1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt | nospcr } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 25 default _serial_ console on ARM64 26 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 27 "acpi=nospcr" are available 28 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 29 are available 30 31 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 32 33 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 34 Format: <int> 35 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 36 1,0: use 1st APIC table 37 default: 0 38 39 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 40 { vendor | video | native | none } 41 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 42 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 43 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 44 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 45 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 46 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 47 48 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 49 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 50 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 51 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 52 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 53 54 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 55 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 56 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 57 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 58 This option is useful for developers to identify the 59 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 60 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 61 62 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 63 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 64 Format: <int> 65 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 66 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 67 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 68 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 69 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 70 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 71 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 72 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 73 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 74 debug layers and levels. 75 76 Enable processor driver info messages: 77 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 78 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 79 object while interpreting AML: 80 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 81 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 82 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 83 84 Some values produce so much output that the system is 85 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 86 if you need to capture more output. 87 88 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 89 { strict | lax | no } 90 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 91 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 92 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 93 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 94 can interfere with legacy drivers. 95 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 96 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 97 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 98 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 99 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 100 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 101 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 102 no further checks are performed. 103 104 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 105 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 106 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 107 size limitation. 108 109 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will balance active IRQs 111 default in APIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 115 default in PIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 121 use by PCI 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 125 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 126 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 127 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 128 the GPE dispatcher. 129 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 130 GPE floodings. 131 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 132 133 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 134 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 135 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 136 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 137 auto-serialization feature. 138 This feature is enabled by default. 139 This option allows to turn off the feature. 140 141 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 142 kernels. 143 144 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 145 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 146 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 147 installed automatically and they will appear under 148 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 149 This option turns off this feature. 150 Note that specifying this option does not affect 151 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 152 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 153 154 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 155 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 156 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 157 158 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 159 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 160 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 161 second kernel for kdump. 162 163 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 164 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 165 166 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 167 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 168 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 169 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 170 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 171 172 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 173 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 174 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 175 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 176 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 177 strings 178 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 179 strings 180 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 181 182 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 183 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 184 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 185 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 186 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 187 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 188 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 189 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 190 care about the state of the feature group strings which 191 should be controlled by the OSPM. 192 Examples: 193 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 194 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 195 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 196 197 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 198 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 199 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 200 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 201 multiple times through kernel command line is also 202 meaningless. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 205 FALSE. 206 207 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 208 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 209 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 210 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 211 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 212 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 213 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 214 there are quirks related to this string. This command 215 is useful when one want to control the state of the 216 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 217 the OSPM features. 218 Examples: 219 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 220 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 221 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 222 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 223 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 224 equivalent to 225 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 226 and 227 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 228 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 229 230 acpi_pm_good [X86] 231 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 232 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 233 and always returns good values. 234 235 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 236 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 237 238 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 239 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 240 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 241 242 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 243 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 244 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 245 sci_force_enable, nobl } 246 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 247 s3_bios and s3_mode. 248 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 249 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 250 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 251 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 252 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 253 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 254 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 255 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 256 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 257 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 258 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 259 used (or even warned about) during resume. 260 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 261 control method, with respect to putting devices into 262 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 263 of _PTS is used by default). 264 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 265 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 266 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 267 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 268 but some broken systems don't work without it). 269 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 270 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 271 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 272 273 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 274 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 275 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 276 277 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 278 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 279 280 agp= [AGP] 281 { off | try_unsupported } 282 off: disable AGP support 283 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 284 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 285 286 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 287 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 288 289 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 290 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 291 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 292 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 293 294 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 295 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 296 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 297 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 298 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 299 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 300 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 301 302 32: only for 32-bit processes 303 64: only for 64-bit processes 304 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 305 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 306 307 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 308 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 309 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 310 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 311 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 312 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 313 314 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 315 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 316 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 317 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 318 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 319 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 320 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 321 322 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 323 information. 