1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or 25 "acpi=force" are available 26 27 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 28 29 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 30 Format: <int> 31 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 32 1,0: use 1st APIC table 33 default: 0 34 35 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 36 { vendor | video | native | none } 37 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 38 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 39 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 40 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 41 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 42 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 43 44 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 45 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 46 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 47 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 48 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 49 50 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 51 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 52 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 53 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 54 This option is useful for developers to identify the 55 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 56 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 57 58 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 59 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 60 Format: <int> 61 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 62 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 63 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 64 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 65 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 66 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 67 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 68 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 69 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 70 debug layers and levels. 71 72 Enable processor driver info messages: 73 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 74 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 75 object while interpreting AML: 76 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 77 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 78 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 79 80 Some values produce so much output that the system is 81 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 82 if you need to capture more output. 83 84 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 85 { strict | lax | no } 86 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 87 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 88 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 89 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 90 can interfere with legacy drivers. 91 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 92 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 93 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 94 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 95 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 96 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 97 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 98 no further checks are performed. 99 100 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 101 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 102 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 103 size limitation. 104 105 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 106 ACPI will balance active IRQs 107 default in APIC mode 108 109 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 111 default in PIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 114 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 115 116 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 117 use by PCI 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 121 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 122 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 123 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 124 the GPE dispatcher. 125 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 126 GPE floodings. 127 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 128 129 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 131 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 132 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 133 auto-serialization feature. 134 This feature is enabled by default. 135 This option allows to turn off the feature. 136 137 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 138 kernels. 139 140 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 141 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 142 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 143 installed automatically and they will appear under 144 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 145 This option turns off this feature. 146 Note that specifying this option does not affect 147 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 148 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 149 150 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 151 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 152 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 153 154 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 155 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 156 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 157 second kernel for kdump. 158 159 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 160 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 161 162 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 163 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 164 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 165 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 166 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 167 168 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 169 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 170 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 171 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 172 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 173 strings 174 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 175 strings 176 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 177 178 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 179 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 180 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 181 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 182 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 183 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 184 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 185 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 186 care about the state of the feature group strings which 187 should be controlled by the OSPM. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 190 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 191 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 192 193 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 194 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 195 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 196 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 197 multiple times through kernel command line is also 198 meaningless. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 201 FALSE. 202 203 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 204 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 205 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 206 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 207 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 208 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 209 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 210 there are quirks related to this string. This command 211 is useful when one want to control the state of the 212 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 213 the OSPM features. 214 Examples: 215 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 216 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 217 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 218 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 219 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 220 equivalent to 221 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 222 and 223 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 224 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 225 226 acpi_pm_good [X86] 227 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 228 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 229 and always returns good values. 230 231 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 232 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 233 234 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 235 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 236 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 237 238 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 239 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 240 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 241 sci_force_enable, nobl } 242 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 243 s3_bios and s3_mode. 244 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 245 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 246 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 247 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 248 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 249 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 250 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 251 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 252 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 253 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 254 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 255 used (or even warned about) during resume. 256 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 257 control method, with respect to putting devices into 258 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 259 of _PTS is used by default). 260 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 261 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 262 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 263 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 264 but some broken systems don't work without it). 265 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 266 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 267 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 268 269 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 270 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 271 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 272 273 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 274 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 275 276 agp= [AGP] 277 { off | try_unsupported } 278 off: disable AGP support 279 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 280 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 281 282 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 283 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 284 285 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 286 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 287 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 288 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 289 290 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 291 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 292 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 293 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 294 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 295 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 296 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 297 298 32: only for 32-bit processes 299 64: only for 64-bit processes 300 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 301 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 302 303 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 304 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 305 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 306 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 307 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 308 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 309 310 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 311 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 312 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 313 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 314 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 315 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 316 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 317 318 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 319 information. 320 321 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 322 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 323 Possible values are: 324 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 325 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 326 the system 327 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 328 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 329 allowed anymore to lift isolation 330 requirements as needed. This option 331 does not override iommu=pt 332 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 333 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 334 option with care. 335 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 336 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 337 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 338 339 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 340 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 341 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 342 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 343 IOMMU initialization. 344 345 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 346 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 347 remapping modes: 348 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 349 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 350 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 351 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 352 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 353 354 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 355 disable 356 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 357 scaling driver for the supported processors 358 passive 359 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 360 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 361 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 362 tries to match the same performance level if it is 363 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 364 active 365 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 366 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 367 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 368 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 369 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 370 frequency. 371 guided 372 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 373 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 374 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 375 to the current workload. 376 377 amd_prefcore= 378 [X86] 379 disable 380 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 381 382 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 383 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 384 Format: <a>,<b> 385 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 386 387 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 388 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 389 connected to one of 16 gameports 390 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 391 392 apc= [HW,SPARC] 393 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 394 Format: noidle 395 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 396 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 397 APC and your system crashes randomly. 398 399 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 400 Change the output verbosity while booting 401 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 402 Change the amount of debugging information output 403 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 404 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 405 driver name. 406 Format: apic=driver_name 407 Examples: apic=bigsmp 408 409 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 410 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 411 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 412 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 413 backup of CPU 0 414 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 415 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 416 shot down by NMI 417 418 autoconf= [IPV6] 419 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 420 421 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 422 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 423 424 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 425 Format: { "0" | "1" } 426 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 427 0 -- disable. 428 1 -- enable. 429 Default value is set via kernel config option. 430 431 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 432 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 433 434 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 435 32 bit applications. 436 437 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 438 Identification support 439 440 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 441 Set instructions support 442 443 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 444 support 445 446 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 447 support 448 449 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 450 Extension support 451 452 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 453 Extension support 454 455 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 456 457 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 458 459 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 460 EzKey and similar keyboards 461 462 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 463 464 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 465 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 466 467 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 468 keyboards 469 470 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 471 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 472 473 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 474 Use software keyboard repeat 475 476 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 477 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 478 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 479 enabled until the next reboot 480 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 481 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 482 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 483 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 484 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 485 userspace auditd. 486 Default: unset 487 488 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 489 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 490 Default: 64 491 492 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 493 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 494 Format: { "0" | "1" } 495 0 - Disable the BAU. 496 1 - Enable the BAU. 497 unset - Disable the BAU. 498 499 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 500 Format: <io>,<mode> 501 502 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 503 Format: <io>,<mode> 504 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 505 506 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 507 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 508 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 509 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 510 511 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 512 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 513 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 514 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 515 516 bert_disable [ACPI] 517 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 518 519 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 520 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 521 522 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 523 embedded devices based on command line input. 524 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 525 526 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 527 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 528 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 529 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 530 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 531 erroneous and ignored. 532 Format: integer 533 534 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 535 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 536 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 537 538 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 539 540 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 541 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 542 kernel args too. 543 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 544 bttv.tuner= 545 546 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 547 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 548 at a time. 549 550 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 551 552 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 553 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 554 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 555 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 556 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 557 This option provides an override for these situations. 558 559 carrier_timeout= 560 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 561 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 562 it waits 120 seconds. 563 564 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 565 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 566 trust validation. 567 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 568 569 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 570 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 571 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 572 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 573 others). 574 575 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 576 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 577 578 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 579 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 580 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 581 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 582 a single hierarchy 583 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 584 subsystem 585 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 586 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 587 created 588 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 589 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 590 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 591 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 592 stall information accounting feature 593 594 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 595 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 596 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 597 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 598 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 599 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 600 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 601 all v1 hierarchies. 602 603 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 604 Format: { "true" | "false" } 605 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 606 607 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 608 Format: <string> 609 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 610 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 611 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 612 613 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 614 Format: { "0" | "1" } 615 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 616 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 617 any implied execute protection). 618 1 -- check protection requested by application. 619 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 620 Value can be changed at runtime via 621 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 622 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 623 624 cio_ignore= [S390] 625 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 626 627 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 628 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 629 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 630 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 631 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 632 ones should be. 633 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 634 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 635 instability issue. However, not all features have names 636 in /proc/cpuinfo. 637 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 638 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 639 or using the feature without checking anything 640 will still see it. This just prevents it from 641 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 642 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 643 some critical bits. 644 645 clk_ignore_unused 646 [CLK] 647 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 648 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 649 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 650 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 651 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 652 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 653 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 654 platform with proper driver support. For more 655 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 656 657 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 658 [Deprecated] 659 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 660 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 661 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 662 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 663 664 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 665 Format: <string> 666 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 667 with the name specified. 668 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 669 the platform: 670 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 671 [ACPI] acpi_pm 672 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 673 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 674 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 675 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 676 [MIPS] MIPS 677 [PARISC] cr16 678 [S390] tod 679 [SH] SuperH 680 [SPARC64] tick 681 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 682 683 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 684 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 685 Format: <bool> 686 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 687 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 688 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 689 systems. 690 691 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 692 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 693 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 694 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 695 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 696 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 697 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 698 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 699 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 700 701 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 702 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 703 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 704 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 705 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 706 707 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 708 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 709 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 710 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 711 placement constraint by the physical address range of 712 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 713 altogether. For more information, see 714 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 715 716 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 717 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 718 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 719 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 720 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 721 specified, the default value is 0. 722 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 723 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 724 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 725 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 726 727 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 728 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 729 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 730 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 731 area for the specified node. 732 733 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 734 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 735 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 736 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 737 738 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 739 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 740 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 741 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 742 a hypervisor. 743 Default: yes 744 745 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 746 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 747 allocations, by default set to 256K. 748 749 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 750 Format: 751 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 752 753 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 754 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 755 756 com90xx= [HW,NET] 757 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 758 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 759 760 condev= [HW,S390] console device 761 conmode= 762 763 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 764 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 765 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 766 the console buffer is full. In this case the 767 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 768 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 769 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 770 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 771 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 772 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 773 774 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 775 776 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 777 778 ttyS<n>[,options] 779 ttyUSB0[,options] 780 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 781 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 782 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 783 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 784 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 785 786 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 787 information. See 788 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 789 alternative. 790 791 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 792 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 793 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 794 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 795 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 796 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 797 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 798 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 799 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 800 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 801 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 802 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 803 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 804 the h/w is not re-initialized. 805 806 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 807 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 808 809 { null | "" } 810 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 811 console messages discarded. 812 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 813 kernel command line. 814 815 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 816 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 817 console=brl,ttyS0 818 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 819 820 console_msg_format= 821 [KNL] Change console messages format 822 default 823 By default we print messages on consoles in 824 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 825 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 826 `printk_time' param). 827 syslog 828 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 829 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 830 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 831 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 832 from /proc/kmsg. 833 834 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 835 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 836 Defaults to 0. 837 838 coredump_filter= 839 [KNL] Change the default value for 840 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 841 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 842 843 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 844 [ARM,ARM64] 845 Format: <bool> 846 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 847 0: default value, disable debugging 848 1: enable debugging at boot time 849 850 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 851 Format: 852 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 853 854 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 855 disable the cpuidle sub-system 856 857 cpuidle.governor= 858 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 859 860 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 861 disable the cpufreq sub-system 862 863 cpufreq.default_governor= 864 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 865 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 866 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 867 868 cpu_init_udelay=N 869 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 870 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 871 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 872 Default: 10000 873 874 cpuhp.parallel= 875 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 876 Format: <bool> 877 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 878 the parameter has no effect. 879 880 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 881 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 882 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 883 succeeds in any situation. 884 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 885 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 886 kernel more unstable. 887 888 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 889 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 890 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 891 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 892 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 893 is selected automatically. 894 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 895 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 896 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 897 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 898 899 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 900 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 901 in the running system. The syntax of range is 902 start-[end] where start and end are both 903 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 904 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 905 906 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 907 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 908 above 4G. 909 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 910 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 911 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 912 below 4G, if available. 913 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 914 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 915 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 916 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 917 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 918 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 919 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 920 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 921 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 922 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 923 size is platform dependent. 924 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 925 --> arm64: 128MiB 926 --> riscv: 128MiB 927 --> loongarch: 128MiB 928 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 929 for second kernel instead. 930 0: to disable low allocation. 931 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 932 or memory reserved is below 4G. 933 934 cryptomgr.notests 935 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 936 937 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 938 Format: <dma> 939 940 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 941 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 942 943 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 944 function call handling. When switched on, 945 additional debug data is printed to the console 946 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 947 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 948 the hang situation. The default value of this 949 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 950 Kconfig option. 951 952 dasd= [HW,NET] 953 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 954 955 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 956 (one device per port) 957 Format: <port#>,<type> 958 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 959 960 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 961 962 debug_boot_weak_hash 963 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 964 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 965 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 966 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 967 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 968 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 969 970 debug_locks_verbose= 971 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 972 Format: <int> 973 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 974 self-tests. 975 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 976 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 977 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 978 useful to lockdep developers. 