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,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt | nospcr } 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 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 25 default _serial_ console on ARM64 26 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 27 "acpi=nospcr" are available 28 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 29 are available 30 31 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 32 33 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 34 Format: <int> 35 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 36 1,0: use 1st APIC table 37 default: 0 38 39 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 40 { vendor | video | native | none } 41 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 42 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 43 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 44 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 45 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 46 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 47 48 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 49 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 50 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 51 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 52 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 53 54 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 55 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 56 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 57 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 58 This option is useful for developers to identify the 59 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 60 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 61 62 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 63 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 64 Format: <int> 65 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 66 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 67 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 68 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 69 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 70 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 71 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 72 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 73 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 74 debug layers and levels. 75 76 Enable processor driver info messages: 77 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 78 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 79 object while interpreting AML: 80 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 81 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 82 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 83 84 Some values produce so much output that the system is 85 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 86 if you need to capture more output. 87 88 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 89 { strict | lax | no } 90 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 91 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 92 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 93 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 94 can interfere with legacy drivers. 95 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 96 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 97 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 98 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 99 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 100 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 101 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 102 no further checks are performed. 103 104 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 105 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 106 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 107 size limitation. 108 109 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will balance active IRQs 111 default in APIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 115 default in PIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 121 use by PCI 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 125 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 126 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 127 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 128 the GPE dispatcher. 129 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 130 GPE floodings. 131 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 132 133 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 134 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 135 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 136 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 137 auto-serialization feature. 138 This feature is enabled by default. 139 This option allows to turn off the feature. 140 141 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 142 kernels. 143 144 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 145 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 146 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 147 installed automatically and they will appear under 148 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 149 This option turns off this feature. 150 Note that specifying this option does not affect 151 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 152 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 153 154 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 155 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 156 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 157 158 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 159 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 160 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 161 second kernel for kdump. 162 163 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 164 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 165 166 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 167 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 168 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 169 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 170 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 171 172 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 173 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 174 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 175 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 176 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 177 strings 178 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 179 strings 180 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 181 182 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 183 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 184 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 185 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 186 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 187 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 188 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 189 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 190 care about the state of the feature group strings which 191 should be controlled by the OSPM. 192 Examples: 193 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 194 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 195 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 196 197 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 198 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 199 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 200 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 201 multiple times through kernel command line is also 202 meaningless. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 205 FALSE. 206 207 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 208 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 209 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 210 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 211 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 212 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 213 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 214 there are quirks related to this string. This command 215 is useful when one want to control the state of the 216 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 217 the OSPM features. 218 Examples: 219 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 220 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 221 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 222 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 223 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 224 equivalent to 225 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 226 and 227 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 228 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 229 230 acpi_pm_good [X86] 231 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 232 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 233 and always returns good values. 234 235 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 236 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 237 238 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 239 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 240 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 241 242 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 243 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 244 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 245 sci_force_enable, nobl } 246 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 247 s3_bios and s3_mode. 248 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 249 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 250 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 251 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 252 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 253 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 254 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 255 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 256 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 257 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 258 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 259 used (or even warned about) during resume. 260 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 261 control method, with respect to putting devices into 262 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 263 of _PTS is used by default). 264 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 265 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 266 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 267 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 268 but some broken systems don't work without it). 269 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 270 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 271 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 272 273 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 274 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 275 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 276 277 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 278 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 279 280 agp= [AGP] 281 { off | try_unsupported } 282 off: disable AGP support 283 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 284 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 285 286 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 287 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 288 289 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 290 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 291 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 292 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 293 294 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 295 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 296 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 297 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 298 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 299 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 300 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 301 302 32: only for 32-bit processes 303 64: only for 64-bit processes 304 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 305 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 306 307 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 308 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 309 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 310 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 311 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 312 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 313 314 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 315 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 316 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 317 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 318 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 319 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 320 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 321 322 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 323 information. 324 325 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 326 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 327 Possible values are: 328 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 329 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 330 the system 331 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 332 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 333 allowed anymore to lift isolation 334 requirements as needed. This option 335 does not override iommu=pt 336 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 337 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 338 option with care. 339 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 340 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 341 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 342 343 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 344 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 345 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 346 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 347 IOMMU initialization. 348 349 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 350 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 351 remapping modes: 352 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 353 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 354 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 355 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 356 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 357 358 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 359 disable 360 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 361 scaling driver for the supported processors 362 passive 363 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 364 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 365 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 366 tries to match the same performance level if it is 367 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 368 active 369 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 370 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 371 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 372 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 373 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 374 frequency. 375 guided 376 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 377 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 378 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 379 to the current workload. 380 381 amd_prefcore= 382 [X86] 383 disable 384 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 385 386 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 387 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 388 Format: <a>,<b> 389 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 390 391 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 392 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 393 connected to one of 16 gameports 394 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 395 396 apc= [HW,SPARC] 397 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 398 Format: noidle 399 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 400 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 401 APC and your system crashes randomly. 402 403 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 404 Change the output verbosity while booting 405 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 406 Change the amount of debugging information output 407 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 408 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 409 driver name. 410 Format: apic=driver_name 411 Examples: apic=bigsmp 412 413 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 414 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 415 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 416 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 417 backup of CPU 0 418 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 419 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 420 shot down by NMI 421 422 autoconf= [IPV6] 423 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 424 425 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 426 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 427 428 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 429 Format: { "0" | "1" } 430 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 431 0 -- disable. 432 1 -- enable. 433 Default value is set via kernel config option. 434 435 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 436 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 437 438 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 439 32 bit applications. 440 441 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 442 Identification support 443 444 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 445 Set instructions support 446 447 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 448 support 449 450 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 451 support 452 453 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 454 Extension support 455 456 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 457 Extension support 458 459 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 460 461 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 462 463 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 464 EzKey and similar keyboards 465 466 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 467 468 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 469 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 470 471 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 472 keyboards 473 474 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 475 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 476 477 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 478 Use software keyboard repeat 479 480 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 481 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 482 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 483 enabled until the next reboot 484 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 485 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 486 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 487 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 488 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 489 userspace auditd. 490 Default: unset 491 492 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 493 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 494 Default: 64 495 496 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 497 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 498 Format: { "0" | "1" } 499 0 - Disable the BAU. 500 1 - Enable the BAU. 501 unset - Disable the BAU. 502 503 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 504 Format: <io>,<mode> 505 506 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 507 Format: <io>,<mode> 508 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 509 510 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 511 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 512 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 513 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 514 515 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 516 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 517 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 518 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 519 520 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 521 Format: <bool> 522 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 523 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 524 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 525 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 526 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 527 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 528 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 529 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 530 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 531 532 bert_disable [ACPI] 533 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 534 535 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 536 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 537 538 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 539 embedded devices based on command line input. 540 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 541 542 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 543 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 544 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 545 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 546 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 547 erroneous and ignored. 548 Format: integer 549 550 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 551 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 552 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 553 554 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 555 556 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 557 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 558 kernel args too. 559 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 560 bttv.tuner= 561 562 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 563 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 564 at a time. 565 566 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 567 568 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 569 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 570 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 571 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 572 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 573 This option provides an override for these situations. 574 575 carrier_timeout= 576 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 577 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 578 it waits 120 seconds. 579 580 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 581 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 582 trust validation. 583 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 584 585 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 586 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 587 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 588 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 589 others). 590 591 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 592 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 593 594 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 595 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 596 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 597 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 598 a single hierarchy 599 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 600 subsystem 601 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 602 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 603 created 604 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 605 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 606 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 607 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 608 stall information accounting feature 609 610 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 611 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 612 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 613 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 614 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 615 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 616 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 617 all v1 hierarchies. 618 619 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 620 Format: { "true" | "false" } 621 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 622 623 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 624 Format: <string> 625 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 626 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 627 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 628 629 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 630 Format: { "0" | "1" } 631 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 632 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 633 any implied execute protection). 634 1 -- check protection requested by application. 635 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 636 Value can be changed at runtime via 637 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 638 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 639 640 cio_ignore= [S390] 641 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 642 643 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 644 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 645 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 646 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 647 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 648 ones should be. 649 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 650 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 651 instability issue. However, not all features have names 652 in /proc/cpuinfo. 653 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 654 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 655 or using the feature without checking anything 656 will still see it. This just prevents it from 657 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 658 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 659 some critical bits. 660 661 clk_ignore_unused 662 [CLK] 663 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 664 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 665 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 666 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 667 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 668 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 669 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 670 platform with proper driver support. For more 671 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 672 673 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 674 [Deprecated] 675 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 676 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 677 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 678 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 679 680 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 681 Format: <string> 682 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 683 with the name specified. 684 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 685 the platform: 686 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 687 [ACPI] acpi_pm 688 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 689 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 690 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 691 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 692 [MIPS] MIPS 693 [PARISC] cr16 694 [S390] tod 695 [SH] SuperH 696 [SPARC64] tick 697 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 698 699 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 700 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 701 Format: <bool> 702 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 703 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 704 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 705 systems. 706 707 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 708 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 709 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 710 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 711 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 712 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 713 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 714 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 715 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 716 717 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 718 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 719 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 720 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 721 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 722 723 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 724 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 725 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 726 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 727 placement constraint by the physical address range of 728 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 729 altogether. For more information, see 730 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 731 732 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 733 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 734 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 735 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 736 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 737 specified, the default value is 0. 738 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 739 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 740 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 741 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 742 743 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 744 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 745 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 746 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 747 area for the specified node. 748 749 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 750 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 751 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 752 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 753 754 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 755 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 756 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 757 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 758 a hypervisor. 759 Default: yes 760 761 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 762 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 763 allocations, by default set to 256K. 764 765 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 766 Format: 767 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 768 769 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 770 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 771 772 com90xx= [HW,NET] 773 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 774 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 775 776 condev= [HW,S390] console device 777 conmode= 778 779 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 780 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 781 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 782 the console buffer is full. In this case the 783 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 784 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 785 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 786 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 787 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 788 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 789 790 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 791 792 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 793 794 ttyS<n>[,options] 795 ttyUSB0[,options] 796 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 797 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 798 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 799 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 800 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 801 802 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 803 information. See 804 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 805 alternative. 806 807 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 808 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 809 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 810 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 811 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 812 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 813 814 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 815 can be viewed with: 816 817 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 818 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 819 820 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 821 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 822 way will only get added when the related device driver 823 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 824 the console may be desired for console output early on. 825 826 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 827 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 828 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 829 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 830 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 831 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 832 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 833 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 834 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 835 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 836 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 837 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 838 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 839 the h/w is not re-initialized. 840 841 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 842 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 843 844 { null | "" } 845 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 846 console messages discarded. 847 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 848 kernel command line. 849 850 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 851 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 852 console=brl,ttyS0 853 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 854 855 console_msg_format= 856 [KNL] Change console messages format 857 default 858 By default we print messages on consoles in 859 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 860 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 861 `printk_time' param). 862 syslog 863 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 864 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 865 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 866 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 867 from /proc/kmsg. 868 869 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 870 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 871 Defaults to 0. 872 873 coredump_filter= 874 [KNL] Change the default value for 875 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 876 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 877 878 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 879 [ARM,ARM64] 880 Format: <bool> 881 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 882 0: default value, disable debugging 883 1: enable debugging at boot time 884 885 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 886 Format: 887 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 888 889 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 890 disable the cpuidle sub-system 891 892 cpuidle.governor= 893 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 894 895 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 896 disable the cpufreq sub-system 897 898 cpufreq.default_governor= 899 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 900 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 901 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 902 903 cpu_init_udelay=N 904 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 905 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 906 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 907 Default: 10000 908 909 cpuhp.parallel= 910 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 911 Format: <bool> 912 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 913 the parameter has no effect. 914 915 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 916 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 917 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 918 succeeds in any situation. 919 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 920 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 921 kernel more unstable. 922 923 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 924 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 925 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 926 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 927 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 928 is selected automatically. 929 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 930 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 931 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 932 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 933 934 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 935 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 936 in the running system. The syntax of range is 937 start-[end] where start and end are both 938 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 939 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 940 941 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 942 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 943 above 4G. 944 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 945 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 946 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 947 below 4G, if available. 948 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 949 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 950 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 951 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 952 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 953 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 954 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 955 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 956 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 957 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 958 size is platform dependent. 959 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 960 --> arm64: 128MiB 961 --> riscv: 128MiB 962 --> loongarch: 128MiB 963 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 964 for second kernel instead. 965 0: to disable low allocation. 966 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 967 or memory reserved is below 4G. 968 969 cryptomgr.notests 970 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 971 972 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 973 Format: <dma> 974 975 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 976 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 977 978 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 979 function call handling. When switched on, 980 additional debug data is printed to the console 981 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 982 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 983 the hang situation. The default value of this 984 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 985 Kconfig option. 