108 INIT from AP to BSP. 1109 1110 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1111 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1112 to workaround buggy firmware. 1113 1114 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1115 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1116 1117 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1118 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1119 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1120 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1121 1122 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1123 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1124 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1125 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1126 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1127 1128 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1129 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1130 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1131 1132 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1133 1134 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1135 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1136 1137 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1138 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1139 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1140 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1141 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1142 architectural default is too low. 1143 1144 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1145 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1146 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1147 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1148 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1149 driver later using sysfs. 1150 1151 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1152 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1153 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1154 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1155 match the *. 1156 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1157 1158 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1159 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1160 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1161 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1162 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1163 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1164 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1165 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1166 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1167 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1168 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1169 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1170 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1171 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1172 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1173 data set with no connector name will be used for 1174 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1175 1176 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1177 1178 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1179 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1180 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1181 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1182 exists). 1183 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1184 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1185 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1186 1187 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1188 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1189 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1190 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1191 1192 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1193 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1194 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1195 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1196 for details. 1197 1198 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1199 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1200 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1201 which are not unmapped. 1202 1203 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1204 1205 When used with no options, the early console is 1206 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1207 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1208 the platform. 1209 1210 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1211 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1212 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1213 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1214 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1215 configured. 1216 1217 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1218 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1219 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1220 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1221 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1222 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1223 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1224 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1225 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1226 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1227 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1228 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1229 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1230 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1231 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1232 1233 pl011,<addr> 1234 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1235 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1236 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1237 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1238 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1239 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1240 the device registers. 1241 1242 liteuart,<addr> 1243 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1244 specified address. The serial port must already be 1245 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1246 1247 meson,<addr> 1248 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1249 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1250 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1251 supported. 1252 1253 msm_serial,<addr> 1254 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1255 port at the specified address. The serial port 1256 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1257 yet supported. 1258 1259 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1260 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1261 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1262 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1263 yet supported. 1264 1265 owl,<addr> 1266 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1267 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1268 specified address. The serial port must already be 1269 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1270 1271 rda,<addr> 1272 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1273 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1274 specified address. The serial port must already be 1275 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1276 1277 sbi 1278 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1279 console. 1280 1281 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1282 1283 s3c2410,<addr> 1284 s3c2412,<addr> 1285 s3c2440,<addr> 1286 s3c6400,<addr> 1287 s5pv210,<addr> 1288 exynos4210,<addr> 1289 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1290 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1291 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1292 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1293 Options are not yet supported. 1294 1295 lantiq,<addr> 1296 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1297 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1298 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1299 yet supported. 1300 1301 lpuart,<addr> 1302 lpuart32,<addr> 1303 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1304 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1305 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1306 port must already be setup and configured. 1307 1308 ec_imx21,<addr> 1309 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1310 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1311 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1312 must already be setup and configured. 1313 1314 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1315 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1316 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1317 address. The serial port must already be setup 1318 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1319 1320 qcom_geni,<addr> 1321 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1322 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1323 specified address. The serial port must already be 1324 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1325 1326 efifb,[options] 1327 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1328 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1329 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1330 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1331 mapped with the correct attributes. 1332 1333 linflex,<addr> 1334 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1335 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1336 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1337 already be setup and configured. 1338 1339 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1340 earlyprintk=vga 1341 earlyprintk=sclp 1342 earlyprintk=xen 1343 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1344 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1345 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1346 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1347 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1348 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1349 earlyprintk=bios 1350 1351 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1352 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1353 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1354 1355 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1356 takes over. 1357 1358 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1359 be used at a time. 1360 1361 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1362 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1363 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1364 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1365 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1366 You can find the port for a given device in 1367 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1368 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1369 1370 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1371 very good. 1372 1373 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1374 the real console. 1375 1376 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1377 1378 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1379 1380 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1381 1382 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1383 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1384 UART class. 1385 1386 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1387 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1388 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1389 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1390 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1391 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1392 default: on. 1393 1394 edd= [EDD] 1395 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1396 1397 efi= [EFI] 1398 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1399 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1400 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1401 debug: enable misc debug output. 1402 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1403 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1404 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1405 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1406 firmware implementations. 1407 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1408 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1409 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1410 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1411 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1412 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1413 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1414 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1415 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1416 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1417 1418 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1419 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1420 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1421 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1422 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1423 1424 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1425 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1426 updating original EFI memory map. 1427 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1428 from ss to ss+nn. 1429 1430 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1431 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1432 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1433 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1434 1435 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1436 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1437 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1438 1439 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1440 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1441 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1442 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1443 "soft reserved". 1444 1445 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1446 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1447 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1448 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1449 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1450 1451 1452 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1453 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1454 1455 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1456 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1457 1458 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1459 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1460 1461 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1462 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1463 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1464 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1465 1466 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1467 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1468 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1469 1470 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1471 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1472 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1473 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1474 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1475 1476 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1477 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1478 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1479 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1480 1481 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1482 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1483 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1484 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1485 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1486 1487 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1488 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1489 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1490 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1491 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1492 Default value is 0. 1493 Value can be changed at runtime via 1494 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1495 1496 erst_disable [ACPI] 1497 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1498 support. 1499 1500 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1501 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1502 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1503 1504 evm= [EVM] 1505 Format: { "fix" } 1506 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1507 current integrity status. 1508 1509 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1510 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1511 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1512 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1513 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1514 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1515 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1516 1517 failslab= 1518 fail_usercopy= 1519 fail_page_alloc= 1520 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1521 General fault injection mechanism. 1522 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1523 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1524 1525 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1526 Format: { initns | none } 1527 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1528 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1529 1530 floppy= [HW] 1531 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1532 1533 forcepae [X86-32] 1534 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1535 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1536 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1537 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1538 and may cause unknown problems. 1539 1540 ftrace=[tracer] 1541 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1542 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1543 boot debugging. 1544 1545 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1546 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1547 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1548 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1549 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1550 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1551 start up functionality. 1552 1553 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1554 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1555 line parameter. 1556 1557 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1558 1559 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1560 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1561 1562 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1563 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1564 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1565 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1566 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1567 oops. 1568 1569 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1570 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1571 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1572 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1573 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1574 tracing directory. 1575 1576 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1577 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1578 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1579 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1580 tracing directory. 1581 1582 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1583 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1584 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1585 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1586 that can be changed at run time by the 1587 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1588 1589 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1590 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1591 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1592 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1593 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1594 1595 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1596 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1597 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1598 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1599 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1600 1601 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1602 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1603 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1604 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1605 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1606 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1607 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1608 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1609 suppliers). 1610 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1611 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1612 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1613 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1614 up (sync_state() calls). 1615 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1616 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1617 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1618 1619 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1620 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1621 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1622 Format: <bool> 1623 1624 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1625 [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished 1626 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1627 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1628 calls. 1629 Format: { strict | timeout } 1630 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1631 probe successfully. 1632 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1633 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1634 received their sync_state() calls after 1635 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1636 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1637 1638 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1639 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1640 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1641 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1642 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1643 1644 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1645 1646 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1647 Format: off | on 1648 default: on 1649 1650 gather_data_sampling= 1651 [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1652 mitigation. 1653 1654 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1655 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1656 previously stored in vector registers. 1657 1658 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1659 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1660 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1661 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1662 1663 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1664 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1665 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1666 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1667 1668 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1669 1670 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1671 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1672 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1673 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1674 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1675 1676 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1677 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1678 android emulator 1679 1680 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1681 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1682 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1683 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1684 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1685 1686 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1687 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1688 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1689 GPT to be used instead. 1690 1691 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1692 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1693 Format: 0 | 1 1694 Default: 0 1695 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1696 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1697 Format: 0 | 1 1698 Default: 0 1699 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1700 Format: 0 | 1 1701 Default: 0 1702 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1703 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1704 Default: 1024 1705 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1706 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1707 Default: 1024 1708 1709 hardened_usercopy= 1710 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1711 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1712 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1713 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1714 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1715 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1716 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1717 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1718 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1719 1720 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1721 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1722 backtraces on all cpus. 1723 Format: 0 | 1 1724 1725 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1726 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1727 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1728 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1729 1730 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1731 1732 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1733 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1734 1735 hest_disable [ACPI] 1736 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1737 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1738 logic will be disabled. 1739 1740 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1741 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1742 present during boot. 1743 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1744 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1745 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1746 (that will set all pages holding image data 1747 during restoration read-only). 1748 1749 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1750 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1751 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1752 size on bigger boxes. 1753 1754 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1755 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1756 Default: "on" 1757 1758 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1759 1760 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1761 Format: <string> 1762 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1763 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1764 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1765 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1766 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1767 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1768 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1769 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1770 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1771 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1772 1773 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1774 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1775 verbose } 1776 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1777 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1778 VIA, nVidia) 1779 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1780 1781 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1782 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1783 1784 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1785 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1786 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1787 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1788 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1789 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1790 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1791 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1792 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1793 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1794 1795 hugepagesz= 1796 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1797 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1798 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1799 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1800 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1801 architecture dependent. See also 1802 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1803 Format: size[KMG] 1804 1805 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1806 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1807 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1808 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1809 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1810 1811 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1812 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1813 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1814 1815 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1816 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1817 enabled. 1818 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1819 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1820 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1821 Format: { on | off (default) } 1822 1823 on: enable HVO 1824 off: disable HVO 1825 1826 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1827 the default is on. 1828 1829 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1830 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1831 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1832 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1833 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1834 1835 hung_task_panic= 1836 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1837 Format: 0 | 1 1838 1839 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1840 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1841 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1842 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1843 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1844 1845 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1846 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1847 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1848 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1849 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1850 1851 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1852 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1853 guest on lock contention. 