979 980 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 981 982 debug_guardpage_minorder= 983 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 984 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 985 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 986 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 987 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 988 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 989 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 990 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 991 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 992 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 993 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 994 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 995 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 996 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 997 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 998 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 999 help tracking down these problems. 1000 1001 debug_pagealloc= 1002 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1003 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1004 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1005 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1006 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1007 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1008 on: enable the feature 1009 1010 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1011 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1012 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1013 on: All functions are enabled. 1014 no-mount: 1015 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1016 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1017 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1018 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1019 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1020 or directories within debugfs. 1021 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1022 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1023 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1024 1025 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1026 1027 default_hugepagesz= 1028 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1029 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1030 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1031 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1032 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1033 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1034 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1035 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1036 Format: size[KMG] 1037 1038 deferred_probe_timeout= 1039 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1040 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1041 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1042 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1043 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1044 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1045 successful driver registration. This option will also 1046 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1047 retrying. 1048 1049 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1050 1051 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1052 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1053 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1054 hardware. 1055 1056 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1057 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1058 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1059 blacklisted features. 1060 1061 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1062 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1063 (disabled by default). 1064 1065 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1066 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1067 capability is set. 1068 1069 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1070 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1071 1072 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1073 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1074 1075 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1076 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1077 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1078 level 1 and decompression (default) 1079 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1080 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1081 only (compression on level 1) 1082 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1083 only (decompression) 1084 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1085 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1086 1087 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1088 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1089 1090 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1091 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1092 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1093 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1094 miss to occur. 1095 1096 disable= [IPV6] 1097 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1098 1099 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1100 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1101 1102 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1103 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1104 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1105 1106 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1107 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1108 to workaround buggy firmware. 1109 1110 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1111 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1112 1113 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1114 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1115 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1116 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1117 1118 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1119 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1120 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1121 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1122 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1123 1124 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1125 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1126 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1127 1128 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1129 1130 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1131 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1132 1133 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1134 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1135 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1136 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1137 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1138 architectural default is too low. 1139 1140 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1141 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1142 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1143 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1144 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1145 driver later using sysfs. 1146 1147 reg_file_data_sampling= 1148 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1149 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1150 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1151 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1152 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1153 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1154 1155 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1156 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1157 1158 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1159 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1160 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1161 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1162 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1163 1164 For details see: 1165 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1166 1167 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1168 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1169 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1170 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1171 match the *. 1172 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1173 1174 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1175 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1176 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1177 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1178 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1179 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1180 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1181 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1182 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1183 data set with no connector name will be used for 1184 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1185 1186 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1187 1188 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1189 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1190 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1191 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1192 exists). 1193 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1194 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1195 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1196 1197 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1198 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1199 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1200 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1201 1202 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1203 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1204 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1205 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1206 for details. 1207 1208 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1209 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1210 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1211 which are not unmapped. 1212 1213 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1214 1215 When used with no options, the early console is 1216 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1217 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1218 the platform. 1219 1220 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1221 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1222 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1223 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1224 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1225 configured. 1226 1227 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1228 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1229 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1230 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1231 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1232 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1233 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1234 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1235 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1236 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1237 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1238 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1239 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1240 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1241 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1242 1243 pl011,<addr> 1244 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1245 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1246 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1247 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1248 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1249 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1250 the device registers. 1251 1252 liteuart,<addr> 1253 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1254 specified address. The serial port must already be 1255 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1256 1257 meson,<addr> 1258 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1259 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1260 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1261 supported. 1262 1263 msm_serial,<addr> 1264 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1265 port at the specified address. The serial port 1266 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1267 yet supported. 1268 1269 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1270 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1271 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1272 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1273 yet supported. 1274 1275 owl,<addr> 1276 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1277 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1278 specified address. The serial port must already be 1279 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1280 1281 rda,<addr> 1282 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1283 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1284 specified address. The serial port must already be 1285 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1286 1287 sbi 1288 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1289 console. 1290 1291 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1292 1293 s3c2410,<addr> 1294 s3c2412,<addr> 1295 s3c2440,<addr> 1296 s3c6400,<addr> 1297 s5pv210,<addr> 1298 exynos4210,<addr> 1299 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1300 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1301 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1302 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1303 Options are not yet supported. 1304 1305 lantiq,<addr> 1306 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1307 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1308 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1309 yet supported. 1310 1311 lpuart,<addr> 1312 lpuart32,<addr> 1313 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1314 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1315 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1316 port must already be setup and configured. 1317 1318 ec_imx21,<addr> 1319 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1320 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1321 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1322 must already be setup and configured. 1323 1324 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1325 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1326 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1327 address. The serial port must already be setup 1328 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1329 1330 qcom_geni,<addr> 1331 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1332 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1333 specified address. The serial port must already be 1334 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1335 1336 efifb,[options] 1337 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1338 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1339 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1340 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1341 mapped with the correct attributes. 1342 1343 linflex,<addr> 1344 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1345 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1346 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1347 already be setup and configured. 1348 1349 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1350 earlyprintk=vga 1351 earlyprintk=sclp 1352 earlyprintk=xen 1353 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1354 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1355 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1356 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1357 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1358 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1359 earlyprintk=bios 1360 1361 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1362 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1363 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1364 1365 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1366 takes over. 1367 1368 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1369 be used at a time. 1370 1371 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1372 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1373 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1374 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1375 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1376 You can find the port for a given device in 1377 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1378 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1379 1380 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1381 very good. 1382 1383 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1384 the real console. 1385 1386 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1387 1388 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1389 1390 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1391 1392 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1393 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1394 UART class. 1395 1396 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1397 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1398 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1399 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1400 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1401 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1402 default: on. 1403 1404 edd= [EDD] 1405 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1406 1407 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1408 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1409 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1410 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1411 debug: enable misc debug output. 1412 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1413 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1414 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1415 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1416 firmware implementations. 1417 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1418 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1419 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1420 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1421 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1422 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1423 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1424 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1425 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1426 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1427 1428 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1429 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1430 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1431 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1432 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1433 1434 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1435 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1436 updating original EFI memory map. 1437 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1438 from ss to ss+nn. 1439 1440 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1441 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1442 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1443 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1444 1445 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1446 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1447 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1448 1449 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1450 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1451 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1452 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1453 "soft reserved". 1454 1455 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1456 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1457 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1458 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1459 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1460 1461 1462 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1463 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1464 1465 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1466 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1467 1468 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1469 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1470 1471 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1472 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1473 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1474 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1475 1476 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1477 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1478 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1479 1480 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1481 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1482 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1483 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1484 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1485 1486 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1487 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1488 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1489 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1490 1491 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1492 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1493 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1494 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1495 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1496 1497 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1498 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1499 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1500 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1501 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1502 Default value is 0. 1503 Value can be changed at runtime via 1504 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1505 1506 erst_disable [ACPI] 1507 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1508 support. 1509 1510 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1511 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1512 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1513 1514 evm= [EVM] 1515 Format: { "fix" } 1516 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1517 current integrity status. 1518 1519 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1520 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1521 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1522 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1523 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1524 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1525 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1526 1527 failslab= 1528 fail_usercopy= 1529 fail_page_alloc= 1530 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1531 General fault injection mechanism. 1532 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1533 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1534 1535 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1536 Format: { initns | none } 1537 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1538 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1539 1540 floppy= [HW] 1541 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1542 1543 forcepae [X86-32] 1544 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1545 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1546 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1547 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1548 and may cause unknown problems. 1549 1550 fred= [X86-64] 1551 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1552 Format: { on | off } 1553 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1554 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1555 1556 ftrace=[tracer] 1557 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1558 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1559 boot debugging. 1560 1561 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1562 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1563 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1564 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1565 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1566 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1567 start up functionality. 1568 1569 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1570 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1571 line parameter. 1572 1573 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1574 1575 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1576 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1577 1578 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1579 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1580 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1581 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1582 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1583 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1584 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1585 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1586 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1587 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1588 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1589 1590 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1591 1592 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1593 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1594 1595 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1596 1597 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1598 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1599 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1600 1601 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1602 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1603 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1604 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1605 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1606 tracing directory. 1607 1608 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1609 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1610 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1611 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1612 tracing directory. 1613 1614 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1615 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1616 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1617 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1618 that can be changed at run time by the 1619 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1620 1621 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1622 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1623 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1624 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1625 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1626 1627 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1628 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1629 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1630 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1631 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1632 1633 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1634 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1635 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1636 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1637 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1638 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1639 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1640 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1641 suppliers). 1642 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1643 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1644 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1645 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1646 up (sync_state() calls). 1647 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1648 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1649 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1650 1651 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1652 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1653 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1654 Format: <bool> 1655 1656 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1657 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1658 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1659 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1660 calls. 1661 Format: { strict | timeout } 1662 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1663 probe successfully. 1664 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1665 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1666 received their sync_state() calls after 1667 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1668 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1669 1670 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1671 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1672 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1673 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1674 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1675 1676 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1677 1678 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1679 Format: off | on 1680 default: on 1681 1682 gather_data_sampling= 1683 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1684 mitigation. 1685 1686 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1687 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1688 previously stored in vector registers. 1689 1690 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1691 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1692 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1693 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1694 1695 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1696 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1697 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1698 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1699 1700 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1701 1702 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1703 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1704 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1705 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1706 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1707 1708 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1709 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1710 android emulator 1711 1712 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1713 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1714 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1715 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1716 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1717 1718 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1719 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1720 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1721 GPT to be used instead. 1722 1723 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1724 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1725 Format: 0 | 1 1726 Default: 0 1727 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1728 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1729 Format: 0 | 1 1730 Default: 0 1731 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1732 Format: 0 | 1 1733 Default: 0 1734 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1735 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1736 Default: 1024 1737 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1738 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1739 Default: 1024 1740 1741 hardened_usercopy= 1742 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1743 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1744 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1745 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1746 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1747 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1748 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1749 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1750 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1751 1752 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1753 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1754 backtraces on all cpus. 1755 Format: 0 | 1 1756 1757 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1758 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1759 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1760 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1761 1762 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1763 1764 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1765 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1766 1767 hest_disable [ACPI] 1768 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1769 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1770 logic will be disabled. 1771 1772 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1773 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1774 present during boot. 1775 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1776 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1777 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1778 (that will set all pages holding image data 1779 during restoration read-only). 1780 1781 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1782 used with hibernation. 1783 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1784 Default: lzo 1785 1786 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1787 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1788 1789 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1790 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1791 1792 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1793 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1794 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1795 size on bigger boxes. 1796 1797 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1798 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1799 Default: "on" 1800 1801 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1802 1803 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1804 Format: <string> 1805 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1806 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1807 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1808 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1809 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1810 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1811 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1812 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1813 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1814 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1815 1816 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1817 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1818 verbose } 1819 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1820 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1821 VIA, nVidia) 1822 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1823 1824 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1825 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1826 1827 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1828 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1829 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1830 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1831 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1832 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1833 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1834 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1835 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1836 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1837 1838 hugepagesz= 1839 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1840 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1841 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1842 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1843 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1844 architecture dependent. See also 1845 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1846 Format: size[KMG] 1847 1848 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1849 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1850 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1851 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1852 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1853 1854 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1855 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1856 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1857 1858 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1859 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1860 enabled. 1861 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1862 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1863 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1864 Format: { on | off (default) } 1865 1866 on: enable HVO 1867 off: disable HVO 1868 1869 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1870 the default is on. 1871 1872 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1873 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1874 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1875 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1876 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1877 1878 hung_task_panic= 1879 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1880 Format: 0 | 1 1881 1882 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1883 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1884 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1885 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1886 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1887 1888 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1889 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1890 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1891 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1892 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1893 1894 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1895 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1896 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1897 on lock contention. 