986 987 dasd= [HW,NET] 988 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 989 990 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 991 (one device per port) 992 Format: <port#>,<type> 993 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 994 995 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 996 997 debug_boot_weak_hash 998 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 999 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1000 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1001 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1002 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1003 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1004 1005 debug_locks_verbose= 1006 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1007 Format: <int> 1008 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1009 self-tests. 1010 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1011 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1012 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1013 useful to lockdep developers. 1014 1015 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1016 1017 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1018 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1019 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1020 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1021 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1022 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1023 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1024 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1025 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1026 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1027 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1028 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1029 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1030 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1031 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1032 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1033 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1034 help tracking down these problems. 1035 1036 debug_pagealloc= 1037 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1038 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1039 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1040 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1041 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1042 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1043 on: enable the feature 1044 1045 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1046 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1047 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1048 on: All functions are enabled. 1049 no-mount: 1050 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1051 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1052 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1053 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1054 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1055 or directories within debugfs. 1056 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1057 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1058 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1059 1060 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1061 1062 default_hugepagesz= 1063 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1064 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1065 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1066 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1067 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1068 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1069 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1070 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1071 Format: size[KMG] 1072 1073 deferred_probe_timeout= 1074 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1075 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1076 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1077 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1078 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1079 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1080 successful driver registration. This option will also 1081 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1082 retrying. 1083 1084 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1085 1086 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1087 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1088 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1089 hardware. 1090 1091 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1092 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1093 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1094 blacklisted features. 1095 1096 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1097 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1098 (disabled by default). 1099 1100 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1101 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1102 capability is set. 1103 1104 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1105 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1106 1107 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1108 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1109 1110 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1111 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1112 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1113 level 1 and decompression (default) 1114 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1115 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1116 only (compression on level 1) 1117 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1118 only (decompression) 1119 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1120 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1121 1122 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1123 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1124 1125 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1126 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1127 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1128 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1129 miss to occur. 1130 1131 disable= [IPV6] 1132 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1133 1134 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1135 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1136 1137 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1138 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1139 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1140 1141 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1142 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1143 to workaround buggy firmware. 1144 1145 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1146 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1147 1148 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1149 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1150 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1151 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1152 1153 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1154 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1155 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1156 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1157 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1158 1159 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1160 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1161 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1162 1163 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1164 1165 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1166 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1167 1168 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1169 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1170 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1171 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1172 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1173 architectural default is too low. 1174 1175 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1176 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1177 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1178 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1179 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1180 driver later using sysfs. 1181 1182 reg_file_data_sampling= 1183 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1184 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1185 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1186 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1187 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1188 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1189 1190 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1191 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1192 1193 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1194 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1195 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1196 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1197 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1198 1199 For details see: 1200 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1201 1202 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1203 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1204 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1205 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1206 match the *. 1207 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1208 1209 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1210 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1211 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1212 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1213 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1214 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1215 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1216 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1217 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1218 data set with no connector name will be used for 1219 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1220 1221 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1222 1223 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1224 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1225 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1226 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1227 exists). 1228 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1229 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1230 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1231 1232 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1233 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1234 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1235 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1236 1237 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1238 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1239 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1240 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1241 for details. 1242 1243 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1244 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1245 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1246 which are not unmapped. 1247 1248 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1249 1250 When used with no options, the early console is 1251 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1252 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1253 the platform. 1254 1255 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1256 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1257 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1258 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1259 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1260 configured. 1261 1262 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1263 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1264 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1265 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1266 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1267 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1268 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1269 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1270 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1271 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1272 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1273 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1274 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1275 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1276 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1277 1278 pl011,<addr> 1279 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1280 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1281 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1282 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1283 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1284 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1285 the device registers. 1286 1287 liteuart,<addr> 1288 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1289 specified address. The serial port must already be 1290 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1291 1292 meson,<addr> 1293 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1294 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1295 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1296 supported. 1297 1298 msm_serial,<addr> 1299 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1300 port at the specified address. The serial port 1301 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1302 yet supported. 1303 1304 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1305 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1306 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1307 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1308 yet supported. 1309 1310 owl,<addr> 1311 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1312 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1313 specified address. The serial port must already be 1314 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1315 1316 rda,<addr> 1317 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1318 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1319 specified address. The serial port must already be 1320 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1321 1322 sbi 1323 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1324 console. 1325 1326 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1327 1328 s3c2410,<addr> 1329 s3c2412,<addr> 1330 s3c2440,<addr> 1331 s3c6400,<addr> 1332 s5pv210,<addr> 1333 exynos4210,<addr> 1334 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1335 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1336 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1337 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1338 Options are not yet supported. 1339 1340 lantiq,<addr> 1341 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1342 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1343 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1344 yet supported. 1345 1346 lpuart,<addr> 1347 lpuart32,<addr> 1348 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1349 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1350 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1351 port must already be setup and configured. 1352 1353 ec_imx21,<addr> 1354 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1355 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1356 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1357 must already be setup and configured. 1358 1359 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1360 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1361 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1362 address. The serial port must already be setup 1363 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1364 1365 qcom_geni,<addr> 1366 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1367 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1368 specified address. The serial port must already be 1369 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1370 1371 efifb,[options] 1372 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1373 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1374 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1375 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1376 mapped with the correct attributes. 1377 1378 linflex,<addr> 1379 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1380 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1381 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1382 already be setup and configured. 1383 1384 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1385 earlyprintk=vga 1386 earlyprintk=sclp 1387 earlyprintk=xen 1388 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1389 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1390 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1391 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1392 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1393 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1394 earlyprintk=bios 1395 1396 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1397 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1398 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1399 1400 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1401 takes over. 1402 1403 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1404 be used at a time. 1405 1406 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1407 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1408 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1409 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1410 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1411 You can find the port for a given device in 1412 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1413 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1414 1415 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1416 very good. 1417 1418 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1419 the real console. 1420 1421 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1422 1423 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1424 1425 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1426 1427 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1428 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1429 UART class. 1430 1431 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1432 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1433 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1434 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1435 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1436 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1437 default: on. 1438 1439 edd= [EDD] 1440 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1441 1442 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1443 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1444 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1445 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1446 debug: enable misc debug output. 1447 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1448 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1449 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1450 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1451 firmware implementations. 1452 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1453 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1454 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1455 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1456 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1457 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1458 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1459 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1460 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1461 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1462 1463 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1464 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1465 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1466 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1467 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1468 1469 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1470 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1471 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1472 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1473 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1474 1475 1476 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1477 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1478 1479 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1480 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1481 1482 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1483 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1484 1485 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1486 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1487 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1488 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1489 1490 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1491 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1492 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1493 1494 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1495 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1496 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1497 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1498 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1499 1500 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1501 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1502 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1503 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1504 1505 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1506 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1507 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1508 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1509 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1510 1511 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1512 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1513 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1514 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1515 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1516 Default value is 0. 1517 Value can be changed at runtime via 1518 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1519 1520 erst_disable [ACPI] 1521 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1522 support. 1523 1524 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1525 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1526 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1527 1528 evm= [EVM] 1529 Format: { "fix" } 1530 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1531 current integrity status. 1532 1533 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1534 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1535 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1536 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1537 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1538 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1539 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1540 1541 failslab= 1542 fail_usercopy= 1543 fail_page_alloc= 1544 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1545 General fault injection mechanism. 1546 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1547 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1548 1549 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1550 Format: { initns | none } 1551 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1552 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1553 1554 floppy= [HW] 1555 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1556 1557 forcepae [X86-32] 1558 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1559 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1560 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1561 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1562 and may cause unknown problems. 1563 1564 fred= [X86-64] 1565 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1566 Format: { on | off } 1567 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1568 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1569 1570 ftrace=[tracer] 1571 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1572 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1573 boot debugging. 1574 1575 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1576 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1577 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1578 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1579 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1580 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1581 start up functionality. 1582 1583 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1584 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1585 line parameter. 1586 1587 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1588 1589 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1590 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1591 1592 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1593 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1594 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1595 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1596 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1597 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1598 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1599 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1600 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1601 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1602 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1603 1604 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1605 1606 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1607 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1608 1609 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1610 1611 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1612 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1613 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1614 1615 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1616 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1617 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1618 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1619 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1620 tracing directory. 1621 1622 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1623 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1624 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1625 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1626 tracing directory. 1627 1628 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1629 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1630 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1631 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1632 that can be changed at run time by the 1633 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1634 1635 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1636 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1637 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1638 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1639 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1640 1641 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1642 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1643 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1644 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1645 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1646 1647 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1648 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1649 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1650 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1651 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1652 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1653 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1654 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1655 suppliers). 1656 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1657 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1658 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1659 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1660 up (sync_state() calls). 1661 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1662 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1663 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1664 1665 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1666 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1667 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1668 Format: <bool> 1669 1670 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1671 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1672 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1673 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1674 calls. 1675 Format: { strict | timeout } 1676 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1677 probe successfully. 1678 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1679 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1680 received their sync_state() calls after 1681 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1682 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1683 1684 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1685 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1686 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1687 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1688 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1689 1690 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1691 1692 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1693 Format: off | on 1694 default: on 1695 1696 gather_data_sampling= 1697 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1698 mitigation. 1699 1700 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1701 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1702 previously stored in vector registers. 1703 1704 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1705 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1706 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1707 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1708 1709 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1710 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1711 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1712 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1713 1714 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1715 1716 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1717 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1718 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1719 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1720 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1721 1722 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1723 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1724 android emulator 1725 1726 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1727 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1728 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1729 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1730 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1731 1732 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1733 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1734 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1735 GPT to be used instead. 1736 1737 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1738 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1739 Format: 0 | 1 1740 Default: 0 1741 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1742 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1743 Format: 0 | 1 1744 Default: 0 1745 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1746 Format: 0 | 1 1747 Default: 0 1748 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1749 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1750 Default: 1024 1751 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1752 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1753 Default: 1024 1754 1755 hardened_usercopy= 1756 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1757 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1758 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1759 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1760 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1761 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1762 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1763 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1764 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1765 1766 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1767 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1768 backtraces on all cpus. 1769 Format: 0 | 1 1770 1771 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1772 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1773 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1774 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1775 1776 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1777 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1778 1779 hest_disable [ACPI] 1780 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1781 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1782 logic will be disabled. 1783 1784 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1785 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1786 present during boot. 1787 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1788 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1789 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1790 (that will set all pages holding image data 1791 during restoration read-only). 1792 1793 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1794 used with hibernation. 1795 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1796 Default: lzo 1797 1798 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1799 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1800 1801 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1802 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1803 1804 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1805 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1806 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1807 size on bigger boxes. 1808 1809 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1810 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1811 Default: "on" 1812 1813 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1814 1815 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1816 Format: <string> 1817 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1818 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1819 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1820 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1821 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1822 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1823 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1824 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1825 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1826 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1827 1828 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1829 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1830 verbose } 1831 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1832 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1833 VIA, nVidia) 1834 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1835 1836 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1837 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1838 1839 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1840 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1841 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1842 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1843 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1844 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1845 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1846 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1847 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1848 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1849 1850 hugepagesz= 1851 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1852 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1853 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1854 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1855 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1856 architecture dependent. See also 1857 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1858 Format: size[KMG] 1859 1860 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1861 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1862 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1863 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1864 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1865 1866 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1867 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1868 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1869 1870 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1871 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1872 enabled. 1873 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1874 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1875 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1876 Format: { on | off (default) } 1877 1878 on: enable HVO 1879 off: disable HVO 1880 1881 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1882 the default is on. 1883 1884 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1885 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1886 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1887 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1888 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1889 1890 hung_task_panic= 1891 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1892 Format: 0 | 1 1893 1894 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1895 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1896 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1897 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1898 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1899 1900 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1901 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1902 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1903 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1904 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1905 1906 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1907 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1908 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1909 on lock contention. 