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