1898 1899 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1900 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1901 registered from board initialization code. 1902 Format: 1903 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1904 1905 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1906 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1907 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1908 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1909 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1910 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1911 1912 Format: 1913 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1914 Where <val> is one of: 1915 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1916 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1917 Anything else Set a string device-property 1918 1919 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1920 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1921 touchscreen-inverted-y 1922 1923 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1924 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1925 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1926 1927 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1928 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1929 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1930 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1931 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1932 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1933 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1934 keyboard and cannot control its state 1935 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1936 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1937 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1938 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1939 for the AUX port 1940 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1941 controller 1942 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1943 controllers 1944 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1945 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1946 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1947 transitions, or never reset 1948 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1949 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1950 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1951 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1952 architectures force reset to be always executed 1953 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1954 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1955 i8042.probe_defer 1956 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1957 1958 i810= [HW,DRM] 1959 1960 i915.invert_brightness= 1961 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1962 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1963 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1964 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1965 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1966 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1967 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1968 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1969 value switches the backlight off. 1970 -1 -- never invert brightness 1971 0 -- machine default 1972 1 -- force brightness inversion 1973 1974 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1975 Format: <bool> 1976 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1977 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1978 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1979 1980 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1981 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1982 1983 1984 idle= [X86,EARLY] 1985 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1986 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1987 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1988 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1989 Not recommended. 1990 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1991 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1992 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1993 1994 idxd.sva= [HW] 1995 Format: <bool> 1996 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1997 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1998 true (1). 1999 2000 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2001 Format: <bool> 2002 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2003 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2004 2005 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2006 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 2007 Default: strict 2008 2009 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2010 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2011 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2012 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2013 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2014 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2015 encoding mode. 2016 2017 Available settings are as follows: 2018 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2019 supported by the FPU 2020 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2021 by the FPU 2022 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2023 by the FPU 2024 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2025 supported by the FPU 2026 2027 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2028 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2029 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2030 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2031 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2032 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2033 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2034 MIPS64 CPUs. 2035 2036 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2037 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2038 except where unsupported by hardware. 2039 2040 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2041 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2042 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2043 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2044 could change it dynamically, usually by 2045 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2046 2047 ignore_rlimit_data 2048 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2049 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2050 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2051 2052 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2053 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2054 2055 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2056 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2057 default: "enforce" 2058 2059 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2060 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2061 owned by uid=0. 2062 2063 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2064 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2065 measurements, instead of host native format. 2066 2067 ima_hash= [IMA] 2068 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2069 | sha512 | ... } 2070 default: "sha1" 2071 2072 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2073 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2074 2075 ima_policy= [IMA] 2076 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2077 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2078 fail_securely | critical_data" 2079 2080 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2081 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2082 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2083 uid=0. 2084 2085 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2086 all files owned by root. 2087 2088 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2089 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2090 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2091 2092 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2093 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2094 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2095 flag. 2096 2097 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2098 critical data. 2099 2100 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2101 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2102 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2103 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2104 opened for read by uid=0. 2105 2106 ima_template= [IMA] 2107 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2108 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2109 "ima-sigv2" } 2110 Default: "ima-ng" 2111 2112 ima_template_fmt= 2113 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2114 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2115 2116 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2117 Format: <min_file_size> 2118 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2119 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2120 2121 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2122 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2123 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2124 2125 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2126 Format: <bufsize> 2127 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2128 2129 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2130 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2131 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2132 2133 init= [KNL] 2134 Format: <full_path> 2135 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2136 process. 2137 2138 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2139 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2140 startup. 2141 2142 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2143 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2144 modules and initcalls. 2145 2146 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2147 Format: <bool> 2148 Default: 1 2149 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2150 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2151 with devices being probed and 2152 initialized. This should normally just work, 2153 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2154 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2155 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2156 late_ initcalls. 2157 2158 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2159 2160 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2161 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2162 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2163 setting. 2164 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2165 Default is 0, 0 2166 2167 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2168 zeroes. 2169 Format: 0 | 1 2170 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2171 2172 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2173 Format: 0 | 1 2174 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2175 2176 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2177 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2178 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2179 override in debugfs after boot. 2180 2181 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2182 Format: <irq> 2183 2184 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2185 2186 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2187 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2188 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2189 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2190 2191 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2192 on 2193 Enable intel iommu driver. 2194 off 2195 Disable intel iommu driver. 2196 igfx_off [Default Off] 2197 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2198 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2199 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2200 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2201 DMA. 2202 strict [Default Off] 2203 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2204 sp_off [Default Off] 2205 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2206 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2207 not be supported. 2208 sm_on 2209 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2210 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2211 translation. 2212 sm_off 2213 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2214 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2215 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2216 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2217 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2218 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2219 mapping is enabled. 2220 Note that using this option lowers the security 2221 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2222 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2223 2224 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2225 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2226 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2227 2228 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2229 disable 2230 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2231 scaling driver for the supported processors 2232 active 2233 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2234 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2235 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2236 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2237 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2238 performance. The way they both operate depends 2239 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2240 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2241 and possibly on the processor model. 2242 passive 2243 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2244 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2245 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2246 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2247 feature. 2248 force 2249 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2250 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2251 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2252 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2253 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2254 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2255 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2256 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2257 no_hwp 2258 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2259 if available. 2260 hwp_only 2261 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2262 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2263 support_acpi_ppc 2264 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2265 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2266 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2267 then this feature is turned on by default. 2268 per_cpu_perf_limits 2269 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2270 cpufreq sysfs interface 2271 2272 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2273 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2274 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2275 nosid disable Source ID checking 2276 no_x2apic_optout 2277 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2278 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2279 posted_msi 2280 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2281 2282 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2283 strict regions from userspace. 2284 relaxed 2285 2286 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2287 off 2288 force 2289 noforce 2290 biomerge 2291 panic 2292 nopanic 2293 merge 2294 nomerge 2295 soft 2296 pt [X86] 2297 nopt [X86] 2298 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2299 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2300 2301 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2302 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2303 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2304 falling back to the full range if needed. 2305 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2306 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2307 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2308 2309 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2310 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2311 0 - Lazy mode. 2312 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2313 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2314 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2315 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2316 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2317 1 - Strict mode. 2318 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2319 synchronously. 2320 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2321 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2322 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2323 2324 iommu.passthrough= 2325 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2326 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2327 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2328 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2329 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2330 2331 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2332 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2333 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2334 2335 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2336 0x80 2337 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2338 0xed 2339 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2340 udelay 2341 Simple two microseconds delay 2342 none 2343 No delay 2344 2345 ip= [IP_PNP] 2346 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2347 2348 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2349 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2350 2351 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2352 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2353 2354 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2355 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2356 Format: <bool> 2357 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2358 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2359 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2360 2361 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2362 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2363 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2364 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2365 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2366 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2367 LPIs. 2368 2369 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2370 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2371 requires the kernel to be built with 2372 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2373 2374 irqfixup [HW] 2375 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2376 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2377 firmware running. 2378 2379 irqpoll [HW] 2380 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2381 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2382 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2383 firmware running. 2384 2385 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2386 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2387 2388 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2389 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2390 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2391 2392 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2393 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2394 2395 nohz 2396 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2397 2398 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2399 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2400 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2401 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2402 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2403 2404 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2405 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2406 be configured manually after bootup. 2407 2408 domain 2409 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2410 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2411 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2412 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2413 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2414 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2415 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2416 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2417 2418 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2419 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2420 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2421 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2422 2423 managed_irq 2424 2425 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2426 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2427 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2428 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2429 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2430 2431 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2432 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2433 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2434 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2435 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2436 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2437 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2438 2439 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2440 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2441 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2442 only delivered when tasks running on those 2443 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2444 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2445 queues. 2446 2447 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2448 2449 iucv= [HW,NET] 2450 2451 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2452 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2453 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2454 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2455 2456 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2457 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2458 write the parameter as: 2459 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2460 2461 Deprecated formats: 2462 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2463 write the parameter as: 2464 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2465 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2466 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2467 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2468 2469 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2470 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2471 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2472 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2473 2474 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2475 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2476 write the parameter as: 2477 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2478 2479 Deprecated formats: 2480 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2481 write the parameter as: 2482 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2483 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2484 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2485 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2486 2487 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2488 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2489 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2490 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2491 2492 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2493 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2494 write the parameter as: 2495 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2496 2497 Deprecated formats: 2498 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2499 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2500 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2501 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2502 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2503 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2504 2505 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2506 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2507 2508 kasan_multi_shot 2509 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2510 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2511 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2512 invalid access. 2513 2514 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2515 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2516 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2517 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2518 the real console. 2519 2520 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2521 2522 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY] 2523 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2524 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2525 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2526 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2527 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2528 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2529 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2530 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2531 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2532 2533 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2534 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2535 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2536 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2537 zone if it does not. 2538 2539 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2540 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2541 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2542 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2543 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2544 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2545 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2546 2547 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2548 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2549 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2550 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2551 optional and is the number seconds in between 2552 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2553 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2554 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2555 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2556 the kernel debugger. 2557 2558 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2559 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2560 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2561 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2562 keyboard only format: kbd 2563 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2564 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2565 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2566 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2567 2568 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2569 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2570 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2571 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2572 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2573 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2574 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2575 2576 The name of the early console should be specified 2577 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2578 the early console might be different than the tty 2579 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2580 blank and the first boot console that implements 2581 read() will be picked. 2582 2583 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2584 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2585 2586 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2587 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2588 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2589 2590 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2591 Valid arguments: on, off 2592 Default: on 2593 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2594 the default is off. 2595 2596 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2597 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2598 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2599 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2600 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2601 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2602 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2603 2604 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2605 2606 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2607 Boot Parameter" section. 2608 2609 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2610 user and kernel address spaces. 2611 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2612 0: force disabled 2613 1: force enabled 2614 2615 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2616 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2617 default value can be overridden via 2618 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2619 Default is 1 (enabled) 2620 2621 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2622 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2623 2624 kvm.eager_page_split= 2625 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2626 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2627 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2628 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2629 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2630 required to split huge pages lazily. 2631 2632 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2633 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2634 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2635 still be used for reads. 2636 2637 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2638 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2639 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2640 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2641 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2642 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2643 cleared. 2644 2645 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2646 2647 Default is Y (on). 2648 2649 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2650 Default is false (don't support). 2651 2652 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2653 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2654 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2655 force : Always deploy workaround. 2656 off : Never deploy workaround. 2657 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2658 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2659 2660 Default is 'auto'. 2661 2662 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2663 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2664 2665 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2666 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2667 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2668 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2669 period (see below). The default is 60. 2670 2671 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2672 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2673 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2674 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2675 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2676 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2677 2678 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2679 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2680 2681 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2682 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2683 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2684 for NPT. 2685 2686 kvm-arm.mode= 2687 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2688 operation. 2689 2690 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2691 2692 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2693 protected guests. 2694 2695 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2696 state is kept private from the host. 2697 2698 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2699 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2700 hardware. 2701 2702 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2703 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2704 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2705 used with extreme caution. 2706 2707 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2708 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2709 system registers 2710 2711 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2712 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2713 system registers 2714 2715 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2716 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2717 system registers 2718 2719 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2720 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2721 injection of LPIs. 2722 2723 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2724 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2725 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2726 CPU architecture. 2727 2728 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2729 2730 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2731 2732 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2733 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2734 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2735 CPU architecture. 2736 2737 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2738 2739 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2740 2741 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2742 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2743 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2744 allocation. 2745 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2746 Format: <integer> 2747 Default: 5 2748 2749 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2750 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2751 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2752 for EPT. 2753 2754 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2755 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2756 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2757 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2758 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2759 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2760 Default is 1 (enabled). 2761 2762 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2763 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2764 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2765 hardware lacks support for it. 2766 2767 kvm-intel.nested= 2768 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2769 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2770 2771 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2772 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2773 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2774 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2775 hardware lacks support for it. 2776 2777 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2778 CVE-2018-3620. 2779 2780 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2781 2782 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2783 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2784 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2785 never: Disables the mitigation 2786 2787 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2788 2789 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2790 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2791 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2792 for it. 2793 2794 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2795 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2796 2797 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2798 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2799 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2800 2801 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2802 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2803 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2804 not have direct access. 2805 2806 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2807 options are: 2808 2809 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2810 2811 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2812 affected CPUs 2813 2814 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2815 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2816 2817 full 2818 Provides all available mitigations for the 2819 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2820 enables all mitigations in the 2821 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2822 2823 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2824 sysfs interface is still possible after 2825 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2826 when the first VM is started in a 2827 potentially insecure configuration, 2828 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2829 2830 full,force 2831 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2832 flush runtime control. Implies the 2833 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2834 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2835 2836 flush 2837 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2838 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2839 L1D flush. 2840 2841 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2842 sysfs interface is still possible after 2843 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2844 when the first VM is started in a 2845 potentially insecure configuration, 2846 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2847 2848 flush,nosmt 2849 2850 Disables SMT and enables the default 2851 hypervisor mitigation. 2852 2853 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2854 sysfs interface is still possible after 2855 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2856 when the first VM is started in a 2857 potentially insecure configuration, 2858 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2859 2860 flush,nowarn 2861 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2862 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2863 insecure configuration. 2864 2865 off 2866 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2867 emit any warnings. 2868 It also drops the swap size and available 2869 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2870 bare metal. 2871 2872 Default is 'flush'. 2873 2874 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2875 2876 l2cr= [PPC] 2877 2878 l3cr= [PPC] 2879 2880 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2881 disabled it. 2882 2883 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2884 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2885 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2886 Format: notscdeadline 2887 2888 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 2889 in C2 power state. 