1910 1911 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1912 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1913 registered from board initialization code. 1914 Format: 1915 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1916 1917 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1918 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1919 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1920 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1921 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1922 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1923 1924 Format: 1925 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1926 Where <val> is one of: 1927 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1928 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1929 Anything else Set a string device-property 1930 1931 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1932 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1933 touchscreen-inverted-y 1934 1935 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1936 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1937 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1938 1939 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1940 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1941 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1942 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1943 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1944 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1945 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1946 keyboard and cannot control its state 1947 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1948 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1949 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1950 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1951 for the AUX port 1952 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1953 controller 1954 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1955 controllers 1956 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1957 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1958 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1959 transitions, or never reset 1960 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1961 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1962 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1963 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1964 architectures force reset to be always executed 1965 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1966 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1967 i8042.probe_defer 1968 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1969 1970 i810= [HW,DRM] 1971 1972 i915.invert_brightness= 1973 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1974 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1975 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1976 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1977 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1978 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1979 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1980 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1981 value switches the backlight off. 1982 -1 -- never invert brightness 1983 0 -- machine default 1984 1 -- force brightness inversion 1985 1986 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1987 Format: <bool> 1988 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1989 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1990 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1991 1992 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1993 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1994 1995 1996 idle= [X86,EARLY] 1997 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1998 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1999 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 2000 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 2001 Not recommended. 2002 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2003 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2004 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2005 2006 idxd.sva= [HW] 2007 Format: <bool> 2008 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2009 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2010 true (1). 2011 2012 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2013 Format: <bool> 2014 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2015 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2016 2017 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2018 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2019 Default: strict 2020 2021 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2022 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2023 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2024 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2025 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2026 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2027 encoding mode. 2028 2029 Available settings are as follows: 2030 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2031 supported by the FPU 2032 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2033 by the FPU 2034 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2035 by the FPU 2036 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2037 supported by the FPU 2038 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2039 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2040 2041 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2042 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2043 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2044 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2045 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2046 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2047 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2048 MIPS64 CPUs. 2049 2050 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2051 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2052 except where unsupported by hardware. 2053 2054 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2055 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2056 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2057 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2058 could change it dynamically, usually by 2059 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2060 2061 ignore_rlimit_data 2062 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2063 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2064 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2065 2066 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2067 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2068 2069 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2070 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2071 default: "enforce" 2072 2073 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2074 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2075 owned by uid=0. 2076 2077 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2078 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2079 measurements, instead of host native format. 2080 2081 ima_hash= [IMA] 2082 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2083 | sha512 | ... } 2084 default: "sha1" 2085 2086 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2087 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2088 2089 ima_policy= [IMA] 2090 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2091 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2092 fail_securely | critical_data" 2093 2094 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2095 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2096 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2097 uid=0. 2098 2099 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2100 all files owned by root. 2101 2102 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2103 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2104 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2105 2106 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2107 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2108 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2109 flag. 2110 2111 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2112 critical data. 2113 2114 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2115 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2116 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2117 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2118 opened for read by uid=0. 2119 2120 ima_template= [IMA] 2121 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2122 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2123 "ima-sigv2" } 2124 Default: "ima-ng" 2125 2126 ima_template_fmt= 2127 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2128 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2129 2130 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2131 Format: <min_file_size> 2132 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2133 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2134 2135 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2136 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2137 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2138 2139 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2140 Format: <bufsize> 2141 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2142 2143 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2144 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2145 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2146 2147 init= [KNL] 2148 Format: <full_path> 2149 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2150 process. 2151 2152 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2153 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2154 startup. 2155 2156 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2157 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2158 modules and initcalls. 2159 2160 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2161 Format: <bool> 2162 Default: 1 2163 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2164 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2165 with devices being probed and 2166 initialized. This should normally just work, 2167 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2168 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2169 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2170 late_ initcalls. 2171 2172 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2173 2174 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2175 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2176 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2177 setting. 2178 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2179 Default is 0, 0 2180 2181 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2182 zeroes. 2183 Format: 0 | 1 2184 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2185 2186 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2187 Format: 0 | 1 2188 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2189 2190 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2191 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2192 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2193 override in debugfs after boot. 2194 2195 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2196 Format: <irq> 2197 2198 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2199 2200 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2201 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2202 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2203 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2204 2205 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2206 on 2207 Enable intel iommu driver. 2208 off 2209 Disable intel iommu driver. 2210 igfx_off [Default Off] 2211 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2212 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2213 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2214 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2215 DMA. 2216 strict [Default Off] 2217 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2218 sp_off [Default Off] 2219 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2220 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2221 not be supported. 2222 sm_on 2223 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2224 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2225 translation. 2226 sm_off 2227 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2228 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2229 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2230 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2231 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2232 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2233 mapping is enabled. 2234 Note that using this option lowers the security 2235 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2236 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2237 2238 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2239 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2240 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2241 2242 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2243 disable 2244 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2245 scaling driver for the supported processors 2246 active 2247 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2248 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2249 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2250 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2251 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2252 performance. The way they both operate depends 2253 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2254 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2255 and possibly on the processor model. 2256 passive 2257 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2258 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2259 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2260 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2261 feature. 2262 force 2263 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2264 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2265 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2266 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2267 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2268 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2269 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2270 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2271 no_hwp 2272 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2273 if available. 2274 hwp_only 2275 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2276 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2277 support_acpi_ppc 2278 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2279 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2280 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2281 then this feature is turned on by default. 2282 per_cpu_perf_limits 2283 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2284 cpufreq sysfs interface 2285 2286 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2287 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2288 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2289 nosid disable Source ID checking 2290 no_x2apic_optout 2291 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2292 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2293 posted_msi 2294 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2295 2296 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2297 strict regions from userspace. 2298 relaxed 2299 2300 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2301 off 2302 force 2303 noforce 2304 biomerge 2305 panic 2306 nopanic 2307 merge 2308 nomerge 2309 soft 2310 pt [X86] 2311 nopt [X86] 2312 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2313 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2314 2315 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2316 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2317 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2318 falling back to the full range if needed. 2319 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2320 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2321 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2322 2323 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2324 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2325 0 - Lazy mode. 2326 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2327 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2328 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2329 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2330 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2331 1 - Strict mode. 2332 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2333 synchronously. 2334 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2335 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2336 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2337 2338 iommu.passthrough= 2339 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2340 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2341 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2342 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2343 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2344 2345 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2346 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2347 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2348 2349 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2350 0x80 2351 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2352 0xed 2353 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2354 udelay 2355 Simple two microseconds delay 2356 none 2357 No delay 2358 2359 ip= [IP_PNP] 2360 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2361 2362 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2363 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2364 2365 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2366 Format: <bool> 2367 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2368 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2369 2370 ipe.success_audit= 2371 [IPE] 2372 Format: <bool> 2373 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2374 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2375 is 0. 2376 2377 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2378 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2379 2380 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2381 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2382 Format: <bool> 2383 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2384 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2385 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2386 2387 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2388 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2389 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2390 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2391 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2392 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2393 LPIs. 2394 2395 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2396 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2397 requires the kernel to be built with 2398 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2399 2400 irqfixup [HW] 2401 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2402 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2403 firmware running. 2404 2405 irqpoll [HW] 2406 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2407 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2408 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2409 firmware running. 2410 2411 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2412 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2413 2414 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2415 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2416 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2417 2418 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2419 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2420 2421 nohz 2422 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2423 2424 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2425 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2426 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2427 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2428 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2429 2430 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2431 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2432 be configured manually after bootup. 2433 2434 domain 2435 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2436 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2437 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2438 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2439 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2440 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2441 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2442 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2443 2444 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2445 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2446 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2447 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2448 2449 managed_irq 2450 2451 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2452 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2453 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2454 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2455 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2456 2457 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2458 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2459 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2460 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2461 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2462 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2463 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2464 2465 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2466 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2467 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2468 only delivered when tasks running on those 2469 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2470 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2471 queues. 2472 2473 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2474 2475 iucv= [HW,NET] 2476 2477 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2478 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2479 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2480 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2481 2482 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2483 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2484 write the parameter as: 2485 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2486 2487 Deprecated formats: 2488 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2489 write the parameter as: 2490 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2491 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2492 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2493 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2494 2495 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2496 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2497 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2498 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2499 2500 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2501 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2502 write the parameter as: 2503 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2504 2505 Deprecated formats: 2506 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2507 write the parameter as: 2508 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2509 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2510 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2511 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2512 2513 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2514 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2515 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2516 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2517 2518 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2519 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2520 write the parameter as: 2521 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2522 2523 Deprecated formats: 2524 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2525 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2526 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2527 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2528 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2529 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2530 2531 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2532 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2533 2534 kasan_multi_shot 2535 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2536 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2537 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2538 invalid access. 2539 2540 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2541 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2542 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2543 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2544 the real console. 2545 2546 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2547 2548 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2549 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2550 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2551 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2552 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2553 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2554 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2555 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2556 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2557 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2558 2559 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2560 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2561 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2562 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2563 zone if it does not. 2564 2565 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2566 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2567 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2568 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2569 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2570 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2571 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2572 2573 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2574 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2575 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2576 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2577 optional and is the number seconds in between 2578 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2579 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2580 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2581 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2582 the kernel debugger. 2583 2584 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2585 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2586 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2587 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2588 keyboard only format: kbd 2589 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2590 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2591 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2592 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2593 2594 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2595 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2596 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2597 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2598 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2599 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2600 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2601 2602 The name of the early console should be specified 2603 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2604 the early console might be different than the tty 2605 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2606 blank and the first boot console that implements 2607 read() will be picked. 2608 2609 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2610 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2611 2612 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2613 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2614 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2615 2616 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2617 Valid arguments: on, off 2618 Default: on 2619 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2620 the default is off. 2621 2622 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2623 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2624 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2625 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2626 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2627 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2628 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2629 2630 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2631 2632 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2633 Boot Parameter" section. 2634 2635 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2636 user and kernel address spaces. 2637 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2638 0: force disabled 2639 1: force enabled 2640 2641 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2642 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2643 default value can be overridden via 2644 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2645 Default is 1 (enabled) 2646 2647 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2648 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2649 2650 kvm.eager_page_split= 2651 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2652 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2653 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2654 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2655 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2656 required to split huge pages lazily. 2657 2658 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2659 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2660 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2661 still be used for reads. 2662 2663 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2664 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2665 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2666 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2667 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2668 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2669 cleared. 2670 2671 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2672 2673 Default is Y (on). 2674 2675 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2676 Default is false (don't support). 2677 2678 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2679 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2680 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2681 force : Always deploy workaround. 2682 off : Never deploy workaround. 2683 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2684 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2685 2686 Default is 'auto'. 2687 2688 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2689 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2690 2691 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2692 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2693 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2694 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2695 period (see below). The default is 60. 2696 2697 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2698 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2699 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2700 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2701 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2702 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2703 2704 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2705 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2706 2707 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2708 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2709 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2710 for NPT. 2711 2712 kvm-arm.mode= 2713 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2714 operation. 2715 2716 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2717 2718 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2719 protected guests. 2720 2721 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2722 state is kept private from the host. 2723 2724 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2725 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2726 hardware. 2727 2728 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2729 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2730 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2731 used with extreme caution. 2732 2733 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2734 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2735 system registers 2736 2737 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2738 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2739 system registers 2740 2741 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2742 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2743 system registers 2744 2745 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2746 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2747 injection of LPIs. 2748 2749 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2750 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2751 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2752 CPU architecture. 2753 2754 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2755 2756 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2757 2758 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2759 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2760 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2761 CPU architecture. 2762 2763 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2764 2765 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2766 2767 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2768 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2769 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2770 allocation. 2771 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2772 Format: <integer> 2773 Default: 5 2774 2775 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2776 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2777 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2778 for EPT. 2779 2780 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2781 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2782 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2783 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2784 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2785 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2786 Default is 1 (enabled). 2787 2788 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2789 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2790 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2791 hardware lacks support for it. 2792 2793 kvm-intel.nested= 2794 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2795 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2796 2797 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2798 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2799 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2800 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2801 hardware lacks support for it. 2802 2803 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2804 CVE-2018-3620. 2805 2806 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2807 2808 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2809 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2810 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2811 never: Disables the mitigation 2812 2813 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2814 2815 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2816 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2817 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2818 for it. 2819 2820 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2821 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2822 2823 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2824 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2825 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2826 2827 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2828 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2829 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2830 not have direct access. 2831 2832 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2833 options are: 2834 2835 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2836 2837 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2838 affected CPUs 2839 2840 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2841 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2842 2843 full 2844 Provides all available mitigations for the 2845 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2846 enables all mitigations in the 2847 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2848 2849 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2850 sysfs interface is still possible after 2851 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2852 when the first VM is started in a 2853 potentially insecure configuration, 2854 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2855 2856 full,force 2857 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2858 flush runtime control. Implies the 2859 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2860 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2861 2862 flush 2863 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2864 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2865 L1D flush. 2866 2867 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2868 sysfs interface is still possible after 2869 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2870 when the first VM is started in a 2871 potentially insecure configuration, 2872 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2873 2874 flush,nosmt 2875 2876 Disables SMT and enables the default 2877 hypervisor mitigation. 2878 2879 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2880 sysfs interface is still possible after 2881 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2882 when the first VM is started in a 2883 potentially insecure configuration, 2884 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2885 2886 flush,nowarn 2887 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2888 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2889 insecure configuration. 2890 2891 off 2892 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2893 emit any warnings. 2894 It also drops the swap size and available 2895 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2896 bare metal. 2897 2898 Default is 'flush'. 2899 2900 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2901 2902 l2cr= [PPC] 2903 2904 l3cr= [PPC] 2905 2906 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2907 disabled it. 2908 2909 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2910 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2911 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2912 Format: notscdeadline 2913 2914 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 2915 in C2 power state. 