1854 1855 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1856 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1857 registered from board initialization code. 1858 Format: 1859 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1860 1861 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1862 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1863 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1864 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1865 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1866 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1867 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1868 keyboard and cannot control its state 1869 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1870 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1871 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1872 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1873 for the AUX port 1874 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1875 controller 1876 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1877 controllers 1878 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1879 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1880 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1881 transitions, or never reset 1882 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1883 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1884 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1885 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1886 architectures force reset to be always executed 1887 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1888 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1889 i8042.probe_defer 1890 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1891 1892 i810= [HW,DRM] 1893 1894 i915.invert_brightness= 1895 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1896 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1897 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1898 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1899 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1900 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1901 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1902 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1903 value switches the backlight off. 1904 -1 -- never invert brightness 1905 0 -- machine default 1906 1 -- force brightness inversion 1907 1908 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1909 Format: <bool> 1910 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1911 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1912 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1913 1914 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1915 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1916 1917 1918 idle= [X86] 1919 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1920 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1921 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1922 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1923 Not recommended. 1924 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1925 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1926 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1927 1928 idxd.sva= [HW] 1929 Format: <bool> 1930 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1931 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1932 true (1). 1933 1934 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1935 Format: <bool> 1936 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1937 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1938 1939 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1940 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1941 Default: strict 1942 1943 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1944 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1945 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1946 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1947 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1948 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1949 encoding mode. 1950 1951 Available settings are as follows: 1952 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1953 supported by the FPU 1954 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1955 by the FPU 1956 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1957 by the FPU 1958 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1959 supported by the FPU 1960 1961 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1962 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1963 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1964 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1965 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1966 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1967 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1968 MIPS64 CPUs. 1969 1970 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1971 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1972 except where unsupported by hardware. 1973 1974 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1975 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1976 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1977 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1978 could change it dynamically, usually by 1979 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1980 1981 ignore_rlimit_data 1982 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1983 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1984 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1985 1986 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1987 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1988 1989 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1990 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1991 default: "enforce" 1992 1993 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1994 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1995 owned by uid=0. 1996 1997 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1998 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1999 measurements, instead of host native format. 2000 2001 ima_hash= [IMA] 2002 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2003 | sha512 | ... } 2004 default: "sha1" 2005 2006 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2007 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2008 2009 ima_policy= [IMA] 2010 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2011 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2012 fail_securely | critical_data" 2013 2014 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2015 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2016 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2017 uid=0. 2018 2019 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2020 all files owned by root. 2021 2022 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2023 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2024 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2025 2026 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2027 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2028 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2029 flag. 2030 2031 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2032 critical data. 2033 2034 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2035 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2036 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2037 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2038 opened for read by uid=0. 2039 2040 ima_template= [IMA] 2041 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2042 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2043 "ima-sigv2" } 2044 Default: "ima-ng" 2045 2046 ima_template_fmt= 2047 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2048 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2049 2050 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2051 Format: <min_file_size> 2052 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2053 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2054 2055 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2056 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2057 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2058 2059 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2060 Format: <bufsize> 2061 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2062 2063 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2064 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2065 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2066 2067 init= [KNL] 2068 Format: <full_path> 2069 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2070 process. 2071 2072 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2073 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2074 startup. 2075 2076 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2077 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2078 modules and initcalls. 2079 2080 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2081 Format: <bool> 2082 Default: 1 2083 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2084 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2085 with devices being probed and 2086 initialized. This should normally just work, 2087 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2088 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2089 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2090 late_ initcalls. 2091 2092 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2093 2094 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2095 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2096 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2097 setting. 2098 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2099 Default is 0, 0 2100 2101 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2102 zeroes. 2103 Format: 0 | 1 2104 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2105 2106 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2107 Format: 0 | 1 2108 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2109 2110 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2111 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2112 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2113 override in debugfs after boot. 2114 2115 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2116 Format: <irq> 2117 2118 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2119 2120 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2121 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2122 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2123 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2124 2125 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2126 on 2127 Enable intel iommu driver. 2128 off 2129 Disable intel iommu driver. 2130 igfx_off [Default Off] 2131 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2132 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2133 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2134 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2135 DMA. 2136 strict [Default Off] 2137 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2138 sp_off [Default Off] 2139 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2140 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2141 not be supported. 2142 sm_on 2143 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2144 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2145 translation. 2146 sm_off 2147 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2148 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2149 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2150 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2151 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2152 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2153 mapping is enabled. 2154 Note that using this option lowers the security 2155 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2156 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2157 2158 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2159 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2160 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2161 2162 intel_pstate= [X86] 2163 disable 2164 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2165 scaling driver for the supported processors 2166 active 2167 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2168 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2169 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2170 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2171 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2172 performance. The way they both operate depends 2173 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2174 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2175 and possibly on the processor model. 2176 passive 2177 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2178 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2179 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2180 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2181 feature. 2182 force 2183 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2184 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2185 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2186 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2187 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2188 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2189 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2190 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2191 no_hwp 2192 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2193 if available. 2194 hwp_only 2195 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2196 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2197 support_acpi_ppc 2198 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2199 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2200 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2201 then this feature is turned on by default. 2202 per_cpu_perf_limits 2203 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2204 cpufreq sysfs interface 2205 2206 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2207 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2208 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2209 nosid disable Source ID checking 2210 no_x2apic_optout 2211 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2212 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2213 2214 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2215 strict regions from userspace. 2216 relaxed 2217 2218 iommu= [X86] 2219 off 2220 force 2221 noforce 2222 biomerge 2223 panic 2224 nopanic 2225 merge 2226 nomerge 2227 soft 2228 pt [X86] 2229 nopt [X86] 2230 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2231 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2232 2233 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2234 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2235 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2236 falling back to the full range if needed. 2237 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2238 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2239 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2240 2241 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86, S390] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2242 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2243 0 - Lazy mode. 2244 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2245 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2246 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2247 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2248 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2249 1 - Strict mode. 2250 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2251 synchronously. 2252 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2253 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2254 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2255 2256 iommu.passthrough= 2257 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2258 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2259 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2260 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2261 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2262 2263 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2264 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2265 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2266 2267 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2268 0x80 2269 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2270 0xed 2271 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2272 udelay 2273 Simple two microseconds delay 2274 none 2275 No delay 2276 2277 ip= [IP_PNP] 2278 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2279 2280 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2281 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2282 2283 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2284 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2285 2286 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2287 [ARM, ARM64] 2288 Format: <bool> 2289 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2290 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2291 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2292 2293 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2294 [ARM, ARM64] 2295 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2296 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2297 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2298 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2299 LPIs. 2300 2301 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2302 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2303 requires the kernel to be built with 2304 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2305 2306 irqfixup [HW] 2307 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2308 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2309 firmware running. 2310 2311 irqpoll [HW] 2312 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2313 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2314 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2315 firmware running. 2316 2317 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2318 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2319 2320 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2321 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2322 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2323 2324 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2325 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2326 2327 nohz 2328 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2329 2330 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2331 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2332 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2333 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2334 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2335 2336 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2337 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2338 be configured manually after bootup. 2339 2340 domain 2341 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2342 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2343 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2344 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2345 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2346 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2347 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2348 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2349 2350 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2351 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2352 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2353 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2354 2355 managed_irq 2356 2357 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2358 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2359 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2360 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2361 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2362 2363 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2364 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2365 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2366 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2367 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2368 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2369 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2370 2371 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2372 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2373 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2374 only delivered when tasks running on those 2375 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2376 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2377 queues. 2378 2379 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2380 2381 iucv= [HW,NET] 2382 2383 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2384 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2385 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2386 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2387 2388 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2389 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2390 write the parameter as: 2391 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2392 2393 Deprecated formats: 2394 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2395 write the parameter as: 2396 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2397 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2398 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2399 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2400 2401 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2402 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2403 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2404 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2405 2406 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2407 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2408 write the parameter as: 2409 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2410 2411 Deprecated formats: 2412 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2413 write the parameter as: 2414 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2415 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2416 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2417 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2418 2419 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2420 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2421 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2422 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2423 2424 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2425 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2426 write the parameter as: 2427 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2428 2429 Deprecated formats: 2430 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2431 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2432 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2433 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2434 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2435 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2436 2437 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2438 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2439 2440 kasan_multi_shot 2441 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2442 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2443 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2444 invalid access. 2445 2446 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2447 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2448 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2449 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2450 the real console. 2451 2452 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2453 2454 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2455 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2456 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2457 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2458 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2459 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2460 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2461 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2462 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2463 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2464 2465 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2466 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2467 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2468 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2469 zone if it does not. 2470 2471 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2472 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2473 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2474 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2475 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2476 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2477 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2478 2479 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2480 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2481 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2482 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2483 optional and is the number seconds in between 2484 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2485 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2486 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2487 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2488 the kernel debugger. 2489 2490 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2491 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2492 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2493 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2494 keyboard only format: kbd 2495 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2496 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2497 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2498 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2499 2500 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2501 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2502 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2503 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2504 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2505 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2506 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2507 2508 The name of the early console should be specified 2509 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2510 the early console might be different than the tty 2511 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2512 blank and the first boot console that implements 2513 read() will be picked. 2514 2515 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2516 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2517 2518 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2519 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2520 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2521 2522 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2523 Valid arguments: on, off 2524 Default: on 2525 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2526 the default is off. 2527 2528 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2529 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2530 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2531 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2532 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2533 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2534 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2535 2536 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2537 2538 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2539 Boot Parameter" section. 2540 2541 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2542 and kernel address spaces. 2543 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2544 0: force disabled 2545 1: force enabled 2546 2547 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2548 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2549 default value can be overridden via 2550 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2551 Default is 1 (enabled) 2552 2553 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2554 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2555 2556 kvm.eager_page_split= 2557 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2558 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2559 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2560 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2561 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2562 required to split huge pages lazily. 2563 2564 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2565 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2566 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2567 still be used for reads. 2568 2569 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2570 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2571 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2572 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2573 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2574 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2575 cleared. 2576 2577 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2578 2579 Default is Y (on). 2580 2581 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2582 Default is false (don't support). 2583 2584 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2585 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2586 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2587 force : Always deploy workaround. 2588 off : Never deploy workaround. 2589 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2590 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2591 2592 Default is 'auto'. 2593 2594 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2595 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2596 2597 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2598 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2599 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2600 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2601 period (see below). The default is 60. 2602 2603 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2604 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2605 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2606 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2607 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2608 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2609 2610 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2611 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2612 2613 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2614 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2615 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2616 for NPT. 2617 2618 kvm-arm.mode= 2619 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2620 2621 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2622 2623 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2624 protected guests. 2625 2626 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2627 state is kept private from the host. 2628 2629 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2630 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2631 hardware. 2632 2633 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2634 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2635 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2636 used with extreme caution. 2637 2638 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2639 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2640 system registers 2641 2642 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2643 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2644 system registers 2645 2646 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2647 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2648 system registers 2649 2650 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2651 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2652 LPIs. 2653 2654 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2655 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2656 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2657 allocation. 2658 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2659 Format: <integer> 2660 Default: 5 2661 2662 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2663 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2664 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2665 for EPT. 2666 2667 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2668 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2669 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2670 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2671 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2672 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2673 Default is 1 (enabled). 2674 2675 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2676 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2677 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2678 hardware lacks support for it. 2679 2680 kvm-intel.nested= 2681 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2682 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2683 2684 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2685 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2686 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2687 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2688 hardware lacks support for it. 2689 2690 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2691 CVE-2018-3620. 