324 325 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 326 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 327 Possible values are: 328 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 329 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 330 the system 331 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 332 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 333 allowed anymore to lift isolation 334 requirements as needed. This option 335 does not override iommu=pt 336 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 337 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 338 option with care. 339 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 340 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 341 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 342 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 343 to 4 KiB. 344 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 345 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB. 346 347 348 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 349 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 350 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 351 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 352 IOMMU initialization. 353 354 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 355 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 356 remapping modes: 357 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 358 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 359 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 360 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 361 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 362 363 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 364 disable 365 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 366 scaling driver for the supported processors 367 passive 368 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 369 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 370 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 371 tries to match the same performance level if it is 372 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 373 active 374 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 375 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 376 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 377 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 378 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 379 frequency. 380 guided 381 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 382 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 383 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 384 to the current workload. 385 386 amd_prefcore= 387 [X86] 388 disable 389 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 390 391 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 392 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 393 Format: <a>,<b> 394 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 395 396 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 397 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 398 connected to one of 16 gameports 399 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 400 401 apc= [HW,SPARC] 402 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 403 Format: noidle 404 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 405 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 406 APC and your system crashes randomly. 407 408 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 409 Change the output verbosity while booting 410 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 411 Change the amount of debugging information output 412 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 413 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 414 driver name. 415 Format: apic=driver_name 416 Examples: apic=bigsmp 417 418 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 419 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 420 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 421 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 422 backup of CPU 0 423 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 424 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 425 shot down by NMI 426 427 autoconf= [IPV6] 428 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 429 430 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 431 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 432 433 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 434 Format: { "0" | "1" } 435 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 436 0 -- disable. 437 1 -- enable. 438 Default value is set via kernel config option. 439 440 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 441 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 442 443 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 444 32 bit applications. 445 446 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 447 Identification support 448 449 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack 450 support 451 452 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 453 Set instructions support 454 455 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 456 support 457 458 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 459 support 460 461 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 462 Extension support 463 464 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 465 Extension support 466 467 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 468 469 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 470 471 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 472 EzKey and similar keyboards 473 474 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 475 476 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 477 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 478 479 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 480 keyboards 481 482 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 483 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 484 485 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 486 Use software keyboard repeat 487 488 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 489 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 490 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 491 enabled until the next reboot 492 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 493 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 494 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 495 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 496 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 497 userspace auditd. 498 Default: unset 499 500 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 501 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 502 Default: 64 503 504 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 505 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 506 Format: { "0" | "1" } 507 0 - Disable the BAU. 508 1 - Enable the BAU. 509 unset - Disable the BAU. 510 511 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 512 Format: <io>,<mode> 513 514 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 515 Format: <io>,<mode> 516 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 517 518 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 519 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 520 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 521 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 522 523 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 524 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 525 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 526 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 527 528 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 529 Format: <bool> 530 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 531 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 532 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 533 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 534 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 535 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 536 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 537 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 538 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 539 540 bert_disable [ACPI] 541 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 542 543 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 544 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 545 546 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 547 embedded devices based on command line input. 548 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 549 550 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 551 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 552 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 553 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 554 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 555 erroneous and ignored. 556 Format: integer 557 558 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 559 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 560 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 561 562 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 563 564 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 565 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 566 kernel args too. 567 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 568 bttv.tuner= 569 570 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 571 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 572 at a time. 573 574 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 575 576 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 577 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 578 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 579 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 580 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 581 This option provides an override for these situations. 582 583 carrier_timeout= 584 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 585 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 586 it waits 120 seconds. 587 588 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 589 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 590 trust validation. 591 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 592 593 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 594 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 595 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 596 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 597 others). 598 599 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 600 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 601 602 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 603 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 604 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 605 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 606 a single hierarchy 607 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 608 subsystem 609 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 610 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 611 created 612 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 613 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 614 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 615 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 616 stall information accounting feature 617 618 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 619 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 620 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 621 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 622 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 623 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 624 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 625 all v1 hierarchies. 626 627 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 628 Format: { "true" | "false" } 629 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 630 631 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 632 Format: <string> 633 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 634 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 635 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 636 637 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 638 Format: { "0" | "1" } 639 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 640 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 641 any implied execute protection). 642 1 -- check protection requested by application. 643 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 644 Value can be changed at runtime via 645 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 646 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 647 648 cio_ignore= [S390] 649 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 650 651 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 652 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 653 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 654 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 655 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 656 ones should be. 657 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 658 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 659 instability issue. However, not all features have names 660 in /proc/cpuinfo. 