2916 2917 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2918 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2919 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2920 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2921 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2922 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2923 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2924 2925 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2926 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2927 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2928 2929 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2930 when set. 2931 Format: <int> 2932 2933 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2934 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2935 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2936 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2937 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2938 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2939 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2940 to all ports, links and devices. 2941 2942 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2943 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2944 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2945 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2946 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2947 host link and device attached to it. 2948 2949 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2950 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2951 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2952 The following configurations can be forced. 2953 2954 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2955 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2956 2957 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2958 2959 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2960 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2961 allowed. 2962 2963 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2964 resets. 2965 2966 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2967 link recovery. 2968 2969 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2970 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2971 detection. 2972 2973 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2974 2975 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2976 2977 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2978 2979 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2980 2981 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2982 2983 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2984 2985 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2986 2987 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2988 2989 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2990 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2991 2992 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2993 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2994 2995 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2996 identify device data log. 2997 2998 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2999 purpose log directory. 3000 3001 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3002 3003 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3004 1024 sectors. 3005 3006 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3007 65535 sectors. 3008 3009 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3010 3011 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3012 should be skipped. 3013 3014 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3015 support for devices supporting this feature. 3016 3017 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3018 3019 * disable: Disable this device. 3020 3021 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3022 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3023 3024 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3025 3026 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3027 Format: <integer> 3028 3029 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3030 Format: <integer> 3031 3032 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3033 Format: <integer> 3034 3035 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3036 Format: <integer> 3037 3038 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3039 { integrity | confidentiality } 3040 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3041 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3042 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3043 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3044 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3045 are also disabled. 3046 3047 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3048 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3049 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3050 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3051 3052 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3053 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3054 to be bound. 3055 3056 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3057 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3058 to be bound. 3059 3060 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3061 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3062 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3063 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3064 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3065 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3066 3067 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3068 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3069 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3070 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3071 3072 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3073 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3074 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3075 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3076 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3077 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3078 3079 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3080 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3081 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3082 number of online CPUs. 3083 3084 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3085 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3086 3087 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3088 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3089 3090 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3091 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3092 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3093 3094 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3095 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3096 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3097 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3098 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3099 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3100 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3101 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3102 disable boosting. 3103 3104 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3105 Number that determines how often and for how 3106 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3107 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3108 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3109 constant as the number of writers increases. 3110 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3111 increases with the number of writers. 3112 3113 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3114 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3115 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3116 mode during the locktorture test. 3117 3118 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3119 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3120 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3121 3122 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3123 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3124 3125 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3126 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3127 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3128 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3129 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3130 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3131 3132 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3133 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3134 3135 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3136 Enable additional printk() statements. 3137 3138 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3139 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3140 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3141 3142 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3143 Format: <irq> 3144 3145 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3146 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3147 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3148 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3149 loglevels are defined as follows: 3150 3151 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3152 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3153 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3154 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3155 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3156 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3157 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3158 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3159 3160 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3161 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3162 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3163 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3164 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3165 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3166 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3167 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3168 for more details. 3169 3170 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3171 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3172 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3173 kernel boot problems. 3174 3175 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3176 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3177 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3178 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3179 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3180 attached printers to be reset. Using 3181 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3182 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3183 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3184 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3185 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3186 port specification list means that device IDs 3187 from each port should be examined, to see if 3188 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3189 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3190 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3191 3192 lpj=n [KNL] 3193 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3194 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3195 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3196 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3197 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3198 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3199 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3200 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3201 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3202 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3203 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3204 hardware. 3205 3206 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3207 3208 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3209 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3210 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3211 3212 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3213 different yeeloong laptops. 3214 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3215 3216 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3217 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3218 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3219 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3220 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3221 only takes effect during system bootup. 3222 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3223 which also disables the IO APIC. 3224 3225 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3226 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3227 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3228 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3229 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3230 /dev/loop-control interface. 3231 3232 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3233 3234 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3235 3236 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3237 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3238 3239 mdacon= [MDA] 3240 Format: <first>,<last> 3241 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3242 3243 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3244 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3245 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3246 3247 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3248 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3249 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3250 3251 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3252 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3253 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3254 not have direct access. 3255 3256 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3257 options are: 3258 3259 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3260 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3261 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3262 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3263 3264 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3265 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3266 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3267 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3268 too. 3269 3270 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3271 mds=full. 3272 3273 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3274 3275 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3276 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3277 3278 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3279 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3280 as follows: 3281 3282 1 for test; 3283 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3284 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3285 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3286 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3287 3288 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3289 high memory is not affected. 3290 3291 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3292 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3293 3294 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3295 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3296 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3297 belonging to unused RAM. 3298 3299 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3300 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3301 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3302 3303 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3304 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3305 reported by firmware. 3306 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3307 ss[KMG]. 3308 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3309 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3310 3311 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3312 memory. 3313 3314 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3315 3316 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3317 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3318 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3319 3320 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3321 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3322 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3323 set according to the 3324 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3325 option. 3326 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3327 3328 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3329 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3330 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3331 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3332 option description. 3333 3334 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3335 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3336 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3337 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3338 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3339 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3340 comma delimited. 3341 Example: 3342 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3343 3344 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3345 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3346 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3347 3348 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3349 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3350 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3351 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3352 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3353 or 3354 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3355 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3356 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3357 will be eaten. 3358 3359 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3360 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3361 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3362 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3363 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3364 3365 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3366 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3367 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3368 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3369 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3370 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3371 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3372 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3373 3374 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3375 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3376 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3377 Setting this option will scan the memory 3378 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3379 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3380 from using the memory being corrupted. 3381 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3382 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3383 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3384 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3385 3386 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3387 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3388 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3389 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3390 corruption in more or less memory. 3391 3392 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3393 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3394 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3395 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3396 3397 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3398 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3399 Format: {on | off (default)} 3400 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3401 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3402 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3403 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3404 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3405 lot of memory without requiring additional 3406 memory to do so. 3407 This feature is disabled by default because it 3408 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3409 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3410 memory blocks). 3411 The state of the flag can be read in 3412 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3413 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3414 the feature is not effective. 3415 3416 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3417 Format: <integer> 3418 default : 0 <disable> 3419 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3420 performed. Each pass selects another test 3421 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3422 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3423 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3424 regions that are detected. 3425 3426 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3427 Valid arguments: on, off 3428 Default: off 3429 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3430 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3431 3432 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3433 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3434 3435 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3436 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3437 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3438 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3439 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3440 3441 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3442 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3443 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3444 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3445 3446 mga= [HW,DRM] 3447 3448 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3449 Format: <bool> 3450 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3451 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3452 3453 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3454 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3455 Default: "0tb" 3456 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3457 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3458 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3459 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3460 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3461 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3462 unconfigured. 3463 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3464 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3465 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3466 VGA shield. 3467 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3468 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3469 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3470 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3471 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3472 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3473 3474 mitigations= 3475 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3476 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3477 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3478 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3479 3480 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3481 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3482 3483 off 3484 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3485 improves system performance, but it may also 3486 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3487 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3488 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3489 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3490 l1tf=off [X86] 3491 mds=off [X86] 3492 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3493 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3494 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3495 nobp=0 [S390] 3496 nopti [X86,PPC] 3497 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3498 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3499 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3500 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3501 retbleed=off [X86] 3502 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3503 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3504 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3505 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3506 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3507 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3508 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3509 3510 Exceptions: 3511 This does not have any effect on 3512 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3513 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3514 3515 auto (default) 3516 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3517 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3518 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3519 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3520 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3521 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3522 3523 auto,nosmt 3524 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3525 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3526 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3527 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3528 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3529 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3530 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3531 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3532 3533 mminit_loglevel= 3534 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3535 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3536 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3537 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3538 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3539 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3540 3541 mmio_stale_data= 3542 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3543 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3544 3545 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3546 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3547 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3548 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3549 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3550 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3551 3552 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3553 options are: 3554 3555 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3556 3557 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3558 vulnerable CPUs. 3559 3560 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3561 3562 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3563 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3564 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3565 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3566 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3567 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3568 3569 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3570 mmio_stale_data=full. 3571 3572 For details see: 3573 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3574 3575 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3576 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3577 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3578 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3579 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3580 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3581 3582 module.async_probe=<bool> 3583 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3584 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3585 specific module, use the module specific control that 3586 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3587 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3588 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3589 the specific module. 3590 3591 module.enable_dups_trace 3592 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3593 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3594 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3595 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3596 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3597 module.sig_enforce 3598 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3599 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3600 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3601 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3602 3603 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3604 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3605 3606 mousedev.tap_time= 3607 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3608 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3609 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3610 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3611 Format: <msecs> 3612 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3613 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3614 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3615 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3616 3617 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3618 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3619 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3620 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3621 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3622 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3623 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3624 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3625 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3626 is not too small. 3627 3628 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3629 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3630 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3631 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3632 allocations. Use with caution! 3633 3634 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3635 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3636 3637 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3638 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3639 3640 mtdparts= [MTD] 3641 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3642 3643 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3644 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3645 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3646 3647 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3648 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3649 registers at boot time. 3650 3651 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3652 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3653 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3654 3655 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3656 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3657 Default is 1. 3658 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3659 using up MTRRs. 3660 3661 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3662 Format: <integer> 3663 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3664 Default : 1 3665 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3666 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3667 3668 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3669 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3670 at a time. 3671 3672 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3673 3674 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3675 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3676 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3677 something different and driver-specific. 3678 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3679 file if at all. 3680 3681 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3682 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3683 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3684 waits 4 seconds. 3685 3686 nf_conntrack.acct= 3687 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3688 0 to disable accounting 3689 1 to enable accounting 3690 Default value is 0. 3691 3692 nfs.cache_getent= 3693 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3694 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3695 3696 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3697 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3698 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3699 3700 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3701 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3702 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3703 requests. 3704 3705 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3706 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3707 channel should listen. 3708 3709 nfs.delay_retrans= 3710 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3711 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3712 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3713 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3714 and the specified value is >= 0. 3715 3716 nfs.enable_ino64= 3717 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3718 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3719 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3720 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3721 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3722 3723 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3724 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3725 entries. 3726 3727 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3728 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3729 slots the client will assign to the callback 3730 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3731 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3732 a particular server. 3733 3734 nfs.max_session_slots= 3735 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3736 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3737 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3738 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3739 Note that there is little point in setting this 3740 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3741 3742 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3743 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3744 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3745 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3746 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3747 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3748 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3749 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3750 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3751 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3752 back to using the idmapper. 3753 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3754 3755 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3756 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3757 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3758 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3759 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3760 3761 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3762 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3763 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3764 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3765 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3766 after the locks are lost. 3767 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3768 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3769 parameter to '1'. 3770 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3771 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3772 3773 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3774 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3775 information in exchange_id requests. 3776 If zero, no implementation identification information 3777 will be sent. 3778 The default is to send the implementation identification 3779 information. 3780 3781 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3782 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3783 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3784 3785 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3786 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3787 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3788 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3789 3790 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3791 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3792 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3793 the destination of the copy. 3794 3795 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3796 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3797 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3798 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3799 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3800 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3801 3802 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3803 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3804 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3805 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3806 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3807 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3808 this parameter. 3809 3810 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3811 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3812 3813 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3814 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3815 3816 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3817 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3818 3819 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3820 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3821 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3822 3823 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3824 when a NMI is triggered. 3825 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3826 3827 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3828 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 3829 Valid num: 0 or 1 3830 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3831 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3832 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 3833 3834 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3835 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3836 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3837 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3838 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3839 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3840 need the box quickly up again. 3841 3842 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3843 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3844 3845 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3846 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3847 is present. 