2692 2693 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2694 2695 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2696 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2697 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2698 never: Disables the mitigation 2699 2700 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2701 2702 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2703 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2704 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2705 for it. 2706 2707 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2708 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2709 2710 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2711 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2712 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2713 2714 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2715 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2716 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2717 not have direct access. 2718 2719 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2720 options are: 2721 2722 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2723 2724 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2725 affected CPUs 2726 2727 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2728 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2729 2730 full 2731 Provides all available mitigations for the 2732 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2733 enables all mitigations in the 2734 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2735 2736 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2737 sysfs interface is still possible after 2738 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2739 when the first VM is started in a 2740 potentially insecure configuration, 2741 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2742 2743 full,force 2744 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2745 flush runtime control. Implies the 2746 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2747 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2748 2749 flush 2750 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2751 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2752 L1D flush. 2753 2754 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2755 sysfs interface is still possible after 2756 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2757 when the first VM is started in a 2758 potentially insecure configuration, 2759 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2760 2761 flush,nosmt 2762 2763 Disables SMT and enables the default 2764 hypervisor mitigation. 2765 2766 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2767 sysfs interface is still possible after 2768 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2769 when the first VM is started in a 2770 potentially insecure configuration, 2771 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2772 2773 flush,nowarn 2774 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2775 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2776 insecure configuration. 2777 2778 off 2779 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2780 emit any warnings. 2781 It also drops the swap size and available 2782 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2783 bare metal. 2784 2785 Default is 'flush'. 2786 2787 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2788 2789 l2cr= [PPC] 2790 2791 l3cr= [PPC] 2792 2793 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2794 disabled it. 2795 2796 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2797 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2798 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2799 Format: notscdeadline 2800 2801 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2802 in C2 power state. 2803 2804 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2805 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2806 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2807 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2808 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2809 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2810 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2811 2812 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2813 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2814 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2815 2816 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2817 when set. 2818 Format: <int> 2819 2820 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2821 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2822 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2823 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2824 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2825 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2826 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2827 to all ports, links and devices. 2828 2829 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2830 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2831 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2832 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2833 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2834 host link and device attached to it. 2835 2836 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2837 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2838 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2839 The following configurations can be forced. 2840 2841 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2842 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2843 2844 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2845 2846 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2847 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2848 allowed. 2849 2850 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2851 resets. 2852 2853 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2854 link recovery. 2855 2856 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2857 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2858 detection. 2859 2860 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2861 2862 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2863 2864 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2865 2866 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2867 2868 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2869 2870 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2871 2872 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2873 2874 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2875 2876 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2877 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2878 2879 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2880 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2881 2882 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2883 identify device data log. 2884 2885 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2886 purpose log directory. 2887 2888 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2889 2890 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2891 1024 sectors. 2892 2893 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2894 65535 sectors. 2895 2896 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2897 2898 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2899 should be skipped. 2900 2901 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2902 support for devices supporting this feature. 2903 2904 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2905 2906 * disable: Disable this device. 2907 2908 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2909 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2910 2911 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2912 2913 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2914 Format: <integer> 2915 2916 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2917 Format: <integer> 2918 2919 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2920 Format: <integer> 2921 2922 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2923 Format: <integer> 2924 2925 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2926 { integrity | confidentiality } 2927 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2928 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2929 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2930 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2931 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2932 are also disabled. 2933 2934 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 2935 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 2936 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 2937 will result in a splat once they do complete. 2938 2939 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 2940 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 2941 to be bound. 2942 2943 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 2944 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 2945 to be bound. 2946 2947 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 2948 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 2949 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 2950 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 2951 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 2952 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 2953 2954 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 2955 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 2956 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 2957 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 2958 2959 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 2960 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 2961 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 2962 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 2963 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 2964 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 2965 2966 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2967 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2968 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2969 number of online CPUs. 2970 2971 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2972 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2973 2974 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2975 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2976 2977 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2978 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2979 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2980 2981 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 2982 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 2983 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 2984 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 2985 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 2986 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 2987 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 2988 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 2989 disable boosting. 2990 2991 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 2992 Number that determines how often and for how 2993 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 2994 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 2995 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 2996 constant as the number of writers increases. 2997 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 2998 increases with the number of writers. 2999 3000 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3001 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3002 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3003 mode during the locktorture test. 3004 3005 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3006 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3007 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3008 3009 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3010 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3011 3012 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3013 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3014 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3015 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3016 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3017 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3018 3019 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3020 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3021 3022 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3023 Enable additional printk() statements. 3024 3025 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3026 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3027 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3028 3029 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3030 Format: <irq> 3031 3032 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3033 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3034 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3035 loglevels are defined as follows: 3036 3037 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3038 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3039 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3040 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3041 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3042 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3043 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3044 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3045 3046 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 3047 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 3048 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 3049 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 3050 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 3051 that allows to increase the default size depending on 3052 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 3053 3054 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3055 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3056 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3057 kernel boot problems. 3058 3059 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3060 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3061 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3062 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3063 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3064 attached printers to be reset. Using 3065 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3066 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3067 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3068 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3069 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3070 port specification list means that device IDs 3071 from each port should be examined, to see if 3072 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3073 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3074 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3075 3076 lpj=n [KNL] 3077 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3078 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3079 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3080 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3081 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3082 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3083 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3084 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3085 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3086 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3087 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3088 hardware. 3089 3090 ltpc= [NET] 3091 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 3092 3093 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3094 3095 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3096 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3097 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3098 3099 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 3100 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 3101 Example: machvec=hpzx1 3102 3103 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3104 different yeeloong laptops. 3105 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3106 3107 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 3108 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 3109 3110 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3111 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3112 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3113 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3114 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3115 only takes effect during system bootup. 3116 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3117 which also disables the IO APIC. 3118 3119 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3120 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3121 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3122 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3123 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3124 /dev/loop-control interface. 3125 3126 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3127 3128 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3129 3130 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3131 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3132 3133 mdacon= [MDA] 3134 Format: <first>,<last> 3135 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3136 3137 mds= [X86,INTEL] 3138 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3139 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3140 3141 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3142 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3143 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3144 3145 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3146 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3147 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3148 not have direct access. 3149 3150 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3151 options are: 3152 3153 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3154 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3155 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3156 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3157 3158 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3159 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3160 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3161 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3162 too. 3163 3164 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3165 mds=full. 3166 3167 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3168 3169 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3170 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3171 3172 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3173 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3174 3175 1 for test; 3176 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3177 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3178 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3179 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3180 3181 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3182 high memory is not affected. 3183 3184 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3185 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3186 3187 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3188 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3189 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3190 belonging to unused RAM. 3191 3192 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3193 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3194 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3195 3196 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3197 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3198 firmware. 3199 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3200 ss[KMG]. 3201 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3202 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3203 3204 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3205 memory. 3206 3207 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3208 3209 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3210 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3211 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3212 3213 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3214 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3215 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3216 set according to the 3217 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3218 option. 3219 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3220 3221 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3222 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3223 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3224 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3225 option description. 3226 3227 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3228 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3229 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3230 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3231 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3232 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3233 comma delimited. 3234 Example: 3235 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3236 3237 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3238 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3239 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3240 3241 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3242 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3243 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3244 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3245 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3246 or 3247 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3248 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3249 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3250 will be eaten. 3251 3252 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3253 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3254 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3255 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3256 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3257 3258 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3259 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3260 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3261 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3262 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3263 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3264 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3265 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3266 3267 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3268 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3269 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3270 Setting this option will scan the memory 3271 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3272 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3273 from using the memory being corrupted. 3274 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3275 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3276 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3277 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3278 3279 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3280 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3281 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3282 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3283 corruption in more or less memory. 3284 3285 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3286 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3287 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3288 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3289 3290 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3291 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3292 Format: {on | off (default)} 3293 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3294 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3295 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3296 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3297 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3298 lot of memory without requiring additional 3299 memory to do so. 3300 This feature is disabled by default because it 3301 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3302 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3303 memory blocks). 3304 The state of the flag can be read in 3305 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3306 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3307 the feature is not effective. 3308 3309 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3310 Format: <integer> 3311 default : 0 <disable> 3312 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3313 performed. Each pass selects another test 3314 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3315 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3316 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3317 regions that are detected. 3318 3319 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3320 Valid arguments: on, off 3321 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3322 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3323 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3324 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3325 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3326 3327 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3328 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3329 3330 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3331 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3332 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3333 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3334 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3335 3336 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3337 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3338 platforms. 3339 3340 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3341 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3342 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3343 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3344 3345 mga= [HW,DRM] 3346 3347 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3348 Format: <bool> 3349 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3350 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3351 3352 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3353 physical address is ignored. 3354 3355 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3356 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3357 Default: "0tb" 3358 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3359 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3360 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3361 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3362 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3363 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3364 unconfigured. 3365 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3366 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3367 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3368 VGA shield. 3369 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3370 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3371 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3372 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3373 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3374 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3375 3376 mitigations= 3377 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3378 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3379 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3380 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3381 3382 off 3383 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3384 improves system performance, but it may also 3385 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3386 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3387 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3388 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3389 l1tf=off [X86] 3390 mds=off [X86] 3391 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3392 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3393 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3394 nobp=0 [S390] 3395 nopti [X86,PPC] 3396 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3397 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3398 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3399 retbleed=off [X86] 3400 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3401 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3402 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3403 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3404 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3405 3406 Exceptions: 3407 This does not have any effect on 3408 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3409 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3410 3411 auto (default) 3412 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3413 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3414 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3415 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3416 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3417 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3418 3419 auto,nosmt 3420 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3421 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3422 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3423 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3424 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3425 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3426 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3427 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3428 3429 mminit_loglevel= 3430 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3431 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3432 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3433 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3434 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3435 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3436 3437 mmio_stale_data= 3438 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3439 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3440 3441 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3442 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3443 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3444 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3445 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3446 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3447 3448 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3449 options are: 3450 3451 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3452 3453 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3454 vulnerable CPUs. 3455 3456 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3457 3458 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3459 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3460 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3461 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3462 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3463 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3464 3465 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3466 mmio_stale_data=full. 3467 3468 For details see: 3469 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3470 3471 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3472 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3473 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3474 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3475 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3476 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3477 3478 module.async_probe=<bool> 3479 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3480 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3481 specific module, use the module specific control that 3482 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3483 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3484 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3485 the specific module. 