2890 2891 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2892 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2893 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2894 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2895 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2896 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2897 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2898 2899 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2900 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2901 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2902 2903 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2904 when set. 2905 Format: <int> 2906 2907 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2908 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2909 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2910 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2911 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2912 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2913 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2914 to all ports, links and devices. 2915 2916 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2917 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2918 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2919 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2920 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2921 host link and device attached to it. 2922 2923 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2924 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2925 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2926 The following configurations can be forced. 2927 2928 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2929 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2930 2931 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2932 2933 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2934 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2935 allowed. 2936 2937 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2938 resets. 2939 2940 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2941 link recovery. 2942 2943 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2944 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2945 detection. 2946 2947 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2948 2949 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2950 2951 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2952 2953 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2954 2955 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2956 2957 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2958 2959 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2960 2961 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2962 2963 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2964 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2965 2966 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2967 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2968 2969 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2970 identify device data log. 2971 2972 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2973 purpose log directory. 2974 2975 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2976 2977 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2978 1024 sectors. 2979 2980 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2981 65535 sectors. 2982 2983 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2984 2985 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2986 should be skipped. 2987 2988 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2989 support for devices supporting this feature. 2990 2991 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2992 2993 * disable: Disable this device. 2994 2995 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2996 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2997 2998 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2999 3000 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3001 Format: <integer> 3002 3003 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3004 Format: <integer> 3005 3006 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3007 Format: <integer> 3008 3009 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3010 Format: <integer> 3011 3012 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3013 { integrity | confidentiality } 3014 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3015 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3016 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3017 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3018 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3019 are also disabled. 3020 3021 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3022 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3023 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3024 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3025 3026 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3027 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3028 to be bound. 3029 3030 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3031 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3032 to be bound. 3033 3034 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3035 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3036 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3037 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3038 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3039 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3040 3041 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3042 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3043 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3044 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3045 3046 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3047 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3048 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3049 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3050 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3051 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3052 3053 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3054 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3055 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3056 number of online CPUs. 3057 3058 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3059 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3060 3061 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3062 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3063 3064 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3065 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3066 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3067 3068 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3069 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3070 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3071 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3072 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3073 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3074 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3075 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3076 disable boosting. 3077 3078 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3079 Number that determines how often and for how 3080 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3081 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3082 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3083 constant as the number of writers increases. 3084 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3085 increases with the number of writers. 3086 3087 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3088 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3089 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3090 mode during the locktorture test. 3091 3092 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3093 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3094 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3095 3096 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3097 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3098 3099 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3100 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3101 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3102 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3103 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3104 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3105 3106 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3107 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3108 3109 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3110 Enable additional printk() statements. 3111 3112 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3113 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3114 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3115 3116 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3117 Format: <irq> 3118 3119 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3120 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3121 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3122 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3123 loglevels are defined as follows: 3124 3125 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3126 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3127 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3128 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3129 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3130 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3131 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3132 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3133 3134 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3135 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3136 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3137 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3138 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3139 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3140 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3141 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3142 for more details. 3143 3144 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3145 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3146 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3147 kernel boot problems. 3148 3149 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3150 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3151 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3152 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3153 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3154 attached printers to be reset. Using 3155 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3156 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3157 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3158 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3159 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3160 port specification list means that device IDs 3161 from each port should be examined, to see if 3162 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3163 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3164 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3165 3166 lpj=n [KNL] 3167 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3168 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3169 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3170 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3171 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3172 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3173 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3174 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3175 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3176 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3177 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3178 hardware. 3179 3180 ltpc= [NET] 3181 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 3182 3183 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3184 3185 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3186 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3187 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3188 3189 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 3190 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 3191 Example: machvec=hpzx1 3192 3193 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3194 different yeeloong laptops. 3195 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3196 3197 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 3198 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 3199 3200 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3201 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3202 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3203 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3204 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3205 only takes effect during system bootup. 3206 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3207 which also disables the IO APIC. 3208 3209 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3210 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3211 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3212 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3213 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3214 /dev/loop-control interface. 3215 3216 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3217 3218 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3219 3220 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3221 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3222 3223 mdacon= [MDA] 3224 Format: <first>,<last> 3225 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3226 3227 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3228 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3229 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3230 3231 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3232 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3233 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3234 3235 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3236 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3237 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3238 not have direct access. 3239 3240 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3241 options are: 3242 3243 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3244 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3245 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3246 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3247 3248 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3249 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3250 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3251 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3252 too. 3253 3254 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3255 mds=full. 3256 3257 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3258 3259 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3260 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3261 3262 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3263 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3264 as follows: 3265 3266 1 for test; 3267 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3268 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3269 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3270 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3271 3272 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3273 high memory is not affected. 3274 3275 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3276 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3277 3278 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3279 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3280 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3281 belonging to unused RAM. 3282 3283 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3284 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3285 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3286 3287 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3288 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3289 reported by firmware. 3290 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3291 ss[KMG]. 3292 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3293 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3294 3295 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3296 memory. 3297 3298 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3299 3300 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3301 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3302 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3303 3304 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3305 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3306 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3307 set according to the 3308 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3309 option. 3310 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3311 3312 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3313 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3314 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3315 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3316 option description. 3317 3318 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3319 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3320 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3321 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3322 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3323 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3324 comma delimited. 3325 Example: 3326 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3327 3328 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3329 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3330 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3331 3332 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3333 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3334 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3335 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3336 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3337 or 3338 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3339 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3340 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3341 will be eaten. 3342 3343 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3344 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3345 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3346 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3347 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3348 3349 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3350 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3351 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3352 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3353 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3354 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3355 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3356 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3357 3358 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3359 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3360 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3361 Setting this option will scan the memory 3362 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3363 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3364 from using the memory being corrupted. 3365 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3366 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3367 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3368 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3369 3370 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3371 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3372 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3373 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3374 corruption in more or less memory. 3375 3376 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3377 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3378 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3379 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3380 3381 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3382 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3383 Format: {on | off (default)} 3384 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3385 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3386 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3387 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3388 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3389 lot of memory without requiring additional 3390 memory to do so. 3391 This feature is disabled by default because it 3392 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3393 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3394 memory blocks). 3395 The state of the flag can be read in 3396 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3397 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3398 the feature is not effective. 3399 3400 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3401 Format: <integer> 3402 default : 0 <disable> 3403 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3404 performed. Each pass selects another test 3405 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3406 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3407 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3408 regions that are detected. 3409 3410 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3411 Valid arguments: on, off 3412 Default: off 3413 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3414 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3415 3416 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3417 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3418 3419 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3420 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3421 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3422 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3423 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3424 3425 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3426 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3427 platforms. 3428 3429 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3430 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3431 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3432 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3433 3434 mga= [HW,DRM] 3435 3436 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3437 Format: <bool> 3438 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3439 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3440 3441 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3442 physical address is ignored. 3443 3444 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3445 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3446 Default: "0tb" 3447 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3448 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3449 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3450 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3451 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3452 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3453 unconfigured. 3454 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3455 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3456 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3457 VGA shield. 3458 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3459 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3460 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3461 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3462 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3463 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3464 3465 mitigations= 3466 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3467 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3468 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3469 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3470 3471 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3472 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3473 3474 off 3475 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3476 improves system performance, but it may also 3477 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3478 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3479 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3480 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3481 l1tf=off [X86] 3482 mds=off [X86] 3483 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3484 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3485 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3486 nobp=0 [S390] 3487 nopti [X86,PPC] 3488 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3489 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3490 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3491 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3492 retbleed=off [X86] 3493 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3494 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3495 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3496 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3497 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3498 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3499 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3500 3501 Exceptions: 3502 This does not have any effect on 3503 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3504 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3505 3506 auto (default) 3507 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3508 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3509 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3510 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3511 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3512 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3513 3514 auto,nosmt 3515 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3516 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3517 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3518 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3519 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3520 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3521 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3522 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3523 3524 mminit_loglevel= 3525 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3526 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3527 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3528 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3529 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3530 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3531 3532 mmio_stale_data= 3533 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3534 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3535 3536 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3537 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3538 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3539 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3540 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3541 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3542 3543 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3544 options are: 3545 3546 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3547 3548 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3549 vulnerable CPUs. 3550 3551 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3552 3553 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3554 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3555 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3556 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3557 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3558 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3559 3560 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3561 mmio_stale_data=full. 3562 3563 For details see: 3564 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3565 3566 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3567 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3568 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3569 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3570 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3571 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3572 3573 module.async_probe=<bool> 3574 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3575 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3576 specific module, use the module specific control that 3577 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3578 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3579 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3580 the specific module. 3581 3582 module.enable_dups_trace 3583 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3584 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3585 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3586 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3587 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3588 module.sig_enforce 3589 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3590 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3591 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3592 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3593 3594 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3595 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3596 3597 mousedev.tap_time= 3598 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3599 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3600 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3601 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3602 Format: <msecs> 3603 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3604 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3605 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3606 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3607 3608 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY] 3609 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3610 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3611 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3612 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3613 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3614 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3615 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3616 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3617 is not too small. 3618 3619 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3620 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3621 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3622 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3623 allocations. Use with caution! 3624 3625 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3626 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3627 3628 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3629 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3630 3631 mtdparts= [MTD] 3632 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3633 3634 mtdset= [ARM] 3635 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3636 3637 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3638 3639 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3640 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3641 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3642 3643 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3644 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3645 registers at boot time. 3646 3647 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3648 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3649 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3650 3651 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3652 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3653 Default is 1. 3654 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3655 using up MTRRs. 3656 3657 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3658 Format: <integer> 3659 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3660 Default : 1 3661 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3662 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3663 3664 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3665 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3666 at a time. 3667 3668 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3669 3670 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3671 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3672 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3673 something different and driver-specific. 3674 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3675 file if at all. 3676 3677 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3678 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3679 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3680 waits 4 seconds. 3681 3682 nf_conntrack.acct= 3683 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3684 0 to disable accounting 3685 1 to enable accounting 3686 Default value is 0. 3687 3688 nfs.cache_getent= 3689 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3690 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3691 3692 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3693 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3694 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3695 3696 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3697 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3698 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3699 requests. 3700 3701 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3702 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3703 channel should listen. 3704 3705 nfs.delay_retrans= 3706 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3707 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3708 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3709 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3710 and the specified value is >= 0. 3711 3712 nfs.enable_ino64= 3713 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3714 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3715 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3716 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3717 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3718 3719 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3720 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3721 entries. 3722 3723 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3724 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3725 slots the client will assign to the callback 3726 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3727 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3728 a particular server. 3729 3730 nfs.max_session_slots= 3731 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3732 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3733 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3734 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3735 Note that there is little point in setting this 3736 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3737 3738 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3739 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3740 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3741 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3742 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3743 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3744 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3745 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3746 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3747 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3748 back to using the idmapper. 3749 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3750 3751 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3752 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3753 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3754 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3755 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3756 3757 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3758 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3759 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3760 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3761 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3762 after the locks are lost. 3763 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3764 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3765 parameter to '1'. 3766 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3767 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3768 3769 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3770 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3771 information in exchange_id requests. 3772 If zero, no implementation identification information 3773 will be sent. 3774 The default is to send the implementation identification 3775 information. 3776 3777 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3778 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3779 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3780 3781 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3782 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3783 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3784 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3785 3786 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3787 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3788 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3789 the destination of the copy. 3790 3791 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3792 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3793 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3794 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3795 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3796 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3797 3798 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3799 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3800 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3801 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3802 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3803 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3804 this parameter. 3805 3806 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3807 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3808 3809 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3810 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3811 3812 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3813 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3814 3815 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3816 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3817 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3818 3819 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3820 when a NMI is triggered. 3821 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3822 3823 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3824 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 3825 Valid num: 0 or 1 3826 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3827 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3828 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 3829 3830 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3831 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3832 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3833 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3834 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3835 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3836 need the box quickly up again. 