3848 3849 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 3850 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3851 3852 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3853 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3854 3855 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3856 3857 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3858 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3859 3860 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3861 3862 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 3863 3864 no_console_suspend 3865 [HW] Never suspend the console 3866 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3867 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3868 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3869 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3870 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3871 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3872 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3873 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3874 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3875 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3876 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3877 turn on/off it dynamically. 3878 3879 no_debug_objects 3880 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 3881 3882 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3883 3884 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 3885 3886 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3887 3888 noexec32 [X86-64] 3889 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3890 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3891 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3892 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3893 read implies executable mappings 3894 3895 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3896 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3897 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3898 3899 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3900 3901 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3902 3903 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3904 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3905 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3906 3907 no_hash_pointers 3908 [KNL,EARLY] 3909 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3910 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3911 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3912 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3913 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3914 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3915 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3916 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3917 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3918 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3919 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3920 kernels. 3921 3922 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3923 3924 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 3925 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3926 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3927 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3928 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3929 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3930 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3931 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3932 3933 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3934 3935 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3936 3937 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3938 Valid arguments: on, off 3939 Default: on 3940 3941 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3942 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3943 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3944 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3945 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3946 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3947 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3948 just as if they had also been called out in the 3949 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3950 3951 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3952 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3953 3954 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3955 initial RAM disk. 3956 3957 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 3958 remapping. 3959 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3960 3961 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3962 3963 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3964 3965 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3966 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3967 3968 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3969 3970 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 3971 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3972 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3973 Layout Randomization). 3974 3975 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3976 fault handling. 3977 3978 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3979 3980 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3981 3982 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3983 3984 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3985 3986 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3987 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3988 3989 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3990 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3991 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3992 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3993 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3994 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3995 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3996 3997 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3998 3999 nomodule Disable module load 4000 4001 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4002 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4003 irq. 4004 4005 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4006 pagetables) support. 4007 4008 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4009 4010 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4011 in some Intel CPUs. 4012 4013 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4014 Equivalent to pti=off 4015 4016 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4017 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4018 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4019 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4020 4021 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4022 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4023 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4024 contention. 4025 4026 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4027 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4028 4029 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4030 with UP alternatives 4031 4032 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4033 space. 4034 4035 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4036 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4037 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4038 4039 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4040 4041 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4042 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4043 even if it is supported by processor. 4044 4045 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4046 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4047 even if it is supported by processor. 4048 4049 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4050 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4051 4052 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4053 Equivalent to smt=1. 4054 4055 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4056 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4057 via the sysfs control file. 4058 4059 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4060 4061 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4062 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4063 Store Bypass vulnerability 4064 4065 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4066 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4067 with this option. 4068 4069 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4070 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4071 possible in the system. 4072 4073 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4074 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4075 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4076 leaks with this option. 4077 4078 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4079 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4080 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4081 4082 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4083 4084 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4085 broken timer IRQ sources. 4086 4087 no_uaccess_flush 4088 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4089 4090 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4091 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4092 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4093 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4094 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4095 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4096 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4097 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4098 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4099 is set. 4100 4101 no-vmw-sched-clock 4102 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4103 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4104 4105 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4106 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4107 4108 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4109 4110 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4111 4112 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4113 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4114 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4115 4116 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4117 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4118 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4119 4120 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4121 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4122 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4123 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4124 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4125 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4126 4127 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4128 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4129 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4130 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4131 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4132 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4133 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4134 4135 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4136 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4137 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4138 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4139 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4140 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4141 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4142 hot plugging. 4143 4144 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4145 4146 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4147 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4148 spanning all memory. 4149 4150 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4151 NUMA balancing. 4152 Allowed values are enable and disable 4153 4154 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4155 'node', 'default' can be specified 4156 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4157 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4158 4159 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4160 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4161 info. 4162 4163 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4164 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4165 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4166 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4167 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4168 interrupts *may* be lost! 4169 4170 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4171 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4172 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4173 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4174 4175 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4176 4177 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4178 4179 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4180 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4181 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4182 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4183 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4184 4185 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4186 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4187 process, but there is a small probability of 4188 deadlocking the machine. 4189 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4190 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4191 4192 page_alloc.shuffle= 4193 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4194 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4195 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4196 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4197 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4198 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4199 4200 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4201 Storage of the information about who allocated 4202 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4203 we can turn it on. 4204 on: enable the feature 4205 4206 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4207 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4208 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4209 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4210 on: turn on poisoning 4211 4212 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4213 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4214 Format: <integer> 4215 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4216 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4217 4218 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4219 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4220 timeout = 0: wait forever 4221 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4222 Format: <timeout> 4223 4224 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4225 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4226 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4227 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4228 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4229 called with any of the flags in this set. 4230 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4231 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4232 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4233 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4234 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4235 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4236 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4237 4238 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4239 on a WARN(). 4240 4241 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4242 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4243 bit 0: print all tasks info 4244 bit 1: print system memory info 4245 bit 2: print timer info 4246 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4247 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4248 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4249 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4250 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4251 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4252 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4253 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4254 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4255 4256 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4257 connected to, default is 0. 4258 Format: <parport#> 4259 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4260 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4261 Format: <mode> 4262 4263 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4264 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4265 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4266 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4267 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4268 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4269 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4270 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4271 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4272 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4273 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4274 are specified on the command line, starting 4275 with parport0. 4276 4277 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4278 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4279 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4280 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4281 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4282 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4283 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4284 4285 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4286 Format: <int> 4287 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4288 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4289 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4290 4291 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4292 Format: <int> 4293 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4294 changes. Disabled by default. 4295 4296 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4297 Format: <int> 4298 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4299 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4300 Disabled by default. 4301 4302 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4303 Format: <int> 4304 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4305 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4306 Disabled by default. 4307 4308 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4309 Format: <int> 4310 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4311 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4312 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4313 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4314 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4315 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4316 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4317 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4318 all channels. 4319 4320 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4321 Format: <int> 4322 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4323 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4324 respectively. Disabled by default. 4325 4326 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4327 Format: <int> 4328 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4329 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4330 respectively. Disabled by default. 4331 4332 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4333 Format: <int> 4334 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4335 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4336 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4337 All modes allowed by default. 4338 4339 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4340 Format: <int> 4341 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4342 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4343 4344 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4345 Format: <int> 4346 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4347 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4348 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4349 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4350 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4351 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4352 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4353 By default all supported ports are probed. 4354 4355 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4356 Format: <int> 4357 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4358 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4359 4360 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4361 Format: <int> 4362 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4363 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4364 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4365 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4366 0 otherwise. 4367 4368 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4369 Format: <int> 4370 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4371 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4372 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4373 allowed by default. 4374 4375 pause_on_oops=<int> 4376 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4377 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4378 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4379 4380 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4381 4382 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4383 4384 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4385 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4386 specified in one of the following formats: 4387 4388 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4389 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4390 4391 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4392 bus/device/function address which may change 4393 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4394 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4395 by other kernel parameters. If the 4396 domain is left unspecified, it is 4397 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4398 to a device through multiple device/function 4399 addresses can be specified after the base 4400 address (this is more robust against 4401 renumbering issues). The second format 4402 selects devices using IDs from the 4403 configuration space which may match multiple 4404 devices in the system. 4405 4406 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4407 changes anything 4408 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4409 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4410 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4411 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4412 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4413 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4414 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4415 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4416 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4417 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4418 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4419 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4420 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4421 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4422 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4423 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4424 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4425 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4426 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4427 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4428 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4429 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4430 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4431 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4432 Configuration 4433 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4434 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4435 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4436 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4437 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4438 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4439 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4440 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4441 should never be necessary. 4442 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4443 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4444 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4445 when the system masks IRQs. 4446 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4447 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4448 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4449 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4450 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4451 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4452 on several machines and they hang the machine 4453 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4454 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4455 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4456 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4457 motherboard. 4458 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4459 Use with caution as certain devices share 4460 address decoders between ROMs and other 4461 resources. 4462 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4463 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4464 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4465 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4466 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4467 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4468 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4469 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4470 this way. 4471 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4472 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4473 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4474 F0000h-100000h range. 4475 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4476 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4477 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4478 explicitly which ones they are. 4479 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4480 numbers ourselves, overriding 4481 whatever the firmware may have done. 4482 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4483 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4484 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4485 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4486 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4487 IRQ routing is enabled. 4488 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4489 or for PCI scanning. 4490 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4491 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4492 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4493 please report a bug. 4494 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4495 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4496 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4497 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4498 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4499 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4500 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4501 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4502 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4503 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4504 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4505 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4506 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4507 so this option is a temporary workaround 4508 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4509 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4510 handle more pci cards 4511 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4512 This might help on some broken boards which 4513 machine check when some devices' config space 4514 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4515 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4516 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4517 This sorting is done to get a device 4518 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4519 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4520 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4521 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4522 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4523 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4524 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4525 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4526 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4527 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4528 or bus can support) for best performance. 4529 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4530 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4531 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4532 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4533 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4534 that hot-added devices will work. 4535 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4536 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4537 The default value is 256 bytes. 4538 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4539 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4540 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4541 resource_alignment= 4542 Format: 4543 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4544 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4545 aligned memory resources. How to 4546 specify the device is described above. 4547 If <order of align> is not specified, 4548 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4549 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4550 windows need to be expanded. 4551 To specify the alignment for several 4552 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4553 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4554 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4555 for 4096-byte alignment. 4556 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4557 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4558 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4559 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4560 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4561 the default. 4562 off: Turn ECRC off 4563 on: Turn ECRC on. 4564 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4565 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4566 Default size is 256 bytes. 4567 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4568 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4569 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4570 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4571 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4572 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4573 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4574 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4575 MMIO_PREF window. 4576 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4577 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4578 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4579 Default is 1. 4580 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4581 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4582 accommodate resources required by all child 4583 devices. 4584 off: Turn realloc off 4585 on: Turn realloc on 4586 realloc same as realloc=on 4587 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4588 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4589 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4590 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4591 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4592 port. 4593 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4594 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4595 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4596 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4597 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4598 taints the kernel. 4599 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4600 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4601 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4602 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4603 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4604 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4605 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4606 this removes isolation between devices and 4607 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4608 config_acs= 4609 Format: 4610 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4611 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4612 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4613 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4614 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4615 unchanged based on what is specified in 4616 flags. 4617 4618 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4619 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4620 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4621 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4622 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4623 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4624 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4625 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4626 Each bit can be marked as: 4627 '0' – force disabled 4628 '1' – force enabled 4629 'x' – unchanged 4630 For example, 4631 pci=config_acs=10x 4632 would configure all devices that support 4633 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4634 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4635 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4636 or firmware set it to. 4637 4638 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4639 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4640 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4641 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4642 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4643 one PCI domain per PCI function 4644 4645 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4646 Management. 4647 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4648 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4649 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4650 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4651 4652 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4653 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4654 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4655 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4656 also tries to use these services. 4657 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4658 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4659 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4660 hotplug). 4661 4662 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4663 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4664 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4665 4666 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4667 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4668 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4669 4670 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4671 4672 pd_ignore_unused 4673 [PM] 4674 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4675 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4676 for debug and development, but should not be 4677 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4678 4679 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4680 boot time. 4681 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4682 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4683 4684 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4685 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4686 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4687 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4688 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4689 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4690 and performance comparison. 4691 4692 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4693 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4694 4695 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4696 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4697 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4698 4699 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4700 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4701 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4702 4703 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4704 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4705 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4706 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4707 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4708 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4709 remains 0. 4710 4711 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4712 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4713 4714 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4715 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4716 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4717 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4718 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4719 possible settings and some assignment information. 4720 4721 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4722 { off } 4723 4724 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4725 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4726 4727 pnp_reserve_irq= 4728 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4729 4730 pnp_reserve_dma= 4731 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4732 4733 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4734 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4735 4736 pnp_reserve_mem= 4737 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4738 autoconfiguration. 4739 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4740 4741 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4742 Default is 21. 4743 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4744 may be specified. 4745 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4746 4747 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4748 Format: <unsigned int> 4749 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4750 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4751 4752 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4753 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4754 platform machine description specific power_save 4755 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4756 execution priority. 4757 4758 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4759 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4760 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4761 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4762 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4763 4764 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4765 Format: {"off"} 4766 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4767 4768 preempt= [KNL] 4769 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4770 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4771 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4772 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4773 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 4774 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 4775 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 4776 4777 print-fatal-signals= 4778 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4779 4780 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4781 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4782 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4783 coredump - etc. 4784 4785 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4786 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4787 4788 default: off. 4789 4790 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4791 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4792 panics 4793 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4794 default: disabled 4795 4796 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4797 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4798 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4799 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4800 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4801 in order to provide more debug information. 