3486 3487 module.enable_dups_trace 3488 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3489 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3490 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3491 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3492 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3493 module.sig_enforce 3494 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3495 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3496 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3497 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3498 3499 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3500 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3501 3502 mousedev.tap_time= 3503 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3504 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3505 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3506 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3507 Format: <msecs> 3508 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3509 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3510 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3511 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3512 3513 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3514 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3515 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3516 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3517 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3518 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3519 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3520 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3521 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3522 is not too small. 3523 3524 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3525 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3526 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3527 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3528 allocations. Use with caution! 3529 3530 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3531 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3532 3533 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3534 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3535 3536 mtdparts= [MTD] 3537 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3538 3539 mtdset= [ARM] 3540 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3541 3542 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3543 3544 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3545 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3546 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3547 3548 mtrr=debug [X86] 3549 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3550 registers at boot time. 3551 3552 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3553 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3554 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3555 3556 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3557 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3558 Default is 1. 3559 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3560 using up MTRRs. 3561 3562 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3563 Format: <integer> 3564 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3565 Default : 1 3566 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3567 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3568 3569 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3570 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3571 at a time. 3572 3573 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3574 3575 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3576 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3577 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3578 something different and driver-specific. 3579 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3580 file if at all. 3581 3582 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3583 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3584 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3585 waits 4 seconds. 3586 3587 nf_conntrack.acct= 3588 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3589 0 to disable accounting 3590 1 to enable accounting 3591 Default value is 0. 3592 3593 nfs.cache_getent= 3594 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3595 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3596 3597 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3598 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3599 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3600 3601 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3602 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3603 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3604 requests. 3605 3606 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3607 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3608 channel should listen. 3609 3610 nfs.delay_retrans= 3611 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3612 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3613 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3614 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3615 and the specified value is >= 0. 3616 3617 nfs.enable_ino64= 3618 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3619 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3620 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3621 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3622 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3623 3624 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3625 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3626 entries. 3627 3628 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3629 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3630 slots the client will assign to the callback 3631 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3632 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3633 a particular server. 3634 3635 nfs.max_session_slots= 3636 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3637 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3638 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3639 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3640 Note that there is little point in setting this 3641 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3642 3643 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3644 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3645 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3646 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3647 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3648 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3649 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3650 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3651 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3652 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3653 back to using the idmapper. 3654 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3655 3656 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3657 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3658 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3659 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3660 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3661 3662 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3663 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3664 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3665 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3666 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3667 after the locks are lost. 3668 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3669 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3670 parameter to '1'. 3671 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3672 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3673 3674 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3675 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3676 information in exchange_id requests. 3677 If zero, no implementation identification information 3678 will be sent. 3679 The default is to send the implementation identification 3680 information. 3681 3682 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3683 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3684 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3685 3686 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3687 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3688 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3689 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3690 3691 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3692 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3693 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3694 the destination of the copy. 3695 3696 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3697 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3698 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3699 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3700 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3701 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3702 3703 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3704 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3705 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3706 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3707 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3708 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3709 this parameter. 3710 3711 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3712 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3713 3714 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3715 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3716 3717 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3718 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3719 3720 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3721 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3722 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3723 3724 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3725 when a NMI is triggered. 3726 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3727 3728 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3729 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3730 Valid num: 0 or 1 3731 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3732 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3733 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3734 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3735 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3736 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3737 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3738 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3739 need the box quickly up again. 3740 3741 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3742 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3743 3744 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3745 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3746 is present. 3747 3748 no4lvl [RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces 3749 kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3750 3751 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3752 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3753 3754 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3755 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3756 but will impact performance. 3757 3758 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3759 3760 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3761 (CPU alternatives feature). 3762 3763 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3764 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3765 3766 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3767 3768 nocache [ARM] 3769 3770 no_console_suspend 3771 [HW] Never suspend the console 3772 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3773 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3774 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3775 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3776 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3777 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3778 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3779 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3780 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3781 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3782 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3783 turn on/off it dynamically. 3784 3785 no_debug_objects 3786 [KNL] Disable object debugging 3787 3788 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3789 3790 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3791 3792 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3793 3794 noexec [IA-64] 3795 3796 noexec32 [X86-64] 3797 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3798 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3799 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3800 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3801 read implies executable mappings 3802 3803 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3804 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3805 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3806 3807 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3808 3809 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3810 3811 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3812 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3813 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3814 3815 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3816 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3817 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3818 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3819 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3820 real-time systems. 3821 3822 no_hash_pointers 3823 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3824 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3825 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3826 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3827 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3828 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3829 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3830 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3831 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3832 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3833 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3834 kernels. 3835 3836 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3837 3838 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to 3839 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3840 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3841 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3842 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3843 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3844 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3845 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3846 3847 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3848 3849 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3850 3851 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3852 Valid arguments: on, off 3853 Default: on 3854 3855 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3856 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3857 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3858 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3859 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3860 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3861 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3862 just as if they had also been called out in the 3863 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3864 3865 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3866 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3867 3868 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3869 initial RAM disk. 3870 3871 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3872 remapping. 3873 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3874 3875 nointroute [IA-64] 3876 3877 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3878 3879 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3880 3881 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3882 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3883 3884 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3885 3886 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3887 3888 nokaslr [KNL] 3889 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3890 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3891 Layout Randomization). 3892 3893 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3894 fault handling. 3895 3896 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3897 3898 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3899 3900 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3901 3902 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3903 3904 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3905 3906 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3907 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3908 3909 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3910 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3911 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3912 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3913 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3914 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3915 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3916 3917 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3918 3919 nomodule Disable module load 3920 3921 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3922 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3923 irq. 3924 3925 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3926 pagetables) support. 3927 3928 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3929 3930 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3931 in some Intel CPUs. 3932 3933 nopti [X86-64] 3934 Equivalent to pti=off 3935 3936 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3937 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3938 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3939 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3940 3941 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3942 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3943 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3944 contention. 3945 3946 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3947 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3948 3949 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3950 with UP alternatives 3951 3952 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3953 space. 3954 3955 nosbagart [IA-64] 3956 3957 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3958 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3959 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3960 3961 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3962 3963 nosmap [PPC] 3964 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3965 even if it is supported by processor. 3966 3967 nosmep [PPC64s] 3968 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3969 even if it is supported by processor. 3970 3971 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3972 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3973 3974 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3975 Equivalent to smt=1. 3976 3977 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3978 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3979 via the sysfs control file. 3980 3981 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3982 3983 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3984 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3985 3986 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3987 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3988 with this option. 3989 3990 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3991 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3992 possible in the system. 3993 3994 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3995 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3996 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3997 option. 3998 3999 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 4000 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 4001 won't influence scheduler behaviour 4002 4003 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4004 4005 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4006 broken timer IRQ sources. 4007 4008 no_uaccess_flush 4009 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4010 4011 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4012 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4013 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4014 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4015 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4016 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4017 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4018 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4019 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4020 is set. 4021 4022 no-vmw-sched-clock 4023 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 4024 clock and use the default one. 4025 4026 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4027 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4028 4029 nowb [ARM] 4030 4031 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4032 4033 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4034 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4035 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4036 4037 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4038 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4039 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4040 4041 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4042 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4043 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4044 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4045 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4046 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4047 4048 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4049 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4050 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4051 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4052 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4053 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4054 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4055 4056 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 4057 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 4058 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 4059 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 4060 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 4061 parameter's value. 4062 Format: integer between 1 and 255 4063 Default: 255 4064 4065 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 4066 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 4067 SAL PALO. 4068 4069 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4070 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4071 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4072 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4073 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4074 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4075 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4076 hot plugging. 4077 4078 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4079 4080 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 4081 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 4082 4083 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4084 NUMA balancing. 4085 Allowed values are enable and disable 4086 4087 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4088 'node', 'default' can be specified 4089 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4090 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4091 4092 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4093 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4094 info. 4095 4096 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4097 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4098 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4099 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4100 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4101 interrupts *may* be lost! 4102 4103 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4104 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4105 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4106 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4107 4108 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4109 4110 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4111 4112 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4113 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4114 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4115 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4116 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4117 4118 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4119 process, but there is a small probability of 4120 deadlocking the machine. 4121 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4122 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4123 4124 page_alloc.shuffle= 4125 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4126 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 4127 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 4128 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 4129 cache, and this parameter can be used to 4130 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 4131 can be read from sysfs at: 4132 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4133 4134 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4135 Storage of the information about who allocated 4136 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4137 we can turn it on. 4138 on: enable the feature 4139 4140 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4141 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4142 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4143 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4144 on: turn on poisoning 4145 4146 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4147 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4148 Format: <integer> 4149 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4150 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4151 4152 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4153 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4154 timeout = 0: wait forever 4155 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4156 Format: <timeout> 4157 4158 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4159 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4160 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4161 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4162 called with any of the flags in this set. 4163 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4164 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4165 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4166 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4167 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4168 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4169 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4170 4171 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4172 on a WARN(). 4173 4174 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4175 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4176 bit 0: print all tasks info 4177 bit 1: print system memory info 4178 bit 2: print timer info 4179 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4180 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4181 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4182 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4183 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4184 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4185 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4186 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4187 4188 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4189 connected to, default is 0. 4190 Format: <parport#> 4191 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4192 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4193 Format: <mode> 4194 4195 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4196 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4197 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4198 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4199 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4200 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4201 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4202 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4203 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4204 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4205 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4206 are specified on the command line, starting 4207 with parport0. 4208 4209 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4210 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4211 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4212 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4213 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4214 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4215 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4216 4217 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4218 Format: <int> 4219 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4220 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4221 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4222 4223 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4224 Format: <int> 4225 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4226 changes. Disabled by default. 4227 4228 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4229 Format: <int> 4230 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4231 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4232 Disabled by default. 4233 4234 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4235 Format: <int> 4236 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4237 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4238 Disabled by default. 4239 4240 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4241 Format: <int> 4242 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4243 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4244 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4245 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4246 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4247 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4248 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4249 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4250 all channels. 4251 4252 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4253 Format: <int> 4254 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4255 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4256 respectively. Disabled by default. 4257 4258 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4259 Format: <int> 4260 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4261 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4262 respectively. Disabled by default. 4263 4264 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4265 Format: <int> 4266 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4267 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4268 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4269 All modes allowed by default. 4270 4271 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4272 Format: <int> 4273 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4274 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4275 4276 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4277 Format: <int> 4278 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4279 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4280 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4281 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4282 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4283 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4284 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4285 By default all supported ports are probed. 4286 4287 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4288 Format: <int> 4289 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4290 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4291 4292 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4293 Format: <int> 4294 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4295 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4296 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4297 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4298 0 otherwise. 4299 4300 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4301 Format: <int> 4302 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4303 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4304 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4305 allowed by default. 