661 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 662 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 663 or using the feature without checking anything 664 will still see it. This just prevents it from 665 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 666 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 667 some critical bits. 668 669 clk_ignore_unused 670 [CLK] 671 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 672 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 673 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 674 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 675 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 676 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 677 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 678 platform with proper driver support. For more 679 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 680 681 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 682 [Deprecated] 683 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 684 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 685 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 686 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 687 688 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 689 Format: <string> 690 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 691 with the name specified. 692 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 693 the platform: 694 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 695 [ACPI] acpi_pm 696 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 697 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 698 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 699 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 700 [MIPS] MIPS 701 [PARISC] cr16 702 [S390] tod 703 [SH] SuperH 704 [SPARC64] tick 705 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 706 707 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 708 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 709 Format: <bool> 710 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 711 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 712 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 713 systems. 714 715 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 716 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 717 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 718 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 719 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 720 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 721 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 722 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 723 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 724 725 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 726 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 727 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 728 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 729 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 730 731 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 732 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 733 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 734 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 735 placement constraint by the physical address range of 736 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 737 altogether. For more information, see 738 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 739 740 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 741 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 742 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 743 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 744 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 745 specified, the default value is 0. 746 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 747 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 748 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 749 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 750 751 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 752 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 753 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 754 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 755 area for the specified node. 756 757 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 758 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 759 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 760 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 761 762 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 763 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 764 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 765 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 766 a hypervisor. 767 Default: yes 768 769 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 770 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 771 allocations, by default set to 256K. 772 773 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 774 Format: 775 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 776 777 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 778 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 779 780 com90xx= [HW,NET] 781 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 782 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 783 784 condev= [HW,S390] console device 785 conmode= 786 787 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 788 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 789 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 790 the console buffer is full. In this case the 791 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 792 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 793 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 794 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 795 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 796 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 797 798 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 799 800 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 801 802 ttyS<n>[,options] 803 ttyUSB0[,options] 804 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 805 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 806 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 807 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 808 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 809 810 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 811 information. See 812 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 813 alternative. 814 815 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 816 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 817 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 818 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 819 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 820 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 821 822 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 823 can be viewed with: 824 825 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 826 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 827 828 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 829 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 830 way will only get added when the related device driver 831 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 832 the console may be desired for console output early on. 833 834 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 835 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 836 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 837 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 838 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 839 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 840 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 841 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 842 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 843 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 844 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 845 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 846 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 847 the h/w is not re-initialized. 848 849 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 850 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 851 852 { null | "" } 853 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 854 console messages discarded. 855 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 856 kernel command line. 857 858 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 859 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 860 console=brl,ttyS0 861 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 862 863 console_msg_format= 864 [KNL] Change console messages format 865 default 866 By default we print messages on consoles in 867 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 868 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 869 `printk_time' param). 870 syslog 871 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 872 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 873 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 874 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 875 from /proc/kmsg. 876 877 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 878 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 879 Defaults to 0. 880 881 coredump_filter= 882 [KNL] Change the default value for 883 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 884 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 885 886 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 887 [ARM,ARM64] 888 Format: <bool> 889 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 890 0: default value, disable debugging 891 1: enable debugging at boot time 892 893 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 894 Format: 895 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 896 897 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 898 disable the cpuidle sub-system 899 900 cpuidle.governor= 901 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 902 903 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 904 disable the cpufreq sub-system 905 906 cpufreq.default_governor= 907 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 908 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 909 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 910 911 cpu_init_udelay=N 912 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 913 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 914 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 915 Default: 10000 916 917 cpuhp.parallel= 918 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 919 Format: <bool> 920 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 921 the parameter has no effect. 922 923 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 924 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 925 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 926 succeeds in any situation. 927 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 928 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 929 kernel more unstable. 930 931 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 932 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 933 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 934 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 935 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 936 is selected automatically. 937 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 938 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 939 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 940 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 941 942 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 943 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 944 in the running system. The syntax of range is 945 start-[end] where start and end are both 946 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 947 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 948 949 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 950 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 951 above 4G. 952 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 953 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 954 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 955 below 4G, if available. 956 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 957 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 958 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 959 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 960 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 961 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 962 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 963 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 964 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 965 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 966 size is platform dependent. 967 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 968 --> arm64: 128MiB 969 --> riscv: 128MiB 970 --> loongarch: 128MiB 971 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 972 for second kernel instead. 973 0: to disable low allocation. 974 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 975 or memory reserved is below 4G. 976 977 cryptomgr.notests 978 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 979 980 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 981 Format: <dma> 982 983 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 984 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 985 986 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 987 function call handling. When switched on, 988 additional debug data is printed to the console 989 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 990 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 991 the hang situation. The default value of this 992 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 993 Kconfig option. 