4802 Format: <bool> 4803 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4804 4805 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4806 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4807 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4808 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4809 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4810 Default: ratelimit 4811 4812 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4813 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4814 4815 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 4816 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 4817 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 4818 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 4819 restrict that. Can be one of: 4820 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 4821 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 4822 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 4823 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 4824 4825 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4826 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4827 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4828 4829 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4830 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4831 instead using the legacy FADT method 4832 4833 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4834 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4835 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 4836 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4837 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4838 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4839 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4840 statistical time based profiling. 4841 4842 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4843 4844 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4845 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4846 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 4847 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 4848 Layout Randomization is disabled. 4849 Format: <bool> 4850 4851 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4852 tracking. 4853 Format: <bool> 4854 4855 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4856 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4857 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4858 per second. 4859 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4860 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4861 (0 = never). 4862 psmouse.resolution= 4863 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4864 psmouse.smartscroll= 4865 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4866 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4867 4868 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4869 4870 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4871 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4872 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4873 system calls and interrupts. 4874 4875 on - unconditionally enable 4876 off - unconditionally disable 4877 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4878 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4879 4880 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4881 4882 pty.legacy_count= 4883 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4884 default number. 4885 4886 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 4887 4888 r128= [HW,DRM] 4889 4890 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4891 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4892 invalidate. 4893 4894 raid= [HW,RAID] 4895 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4896 4897 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4898 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4899 4900 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4901 4902 random.trust_cpu=off 4903 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4904 random number generator (if available) to 4905 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4906 4907 random.trust_bootloader=off 4908 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4909 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4910 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4911 4912 randomize_kstack_offset= 4913 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4914 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4915 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4916 that depend on stack address determinism or 4917 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4918 available on architectures that have defined 4919 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4920 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4921 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4922 4923 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4924 4925 cec_disable [X86] 4926 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4927 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4928 4929 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4930 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4931 as described above. 4932 4933 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4934 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4935 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4936 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4937 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4938 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4939 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4940 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4941 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4942 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4943 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4944 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4945 4946 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4947 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4948 4949 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4950 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4951 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4952 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4953 4954 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4955 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4956 4957 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4958 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4959 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4960 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4961 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4962 This improves the real-time response for the 4963 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4964 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4965 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4966 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4967 4968 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4969 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4970 process in one batch. 4971 4972 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 4973 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 4974 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 4975 4976 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4977 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4978 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4979 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4980 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4981 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4982 4983 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4984 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4985 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4986 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4987 4988 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4989 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4990 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4991 4992 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4993 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4994 RCU grace-period initialization. 4995 4996 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4997 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4998 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4999 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5000 the rcu_node combining tree. 5001 5002 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5003 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5004 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5005 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5006 and maximum value is HZ. 5007 5008 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5009 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5010 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5011 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5012 5013 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5014 Set required age in jiffies for a 5015 given grace period before RCU starts 5016 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5017 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5018 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5019 a value based on the most recent settings 5020 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5021 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5022 This calculated value may be viewed in 5023 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5024 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5025 overwritten. 5026 5027 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5028 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5029 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5030 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5031 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5032 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5033 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5034 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5035 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5036 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5037 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5038 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5039 5040 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5041 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5042 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5043 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5044 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5045 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5046 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5047 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5048 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5049 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5050 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5051 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5052 5053 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5054 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5055 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5056 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5057 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5058 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5059 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5060 5061 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5062 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5063 batch limiting is disabled. 5064 5065 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5066 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5067 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5068 5069 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5070 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5071 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5072 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5073 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5074 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5075 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5076 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5077 5078 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5079 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5080 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5081 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5082 5083 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5084 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5085 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5086 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5087 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5088 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5089 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5090 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5091 5092 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5093 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5094 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5095 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5096 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5097 5098 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5099 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5100 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5101 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5102 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5103 5104 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5105 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5106 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5107 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5108 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5109 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5110 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5111 5112 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5113 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5114 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5115 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5116 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5117 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5118 condition. 5119 5120 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5121 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5122 each group, which defaults to the square root 5123 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5124 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5125 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5126 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5127 5128 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5129 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5130 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5131 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5132 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5133 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5134 5135 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5136 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5137 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5138 By default, this limit is checked only once 5139 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5140 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5141 5142 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5143 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5144 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5145 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5146 Larger delays increase the probability of 5147 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5148 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5149 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5150 5151 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5152 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5153 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5154 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5155 5156 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5157 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5158 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5159 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5160 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5161 5162 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5163 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5164 to zero. 5165 5166 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5167 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5168 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5169 big. 5170 5171 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5172 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5173 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5174 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5175 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5176 normal grace period. 5177 5178 How to enable it: 5179 5180 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5181 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5182 5183 Default is 0. 5184 5185 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5186 Measure performance of asynchronous 5187 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5188 5189 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5190 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5191 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5192 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5193 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5194 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5195 5196 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5197 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5198 grace-period primitives. 5199 5200 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5201 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5202 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5203 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5204 interference. 5205 5206 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5207 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5208 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5209 5210 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5211 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5212 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5213 Defaults to 1. 5214 5215 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5216 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5217 5218 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5219 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5220 If this parameter has the same value as 5221 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5222 and double-argument variants are tested. 5223 5224 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5225 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5226 If this parameter has the same value as 5227 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5228 and double-argument variants are tested. 5229 5230 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5231 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5232 5233 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5234 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5235 5236 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5237 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5238 of allocations and frees. 5239 5240 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5241 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5242 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5243 but instead allows better measurement of things 5244 like CPU consumption. 5245 5246 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5247 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5248 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5249 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5250 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5251 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5252 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5253 a single reader. 5254 5255 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5256 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5257 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5258 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5259 5260 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5261 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5262 5263 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5264 Shut the system down after performance tests 5265 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5266 testing. 5267 5268 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5269 Enable additional printk() statements. 5270 5271 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5272 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5273 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5274 no holdoff. 5275 5276 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5277 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5278 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5279 says no holdoff. 5280 5281 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5282 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5283 in microseconds. 5284 5285 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5286 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5287 in microseconds. 5288 5289 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5290 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5291 in seconds. 5292 5293 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5294 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5295 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5296 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5297 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5298 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5299 of CPUs to be used. 5300 5301 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5302 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5303 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5304 5305 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5306 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5307 forward-progress tests. 5308 5309 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5310 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5311 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5312 testing. 5313 5314 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5315 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5316 primitives, if available. 5317 5318 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5319 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5320 5321 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5322 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5323 update-side primitives, if available. 5324 5325 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5326 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5327 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5328 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5329 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5330 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5331 they are all non-zero. 5332 5333 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5334 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5335 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5336 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5337 5338 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5339 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5340 This can of course result in splats, and is 5341 intended to test the ability of things like 5342 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5343 such leaks. 5344 5345 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5346 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5347 5348 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5349 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5350 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5351 test, hence the "fake". 5352 5353 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5354 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5355 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5356 5357 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5358 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5359 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5360 5361 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5362 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5363 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5364 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5365 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5366 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5367 5368 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5369 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5370 5371 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5372 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5373 5374 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5375 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5376 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5377 5378 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5379 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5380 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5381 task-exit processing. 5382 5383 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5384 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5385 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5386 is spawned. 5387 5388 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5389 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5390 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5391 5392 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5393 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5394 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5395 during the rcutorture test. 5396 5397 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5398 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5399 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5400 5401 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5402 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5403 warnings, zero to disable. 5404 5405 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5406 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5407 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5408 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5409 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5410 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5411 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5412 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5413 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5414 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5415 5416 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5417 5418 5419 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5420 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5421 5422 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5423 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5424 on the first stall in the set. 5425 5426 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5427 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5428 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5429 in four stall sequences. 5430 5431 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5432 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5433 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5434 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5435 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5436 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5437 5438 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5439 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5440 5441 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5442 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5443 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5444 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5445 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5446 5447 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5448 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5449 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5450 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5451 5452 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5453 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5454 5455 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5456 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5457 5458 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5459 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5460 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5461 5462 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5463 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5464 5465 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5466 Enable additional printk() statements. 5467 5468 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5469 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5470 stall warning. 5471 5472 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5473 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5474 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5475 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5476 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5477 5478 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5479 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5480 5481 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5482 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5483 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5484 during early boot, that is, during the time 5485 before the init task is spawned. 5486 5487 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5488 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5489 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5490 value is 300 seconds. 5491 5492 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5493 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5494 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5495 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5496 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5497 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5498 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5499 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5500 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5501 5502 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5503 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5504 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5505 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5506 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5507 5508 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5509 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5510 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5511 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5512 5513 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5514 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5515 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5516 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5517 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5518 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5519 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5520 5521 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5522 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5523 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5524 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5525 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5526 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5527 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5528 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5529 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5530 5531 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5532 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5533 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5534 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5535 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5536 5537 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5538 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5539 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5540 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5541 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5542 grace-period processing. 5543 5544 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5545 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5546 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5547 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5548 a single callback queue. This switching only 5549 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5550 set to the default value of -1. 5551 5552 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5553 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5554 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5555 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5556 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5557 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5558 the default value of -1. 5559 5560 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5561 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5562 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5563 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5564 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5565 for use in testing. 5566 5567 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5568 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5569 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5570 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5571 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5572 but lengthens grace periods. 5573 5574 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5575 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5576 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5577 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5578 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5579 callback flooding. 5580 5581 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5582 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5583 informational messages, which give some indication 5584 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5585 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5586 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5587 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5588 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5589 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5590 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5591 5592 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5593 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5594 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5595 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5596 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5597 the value three, so that the first informational 5598 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5599 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5600 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5601 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5602 5603 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5604 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5605 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5606 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5607 A change in value does not take effect until 5608 the beginning of the next grace period. 5609 5610 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5611 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5612 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5613 A negative value will take the default. A value 5614 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5615 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5616 5617 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5618 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5619 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5620 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5621 will take the default. A value of zero will 5622 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5623 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5624 5625 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5626 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5627 5628 rdinit= [KNL] 5629 Format: <full_path> 5630 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5631 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5632 5633 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5634 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5635 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5636 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5637 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5638 path). 5639 5640 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5641 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5642 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5643 mba, smba, bmec. 5644 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5645 rdt=cmt,!mba 5646 5647 reboot= [KNL] 5648 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5649 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5650 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5651 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5652 [[,]f[orce] 5653 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5654 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5655 reboot only), 5656 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5657 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5658 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5659 to be used for rebooting. 5660 5661 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5662 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5663 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5664 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5665 interference. 5666 5667 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5668 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5669 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5670 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5671 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5672 5673 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5674 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5675 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5676 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5677 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5678 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5679 x86 laptops. 