3837 3838 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3839 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3840 3841 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3842 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3843 is present. 3844 3845 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 3846 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3847 3848 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3849 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3850 3851 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3852 3853 noaltinstr [S390,EARLY] Disables alternative instructions 3854 patching (CPU alternatives feature). 3855 3856 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3857 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3858 3859 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3860 3861 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 3862 3863 no_console_suspend 3864 [HW] Never suspend the console 3865 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3866 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3867 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3868 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3869 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3870 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3871 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3872 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3873 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3874 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3875 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3876 turn on/off it dynamically. 3877 3878 no_debug_objects 3879 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 3880 3881 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3882 3883 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 3884 3885 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3886 3887 noexec [IA-64] 3888 3889 noexec32 [X86-64] 3890 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3891 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3892 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3893 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3894 read implies executable mappings 3895 3896 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3897 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3898 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3899 3900 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3901 3902 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3903 3904 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3905 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3906 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3907 3908 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3909 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3910 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3911 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3912 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3913 real-time systems. 3914 3915 no_hash_pointers 3916 [KNL,EARLY] 3917 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3918 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3919 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3920 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3921 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3922 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3923 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3924 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3925 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3926 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3927 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3928 kernels. 3929 3930 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3931 3932 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to 3933 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3934 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3935 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3936 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3937 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3938 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3939 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3940 3941 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3942 3943 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3944 3945 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3946 Valid arguments: on, off 3947 Default: on 3948 3949 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3950 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3951 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3952 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3953 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3954 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3955 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3956 just as if they had also been called out in the 3957 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3958 3959 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3960 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3961 3962 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3963 initial RAM disk. 3964 3965 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 3966 remapping. 3967 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3968 3969 nointroute [IA-64] 3970 3971 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3972 3973 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3974 3975 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3976 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3977 3978 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3979 3980 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3981 3982 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 3983 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3984 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3985 Layout Randomization). 3986 3987 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3988 fault handling. 3989 3990 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3991 3992 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3993 3994 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3995 3996 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3997 3998 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3999 4000 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4001 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4002 4003 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4004 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4005 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4006 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4007 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4008 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4009 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4010 4011 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4012 4013 nomodule Disable module load 4014 4015 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4016 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4017 irq. 4018 4019 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4020 pagetables) support. 4021 4022 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4023 4024 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4025 in some Intel CPUs. 4026 4027 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4028 Equivalent to pti=off 4029 4030 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4031 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4032 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4033 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4034 4035 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4036 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4037 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4038 contention. 4039 4040 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4041 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4042 4043 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4044 with UP alternatives 4045 4046 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4047 space. 4048 4049 nosbagart [IA-64] 4050 4051 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4052 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4053 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4054 4055 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4056 4057 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4058 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4059 even if it is supported by processor. 4060 4061 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4062 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4063 even if it is supported by processor. 4064 4065 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4066 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4067 4068 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4069 Equivalent to smt=1. 4070 4071 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4072 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4073 via the sysfs control file. 4074 4075 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4076 4077 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4078 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4079 Store Bypass vulnerability 4080 4081 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4082 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4083 with this option. 4084 4085 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4086 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4087 possible in the system. 4088 4089 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4090 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4091 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4092 leaks with this option. 4093 4094 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4095 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4096 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4097 4098 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4099 4100 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4101 broken timer IRQ sources. 4102 4103 no_uaccess_flush 4104 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4105 4106 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4107 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4108 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4109 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4110 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4111 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4112 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4113 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4114 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4115 is set. 4116 4117 no-vmw-sched-clock 4118 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4119 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4120 4121 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4122 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4123 4124 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4125 4126 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4127 4128 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4129 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4130 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4131 4132 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4133 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4134 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4135 4136 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4137 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4138 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4139 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4140 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4141 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4142 4143 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4144 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4145 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4146 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4147 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4148 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4149 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4150 4151 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 4152 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 4153 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 4154 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 4155 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 4156 parameter's value. 4157 Format: integer between 1 and 255 4158 Default: 255 4159 4160 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 4161 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 4162 SAL PALO. 4163 4164 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4165 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4166 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4167 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4168 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4169 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4170 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4171 hot plugging. 4172 4173 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4174 4175 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4176 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4177 spanning all memory. 4178 4179 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4180 NUMA balancing. 4181 Allowed values are enable and disable 4182 4183 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4184 'node', 'default' can be specified 4185 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4186 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4187 4188 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4189 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4190 info. 4191 4192 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4193 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4194 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4195 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4196 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4197 interrupts *may* be lost! 4198 4199 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4200 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4201 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4202 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4203 4204 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4205 4206 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4207 4208 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4209 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4210 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4211 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4212 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4213 4214 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4215 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4216 process, but there is a small probability of 4217 deadlocking the machine. 4218 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4219 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4220 4221 page_alloc.shuffle= 4222 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4223 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4224 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4225 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4226 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4227 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4228 4229 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4230 Storage of the information about who allocated 4231 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4232 we can turn it on. 4233 on: enable the feature 4234 4235 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4236 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4237 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4238 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4239 on: turn on poisoning 4240 4241 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4242 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4243 Format: <integer> 4244 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4245 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4246 4247 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4248 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4249 timeout = 0: wait forever 4250 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4251 Format: <timeout> 4252 4253 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4254 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4255 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4256 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4257 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4258 called with any of the flags in this set. 4259 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4260 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4261 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4262 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4263 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4264 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4265 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4266 4267 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4268 on a WARN(). 4269 4270 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4271 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4272 bit 0: print all tasks info 4273 bit 1: print system memory info 4274 bit 2: print timer info 4275 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4276 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4277 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4278 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4279 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4280 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4281 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4282 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4283 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4284 4285 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4286 connected to, default is 0. 4287 Format: <parport#> 4288 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4289 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4290 Format: <mode> 4291 4292 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4293 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4294 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4295 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4296 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4297 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4298 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4299 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4300 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4301 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4302 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4303 are specified on the command line, starting 4304 with parport0. 4305 4306 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4307 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4308 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4309 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4310 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4311 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4312 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4313 4314 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4315 Format: <int> 4316 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4317 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4318 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4319 4320 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4321 Format: <int> 4322 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4323 changes. Disabled by default. 4324 4325 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4326 Format: <int> 4327 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4328 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4329 Disabled by default. 4330 4331 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4332 Format: <int> 4333 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4334 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4335 Disabled by default. 4336 4337 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4338 Format: <int> 4339 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4340 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4341 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4342 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4343 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4344 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4345 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4346 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4347 all channels. 4348 4349 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4350 Format: <int> 4351 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4352 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4353 respectively. Disabled by default. 4354 4355 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4356 Format: <int> 4357 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4358 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4359 respectively. Disabled by default. 4360 4361 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4362 Format: <int> 4363 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4364 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4365 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4366 All modes allowed by default. 4367 4368 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4369 Format: <int> 4370 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4371 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4372 4373 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4374 Format: <int> 4375 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4376 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4377 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4378 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4379 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4380 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4381 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4382 By default all supported ports are probed. 4383 4384 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4385 Format: <int> 4386 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4387 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4388 4389 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4390 Format: <int> 4391 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4392 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4393 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4394 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4395 0 otherwise. 4396 4397 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4398 Format: <int> 4399 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4400 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4401 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4402 allowed by default. 4403 4404 pause_on_oops=<int> 4405 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4406 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4407 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4408 4409 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4410 4411 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4412 4413 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4414 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4415 specified in one of the following formats: 4416 4417 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4418 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4419 4420 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4421 bus/device/function address which may change 4422 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4423 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4424 by other kernel parameters. If the 4425 domain is left unspecified, it is 4426 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4427 to a device through multiple device/function 4428 addresses can be specified after the base 4429 address (this is more robust against 4430 renumbering issues). The second format 4431 selects devices using IDs from the 4432 configuration space which may match multiple 4433 devices in the system. 4434 4435 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4436 changes anything 4437 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4438 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4439 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4440 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4441 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4442 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4443 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4444 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4445 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4446 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4447 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4448 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4449 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4450 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4451 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4452 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4453 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4454 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4455 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4456 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4457 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4458 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4459 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4460 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4461 Configuration 4462 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4463 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4464 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4465 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4466 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4467 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4468 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4469 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4470 should never be necessary. 4471 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4472 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4473 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4474 when the system masks IRQs. 4475 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4476 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4477 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4478 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4479 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4480 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4481 on several machines and they hang the machine 4482 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4483 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4484 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4485 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4486 motherboard. 4487 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4488 Use with caution as certain devices share 4489 address decoders between ROMs and other 4490 resources. 4491 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4492 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4493 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4494 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4495 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4496 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4497 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4498 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4499 this way. 4500 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4501 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4502 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4503 F0000h-100000h range. 4504 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4505 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4506 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4507 explicitly which ones they are. 4508 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4509 numbers ourselves, overriding 4510 whatever the firmware may have done. 4511 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4512 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4513 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4514 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4515 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4516 IRQ routing is enabled. 4517 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4518 or for PCI scanning. 4519 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4520 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4521 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4522 please report a bug. 4523 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4524 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4525 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4526 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4527 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4528 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4529 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4530 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4531 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4532 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4533 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4534 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4535 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4536 so this option is a temporary workaround 4537 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4538 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4539 handle more pci cards 4540 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4541 This might help on some broken boards which 4542 machine check when some devices' config space 4543 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4544 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4545 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4546 This sorting is done to get a device 4547 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4548 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4549 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4550 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4551 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4552 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4553 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4554 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4555 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4556 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4557 or bus can support) for best performance. 4558 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4559 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4560 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4561 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4562 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4563 that hot-added devices will work. 4564 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4565 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4566 The default value is 256 bytes. 4567 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4568 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4569 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4570 resource_alignment= 4571 Format: 4572 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4573 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4574 aligned memory resources. How to 4575 specify the device is described above. 4576 If <order of align> is not specified, 4577 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4578 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4579 windows need to be expanded. 4580 To specify the alignment for several 4581 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4582 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4583 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4584 for 4096-byte alignment. 4585 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4586 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4587 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4588 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4589 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4590 the default. 4591 off: Turn ECRC off 4592 on: Turn ECRC on. 4593 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4594 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4595 Default size is 256 bytes. 4596 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4597 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4598 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4599 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4600 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4601 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4602 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4603 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4604 MMIO_PREF window. 4605 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4606 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4607 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4608 Default is 1. 4609 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4610 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4611 accommodate resources required by all child 4612 devices. 4613 off: Turn realloc off 4614 on: Turn realloc on 4615 realloc same as realloc=on 4616 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4617 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4618 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4619 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4620 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4621 port. 4622 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4623 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4624 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4625 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4626 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4627 taints the kernel. 4628 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4629 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4630 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4631 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4632 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4633 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4634 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4635 this removes isolation between devices and 4636 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4637 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4638 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4639 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4640 one PCI domain per PCI function 4641 4642 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4643 Management. 4644 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4645 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4646 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4647 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4648 4649 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4650 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4651 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4652 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4653 also tries to use these services. 4654 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4655 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4656 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4657 hotplug). 4658 4659 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4660 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4661 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4662 4663 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4664 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4665 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4666 4667 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4668 4669 pd_ignore_unused 4670 [PM] 4671 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4672 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4673 for debug and development, but should not be 4674 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4675 4676 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4677 boot time. 4678 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4679 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4680 4681 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4682 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4683 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4684 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4685 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4686 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4687 and performance comparison. 4688 4689 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4690 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4691 4692 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4693 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4694 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4695 4696 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4697 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4698 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4699 4700 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4701 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4702 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4703 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4704 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4705 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4706 remains 0. 4707 4708 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4709 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4710 4711 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4712 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4713 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4714 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4715 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4716 possible settings and some assignment information. 4717 4718 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4719 { off } 4720 4721 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4722 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4723 4724 pnp_reserve_irq= 4725 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4726 4727 pnp_reserve_dma= 4728 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4729 4730 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4731 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4732 4733 pnp_reserve_mem= 4734 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4735 autoconfiguration. 4736 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4737 4738 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4739 Default is 21. 4740 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4741 may be specified. 4742 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4743 4744 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4745 Format: <unsigned int> 4746 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4747 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4748 4749 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4750 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4751 platform machine description specific power_save 4752 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4753 execution priority. 