4306 4307 pause_on_oops=<int> 4308 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4309 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4310 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4311 4312 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4313 4314 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4315 4316 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4317 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4318 specified in one of the following formats: 4319 4320 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4321 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4322 4323 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4324 bus/device/function address which may change 4325 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4326 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4327 by other kernel parameters. If the 4328 domain is left unspecified, it is 4329 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4330 to a device through multiple device/function 4331 addresses can be specified after the base 4332 address (this is more robust against 4333 renumbering issues). The second format 4334 selects devices using IDs from the 4335 configuration space which may match multiple 4336 devices in the system. 4337 4338 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4339 changes anything 4340 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4341 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4342 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4343 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4344 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4345 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4346 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4347 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4348 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4349 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4350 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4351 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4352 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4353 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4354 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4355 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4356 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4357 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4358 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4359 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4360 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4361 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4362 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4363 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4364 Configuration 4365 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4366 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4367 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4368 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4369 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4370 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4371 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4372 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4373 should never be necessary. 4374 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4375 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4376 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4377 when the system masks IRQs. 4378 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4379 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4380 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4381 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4382 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4383 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4384 on several machines and they hang the machine 4385 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4386 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4387 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4388 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4389 motherboard. 4390 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4391 Use with caution as certain devices share 4392 address decoders between ROMs and other 4393 resources. 4394 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4395 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4396 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4397 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4398 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4399 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4400 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4401 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4402 this way. 4403 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4404 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4405 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4406 F0000h-100000h range. 4407 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4408 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4409 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4410 explicitly which ones they are. 4411 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4412 numbers ourselves, overriding 4413 whatever the firmware may have done. 4414 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4415 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4416 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4417 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4418 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4419 IRQ routing is enabled. 4420 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4421 or for PCI scanning. 4422 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4423 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4424 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4425 please report a bug. 4426 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4427 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4428 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4429 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4430 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4431 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4432 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4433 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4434 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4435 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4436 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4437 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4438 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4439 so this option is a temporary workaround 4440 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4441 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4442 handle more pci cards 4443 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4444 This might help on some broken boards which 4445 machine check when some devices' config space 4446 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4447 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4448 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4449 This sorting is done to get a device 4450 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4451 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4452 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4453 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4454 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4455 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4456 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4457 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4458 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4459 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4460 or bus can support) for best performance. 4461 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4462 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4463 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4464 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4465 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4466 that hot-added devices will work. 4467 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4468 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4469 The default value is 256 bytes. 4470 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4471 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4472 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4473 resource_alignment= 4474 Format: 4475 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4476 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4477 aligned memory resources. How to 4478 specify the device is described above. 4479 If <order of align> is not specified, 4480 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4481 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4482 windows need to be expanded. 4483 To specify the alignment for several 4484 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4485 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4486 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4487 for 4096-byte alignment. 4488 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4489 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4490 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4491 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4492 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4493 the default. 4494 off: Turn ECRC off 4495 on: Turn ECRC on. 4496 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4497 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4498 Default size is 256 bytes. 4499 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4500 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4501 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4502 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4503 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4504 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4505 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4506 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4507 MMIO_PREF window. 4508 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4509 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4510 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4511 Default is 1. 4512 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4513 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4514 accommodate resources required by all child 4515 devices. 4516 off: Turn realloc off 4517 on: Turn realloc on 4518 realloc same as realloc=on 4519 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4520 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4521 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4522 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4523 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4524 port. 4525 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4526 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4527 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4528 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4529 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4530 taints the kernel. 4531 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4532 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4533 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4534 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4535 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4536 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4537 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4538 this removes isolation between devices and 4539 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4540 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4541 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4542 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4543 one PCI domain per PCI function 4544 4545 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4546 Management. 4547 off Disable ASPM. 4548 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4549 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4550 4551 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4552 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4553 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4554 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4555 also tries to use these services. 4556 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4557 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4558 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4559 hotplug). 4560 4561 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4562 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4563 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4564 4565 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4566 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4567 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4568 4569 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4570 4571 pd_ignore_unused 4572 [PM] 4573 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4574 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4575 for debug and development, but should not be 4576 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4577 4578 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4579 boot time. 4580 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4581 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4582 4583 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4584 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4585 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4586 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4587 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4588 and performance comparison. 4589 4590 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4591 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4592 4593 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4594 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4595 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4596 4597 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4598 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4599 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4600 4601 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4602 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4603 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4604 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4605 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4606 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4607 remains 0. 4608 4609 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4610 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4611 4612 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4613 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4614 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4615 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4616 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4617 possible settings and some assignment information. 4618 4619 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4620 { off } 4621 4622 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4623 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4624 4625 pnp_reserve_irq= 4626 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4627 4628 pnp_reserve_dma= 4629 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4630 4631 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4632 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4633 4634 pnp_reserve_mem= 4635 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4636 autoconfiguration. 4637 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4638 4639 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4640 Default is 21. 4641 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4642 may be specified. 4643 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4644 4645 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4646 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4647 platform machine description specific power_save 4648 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4649 execution priority. 4650 4651 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4652 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4653 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4654 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4655 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4656 4657 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4658 Format: {"off"} 4659 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4660 4661 preempt= [KNL] 4662 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4663 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4664 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4665 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4666 can be preempted anytime. 4667 4668 print-fatal-signals= 4669 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4670 4671 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4672 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4673 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4674 coredump - etc. 4675 4676 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4677 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4678 4679 default: off. 4680 4681 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4682 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4683 panics 4684 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4685 default: disabled 4686 4687 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4688 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4689 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4690 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4691 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4692 in order to provide more debug information. 4693 Format: <bool> 4694 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4695 4696 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4697 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4698 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4699 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4700 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4701 Default: ratelimit 4702 4703 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4704 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4705 4706 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4707 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4708 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4709 4710 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4711 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4712 instead using the legacy FADT method 4713 4714 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4715 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4716 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4717 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4718 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4719 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4720 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4721 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4722 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4723 statistical time based profiling. 4724 4725 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4726 4727 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4728 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4729 that). 4730 Format: <bool> 4731 4732 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4733 tracking. 4734 Format: <bool> 4735 4736 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4737 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4738 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4739 per second. 4740 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4741 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4742 (0 = never). 4743 psmouse.resolution= 4744 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4745 psmouse.smartscroll= 4746 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4747 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4748 4749 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4750 4751 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4752 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4753 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4754 system calls and interrupts. 4755 4756 on - unconditionally enable 4757 off - unconditionally disable 4758 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4759 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4760 4761 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4762 4763 pty.legacy_count= 4764 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4765 default number. 4766 4767 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4768 4769 r128= [HW,DRM] 4770 4771 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4772 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4773 invalidate. 4774 4775 raid= [HW,RAID] 4776 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4777 4778 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4779 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4780 4781 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4782 4783 random.trust_cpu=off 4784 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4785 random number generator (if available) to 4786 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4787 4788 random.trust_bootloader=off 4789 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4790 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4791 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4792 4793 randomize_kstack_offset= 4794 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4795 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4796 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4797 that depend on stack address determinism or 4798 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4799 available on architectures that have defined 4800 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4801 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4802 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4803 4804 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4805 4806 cec_disable [X86] 4807 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4808 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4809 4810 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4811 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4812 as described above. 4813 4814 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4815 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4816 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4817 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4818 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4819 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4820 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4821 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4822 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4823 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4824 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4825 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4826 4827 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4828 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4829 4830 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4831 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4832 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4833 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4834 4835 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4836 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4837 4838 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4839 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4840 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4841 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4842 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4843 This improves the real-time response for the 4844 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4845 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4846 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4847 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4848 4849 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4850 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4851 process in one batch. 4852 4853 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4854 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4855 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4856 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4857 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4858 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4859 4860 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4861 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4862 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4863 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4864 4865 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4866 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4867 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4868 4869 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4870 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4871 RCU grace-period initialization. 4872 4873 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4874 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4875 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4876 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4877 the rcu_node combining tree. 4878 4879 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4880 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4881 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4882 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4883 and maximum value is HZ. 4884 4885 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4886 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4887 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4888 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4889 4890 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4891 Set required age in jiffies for a 4892 given grace period before RCU starts 4893 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4894 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4895 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4896 a value based on the most recent settings 4897 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4898 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4899 This calculated value may be viewed in 4900 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4901 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4902 overwritten. 4903 4904 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4905 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4906 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4907 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4908 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4909 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4910 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4911 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4912 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4913 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4914 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4915 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4916 4917 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4918 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4919 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4920 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4921 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4922 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4923 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4924 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4925 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4926 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4927 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4928 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4929 4930 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4931 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4932 batch limiting is disabled. 4933 4934 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4935 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4936 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4937 4938 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4939 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4940 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4941 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4942 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4943 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4944 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4945 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4946 4947 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4948 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4949 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4950 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4951 4952 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4953 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4954 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4955 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4956 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4957 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4958 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4959 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4960 4961 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4962 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4963 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4964 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4965 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4966 4967 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4968 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4969 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4970 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4971 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4972 4973 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4974 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4975 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4976 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4977 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4978 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4979 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4980 4981 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4982 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4983 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4984 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4985 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4986 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4987 condition. 4988 4989 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4990 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4991 each group, which defaults to the square root 4992 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4993 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4994 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4995 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4996 4997 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4998 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4999 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5000 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5001 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5002 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5003 5004 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5005 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5006 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5007 By default, this limit is checked only once 5008 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5009 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5010 5011 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5012 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5013 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5014 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5015 Larger delays increase the probability of 5016 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5017 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5018 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5019 5020 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5021 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5022 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5023 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5024 5025 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5026 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5027 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5028 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5029 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5030 5031 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5032 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5033 to zero. 5034 5035 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5036 Measure performance of asynchronous 5037 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5038 5039 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5040 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5041 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5042 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5043 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5044 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5045 5046 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5047 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5048 grace-period primitives. 