994 995 dasd= [HW,NET] 996 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 997 998 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 999 (one device per port) 1000 Format: <port#>,<type> 1001 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1002 1003 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 1004 1005 debug_boot_weak_hash 1006 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 1007 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1008 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1009 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1010 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1011 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1012 1013 debug_locks_verbose= 1014 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1015 Format: <int> 1016 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1017 self-tests. 1018 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1019 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1020 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1021 useful to lockdep developers. 1022 1023 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1024 1025 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1026 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1027 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1028 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1029 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1030 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1031 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1032 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1033 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1034 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1035 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1036 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1037 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1038 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1039 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1040 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1041 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1042 help tracking down these problems. 1043 1044 debug_pagealloc= 1045 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1046 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1047 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1048 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1049 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1050 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1051 on: enable the feature 1052 1053 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1054 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1055 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1056 on: All functions are enabled. 1057 no-mount: 1058 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1059 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1060 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1061 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1062 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1063 or directories within debugfs. 1064 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1065 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1066 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1067 1068 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1069 1070 default_hugepagesz= 1071 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1072 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1073 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1074 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1075 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1076 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1077 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1078 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1079 Format: size[KMG] 1080 1081 deferred_probe_timeout= 1082 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1083 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1084 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1085 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1086 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1087 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1088 successful driver registration. This option will also 1089 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1090 retrying. 1091 1092 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1093 1094 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1095 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1096 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1097 hardware. 1098 1099 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1100 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1101 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1102 blacklisted features. 1103 1104 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1105 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1106 (disabled by default). 1107 1108 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1109 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1110 capability is set. 1111 1112 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1113 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1114 1115 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1116 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1117 1118 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1119 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1120 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1121 level 1 and decompression (default) 1122 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1123 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1124 only (compression on level 1) 1125 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1126 only (decompression) 1127 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1128 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1129 1130 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1131 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1132 1133 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1134 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1135 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1136 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1137 miss to occur. 1138 1139 disable= [IPV6] 1140 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1141 1142 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1143 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1144 1145 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1146 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1147 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1148 1149 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1150 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1151 to workaround buggy firmware. 1152 1153 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1154 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1155 1156 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1157 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1158 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1159 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1160 1161 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1162 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1163 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1164 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1165 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1166 1167 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1168 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1169 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1170 1171 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1172 1173 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1174 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1175 1176 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1177 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1178 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1179 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1180 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1181 architectural default is too low. 1182 1183 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1184 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1185 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1186 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1187 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1188 driver later using sysfs. 1189 1190 reg_file_data_sampling= 1191 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1192 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1193 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1194 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1195 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1196 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1197 1198 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1199 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1200 1201 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1202 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1203 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1204 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1205 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1206 1207 For details see: 1208 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1209 1210 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1211 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1212 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1213 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1214 match the *. 1215 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1216 1217 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1218 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1219 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1220 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1221 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1222 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1223 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1224 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1225 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1226 data set with no connector name will be used for 1227 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1228 1229 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1230 1231 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1232 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1233 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1234 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1235 exists). 1236 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1237 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1238 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1239 1240 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1241 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1242 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1243 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1244 1245 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1246 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1247 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1248 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1249 for details. 1250 1251 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1252 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1253 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1254 which are not unmapped. 1255 1256 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1257 1258 When used with no options, the early console is 1259 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1260 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1261 the platform. 1262 1263 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1264 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1265 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1266 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1267 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1268 configured. 1269 1270 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1271 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1272 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1273 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1274 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1275 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1276 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1277 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1278 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1279 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1280 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1281 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1282 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1283 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1284 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1285 1286 pl011,<addr> 1287 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1288 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1289 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1290 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1291 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1292 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1293 the device registers. 1294 1295 liteuart,<addr> 1296 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1297 specified address. The serial port must already be 1298 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1299 1300 meson,<addr> 1301 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1302 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1303 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1304 supported. 