4754 4755 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4756 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4757 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4758 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4759 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4760 4761 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4762 Format: {"off"} 4763 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4764 4765 preempt= [KNL] 4766 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4767 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4768 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4769 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4770 can be preempted anytime. 4771 4772 print-fatal-signals= 4773 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4774 4775 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4776 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4777 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4778 coredump - etc. 4779 4780 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4781 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4782 4783 default: off. 4784 4785 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4786 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4787 panics 4788 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4789 default: disabled 4790 4791 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4792 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4793 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4794 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4795 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4796 in order to provide more debug information. 4797 Format: <bool> 4798 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4799 4800 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4801 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4802 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4803 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4804 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4805 Default: ratelimit 4806 4807 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4808 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4809 4810 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4811 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4812 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4813 4814 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4815 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4816 instead using the legacy FADT method 4817 4818 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4819 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4820 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4821 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4822 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4823 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4824 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4825 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4826 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4827 statistical time based profiling. 4828 4829 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4830 4831 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4832 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4833 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 4834 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 4835 Layout Randomization is disabled. 4836 Format: <bool> 4837 4838 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4839 tracking. 4840 Format: <bool> 4841 4842 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4843 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4844 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4845 per second. 4846 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4847 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4848 (0 = never). 4849 psmouse.resolution= 4850 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4851 psmouse.smartscroll= 4852 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4853 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4854 4855 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4856 4857 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4858 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4859 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4860 system calls and interrupts. 4861 4862 on - unconditionally enable 4863 off - unconditionally disable 4864 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4865 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4866 4867 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4868 4869 pty.legacy_count= 4870 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4871 default number. 4872 4873 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 4874 4875 r128= [HW,DRM] 4876 4877 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4878 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4879 invalidate. 4880 4881 raid= [HW,RAID] 4882 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4883 4884 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4885 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4886 4887 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4888 4889 random.trust_cpu=off 4890 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4891 random number generator (if available) to 4892 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4893 4894 random.trust_bootloader=off 4895 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4896 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4897 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4898 4899 randomize_kstack_offset= 4900 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4901 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4902 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4903 that depend on stack address determinism or 4904 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4905 available on architectures that have defined 4906 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4907 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4908 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4909 4910 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4911 4912 cec_disable [X86] 4913 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4914 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4915 4916 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4917 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4918 as described above. 4919 4920 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4921 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4922 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4923 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4924 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4925 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4926 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4927 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4928 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4929 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4930 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4931 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4932 4933 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4934 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4935 4936 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4937 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4938 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4939 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4940 4941 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4942 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4943 4944 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4945 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4946 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4947 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4948 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4949 This improves the real-time response for the 4950 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4951 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4952 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4953 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4954 4955 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4956 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4957 process in one batch. 4958 4959 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4960 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4961 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4962 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4963 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4964 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4965 4966 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4967 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4968 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4969 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4970 4971 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4972 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4973 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4974 4975 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4976 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4977 RCU grace-period initialization. 4978 4979 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4980 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4981 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4982 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4983 the rcu_node combining tree. 4984 4985 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4986 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4987 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4988 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4989 and maximum value is HZ. 4990 4991 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4992 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4993 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4994 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4995 4996 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4997 Set required age in jiffies for a 4998 given grace period before RCU starts 4999 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5000 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5001 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5002 a value based on the most recent settings 5003 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5004 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5005 This calculated value may be viewed in 5006 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5007 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5008 overwritten. 5009 5010 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5011 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5012 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5013 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5014 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5015 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5016 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5017 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5018 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5019 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5020 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5021 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5022 5023 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5024 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5025 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5026 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5027 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5028 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5029 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5030 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5031 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5032 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5033 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5034 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5035 5036 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5037 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5038 batch limiting is disabled. 5039 5040 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5041 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5042 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5043 5044 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5045 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5046 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5047 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5048 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5049 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5050 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5051 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5052 5053 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5054 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5055 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5056 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5057 5058 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5059 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5060 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5061 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5062 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5063 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5064 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5065 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5066 5067 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5068 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5069 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5070 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5071 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5072 5073 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5074 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5075 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5076 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5077 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5078 5079 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5080 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5081 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5082 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5083 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5084 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5085 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5086 5087 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5088 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5089 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5090 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5091 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5092 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5093 condition. 5094 5095 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5096 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5097 each group, which defaults to the square root 5098 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5099 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5100 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5101 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5102 5103 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5104 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5105 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5106 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5107 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5108 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5109 5110 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5111 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5112 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5113 By default, this limit is checked only once 5114 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5115 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5116 5117 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5118 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5119 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5120 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5121 Larger delays increase the probability of 5122 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5123 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5124 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5125 5126 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5127 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5128 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5129 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5130 5131 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5132 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5133 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5134 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5135 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5136 5137 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5138 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5139 to zero. 5140 5141 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5142 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5143 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5144 big. 5145 5146 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5147 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5148 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5149 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5150 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5151 normal grace period. 5152 5153 How to enable it: 5154 5155 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5156 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5157 5158 Default is 0. 5159 5160 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5161 Measure performance of asynchronous 5162 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5163 5164 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5165 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5166 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5167 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5168 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5169 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5170 5171 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5172 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5173 grace-period primitives. 5174 5175 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5176 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5177 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5178 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5179 interference. 5180 5181 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5182 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5183 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5184 5185 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5186 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5187 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5188 Defaults to 1. 5189 5190 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5191 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5192 5193 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5194 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5195 If this parameter has the same value as 5196 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5197 and double-argument variants are tested. 5198 5199 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5200 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5201 If this parameter has the same value as 5202 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5203 and double-argument variants are tested. 5204 5205 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5206 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5207 5208 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5209 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5210 5211 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5212 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5213 of allocations and frees. 5214 5215 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5216 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5217 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5218 but instead allows better measurement of things 5219 like CPU consumption. 5220 5221 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5222 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5223 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5224 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5225 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5226 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5227 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5228 a single reader. 5229 5230 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5231 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5232 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5233 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5234 5235 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5236 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5237 5238 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5239 Shut the system down after performance tests 5240 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5241 testing. 5242 5243 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5244 Enable additional printk() statements. 5245 5246 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5247 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5248 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5249 no holdoff. 5250 5251 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5252 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5253 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5254 says no holdoff. 5255 5256 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5257 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5258 in microseconds. 5259 5260 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5261 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5262 in microseconds. 5263 5264 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5265 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5266 in seconds. 5267 5268 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5269 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5270 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5271 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5272 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5273 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5274 of CPUs to be used. 5275 5276 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5277 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5278 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5279 5280 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5281 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5282 forward-progress tests. 5283 5284 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5285 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5286 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5287 testing. 5288 5289 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5290 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5291 primitives, if available. 5292 5293 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5294 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5295 5296 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5297 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5298 update-side primitives, if available. 5299 5300 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5301 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5302 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5303 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5304 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5305 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5306 they are all non-zero. 5307 5308 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5309 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5310 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5311 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5312 5313 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5314 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5315 This can of course result in splats, and is 5316 intended to test the ability of things like 5317 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5318 such leaks. 5319 5320 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5321 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5322 5323 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5324 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5325 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5326 test, hence the "fake". 5327 5328 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5329 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5330 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5331 5332 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5333 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5334 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5335 5336 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5337 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5338 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5339 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5340 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5341 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5342 5343 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5344 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5345 5346 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5347 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5348 5349 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5350 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5351 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5352 5353 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5354 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5355 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5356 task-exit processing. 5357 5358 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5359 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5360 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5361 is spawned. 5362 5363 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5364 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5365 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5366 5367 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5368 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5369 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5370 during the rcutorture test. 5371 5372 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5373 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5374 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5375 5376 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5377 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5378 warnings, zero to disable. 5379 5380 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5381 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5382 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5383 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5384 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5385 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5386 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5387 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5388 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5389 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5390 5391 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5392 5393 5394 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5395 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5396 5397 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5398 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5399 5400 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5401 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5402 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5403 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5404 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5405 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5406 5407 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5408 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5409 5410 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5411 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5412 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5413 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5414 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5415 5416 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5417 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5418 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5419 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5420 5421 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5422 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5423 5424 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5425 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5426 5427 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5428 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5429 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5430 5431 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5432 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5433 5434 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5435 Enable additional printk() statements. 5436 5437 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5438 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5439 stall warning. 5440 5441 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5442 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5443 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5444 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5445 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5446 5447 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5448 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5449 5450 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5451 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5452 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5453 during early boot, that is, during the time 5454 before the init task is spawned. 5455 5456 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5457 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5458 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5459 value is 300 seconds. 5460 5461 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5462 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5463 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5464 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5465 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5466 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5467 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5468 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5469 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5470 5471 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5472 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5473 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5474 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5475 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5476 5477 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5478 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5479 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5480 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5481 5482 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5483 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5484 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5485 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5486 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5487 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5488 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5489 5490 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5491 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5492 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5493 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5494 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5495 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5496 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5497 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5498 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5499 5500 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5501 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5502 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5503 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5504 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5505 5506 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5507 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5508 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5509 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5510 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5511 grace-period processing. 5512 5513 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5514 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5515 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5516 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5517 a single callback queue. This switching only 5518 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5519 set to the default value of -1. 5520 5521 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5522 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5523 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5524 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5525 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5526 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5527 the default value of -1. 5528 5529 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5530 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5531 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5532 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5533 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5534 for use in testing. 5535 5536 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5537 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5538 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5539 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5540 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5541 but lengthens grace periods. 5542 5543 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5544 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5545 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5546 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5547 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5548 callback flooding. 5549 5550 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5551 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5552 informational messages, which give some indication 5553 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5554 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5555 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5556 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5557 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5558 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5559 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5560 5561 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5562 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5563 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5564 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5565 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5566 the value three, so that the first informational 5567 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5568 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5569 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5570 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5571 5572 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5573 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5574 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5575 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5576 A change in value does not take effect until 5577 the beginning of the next grace period. 5578 5579 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5580 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5581 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5582 A negative value will take the default. A value 5583 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5584 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5585 5586 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5587 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5588 Rude asynchronous callback batching for 5589 call_rcu_tasks_rude(). A negative value 5590 will take the default. A value of zero will 5591 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5592 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(). 5593 5594 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5595 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5596 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5597 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5598 will take the default. A value of zero will 5599 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5600 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5601 5602 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5603 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5604 5605 rdinit= [KNL] 5606 Format: <full_path> 5607 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5608 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5609 5610 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5611 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5612 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5613 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5614 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5615 path). 5616 5617 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5618 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5619 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5620 mba, smba, bmec. 5621 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5622 rdt=cmt,!mba 5623 5624 reboot= [KNL] 5625 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5626 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5627 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5628 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5629 [[,]f[orce] 5630 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5631 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5632 reboot only), 5633 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5634 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5635 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5636 to be used for rebooting. 5637 5638 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5639 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5640 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5641 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5642 interference. 