5049 5050 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5051 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5052 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5053 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5054 interference. 5055 5056 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5057 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5058 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5059 5060 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5061 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5062 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5063 Defaults to 1. 5064 5065 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5066 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5067 5068 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5069 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5070 If this parameter has the same value as 5071 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5072 and double-argument variants are tested. 5073 5074 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5075 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5076 If this parameter has the same value as 5077 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5078 and double-argument variants are tested. 5079 5080 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5081 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5082 5083 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5084 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5085 5086 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5087 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5088 of allocations and frees. 5089 5090 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5091 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5092 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5093 but instead allows better measurement of things 5094 like CPU consumption. 5095 5096 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5097 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5098 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5099 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5100 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5101 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5102 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5103 a single reader. 5104 5105 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5106 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5107 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5108 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5109 5110 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5111 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5112 5113 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5114 Shut the system down after performance tests 5115 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5116 testing. 5117 5118 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5119 Enable additional printk() statements. 5120 5121 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5122 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5123 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5124 no holdoff. 5125 5126 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5127 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5128 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5129 says no holdoff. 5130 5131 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5132 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5133 in microseconds. 5134 5135 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5136 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5137 in microseconds. 5138 5139 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5140 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5141 in seconds. 5142 5143 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5144 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5145 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5146 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5147 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5148 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5149 of CPUs to be used. 5150 5151 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5152 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5153 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5154 5155 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5156 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5157 forward-progress tests. 5158 5159 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5160 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5161 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5162 testing. 5163 5164 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5165 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5166 primitives, if available. 5167 5168 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5169 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5170 5171 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5172 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5173 update-side primitives, if available. 5174 5175 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5176 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5177 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5178 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5179 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5180 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5181 they are all non-zero. 5182 5183 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5184 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5185 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5186 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5187 5188 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5189 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5190 This can of course result in splats, and is 5191 intended to test the ability of things like 5192 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5193 such leaks. 5194 5195 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5196 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5197 5198 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5199 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5200 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5201 test, hence the "fake". 5202 5203 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5204 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5205 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5206 5207 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5208 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5209 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5210 5211 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5212 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5213 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5214 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5215 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5216 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5217 5218 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5219 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5220 5221 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5222 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5223 5224 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5225 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5226 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5227 5228 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5229 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5230 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5231 task-exit processing. 5232 5233 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5234 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5235 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5236 is spawned. 5237 5238 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5239 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5240 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5241 5242 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5243 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5244 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5245 during the rcutorture test. 5246 5247 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5248 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5249 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5250 5251 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5252 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5253 warnings, zero to disable. 5254 5255 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5256 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5257 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5258 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5259 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5260 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5261 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5262 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5263 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5264 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5265 5266 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5267 5268 5269 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5270 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5271 5272 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5273 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5274 5275 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5276 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5277 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5278 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5279 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5280 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5281 5282 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5283 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5284 5285 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5286 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5287 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5288 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5289 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5290 5291 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5292 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5293 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5294 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5295 5296 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5297 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5298 5299 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5300 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5301 5302 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5303 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5304 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5305 5306 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5307 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5308 5309 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5310 Enable additional printk() statements. 5311 5312 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5313 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5314 stall warning. 5315 5316 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5317 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5318 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5319 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5320 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5321 5322 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5323 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5324 5325 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5326 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5327 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5328 during early boot, that is, during the time 5329 before the init task is spawned. 5330 5331 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5332 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5333 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5334 value is 300 seconds. 5335 5336 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5337 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5338 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5339 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5340 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5341 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5342 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5343 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5344 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5345 5346 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5347 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5348 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5349 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5350 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5351 5352 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5353 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5354 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5355 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5356 5357 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5358 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5359 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5360 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5361 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5362 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5363 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5364 5365 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5366 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5367 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5368 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5369 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5370 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5371 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5372 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5373 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5374 5375 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5376 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5377 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5378 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5379 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5380 5381 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5382 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5383 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5384 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5385 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5386 grace-period processing. 5387 5388 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5389 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5390 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5391 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5392 a single callback queue. This switching only 5393 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5394 set to the default value of -1. 5395 5396 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5397 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5398 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5399 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5400 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5401 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5402 the default value of -1. 5403 5404 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5405 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5406 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5407 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5408 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5409 for use in testing. 5410 5411 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5412 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5413 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5414 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5415 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5416 but lengthens grace periods. 5417 5418 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5419 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5420 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5421 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5422 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5423 callback flooding. 5424 5425 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5426 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5427 informational messages, which give some indication 5428 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5429 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5430 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5431 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5432 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5433 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5434 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5435 5436 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5437 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5438 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5439 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5440 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5441 the value three, so that the first informational 5442 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5443 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5444 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5445 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5446 5447 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5448 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5449 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5450 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5451 A change in value does not take effect until 5452 the beginning of the next grace period. 5453 5454 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5455 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5456 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5457 A negative value will take the default. A value 5458 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5459 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5460 5461 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5462 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5463 Rude asynchronous callback batching for 5464 call_rcu_tasks_rude(). A negative value 5465 will take the default. A value of zero will 5466 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5467 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(). 5468 5469 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5470 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5471 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5472 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5473 will take the default. A value of zero will 5474 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5475 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5476 5477 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5478 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5479 5480 rdinit= [KNL] 5481 Format: <full_path> 5482 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5483 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5484 5485 rdrand= [X86] 5486 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5487 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5488 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5489 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5490 path). 5491 5492 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5493 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5494 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5495 mba, smba, bmec. 5496 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5497 rdt=cmt,!mba 5498 5499 reboot= [KNL] 5500 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5501 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5502 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5503 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5504 [[,]f[orce] 5505 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5506 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5507 reboot only), 5508 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5509 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5510 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5511 to be used for rebooting. 5512 5513 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5514 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5515 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5516 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5517 interference. 5518 5519 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5520 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5521 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5522 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5523 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5524 5525 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5526 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5527 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5528 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5529 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5530 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5531 x86 laptops. 5532 5533 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5534 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5535 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5536 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5537 5538 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5539 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5540 the console log. 5541 5542 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5543 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5544 measured in microseconds. 5545 5546 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5547 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5548 5549 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5550 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5551 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5552 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5553 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5554 5555 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5556 Enable additional printk() statements. 5557 5558 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5559 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5560 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5561 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5562 specified. 5563 5564 regulator_ignore_unused 5565 [REGULATOR] 5566 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5567 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5568 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5569 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5570 5571 relax_domain_level= 5572 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5573 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5574 5575 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5576 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5577 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5578 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5579 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5580 5581 reservetop= [X86-32] 5582 Format: nn[KMG] 5583 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5584 address space. 5585 5586 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5587 during initialization. 5588 5589 resume= [SWSUSP] 5590 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5591 Format: 5592 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5593 5594 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5595 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5596 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5597 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5598 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5599 5600 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5601 read the resume files 5602 5603 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5604 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5605 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5606 5607 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5608 5609 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5610 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5611 vulnerability. 5612 5613 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5614 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5615 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5616 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5617 that don't. 5618 5619 off - no mitigation 5620 auto - automatically select a migitation 5621 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5622 disabling SMT if necessary for 5623 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5624 and older without STIBP). 5625 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5626 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5627 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5628 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5629 on Intel. 5630 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5631 when STIBP is not available. This is 5632 the alternative for systems which do not 5633 have STIBP. 5634 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5635 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5636 systems. 5637 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5638 is not available. This is the alternative for 5639 systems which do not have STIBP. 5640 5641 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5642 time according to the CPU. 5643 5644 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5645 5646 rfkill.default_state= 5647 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5648 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5649 1 Unblocked. 5650 5651 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5652 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5653 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5654 blocked and the previous configuration. 5655 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5656 blocked and everything unblocked. 5657 5658 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5659 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5660 5661 ring3mwait=disable 5662 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5663 CPUs. 5664 5665 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV] 5666 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5667 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5668 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5669 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5670 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5671 5672 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5673 5674 rodata= [KNL] 5675 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5676 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5677 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5678 [arm64] 5679 5680 rockchip.usb_uart 5681 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5682 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5683 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5684 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5685 5686 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5687 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5688 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5689 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5690 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5691 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5692 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5693 5694 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5695 mount the root filesystem 5696 5697 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5698 5699 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5700 5701 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5702 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5703 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5704 5705 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5706 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5707 filesystem. 5708 5709 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5710 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5711 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5712 managed by CMA. 5713 5714 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5715 5716 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5717 5718 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5719 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5720 strict 5721 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5722 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5723 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5724 iommu.strict=1. 5725 5726 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5727 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5728 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5729 factor of the size of main memory. 5730 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5731 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5732 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5733 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5734 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5735 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5736 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5737 5738 sa1100ir [NET] 5739 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5740 5741 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5742 5743 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5744 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5745 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5746 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5747 5748 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5749 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5750 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5751 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5752 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5753 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5754 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5755 value. 5756 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5757 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5758 1 64 ms 5759 2 128 ms 5760 and so on. 5761 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5762 Default is 0. 5763 5764 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5765 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5766 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5767 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5768 tests. 5769 5770 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5771 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5772 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5773 default) disables this feature. Please note 5774 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5775 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5776 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5777 5778 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5779 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5780 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5781 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5782 equal to the number of CPUs. 5783 5784 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5785 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5786 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5787 5788 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5789 Number seconds to wait between successive 5790 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5791 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5792 5793 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5794 The number of seconds following the start of the 5795 test after which to shut down the system. The 5796 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5797 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5798 5799 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5800 The number of seconds between outputting the 5801 current test statistics to the console. A value 5802 of zero disables statistics output. 