5680 5681 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5682 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5683 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5684 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5685 5686 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5687 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5688 the console log. 5689 5690 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5691 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5692 measured in microseconds. 5693 5694 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5695 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5696 5697 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5698 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5699 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5700 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5701 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5702 5703 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5704 Enable additional printk() statements. 5705 5706 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5707 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5708 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5709 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5710 specified. 5711 5712 regulator_ignore_unused 5713 [REGULATOR] 5714 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5715 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5716 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5717 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5718 5719 relax_domain_level= 5720 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5721 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5722 5723 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5724 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5725 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5726 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5727 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5728 5729 reserve_mem= [RAM] 5730 Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label> 5731 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 5732 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 5733 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 5734 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 5735 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 5736 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 5737 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 5738 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 5739 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 5740 different location. 5741 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 5742 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 5743 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 5744 located at the same location. 5745 5746 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 5747 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 5748 5749 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 5750 5751 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 5752 Format: nn[KMG] 5753 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5754 address space. 5755 5756 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5757 during initialization. 5758 5759 resume= [SWSUSP] 5760 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5761 Format: 5762 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5763 5764 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5765 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5766 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5767 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5768 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5769 5770 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5771 read the resume files 5772 5773 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5774 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5775 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5776 5777 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5778 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5779 5780 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5781 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5782 vulnerability. 5783 5784 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5785 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5786 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5787 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5788 that don't. 5789 5790 off - no mitigation 5791 auto - automatically select a migitation 5792 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5793 disabling SMT if necessary for 5794 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5795 and older without STIBP). 5796 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5797 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5798 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5799 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5800 on Intel. 5801 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5802 when STIBP is not available. This is 5803 the alternative for systems which do not 5804 have STIBP. 5805 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5806 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5807 systems. 5808 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5809 is not available. This is the alternative for 5810 systems which do not have STIBP. 5811 5812 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5813 time according to the CPU. 5814 5815 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5816 5817 rfkill.default_state= 5818 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5819 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5820 1 Unblocked. 5821 5822 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5823 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5824 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5825 blocked and the previous configuration. 5826 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5827 blocked and everything unblocked. 5828 5829 ring3mwait=disable 5830 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5831 CPUs. 5832 5833 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 5834 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5835 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5836 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5837 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5838 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5839 5840 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5841 5842 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 5843 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5844 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5845 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5846 [arm64] 5847 5848 rockchip.usb_uart 5849 [EARLY] 5850 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5851 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5852 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5853 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5854 5855 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5856 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5857 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5858 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5859 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5860 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5861 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5862 5863 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5864 mount the root filesystem 5865 5866 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5867 5868 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5869 5870 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5871 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5872 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5873 5874 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5875 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5876 filesystem. 5877 5878 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5879 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5880 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5881 managed by CMA. 5882 5883 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5884 5885 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5886 5887 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5888 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5889 strict 5890 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5891 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5892 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5893 iommu.strict=1. 5894 5895 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5896 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5897 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5898 factor of the size of main memory. 5899 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5900 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5901 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5902 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5903 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5904 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5905 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5906 5907 sa1100ir [NET] 5908 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5909 5910 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5911 5912 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5913 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5914 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5915 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5916 5917 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5918 [Deprecated] 5919 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5920 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5921 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5922 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5923 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5924 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5925 value. 5926 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5927 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5928 1 64 ms 5929 2 128 ms 5930 and so on. 5931 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5932 Default is 0. 5933 5934 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5935 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5936 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5937 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5938 tests. 5939 5940 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5941 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5942 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5943 default) disables this feature. Please note 5944 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5945 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5946 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5947 5948 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5949 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5950 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5951 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5952 equal to the number of CPUs. 5953 5954 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5955 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5956 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5957 5958 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5959 Number seconds to wait between successive 5960 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5961 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5962 5963 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5964 The number of seconds following the start of the 5965 test after which to shut down the system. The 5966 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5967 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5968 5969 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5970 The number of seconds between outputting the 5971 current test statistics to the console. A value 5972 of zero disables statistics output. 5973 5974 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5975 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5976 to the set of CPUs under test. 5977 5978 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5979 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5980 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5981 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5982 functions. 5983 5984 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5985 Enable additional printk() statements. 5986 5987 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5988 The probability weighting to use for the 5989 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5990 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5991 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5992 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5993 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5994 5995 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5996 The probability weighting to use for the 5997 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5998 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5999 6000 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6001 The probability weighting to use for the 6002 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6003 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6004 Note well that setting a high probability for 6005 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6006 on the system. 6007 6008 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6009 The probability weighting to use for the 6010 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6011 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6012 and weight_many. 6013 6014 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6015 The probability weighting to use for the 6016 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6017 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6018 weight_many. 6019 6020 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6021 The probability weighting to use for the 6022 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6023 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6024 and weight_many. 6025 6026 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6027 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6028 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6029 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6030 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6031 1 -- enable. 6032 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6033 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6034 6035 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6036 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6037 "lsm=" parameter. 6038 6039 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6040 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6041 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6042 0 -- disable. 6043 1 -- enable. 6044 Default value is 1. 6045 6046 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6047 6048 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 6049 6050 shapers= [NET] 6051 Maximal number of shapers. 6052 6053 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6054 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6055 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6056 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6057 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6058 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6059 apic=verbose is specified. 6060 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6061 6062 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6063 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6064 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6065 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6066 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6067 last alloc / free. For more information see 6068 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6069 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6070 6071 slab_max_order= [MM] 6072 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6073 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6074 fragmentation. For more information see 6075 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6076 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6077 6078 slab_merge [MM] 6079 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6080 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6081 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6082 6083 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6084 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6085 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6086 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6087 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6088 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6089 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6090 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6091 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6092 6093 slab_min_order= [MM] 6094 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6095 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6096 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6097 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6098 6099 slab_nomerge [MM] 6100 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6101 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6102 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6103 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6104 layout control by attackers can usually be 6105 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6106 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6107 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6108 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6109 own. 6110 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6111 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6112 6113 slram= [HW,MTD] 6114 6115 smart2= [HW] 6116 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6117 6118 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6119 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6120 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6121 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6122 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6123 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6124 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6125 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6126 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6127 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6128 6129 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6130 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6131 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6132 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6133 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6134 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6135 6136 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6137 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6138 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6139 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6140 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6141 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6142 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6143 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6144 1: Fast pin select (default) 6145 2: ATC IRMode 6146 6147 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6148 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6149 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6150 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6151 Format: <integer> 6152 Default: -1 (no limit) 6153 6154 softlockup_panic= 6155 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6156 Format: 0 | 1 6157 6158 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6159 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6160 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6161 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6162 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6163 6164 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6165 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6166 backtraces on all cpus. 6167 Format: 0 | 1 6168 6169 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6170 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6171 6172 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6173 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6174 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6175 clearing sequence. 6176 6177 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6178 needed. This protects the kernel from 6179 both syscalls and VMs. 6180 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6181 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6182 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6183 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6184 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6185 off - Disable the mitigation. 6186 6187 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6188 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6189 The default operation protects the kernel from 6190 user space attacks. 6191 6192 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6193 spectre_v2_user=on 6194 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6195 spectre_v2_user=off 6196 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6197 vulnerable 6198 6199 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6200 mitigation method at run time according to the 6201 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6202 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6203 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6204 6205 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6206 against user space to user space task attacks. 6207 6208 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6209 the user space protections. 6210 6211 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6212 6213 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6214 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6215 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6216 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6217 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6218 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6219 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6220 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6221 6222 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6223 spectre_v2=auto. 6224 6225 spectre_v2_user= 6226 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6227 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6228 user space tasks 6229 6230 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6231 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6232 6233 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6234 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6235 6236 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6237 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6238 per thread. The mitigation control state 6239 is inherited on fork. 6240 6241 prctl,ibpb 6242 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6243 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6244 always when switching between different user 6245 space processes. 6246 6247 seccomp 6248 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6249 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6250 they explicitly opt out. 6251 6252 seccomp,ibpb 6253 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6254 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6255 always when switching between different 6256 user space processes. 6257 6258 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6259 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6260 6261 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6262 6263 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6264 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6265 6266 spec_rstack_overflow= 6267 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6268 6269 off - Disable mitigation 6270 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6271 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6272 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6273 kernel entry 6274 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6275 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6276 6277 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6278 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6279 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6280 6281 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6282 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6283 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6284 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6285 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6286 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6287 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6288 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6289 6290 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6291 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6292 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6293 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6294 6295 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6296 Bypass optimization is used. 6297 6298 On x86 the options are: 6299 6300 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6301 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6302 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6303 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6304 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6305 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6306 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6307 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6308 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6309 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6310 for a process by default. The state of the control 6311 is inherited on fork. 6312 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6313 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6314 6315 Default mitigations: 6316 X86: "prctl" 6317 6318 On powerpc the options are: 6319 6320 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6321 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6322 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6323 exit. 6324 off - No action. 6325 6326 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6327 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6328 6329 split_lock_detect= 6330 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6331 6332 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6333 instructions that access data across cache line 6334 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6335 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6336 bus lock detection. 6337 6338 off - not enabled 6339 6340 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6341 about applications triggering the #AC 6342 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6343 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6344 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6345 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6346 enabled in hardware. 6347 6348 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6349 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6350 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6351 both features are enabled in hardware. 6352 6353 ratelimit:N - 6354 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6355 per second for bus lock detection. 6356 0 < N <= 1000. 6357 6358 N/A for split lock detection. 6359 6360 6361 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6362 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6363 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6364 mode. 6365 6366 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6367 CPL > 0. 6368 6369 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6370 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6371 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6372 6373 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6374 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6375 number generator. 6376 6377 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6378 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6379 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6380 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6381 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6382 6383 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6384 the following option: 6385 6386 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6387 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6388 6389 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6390 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6391 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6392 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6393 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6394 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6395 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6396 (decide at boot). 6397 6398 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6399 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6400 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6401 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6402 6403 0: Never. 6404 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6405 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6406 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6407 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6408 6409 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6410 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6411 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6412 6413 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6414 Specifies how frequently to check for 6415 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6416 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6417 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6418 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6419 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6420 are ignored. 6421 6422 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6423 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6424 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6425 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6426 grace period will be considered for automatic 6427 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6428 expediting. 6429 6430 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6431 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6432 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6433 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6434 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6435 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6436 6437 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6438 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6439 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6440 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6441 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6442 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6443 6444 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6445 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6446 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6447 6448 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6449 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6450 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6451 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6452 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6453 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6454 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6455 6456 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6457 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6458 6459 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6460 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6461 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6462 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6463 6464 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6465 for both kernel and userspace 6466 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6467 for both kernel and userspace 6468 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6469 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6470 to allow userspace to register its 6471 interest in being mitigated too. 6472 6473 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6474 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6475 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6476 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6477 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6478 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6479 6480 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6481 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6482 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6483 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6484 to false. 6485 6486 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6487 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6488 6489 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6490 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6491 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6492 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6493 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6494 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6495 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6496 6497 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6498 Format: <num> 6499 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6500 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6501 as the initial boot-console. 6502 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6503 6504 sti_font= [HW] 6505 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6506 6507 stifb= [HW] 6508 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6509 6510 strict_sas_size= 6511 [X86] 6512 Format: <bool> 6513 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6514 against the required signal frame size which 6515 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6516 be used to filter out binaries which have 6517 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6518 6519 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6520 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6521 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6522 faults on kernel addresses. 6523 6524 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6525 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6526 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6527 on kernel addresses. 6528 6529 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6530 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6531 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6532 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6533 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6534 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6535 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6536 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6537 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6538 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6539 maximum port values. 6540 6541 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6542 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6543 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6544 process in parallel from a single connection. 6545 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6546 6547 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6548 [NFS] 6549 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6550 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6551 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6552 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6553 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6554 NFS server is running. 6555 6556 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6557 automatically using heuristics 6558 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6559 percpu one pool for each CPU 6560 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6561 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6562 6563 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6564 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6565 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6566 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6567 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6568 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6569 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6570 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6571 6572 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6573 [SUSPEND] 6574 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6575 mode before resuming the system (see 6576 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6577 is set. Default value is 5. 6578 6579 svm= [PPC] 6580 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6581 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6582 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6583 6584 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 6585 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6586 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6587 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6588 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6589 to a power of 2. 6590 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6591 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6592 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6593 6594 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6595 6596 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6597 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6598 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6599 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6600 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6601 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6602 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6603 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6604 6605 sysrq_always_enabled 6606 [KNL] 6607 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6608 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6609 Useful for debugging. 