5643 5644 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5645 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5646 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5647 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5648 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5649 5650 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5651 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5652 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5653 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5654 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5655 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5656 x86 laptops. 5657 5658 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5659 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5660 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5661 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5662 5663 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5664 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5665 the console log. 5666 5667 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5668 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5669 measured in microseconds. 5670 5671 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5672 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5673 5674 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5675 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5676 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5677 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5678 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5679 5680 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5681 Enable additional printk() statements. 5682 5683 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5684 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5685 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5686 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5687 specified. 5688 5689 regulator_ignore_unused 5690 [REGULATOR] 5691 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5692 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5693 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5694 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5695 5696 relax_domain_level= 5697 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5698 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5699 5700 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5701 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5702 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5703 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5704 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5705 5706 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 5707 Format: nn[KMG] 5708 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5709 address space. 5710 5711 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5712 during initialization. 5713 5714 resume= [SWSUSP] 5715 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5716 Format: 5717 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5718 5719 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5720 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5721 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5722 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5723 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5724 5725 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5726 read the resume files 5727 5728 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5729 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5730 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5731 5732 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5733 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5734 5735 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5736 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5737 vulnerability. 5738 5739 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5740 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5741 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5742 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5743 that don't. 5744 5745 off - no mitigation 5746 auto - automatically select a migitation 5747 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5748 disabling SMT if necessary for 5749 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5750 and older without STIBP). 5751 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5752 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5753 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5754 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5755 on Intel. 5756 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5757 when STIBP is not available. This is 5758 the alternative for systems which do not 5759 have STIBP. 5760 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5761 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5762 systems. 5763 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5764 is not available. This is the alternative for 5765 systems which do not have STIBP. 5766 5767 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5768 time according to the CPU. 5769 5770 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5771 5772 rfkill.default_state= 5773 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5774 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5775 1 Unblocked. 5776 5777 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5778 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5779 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5780 blocked and the previous configuration. 5781 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5782 blocked and everything unblocked. 5783 5784 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5785 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5786 5787 ring3mwait=disable 5788 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5789 CPUs. 5790 5791 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 5792 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5793 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5794 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5795 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5796 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5797 5798 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5799 5800 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 5801 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5802 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5803 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5804 [arm64] 5805 5806 rockchip.usb_uart 5807 [EARLY] 5808 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5809 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5810 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5811 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5812 5813 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5814 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5815 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5816 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5817 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5818 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5819 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5820 5821 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5822 mount the root filesystem 5823 5824 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5825 5826 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5827 5828 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5829 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5830 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5831 5832 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5833 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5834 filesystem. 5835 5836 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5837 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5838 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5839 managed by CMA. 5840 5841 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5842 5843 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5844 5845 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5846 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5847 strict 5848 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5849 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5850 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5851 iommu.strict=1. 5852 5853 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5854 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5855 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5856 factor of the size of main memory. 5857 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5858 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5859 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5860 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5861 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5862 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5863 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5864 5865 sa1100ir [NET] 5866 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5867 5868 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5869 5870 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5871 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5872 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5873 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5874 5875 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5876 [Deprecated] 5877 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5878 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5879 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5880 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5881 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5882 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5883 value. 5884 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5885 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5886 1 64 ms 5887 2 128 ms 5888 and so on. 5889 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5890 Default is 0. 5891 5892 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5893 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5894 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5895 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5896 tests. 5897 5898 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5899 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5900 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5901 default) disables this feature. Please note 5902 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5903 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5904 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5905 5906 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5907 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5908 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5909 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5910 equal to the number of CPUs. 5911 5912 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5913 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5914 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5915 5916 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5917 Number seconds to wait between successive 5918 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5919 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5920 5921 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5922 The number of seconds following the start of the 5923 test after which to shut down the system. The 5924 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5925 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5926 5927 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5928 The number of seconds between outputting the 5929 current test statistics to the console. A value 5930 of zero disables statistics output. 5931 5932 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5933 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5934 to the set of CPUs under test. 5935 5936 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5937 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5938 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5939 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5940 functions. 5941 5942 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5943 Enable additional printk() statements. 5944 5945 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5946 The probability weighting to use for the 5947 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5948 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5949 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5950 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5951 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5952 5953 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5954 The probability weighting to use for the 5955 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5956 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5957 5958 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5959 The probability weighting to use for the 5960 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5961 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5962 Note well that setting a high probability for 5963 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5964 on the system. 5965 5966 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5967 The probability weighting to use for the 5968 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5969 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5970 and weight_many. 5971 5972 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5973 The probability weighting to use for the 5974 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5975 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5976 weight_many. 5977 5978 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5979 The probability weighting to use for the 5980 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5981 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5982 and weight_many. 5983 5984 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5985 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5986 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5987 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5988 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5989 1 -- enable. 5990 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5991 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5992 5993 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5994 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5995 "lsm=" parameter. 5996 5997 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5998 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5999 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6000 0 -- disable. 6001 1 -- enable. 6002 Default value is 1. 6003 6004 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6005 6006 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 6007 6008 shapers= [NET] 6009 Maximal number of shapers. 6010 6011 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6012 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6013 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6014 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6015 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6016 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6017 apic=verbose is specified. 6018 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6019 6020 simeth= [IA-64] 6021 simscsi= 6022 6023 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6024 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6025 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6026 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6027 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6028 last alloc / free. For more information see 6029 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6030 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6031 6032 slab_max_order= [MM] 6033 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6034 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6035 fragmentation. For more information see 6036 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6037 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6038 6039 slab_merge [MM] 6040 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6041 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6042 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6043 6044 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6045 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6046 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6047 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6048 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6049 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6050 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6051 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6052 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6053 6054 slab_min_order= [MM] 6055 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6056 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6057 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6058 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6059 6060 slab_nomerge [MM] 6061 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6062 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6063 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6064 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6065 layout control by attackers can usually be 6066 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6067 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6068 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6069 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6070 own. 6071 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6072 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6073 6074 slram= [HW,MTD] 6075 6076 smart2= [HW] 6077 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6078 6079 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6080 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6081 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6082 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6083 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6084 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6085 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6086 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6087 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6088 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6089 6090 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6091 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6092 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6093 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6094 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6095 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6096 6097 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6098 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6099 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6100 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6101 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6102 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6103 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6104 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6105 1: Fast pin select (default) 6106 2: ATC IRMode 6107 6108 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6109 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6110 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6111 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6112 Format: <integer> 6113 Default: -1 (no limit) 6114 6115 softlockup_panic= 6116 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6117 Format: 0 | 1 6118 6119 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6120 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6121 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6122 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6123 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6124 6125 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6126 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6127 backtraces on all cpus. 6128 Format: 0 | 1 6129 6130 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6131 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6132 6133 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6134 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6135 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6136 clearing sequence. 6137 6138 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation 6139 as needed. 6140 off - Disable the mitigation. 6141 6142 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6143 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6144 The default operation protects the kernel from 6145 user space attacks. 6146 6147 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6148 spectre_v2_user=on 6149 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6150 spectre_v2_user=off 6151 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6152 vulnerable 6153 6154 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6155 mitigation method at run time according to the 6156 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6157 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6158 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6159 6160 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6161 against user space to user space task attacks. 6162 6163 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6164 the user space protections. 6165 6166 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6167 6168 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6169 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6170 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6171 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6172 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6173 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6174 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6175 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6176 6177 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6178 spectre_v2=auto. 6179 6180 spectre_v2_user= 6181 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6182 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6183 user space tasks 6184 6185 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6186 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6187 6188 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6189 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6190 6191 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6192 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6193 per thread. The mitigation control state 6194 is inherited on fork. 6195 6196 prctl,ibpb 6197 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6198 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6199 always when switching between different user 6200 space processes. 6201 6202 seccomp 6203 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6204 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6205 they explicitly opt out. 6206 6207 seccomp,ibpb 6208 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6209 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6210 always when switching between different 6211 user space processes. 6212 6213 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6214 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6215 6216 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6217 6218 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6219 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6220 6221 spec_rstack_overflow= 6222 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6223 6224 off - Disable mitigation 6225 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6226 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6227 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6228 kernel entry 6229 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6230 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6231 6232 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6233 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6234 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6235 6236 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6237 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6238 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6239 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6240 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6241 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6242 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6243 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6244 6245 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6246 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6247 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6248 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6249 6250 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6251 Bypass optimization is used. 6252 6253 On x86 the options are: 6254 6255 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6256 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6257 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6258 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6259 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6260 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6261 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6262 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6263 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6264 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6265 for a process by default. The state of the control 6266 is inherited on fork. 6267 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6268 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6269 6270 Default mitigations: 6271 X86: "prctl" 6272 6273 On powerpc the options are: 6274 6275 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6276 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6277 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6278 exit. 6279 off - No action. 6280 6281 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6282 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6283 6284 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 6285 spia_fio_base= 6286 spia_pedr= 6287 spia_peddr= 6288 6289 split_lock_detect= 6290 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6291 6292 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6293 instructions that access data across cache line 6294 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6295 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6296 bus lock detection. 6297 6298 off - not enabled 6299 6300 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6301 about applications triggering the #AC 6302 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6303 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6304 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6305 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6306 enabled in hardware. 6307 6308 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6309 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6310 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6311 both features are enabled in hardware. 6312 6313 ratelimit:N - 6314 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6315 per second for bus lock detection. 6316 0 < N <= 1000. 6317 6318 N/A for split lock detection. 6319 6320 6321 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6322 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6323 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6324 mode. 6325 6326 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6327 CPL > 0. 6328 6329 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6330 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6331 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6332 6333 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6334 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6335 number generator. 6336 6337 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6338 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6339 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6340 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6341 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6342 6343 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6344 the following option: 6345 6346 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6347 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6348 6349 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6350 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6351 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6352 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6353 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6354 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6355 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6356 (decide at boot). 6357 6358 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6359 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6360 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6361 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6362 6363 0: Never. 6364 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6365 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6366 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6367 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6368 6369 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6370 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6371 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6372 6373 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6374 Specifies how frequently to check for 6375 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6376 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6377 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6378 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6379 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6380 are ignored. 6381 6382 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6383 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6384 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6385 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6386 grace period will be considered for automatic 6387 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6388 expediting. 6389 6390 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6391 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6392 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6393 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6394 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6395 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6396 6397 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6398 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6399 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6400 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6401 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6402 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6403 6404 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6405 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6406 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6407 6408 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6409 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6410 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6411 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6412 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6413 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6414 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6415 6416 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6417 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6418 6419 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6420 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6421 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6422 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6423 6424 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6425 for both kernel and userspace 6426 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6427 for both kernel and userspace 6428 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6429 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6430 to allow userspace to register its 6431 interest in being mitigated too. 6432 6433 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6434 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6435 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6436 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6437 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6438 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6439 6440 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6441 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6442 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6443 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6444 to false. 6445 6446 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6447 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6448 6449 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6450 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6451 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6452 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6453 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6454 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6455 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6456 6457 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6458 Format: <num> 6459 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6460 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6461 as the initial boot-console. 6462 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6463 6464 sti_font= [HW] 6465 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6466 6467 stifb= [HW] 6468 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6469 6470 strict_sas_size= 6471 [X86] 6472 Format: <bool> 6473 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6474 against the required signal frame size which 6475 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6476 be used to filter out binaries which have 6477 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6478 6479 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6480 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6481 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6482 faults on kernel addresses. 6483 6484 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6485 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6486 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6487 on kernel addresses. 6488 6489 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6490 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6491 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6492 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6493 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6494 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6495 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6496 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6497 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6498 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6499 maximum port values. 6500 6501 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6502 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6503 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6504 process in parallel from a single connection. 6505 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6506 6507 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6508 [NFS] 6509 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6510 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6511 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6512 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6513 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6514 NFS server is running. 6515 6516 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6517 automatically using heuristics 6518 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6519 percpu one pool for each CPU 6520 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6521 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6522 6523 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6524 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6525 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6526 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6527 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6528 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6529 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6530 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6531 6532 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6533 [SUSPEND] 6534 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6535 mode before resuming the system (see 6536 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6537 is set. Default value is 5. 6538 6539 svm= [PPC] 6540 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6541 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6542 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6543 6544 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86,EARLY] 6545 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6546 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6547 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6548 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6549 to a power of 2. 6550 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6551 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6552 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6553 6554 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6555 6556 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6557 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6558 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6559 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6560 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6561 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6562 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6563 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6564 6565 sysrq_always_enabled 6566 [KNL] 6567 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6568 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6569 Useful for debugging. 6570 6571 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6572 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6573 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6574 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6575 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6576 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6577 6578 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6579 6580 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6581 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6582 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6583 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6584 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6585 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6586 The system is woken from this state using a 6587 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6588 6589 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6590 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6591 6592 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6593 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6594 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6595 6596 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6597 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6598 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6599 6600 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6601 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6602 6603 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6604 -1: disable all passive trip points 6605 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6606 value 6607 6608 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6609 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6610 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6611 0: no polling (default) 6612 6613 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 6614 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6615 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6616 6617 topology= [S390,EARLY] 6618 Format: {off | on} 6619 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6620 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6621 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6622 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6623 Default is on. 6624 6625 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6626 Format: {off} 6627 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6628 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6629 LPAR. 6630 6631 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6632 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6633 until after init has spawned. 