5803 5804 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5805 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5806 to the set of CPUs under test. 5807 5808 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5809 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5810 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5811 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5812 functions. 5813 5814 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5815 Enable additional printk() statements. 5816 5817 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5818 The probability weighting to use for the 5819 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5820 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5821 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5822 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5823 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5824 5825 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5826 The probability weighting to use for the 5827 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5828 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5829 5830 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5831 The probability weighting to use for the 5832 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5833 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5834 Note well that setting a high probability for 5835 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5836 on the system. 5837 5838 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5839 The probability weighting to use for the 5840 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5841 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5842 and weight_many. 5843 5844 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5845 The probability weighting to use for the 5846 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5847 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5848 weight_many. 5849 5850 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5851 The probability weighting to use for the 5852 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5853 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5854 and weight_many. 5855 5856 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5857 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5858 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5859 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5860 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5861 1 -- enable. 5862 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5863 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5864 5865 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5866 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5867 "lsm=" parameter. 5868 5869 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5870 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5871 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5872 0 -- disable. 5873 1 -- enable. 5874 Default value is 1. 5875 5876 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5877 5878 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5879 5880 shapers= [NET] 5881 Maximal number of shapers. 5882 5883 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5884 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5885 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5886 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5887 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5888 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5889 apic=verbose is specified. 5890 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5891 5892 simeth= [IA-64] 5893 simscsi= 5894 5895 slram= [HW,MTD] 5896 5897 slab_merge [MM] 5898 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5899 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5900 5901 slab_nomerge [MM] 5902 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5903 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5904 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5905 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5906 layout control by attackers can usually be 5907 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5908 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5909 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5910 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5911 own. 5912 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5913 5914 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5915 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5916 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5917 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5918 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5919 5920 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5921 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5922 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5923 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5924 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5925 last alloc / free. For more information see 5926 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5927 5928 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5929 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5930 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5931 fragmentation. For more information see 5932 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5933 5934 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5935 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5936 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5937 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5938 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5939 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5940 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5941 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5942 5943 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5944 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5945 lower than slub_max_order. 5946 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5947 5948 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5949 Same with slab_merge. 5950 5951 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5952 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5953 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5954 5955 smart2= [HW] 5956 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5957 5958 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5959 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5960 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5961 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5962 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5963 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5964 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5965 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5966 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5967 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5968 5969 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 5970 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 5971 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 5972 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 5973 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 5974 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 5975 5976 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5977 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5978 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5979 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5980 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5981 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5982 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5983 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5984 1: Fast pin select (default) 5985 2: ATC IRMode 5986 5987 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5988 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5989 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5990 actual hardware limit. 5991 Format: <integer> 5992 Default: -1 (no limit) 5993 5994 softlockup_panic= 5995 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5996 Format: 0 | 1 5997 5998 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5999 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6000 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6001 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6002 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6003 6004 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6005 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6006 backtraces on all cpus. 6007 Format: 0 | 1 6008 6009 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6010 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6011 6012 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6013 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6014 The default operation protects the kernel from 6015 user space attacks. 6016 6017 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6018 spectre_v2_user=on 6019 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6020 spectre_v2_user=off 6021 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6022 vulnerable 6023 6024 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6025 mitigation method at run time according to the 6026 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6027 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 6028 compiler with which the kernel was built. 6029 6030 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6031 against user space to user space task attacks. 6032 6033 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6034 the user space protections. 6035 6036 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6037 6038 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6039 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6040 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6041 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6042 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6043 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6044 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6045 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6046 6047 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6048 spectre_v2=auto. 6049 6050 spectre_v2_user= 6051 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6052 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6053 user space tasks 6054 6055 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6056 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6057 6058 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6059 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6060 6061 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6062 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6063 per thread. The mitigation control state 6064 is inherited on fork. 6065 6066 prctl,ibpb 6067 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6068 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6069 always when switching between different user 6070 space processes. 6071 6072 seccomp 6073 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6074 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6075 they explicitly opt out. 6076 6077 seccomp,ibpb 6078 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6079 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6080 always when switching between different 6081 user space processes. 6082 6083 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6084 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6085 6086 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6087 6088 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6089 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6090 6091 spec_rstack_overflow= 6092 [X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6093 6094 off - Disable mitigation 6095 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6096 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6097 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6098 kernel entry 6099 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6100 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6101 6102 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6103 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6104 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6105 6106 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6107 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6108 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6109 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6110 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6111 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6112 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6113 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6114 6115 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6116 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6117 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6118 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6119 6120 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6121 Bypass optimization is used. 6122 6123 On x86 the options are: 6124 6125 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6126 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6127 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6128 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6129 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6130 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6131 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6132 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6133 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6134 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6135 for a process by default. The state of the control 6136 is inherited on fork. 6137 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6138 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6139 6140 Default mitigations: 6141 X86: "prctl" 6142 6143 On powerpc the options are: 6144 6145 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6146 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6147 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6148 exit. 6149 off - No action. 6150 6151 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6152 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6153 6154 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 6155 spia_fio_base= 6156 spia_pedr= 6157 spia_peddr= 6158 6159 split_lock_detect= 6160 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6161 6162 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6163 instructions that access data across cache line 6164 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6165 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6166 bus lock detection. 6167 6168 off - not enabled 6169 6170 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6171 about applications triggering the #AC 6172 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6173 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6174 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6175 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6176 enabled in hardware. 6177 6178 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6179 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6180 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6181 both features are enabled in hardware. 6182 6183 ratelimit:N - 6184 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6185 per second for bus lock detection. 6186 0 < N <= 1000. 6187 6188 N/A for split lock detection. 6189 6190 6191 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6192 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6193 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6194 mode. 6195 6196 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6197 CPL > 0. 6198 6199 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 6200 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6201 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6202 6203 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6204 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6205 number generator. 6206 6207 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6208 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6209 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6210 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6211 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6212 6213 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6214 the following option: 6215 6216 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6217 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6218 6219 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6220 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6221 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6222 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6223 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6224 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6225 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6226 (decide at boot). 6227 6228 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6229 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6230 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6231 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6232 6233 0: Never. 6234 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6235 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6236 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6237 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6238 6239 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6240 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6241 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6242 6243 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6244 Specifies how frequently to check for 6245 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6246 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6247 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6248 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6249 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6250 are ignored. 6251 6252 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6253 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6254 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6255 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6256 grace period will be considered for automatic 6257 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6258 expediting. 6259 6260 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6261 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6262 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6263 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6264 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6265 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6266 6267 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6268 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6269 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6270 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6271 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6272 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6273 6274 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6275 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6276 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6277 6278 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6279 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6280 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6281 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6282 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6283 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6284 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6285 6286 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 6287 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6288 6289 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6290 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6291 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6292 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6293 6294 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6295 for both kernel and userspace 6296 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6297 for both kernel and userspace 6298 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6299 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6300 to allow userspace to register its 6301 interest in being mitigated too. 6302 6303 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6304 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6305 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6306 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6307 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6308 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6309 6310 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6311 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6312 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6313 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6314 to false. 6315 6316 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6317 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6318 6319 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6320 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6321 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6322 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6323 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6324 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6325 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6326 6327 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6328 Format: <num> 6329 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6330 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6331 as the initial boot-console. 6332 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6333 6334 sti_font= [HW] 6335 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6336 6337 stifb= [HW] 6338 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6339 6340 strict_sas_size= 6341 [X86] 6342 Format: <bool> 6343 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6344 against the required signal frame size which 6345 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6346 be used to filter out binaries which have 6347 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6348 6349 stress_hpt [PPC] 6350 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6351 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6352 faults on kernel addresses. 6353 6354 stress_slb [PPC] 6355 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6356 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6357 on kernel addresses. 6358 6359 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6360 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6361 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6362 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6363 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6364 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6365 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6366 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6367 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6368 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6369 maximum port values. 6370 6371 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6372 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6373 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6374 process in parallel from a single connection. 6375 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6376 6377 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6378 [NFS] 6379 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6380 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6381 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6382 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6383 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6384 NFS server is running. 6385 6386 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6387 automatically using heuristics 6388 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6389 percpu one pool for each CPU 6390 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6391 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6392 6393 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6394 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6395 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6396 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6397 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6398 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6399 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6400 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6401 6402 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6403 [SUSPEND] 6404 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6405 mode before resuming the system (see 6406 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6407 is set. Default value is 5. 6408 6409 svm= [PPC] 6410 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6411 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6412 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6413 6414 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6415 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6416 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6417 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6418 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6419 to a power of 2. 6420 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6421 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6422 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6423 6424 switches= [HW,M68k] 6425 6426 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6427 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6428 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6429 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6430 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6431 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6432 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6433 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6434 6435 sysrq_always_enabled 6436 [KNL] 6437 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6438 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6439 Useful for debugging. 6440 6441 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6442 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6443 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6444 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6445 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6446 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6447 6448 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6449 6450 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6451 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6452 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6453 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6454 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6455 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6456 The system is woken from this state using a 6457 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6458 6459 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6460 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6461 6462 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6463 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6464 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6465 6466 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6467 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6468 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6469 6470 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6471 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6472 6473 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6474 -1: disable all passive trip points 6475 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6476 value 6477 6478 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6479 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6480 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6481 0: no polling (default) 6482 6483 threadirqs [KNL] 6484 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6485 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6486 6487 topology= [S390] 6488 Format: {off | on} 6489 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6490 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6491 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6492 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6493 Default is on. 6494 6495 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6496 Format: {off} 6497 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6498 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6499 LPAR. 6500 6501 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6502 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6503 until after init has spawned. 6504 6505 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6506 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6507 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6508 very costly operation when many torture tests 6509 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6510 with rotating-rust storage. 6511 6512 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6513 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6514 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6515 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6516 6517 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6518 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6519 6520 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6521 6522 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6523 Format: integer pcr id 6524 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6525 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6526 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6527 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6528 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6529 are saved. 6530 6531 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6532 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6533 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6534 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6535 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6536 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6537 6538 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6539 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6540 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6541 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6542 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6543 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6544 6545 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6546 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6547 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6548 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6549 6550 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6551 to stop the printing of events to console at 6552 late_initcall_sync. 6553 6554 ** CAUTION ** 6555 6556 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6557 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6558 the system to live lock. 6559 6560 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6561 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6562 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6563 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6564 make the system inoperable. 6565 6566 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6567 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6568 6569 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6570 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6571 6572 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6573 at boot up. 6574 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6575 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6576 depending on the architecture, may not be 6577 in sync between CPUs. 6578 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6579 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6580 but better for some race conditions. 6581 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6582 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6583 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6584 once per event. 6585 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6586 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6587 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6588 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6589 stamps. 