6610 6611 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6612 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6613 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6614 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6615 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6616 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6617 6618 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6619 6620 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6621 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6622 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6623 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6624 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6625 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6626 The system is woken from this state using a 6627 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6628 6629 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6630 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6631 6632 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6633 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6634 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6635 6636 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6637 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6638 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6639 6640 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6641 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6642 6643 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6644 -1: disable all passive trip points 6645 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6646 value 6647 6648 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6649 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6650 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6651 0: no polling (default) 6652 6653 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 6654 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6655 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6656 6657 topology= [S390,EARLY] 6658 Format: {off | on} 6659 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6660 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6661 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6662 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6663 Default is on. 6664 6665 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6666 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6667 until after init has spawned. 6668 6669 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6670 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6671 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6672 very costly operation when many torture tests 6673 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6674 with rotating-rust storage. 6675 6676 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6677 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6678 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6679 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6680 6681 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6682 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6683 6684 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6685 Format: integer pcr id 6686 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6687 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6688 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6689 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6690 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6691 are saved. 6692 6693 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6694 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6695 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6696 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6697 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6698 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6699 6700 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6701 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6702 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6703 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6704 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6705 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6706 6707 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6708 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6709 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6710 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6711 6712 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6713 to stop the printing of events to console at 6714 late_initcall_sync. 6715 6716 ** CAUTION ** 6717 6718 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6719 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6720 the system to live lock. 6721 6722 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6723 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6724 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6725 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6726 make the system inoperable. 6727 6728 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6729 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6730 6731 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6732 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6733 6734 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6735 at boot up. 6736 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6737 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6738 depending on the architecture, may not be 6739 in sync between CPUs. 6740 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6741 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6742 but better for some race conditions. 6743 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6744 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6745 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6746 once per event. 6747 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6748 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6749 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6750 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6751 stamps. 6752 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6753 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6754 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6755 6756 trace_event=[event-list] 6757 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6758 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6759 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6760 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6761 6762 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6763 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6764 This will be listed in: 6765 6766 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6767 6768 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6769 via: 6770 6771 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6772 6773 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6774 unique. 6775 6776 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6777 6778 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6779 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6780 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6781 6782 trace_options=[option-list] 6783 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6784 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6785 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6786 to echo the option name into 6787 6788 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6789 6790 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6791 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6792 6793 trace_options=stacktrace 6794 6795 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6796 section. 6797 6798 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6799 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6800 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6801 filter. 6802 6803 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6804 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6805 6806 For example: 6807 6808 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6809 6810 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6811 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6812 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6813 6814 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6815 6816 6817 traceoff_on_warning 6818 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6819 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6820 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6821 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6822 6823 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6824 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6825 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6826 6827 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6828 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6829 6830 transparent_hugepage= 6831 [KNL] 6832 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6833 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6834 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6835 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6836 for more details. 6837 6838 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6839 Format: <string> 6840 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6841 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6842 sources: 6843 - "tpm" 6844 - "tee" 6845 - "caam" 6846 - "dcp" 6847 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6848 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6849 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6850 successfully during iteration. 6851 6852 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6853 Format: <string> 6854 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6855 Can be one of: 6856 - "kernel" 6857 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6858 - "default" 6859 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6860 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6861 6862 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 6863 This is intended to be used in combination with 6864 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 6865 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 6866 6867 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 6868 This is intended to be used in combination with 6869 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 6870 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 6871 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 6872 scenarios. 6873 6874 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6875 Format: <string> 6876 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6877 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6878 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6879 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6880 virtualized environment. 6881 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6882 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6883 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6884 can add overhead. 6885 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6886 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6887 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6888 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6889 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6890 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6891 acceptable). 6892 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6893 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6894 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6895 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6896 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6897 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6898 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6899 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6900 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6901 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6902 6903 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6904 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6905 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6906 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6907 Format: <unsigned int> 6908 6909 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6910 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6911 support TSX control. 6912 6913 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6914 6915 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6916 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6917 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6918 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6919 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6920 with leaving it enabled. 6921 6922 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6923 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6924 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6925 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6926 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6927 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6928 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6929 6930 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6931 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6932 6933 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6934 6935 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6936 for more details. 6937 6938 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6939 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6940 6941 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6942 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6943 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6944 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6945 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6946 conditions. 6947 6948 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6949 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6950 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6951 access. 6952 6953 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6954 options are: 6955 6956 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6957 if TSX is enabled. 6958 6959 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6960 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6961 is not disabled because CPU is not 6962 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6963 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6964 6965 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6966 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6967 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6968 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6969 6970 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6971 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6972 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6973 required and doesn't provide any additional 6974 mitigation. 6975 6976 For details see: 6977 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6978 6979 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6980 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6981 Format: 6982 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6983 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6984 6985 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6986 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6987 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6988 help "seeing" what's going on. 6989 6990 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6991 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6992 6993 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6994 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6995 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6996 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6997 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6998 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6999 reported either. 7000 7001 unknown_nmi_panic 7002 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7003 7004 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7005 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7006 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7007 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7008 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7009 7010 usbcore.authorized_default= 7011 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7012 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7013 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7014 if device connected to internal port) 7015 7016 usbcore.autosuspend= 7017 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7018 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7019 is the time required before an idle device will be 7020 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7021 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7022 7023 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7024 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7025 7026 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7027 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7028 (default = 65536). 7029 7030 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7031 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7032 7033 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7034 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7035 scheme (default 0 = off). 7036 7037 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7038 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7039 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7040 7041 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7042 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7043 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7044 7045 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7046 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7047 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7048 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7049 7050 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7051 7052 usbcore.quirks= 7053 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7054 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7055 commas. Each entry has the form 7056 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7057 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7058 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7059 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7060 the following meanings: 7061 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7062 descriptors must not be fetched using 7063 a 255-byte read); 7064 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7065 correctly so reset it instead); 7066 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7067 Set-Interface requests); 7068 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7069 handle its Configuration or Interface 7070 strings); 7071 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7072 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7073 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7074 more interface descriptions than the 7075 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7076 talking to these interfaces); 7077 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7078 during initialization, after we read 7079 the device descriptor); 7080 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7081 high speed and super speed interrupt 7082 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7083 require the interval in microframes (1 7084 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7085 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7086 (bInterval-1). 7087 Devices with this quirk report their 7088 bInterval as the result of this 7089 calculation instead of the exponent 7090 variable used in the calculation); 7091 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7092 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7093 requests); 7094 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7095 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7096 remote wakeup capability); 7097 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7098 Power Management); 7099 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7100 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7101 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7102 calculation); 7103 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7104 to be disconnected before suspend to 7105 prevent spurious wakeup); 7106 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7107 pause after every control message); 7108 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7109 delay after resetting its port); 7110 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7111 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7112 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7113 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7114 7115 usbhid.mousepoll= 7116 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7117 7118 usbhid.jspoll= 7119 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7120 7121 usbhid.kbpoll= 7122 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7123 7124 usb-storage.delay_use= 7125 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7126 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7127 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7128 suffix with "ms". 7129 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7130 7131 usb-storage.quirks= 7132 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7133 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7134 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7135 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7136 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7137 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7138 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7139 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7140 of sense data, not on uas); 7141 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7142 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7143 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7144 device capacity by one sector); 7145 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7146 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7147 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7148 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7149 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7150 command, uas only); 7151 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7152 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7153 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7154 reported device capacity by one 7155 sector if the number is odd); 7156 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7157 device); 7158 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7159 command, uas only); 7160 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7161 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7162 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7163 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7164 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7165 not on uas); 7166 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7167 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7168 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7169 reported by the device, not on uas); 7170 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7171 by default, not on uas); 7172 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7173 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7174 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7175 Logical Unit); 7176 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7177 commands, uas only); 7178 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7179 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7180 medium is write-protected). 7181 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7182 even if the device claims no cache, 7183 not on uas) 7184 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7185 7186 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7187 Format: <int> 7188 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7189 1 - undefined instruction events 7190 2 - system calls 7191 4 - invalid data aborts 7192 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7193 16 - SIGBUS faults 7194 Example: user_debug=31 7195 7196 userpte= 7197 [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7198 7199 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7200 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7201 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7202 7203 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7204 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7205 7206 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7207 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7208 7209 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7210 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7211 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7212 7213 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7214 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7215 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7216 7217 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7218 alias for vdso32=0. 7219 7220 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7221 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7222 7223 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7224 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7225 7226 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7227 Format: [0|1] 7228 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7229 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7230 level and then send out the event to user space through 7231 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7232 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7233 brightness level. 7234 default: 1 7235 7236 virtio_mmio.device= 7237 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7238 7239 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7240 where: 7241 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7242 like K, M and G) 7243 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7244 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7245 request_irq()) 7246 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7247 example: 7248 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7249 7250 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7251 7252 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7253 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7254 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7255 Use vga=ask for menu. 7256 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7257 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7258 7259 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7260 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7261 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7262 All options are enabled by default, and this 7263 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7264 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7265 debugging features. 7266 7267 Available options are: 7268 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7269 - Disable all of the above options 7270 7271 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7272 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7273 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7274 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7275 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7276 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7277 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7278 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7279 7280 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7281 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7282 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7283 7284 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7285 Format: <command> 7286 7287 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7288 Format: <command> 7289 7290 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7291 Format: <command> 7292 7293 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7294 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7295 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7296 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7297 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7298 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7299 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7300 7301 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7302 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7303 readable. 7304 7305 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7306 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7307 page is not readable. 7308 7309 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7310 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7311 might break your system. 7312 7313 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7314 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7315 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7316 7317 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7318 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7319 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7320 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7321 7322 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7323 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7324 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7325 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7326 ranging from 0-255. 7327 7328 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7329 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7330 Change the default green palette of the console. 7331 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7332 ranging from 0-255. 7333 7334 vt.default_red= [VT] 7335 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7336 Change the default red palette of the console. 7337 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7338 ranging from 0-255. 7339 7340 vt.default_utf8= 7341 [VT] 7342 Format=<0|1> 7343 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7344 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7345 newly opened terminals. 7346 7347 vt.global_cursor_default= 7348 [VT] 7349 Format=<-1|0|1> 7350 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7351 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7352 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7353 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7354 cursors, 1 will display them. 7355 7356 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7357 Default: 2 = green. 7358 7359 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7360 Default: 3 = cyan. 7361 7362 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7363 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7364 or other driver-specific files in the 7365 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7366 7367 watchdog_thresh= 7368 [KNL] 7369 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7370 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7371 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7372 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7373 seconds. 7374 7375 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7376 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7377 to use in unbound workqueues. 7378 Format: <cpu-list> 7379 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7380 unbound workqueues. 7381 7382 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7383 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7384 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7385 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7386 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7387 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7388 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7389 corresponding sysfs file. 7390 7391 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 7392 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 7393 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 7394 stall to trigger panic. 7395 7396 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 7397 7398 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7399 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7400 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7401 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7402 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7403 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7404 7405 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7406 will report the work functions which violate this 7407 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7408 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7409 7410 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7411 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7412 will report the work functions which violate the 7413 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7414 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7415 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7416 7417 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7418 7419 workqueue.power_efficient 7420 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7421 they show better performance thanks to cache 7422 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7423 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7424 7425 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7426 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7427 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7428 power usage at the cost of small performance 7429 overhead. 7430 7431 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7432 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7433 7434 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7435 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7436 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7437 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7438 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7439 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7440 7441 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7442 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7443 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7444 updated accordingly. 7445 7446 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7447 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7448 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7449 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7450 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7451 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7452 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7453 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7454 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7455 impacted. 7456 7457 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7458 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7459 7460 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7461 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7462 7463 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7464 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7465 supporting x2apic. 7466 7467 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7468 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7469 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7470 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7471 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7472 domains. 7473 7474 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7475 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7476 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7477 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7478 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7479 nics -- unplug network devices 7480 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7481 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7482 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7483 the unplug protocol 7484 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7485 7486 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7487 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7488 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7489 7490 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7491 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 7492 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 7493 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 7494 debug data in case of multicall errors. 7495 7496 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7497 Format: <bool> 7498 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7499 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7500 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7501 7502 xen_nopv [X86] 7503 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7504 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7505 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7506 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7507 7508 xen_no_vector_callback 7509 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7510 event channel interrupts. 7511 7512 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7513 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7514 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7515 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7516 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7517 7518 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7519 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7520 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7521 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7522 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7523 more timer interrupts. 7524 7525 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7526 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7527 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7528 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7529 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7530 max. Default is 180. 7531 7532 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7533 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7534 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7535 7536 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7537 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7538 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7539 7540 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7541 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7542 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7543 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7544 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7545 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7546 7547 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7548 Format: 7549 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7550 7551 xive= [PPC] 7552 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7553 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7554 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7555 7556 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7557 controller on both pseries and powernv 7558 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7559 7560 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7561 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7562 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7563 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7564 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7565 7566 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7567 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7568 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7569 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7570 7571 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 7572 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7573 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7574 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7575 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7576 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7577 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7578 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7579 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7580 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7581 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7582 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7583 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7584 can be written using xmon commands. 7585 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7586 memory, and other data can't be written using 7587 xmon commands. 7588 off xmon is disabled. 7589