6634 6635 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6636 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6637 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6638 very costly operation when many torture tests 6639 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6640 with rotating-rust storage. 6641 6642 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6643 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6644 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6645 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6646 6647 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6648 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6649 6650 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6651 6652 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6653 Format: integer pcr id 6654 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6655 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6656 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6657 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6658 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6659 are saved. 6660 6661 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6662 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6663 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6664 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6665 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6666 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6667 6668 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6669 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6670 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6671 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6672 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6673 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6674 6675 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6676 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6677 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6678 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6679 6680 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6681 to stop the printing of events to console at 6682 late_initcall_sync. 6683 6684 ** CAUTION ** 6685 6686 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6687 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6688 the system to live lock. 6689 6690 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6691 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6692 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6693 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6694 make the system inoperable. 6695 6696 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6697 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6698 6699 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6700 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6701 6702 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6703 at boot up. 6704 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6705 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6706 depending on the architecture, may not be 6707 in sync between CPUs. 6708 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6709 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6710 but better for some race conditions. 6711 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6712 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6713 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6714 once per event. 6715 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6716 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6717 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6718 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6719 stamps. 6720 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6721 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6722 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6723 6724 trace_event=[event-list] 6725 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6726 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6727 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6728 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6729 6730 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6731 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6732 This will be listed in: 6733 6734 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6735 6736 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6737 via: 6738 6739 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6740 6741 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6742 unique. 6743 6744 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6745 6746 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6747 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6748 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6749 6750 trace_options=[option-list] 6751 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6752 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6753 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6754 to echo the option name into 6755 6756 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6757 6758 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6759 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6760 6761 trace_options=stacktrace 6762 6763 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6764 section. 6765 6766 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6767 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6768 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6769 filter. 6770 6771 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6772 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6773 6774 For example: 6775 6776 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6777 6778 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6779 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6780 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6781 6782 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6783 6784 6785 traceoff_on_warning 6786 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6787 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6788 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6789 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6790 6791 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6792 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6793 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6794 6795 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6796 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6797 6798 transparent_hugepage= 6799 [KNL] 6800 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6801 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6802 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6803 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6804 for more details. 6805 6806 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6807 Format: <string> 6808 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6809 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6810 sources: 6811 - "tpm" 6812 - "tee" 6813 - "caam" 6814 - "dcp" 6815 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6816 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6817 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6818 successfully during iteration. 6819 6820 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6821 Format: <string> 6822 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6823 Can be one of: 6824 - "kernel" 6825 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6826 - "default" 6827 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6828 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6829 6830 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 6831 This is intended to be used in combination with 6832 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 6833 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 6834 6835 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 6836 This is intended to be used in combination with 6837 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 6838 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 6839 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 6840 scenarios. 6841 6842 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6843 Format: <string> 6844 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6845 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6846 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6847 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6848 virtualized environment. 6849 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6850 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6851 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6852 can add overhead. 6853 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6854 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6855 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6856 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6857 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6858 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6859 acceptable). 6860 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6861 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6862 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6863 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6864 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6865 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6866 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6867 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6868 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6869 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6870 6871 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6872 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6873 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6874 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6875 Format: <unsigned int> 6876 6877 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6878 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6879 support TSX control. 6880 6881 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6882 6883 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6884 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6885 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6886 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6887 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6888 with leaving it enabled. 6889 6890 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6891 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6892 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6893 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6894 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6895 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6896 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6897 6898 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6899 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6900 6901 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6902 6903 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6904 for more details. 6905 6906 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6907 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6908 6909 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6910 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6911 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6912 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6913 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6914 conditions. 6915 6916 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6917 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6918 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6919 access. 6920 6921 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6922 options are: 6923 6924 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6925 if TSX is enabled. 6926 6927 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6928 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6929 is not disabled because CPU is not 6930 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6931 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6932 6933 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6934 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6935 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6936 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6937 6938 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6939 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6940 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6941 required and doesn't provide any additional 6942 mitigation. 6943 6944 For details see: 6945 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6946 6947 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6948 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6949 Format: 6950 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6951 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6952 6953 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6954 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6955 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6956 help "seeing" what's going on. 6957 6958 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6959 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6960 6961 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6962 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6963 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6964 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6965 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6966 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6967 reported either. 6968 6969 unknown_nmi_panic 6970 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6971 6972 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 6973 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 6974 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 6975 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 6976 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 6977 6978 usbcore.authorized_default= 6979 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6980 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 6981 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6982 if device connected to internal port) 6983 6984 usbcore.autosuspend= 6985 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6986 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6987 is the time required before an idle device will be 6988 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6989 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6990 6991 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6992 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6993 6994 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6995 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6996 (default = 65536). 6997 6998 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6999 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7000 7001 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7002 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7003 scheme (default 0 = off). 7004 7005 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7006 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7007 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7008 7009 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7010 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7011 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7012 7013 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7014 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7015 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7016 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7017 7018 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7019 7020 usbcore.quirks= 7021 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7022 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7023 commas. Each entry has the form 7024 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7025 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7026 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7027 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7028 the following meanings: 7029 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7030 descriptors must not be fetched using 7031 a 255-byte read); 7032 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7033 correctly so reset it instead); 7034 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7035 Set-Interface requests); 7036 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7037 handle its Configuration or Interface 7038 strings); 7039 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7040 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7041 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7042 more interface descriptions than the 7043 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7044 talking to these interfaces); 7045 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7046 during initialization, after we read 7047 the device descriptor); 7048 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7049 high speed and super speed interrupt 7050 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7051 require the interval in microframes (1 7052 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7053 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7054 (bInterval-1). 7055 Devices with this quirk report their 7056 bInterval as the result of this 7057 calculation instead of the exponent 7058 variable used in the calculation); 7059 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7060 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7061 requests); 7062 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7063 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7064 remote wakeup capability); 7065 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7066 Power Management); 7067 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7068 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7069 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7070 calculation); 7071 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7072 to be disconnected before suspend to 7073 prevent spurious wakeup); 7074 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7075 pause after every control message); 7076 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7077 delay after resetting its port); 7078 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7079 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7080 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7081 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7082 7083 usbhid.mousepoll= 7084 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7085 7086 usbhid.jspoll= 7087 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7088 7089 usbhid.kbpoll= 7090 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7091 7092 usb-storage.delay_use= 7093 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7094 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7095 7096 usb-storage.quirks= 7097 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7098 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7099 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7100 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7101 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7102 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7103 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7104 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7105 of sense data, not on uas); 7106 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7107 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7108 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7109 device capacity by one sector); 7110 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7111 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7112 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7113 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7114 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7115 command, uas only); 7116 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7117 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7118 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7119 reported device capacity by one 7120 sector if the number is odd); 7121 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7122 device); 7123 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7124 command, uas only); 7125 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7126 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7127 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7128 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7129 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7130 not on uas); 7131 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7132 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7133 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7134 reported by the device, not on uas); 7135 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7136 by default, not on uas); 7137 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7138 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7139 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7140 Logical Unit); 7141 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7142 commands, uas only); 7143 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7144 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7145 medium is write-protected). 7146 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7147 even if the device claims no cache, 7148 not on uas) 7149 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7150 7151 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7152 Format: <int> 7153 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7154 1 - undefined instruction events 7155 2 - system calls 7156 4 - invalid data aborts 7157 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7158 16 - SIGBUS faults 7159 Example: user_debug=31 7160 7161 userpte= 7162 [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7163 7164 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7165 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7166 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7167 7168 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7169 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7170 7171 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7172 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7173 7174 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7175 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7176 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7177 7178 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7179 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7180 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7181 7182 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7183 alias for vdso32=0. 7184 7185 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7186 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7187 7188 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 7189 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 7190 7191 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7192 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7193 7194 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7195 Format: [0|1] 7196 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7197 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7198 level and then send out the event to user space through 7199 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7200 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7201 brightness level. 7202 default: 1 7203 7204 virtio_mmio.device= 7205 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7206 7207 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7208 where: 7209 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7210 like K, M and G) 7211 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7212 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7213 request_irq()) 7214 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7215 example: 7216 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7217 7218 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7219 7220 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7221 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7222 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7223 Use vga=ask for menu. 7224 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7225 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7226 7227 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7228 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7229 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7230 All options are enabled by default, and this 7231 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7232 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7233 debugging features. 7234 7235 Available options are: 7236 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7237 - Disable all of the above options 7238 7239 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7240 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7241 the minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be 7242 used to decrease the size and leave more room 7243 for directly mapped kernel RAM. 7244 7245 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7246 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7247 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7248 7249 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7250 Format: <command> 7251 7252 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7253 Format: <command> 7254 7255 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7256 Format: <command> 7257 7258 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7259 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7260 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7261 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7262 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7263 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7264 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7265 7266 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7267 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7268 readable. 7269 7270 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7271 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7272 page is not readable. 7273 7274 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7275 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7276 might break your system. 7277 7278 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7279 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7280 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7281 7282 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7283 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7284 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7285 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7286 7287 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7288 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7289 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7290 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7291 ranging from 0-255. 7292 7293 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7294 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7295 Change the default green palette of the console. 7296 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7297 ranging from 0-255. 7298 7299 vt.default_red= [VT] 7300 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7301 Change the default red palette of the console. 7302 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7303 ranging from 0-255. 7304 7305 vt.default_utf8= 7306 [VT] 7307 Format=<0|1> 7308 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7309 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7310 newly opened terminals. 7311 7312 vt.global_cursor_default= 7313 [VT] 7314 Format=<-1|0|1> 7315 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7316 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7317 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7318 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7319 cursors, 1 will display them. 7320 7321 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7322 Default: 2 = green. 7323 7324 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7325 Default: 3 = cyan. 7326 7327 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7328 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7329 or other driver-specific files in the 7330 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7331 7332 watchdog_thresh= 7333 [KNL] 7334 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7335 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7336 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7337 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7338 seconds. 7339 7340 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7341 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7342 to use in unbound workqueues. 7343 Format: <cpu-list> 7344 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7345 unbound workqueues. 7346 7347 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7348 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7349 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7350 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7351 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7352 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7353 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7354 corresponding sysfs file. 7355 7356 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7357 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7358 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7359 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7360 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7361 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7362 7363 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7364 will report the work functions which violate this 7365 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7366 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7367 7368 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7369 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7370 will report the work functions which violate the 7371 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7372 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7373 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7374 7375 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7376 7377 workqueue.power_efficient 7378 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7379 they show better performance thanks to cache 7380 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7381 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7382 7383 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7384 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7385 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7386 power usage at the cost of small performance 7387 overhead. 7388 7389 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7390 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7391 7392 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7393 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7394 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7395 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7396 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7397 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7398 7399 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7400 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7401 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7402 updated accordingly. 7403 7404 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7405 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7406 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7407 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7408 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7409 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7410 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7411 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7412 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7413 impacted. 7414 7415 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7416 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7417 7418 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7419 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7420 7421 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7422 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7423 supporting x2apic. 7424 7425 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7426 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7427 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7428 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7429 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7430 domains. 7431 7432 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7433 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7434 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7435 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7436 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7437 nics -- unplug network devices 7438 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7439 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7440 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7441 the unplug protocol 7442 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7443 7444 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7445 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7446 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7447 7448 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7449 Format: <bool> 7450 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7451 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7452 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7453 7454 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7455 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 7456 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 7457 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7458 7459 xen_nopv [X86] 7460 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7461 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7462 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7463 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7464 7465 xen_no_vector_callback 7466 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7467 event channel interrupts. 7468 7469 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7470 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7471 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7472 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7473 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7474 7475 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7476 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7477 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7478 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7479 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7480 more timer interrupts. 7481 7482 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7483 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7484 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7485 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7486 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7487 max. Default is 180. 7488 7489 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7490 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7491 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7492 7493 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7494 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7495 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7496 7497 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7498 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7499 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7500 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7501 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7502 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7503 7504 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7505 Format: 7506 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7507 7508 xive= [PPC] 7509 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7510 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7511 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7512 7513 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7514 controller on both pseries and powernv 7515 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7516 7517 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7518 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7519 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7520 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7521 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7522 7523 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7524 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7525 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7526 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7527 7528 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 7529 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7530 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7531 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7532 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7533 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7534 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7535 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7536 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7537 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7538 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7539 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7540 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7541 can be written using xmon commands. 7542 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7543 memory, and other data can't be written using 7544 xmon commands. 7545 off xmon is disabled. 7546