6590 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6591 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6592 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6593 6594 trace_event=[event-list] 6595 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6596 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6597 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6598 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6599 6600 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6601 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6602 This will be listed in: 6603 6604 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6605 6606 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6607 via: 6608 6609 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6610 6611 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6612 unique. 6613 6614 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6615 6616 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6617 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6618 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6619 6620 trace_options=[option-list] 6621 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6622 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6623 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6624 to echo the option name into 6625 6626 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6627 6628 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6629 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6630 6631 trace_options=stacktrace 6632 6633 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6634 section. 6635 6636 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6637 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6638 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6639 filter. 6640 6641 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6642 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6643 6644 For example: 6645 6646 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6647 6648 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6649 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6650 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6651 6652 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6653 6654 6655 traceoff_on_warning 6656 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6657 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6658 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6659 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6660 6661 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6662 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6663 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6664 6665 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6666 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6667 6668 transparent_hugepage= 6669 [KNL] 6670 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6671 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6672 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6673 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6674 for more details. 6675 6676 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6677 Format: <string> 6678 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6679 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6680 sources: 6681 - "tpm" 6682 - "tee" 6683 - "caam" 6684 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6685 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6686 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6687 successfully during iteration. 6688 6689 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6690 Format: <string> 6691 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6692 Can be one of: 6693 - "kernel" 6694 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6695 - "default" 6696 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6697 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6698 6699 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6700 Format: <string> 6701 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6702 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6703 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6704 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6705 virtualized environment. 6706 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6707 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6708 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6709 can add overhead. 6710 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6711 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6712 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6713 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6714 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6715 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6716 acceptable). 6717 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6718 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6719 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6720 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6721 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6722 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6723 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6724 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6725 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6726 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6727 6728 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6729 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6730 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6731 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6732 Format: <unsigned int> 6733 6734 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6735 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6736 support TSX control. 6737 6738 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6739 6740 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6741 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6742 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6743 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6744 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6745 with leaving it enabled. 6746 6747 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6748 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6749 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6750 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6751 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6752 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6753 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6754 6755 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6756 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6757 6758 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6759 6760 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6761 for more details. 6762 6763 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6764 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6765 6766 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6767 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6768 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6769 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6770 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6771 conditions. 6772 6773 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6774 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6775 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6776 access. 6777 6778 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6779 options are: 6780 6781 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6782 if TSX is enabled. 6783 6784 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6785 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6786 is not disabled because CPU is not 6787 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6788 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6789 6790 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6791 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6792 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6793 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6794 6795 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6796 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6797 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6798 required and doesn't provide any additional 6799 mitigation. 6800 6801 For details see: 6802 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6803 6804 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6805 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6806 Format: 6807 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6808 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6809 6810 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6811 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6812 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6813 help "seeing" what's going on. 6814 6815 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6816 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6817 6818 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6819 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6820 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6821 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6822 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6823 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6824 reported either. 6825 6826 unknown_nmi_panic 6827 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6828 6829 unwind_debug [X86-64] 6830 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 6831 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 6832 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 6833 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 6834 6835 usbcore.authorized_default= 6836 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6837 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 6838 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6839 if device connected to internal port) 6840 6841 usbcore.autosuspend= 6842 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6843 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6844 is the time required before an idle device will be 6845 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6846 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6847 6848 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6849 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6850 6851 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6852 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6853 (default = 65536). 6854 6855 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6856 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6857 6858 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6859 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6860 scheme (default 0 = off). 6861 6862 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6863 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6864 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6865 6866 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6867 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6868 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6869 6870 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6871 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6872 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6873 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6874 6875 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6876 6877 usbcore.quirks= 6878 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6879 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6880 commas. Each entry has the form 6881 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6882 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6883 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6884 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6885 the following meanings: 6886 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6887 descriptors must not be fetched using 6888 a 255-byte read); 6889 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6890 correctly so reset it instead); 6891 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6892 Set-Interface requests); 6893 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6894 handle its Configuration or Interface 6895 strings); 6896 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6897 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6898 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6899 more interface descriptions than the 6900 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6901 talking to these interfaces); 6902 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6903 during initialization, after we read 6904 the device descriptor); 6905 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6906 high speed and super speed interrupt 6907 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6908 require the interval in microframes (1 6909 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6910 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6911 (bInterval-1). 6912 Devices with this quirk report their 6913 bInterval as the result of this 6914 calculation instead of the exponent 6915 variable used in the calculation); 6916 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6917 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6918 requests); 6919 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6920 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6921 remote wakeup capability); 6922 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6923 Power Management); 6924 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6925 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6926 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6927 calculation); 6928 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6929 to be disconnected before suspend to 6930 prevent spurious wakeup); 6931 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6932 pause after every control message); 6933 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6934 delay after resetting its port); 6935 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6936 6937 usbhid.mousepoll= 6938 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6939 6940 usbhid.jspoll= 6941 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6942 6943 usbhid.kbpoll= 6944 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6945 6946 usb-storage.delay_use= 6947 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6948 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6949 6950 usb-storage.quirks= 6951 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6952 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6953 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6954 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6955 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6956 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6957 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6958 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6959 of sense data, not on uas); 6960 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6961 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6962 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6963 device capacity by one sector); 6964 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6965 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6966 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6967 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6968 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6969 command, uas only); 6970 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6971 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6972 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6973 reported device capacity by one 6974 sector if the number is odd); 6975 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6976 device); 6977 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6978 command, uas only); 6979 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6980 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6981 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6982 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6983 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6984 not on uas); 6985 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6986 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6987 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6988 reported by the device, not on uas); 6989 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6990 by default, not on uas); 6991 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6992 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6993 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6994 Logical Unit); 6995 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6996 commands, uas only); 6997 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6998 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6999 medium is write-protected). 7000 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7001 even if the device claims no cache, 7002 not on uas) 7003 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7004 7005 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7006 Format: <int> 7007 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7008 1 - undefined instruction events 7009 2 - system calls 7010 4 - invalid data aborts 7011 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7012 16 - SIGBUS faults 7013 Example: user_debug=31 7014 7015 userpte= 7016 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7017 7018 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7019 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7020 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7021 7022 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7023 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7024 7025 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7026 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7027 7028 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7029 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7030 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7031 7032 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7033 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7034 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7035 7036 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7037 alias for vdso32=0. 7038 7039 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7040 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7041 7042 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 7043 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 7044 7045 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 7046 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7047 7048 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7049 Format: [0|1] 7050 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7051 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7052 level and then send out the event to user space through 7053 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7054 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7055 brightness level. 7056 default: 1 7057 7058 virtio_mmio.device= 7059 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7060 7061 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7062 where: 7063 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7064 like K, M and G) 7065 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7066 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7067 request_irq()) 7068 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7069 example: 7070 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7071 7072 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7073 7074 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7075 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7076 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7077 Use vga=ask for menu. 7078 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7079 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7080 7081 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7082 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7083 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7084 All options are enabled by default, and this 7085 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7086 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7087 debugging features. 7088 7089 Available options are: 7090 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7091 - Disable all of the above options 7092 7093 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 7094 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 7095 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 7096 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 7097 mapped kernel RAM. 7098 7099 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 7100 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7101 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7102 7103 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7104 Format: <command> 7105 7106 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7107 Format: <command> 7108 7109 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7110 Format: <command> 7111 7112 vsyscall= [X86-64] 7113 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7114 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7115 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7116 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7117 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7118 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7119 7120 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7121 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7122 readable. 7123 7124 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7125 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7126 page is not readable. 7127 7128 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7129 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7130 might break your system. 7131 7132 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7133 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7134 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7135 7136 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7137 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7138 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7139 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7140 7141 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7142 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7143 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7144 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7145 ranging from 0-255. 7146 7147 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7148 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7149 Change the default green palette of the console. 7150 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7151 ranging from 0-255. 7152 7153 vt.default_red= [VT] 7154 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7155 Change the default red palette of the console. 7156 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7157 ranging from 0-255. 7158 7159 vt.default_utf8= 7160 [VT] 7161 Format=<0|1> 7162 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7163 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7164 newly opened terminals. 7165 7166 vt.global_cursor_default= 7167 [VT] 7168 Format=<-1|0|1> 7169 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7170 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7171 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7172 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7173 cursors, 1 will display them. 7174 7175 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7176 Default: 2 = green. 7177 7178 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7179 Default: 3 = cyan. 7180 7181 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7182 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7183 or other driver-specific files in the 7184 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7185 7186 watchdog_thresh= 7187 [KNL] 7188 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7189 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7190 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7191 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7192 seconds. 7193 7194 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7195 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7196 to use in unbound workqueues. 7197 Format: <cpu-list> 7198 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7199 unbound workqueues. 7200 7201 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7202 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7203 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7204 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7205 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7206 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7207 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7208 corresponding sysfs file. 7209 7210 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7211 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7212 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7213 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7214 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7215 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7216 7217 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7218 will report the work functions which violate this 7219 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7220 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7221 7222 workqueue.power_efficient 7223 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7224 they show better performance thanks to cache 7225 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7226 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7227 7228 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7229 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7230 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7231 power usage at the cost of small performance 7232 overhead. 7233 7234 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7235 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7236 7237 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7238 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7239 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7240 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7241 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7242 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7243 7244 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7245 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7246 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7247 updated accordignly. 7248 7249 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7250 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7251 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7252 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7253 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7254 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7255 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7256 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7257 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7258 impacted. 7259 7260 writecombine= [LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of 7261 ioremap_wc(). 7262 7263 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7264 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7265 7266 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7267 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7268 supporting x2apic. 7269 7270 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7271 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7272 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7273 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7274 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7275 domains. 7276 7277 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 7278 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7279 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7280 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7281 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7282 nics -- unplug network devices 7283 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7284 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7285 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7286 the unplug protocol 7287 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7288 7289 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 7290 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7291 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7292 7293 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 7294 Format: <bool> 7295 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7296 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7297 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7298 7299 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 7300 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 7301 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 7302 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7303 7304 xen_nopv [X86] 7305 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7306 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7307 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7308 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7309 7310 xen_no_vector_callback 7311 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7312 event channel interrupts. 7313 7314 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7315 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7316 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7317 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7318 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7319 7320 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 7321 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7322 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7323 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7324 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7325 more timer interrupts. 7326 7327 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7328 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7329 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7330 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7331 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7332 max. Default is 180. 7333 7334 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7335 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7336 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7337 7338 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7339 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7340 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7341 7342 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7343 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7344 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7345 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7346 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7347 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7348 7349 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7350 Format: 7351 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7352 7353 xive= [PPC] 7354 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7355 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7356 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7357 7358 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7359 controller on both pseries and powernv 7360 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7361 7362 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7363 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7364 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7365 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7366 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7367 7368 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7369 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7370 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7371 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7372 7373 xmon [PPC] 7374 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7375 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7376 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7377 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7378 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7379 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7380 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7381 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7382 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7383 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7384 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7385 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7386 can be written using xmon commands. 7387 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7388 memory, and other data can't be written using 7389 xmon commands. 7390 off xmon is disabled. 7391 7392