1305 1306 msm_serial,<addr> 1307 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1308 port at the specified address. The serial port 1309 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1310 yet supported. 1311 1312 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1313 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1314 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1315 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1316 yet supported. 1317 1318 owl,<addr> 1319 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1320 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1321 specified address. The serial port must already be 1322 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1323 1324 rda,<addr> 1325 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1326 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1327 specified address. The serial port must already be 1328 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1329 1330 sbi 1331 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1332 console. 1333 1334 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1335 1336 s3c2410,<addr> 1337 s3c2412,<addr> 1338 s3c2440,<addr> 1339 s3c6400,<addr> 1340 s5pv210,<addr> 1341 exynos4210,<addr> 1342 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1343 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1344 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1345 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1346 Options are not yet supported. 1347 1348 lantiq,<addr> 1349 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1350 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1351 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1352 yet supported. 1353 1354 lpuart,<addr> 1355 lpuart32,<addr> 1356 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1357 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1358 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1359 port must already be setup and configured. 1360 1361 ec_imx21,<addr> 1362 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1363 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1364 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1365 must already be setup and configured. 1366 1367 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1368 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1369 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1370 address. The serial port must already be setup 1371 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1372 1373 qcom_geni,<addr> 1374 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1375 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1376 specified address. The serial port must already be 1377 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1378 1379 efifb,[options] 1380 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1381 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1382 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1383 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1384 mapped with the correct attributes. 1385 1386 linflex,<addr> 1387 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1388 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1389 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1390 already be setup and configured. 1391 1392 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1393 earlyprintk=vga 1394 earlyprintk=sclp 1395 earlyprintk=xen 1396 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1397 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1398 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1399 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1400 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1401 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1402 earlyprintk=bios 1403 1404 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1405 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1406 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1407 1408 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1409 takes over. 1410 1411 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1412 be used at a time. 1413 1414 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1415 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1416 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1417 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1418 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1419 You can find the port for a given device in 1420 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1421 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1422 1423 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1424 very good. 1425 1426 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1427 the real console. 1428 1429 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1430 1431 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1432 1433 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1434 1435 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1436 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1437 UART class. 1438 1439 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1440 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1441 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1442 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1443 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1444 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1445 default: on. 1446 1447 edd= [EDD] 1448 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1449 1450 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1451 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1452 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1453 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1454 debug: enable misc debug output. 1455 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1456 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1457 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1458 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1459 firmware implementations. 1460 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1461 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1462 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1463 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1464 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1465 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1466 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1467 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1468 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1469 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1470 1471 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1472 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1473 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1474 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1475 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1476 1477 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1478 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1479 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1480 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1481 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1482 1483 1484 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1485 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1486 1487 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1488 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1489 1490 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1491 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1492 1493 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1494 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1495 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1496 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1497 1498 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1499 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1500 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1501 1502 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1503 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1504 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1505 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1506 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1507 1508 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1509 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1510 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1511 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1512 1513 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1514 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1515 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1516 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1517 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1518 1519 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1520 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1521 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1522 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1523 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1524 Default value is 0. 1525 Value can be changed at runtime via 1526 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1527 1528 erst_disable [ACPI] 1529 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1530 support. 1531 1532 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1533 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1534 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1535 1536 evm= [EVM] 1537 Format: { "fix" } 1538 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1539 current integrity status. 1540 1541 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1542 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1543 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1544 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1545 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1546 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1547 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1548 1549 failslab= 1550 fail_usercopy= 1551 fail_page_alloc= 1552 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1553 General fault injection mechanism. 1554 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1555 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1556 1557 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1558 Format: { initns | none } 1559 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1560 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1561 1562 floppy= [HW] 1563 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1564 1565 forcepae [X86-32] 1566 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1567 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1568 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1569 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1570 and may cause unknown problems. 1571 1572 fred= [X86-64] 1573 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1574 Format: { on | off } 1575 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1576 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1577 1578 ftrace=[tracer] 1579 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1580 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1581 boot debugging. 1582 1583 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1584 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1585 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1586 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1587 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1588 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1589 start up functionality. 1590 1591 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1592 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1593 line parameter. 1594 1595 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1596 1597 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1598 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1599 1600 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1601 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1602 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1603 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1604 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1605 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1606 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1607 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1608 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1609 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1610 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1611 1612 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1613 1614 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1615 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1616 1617 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1618 1619 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1620 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1621 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1622 1623 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1624 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1625 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1626 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1627 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1628 tracing directory. 1629 1630 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1631 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1632 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1633 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1634 tracing directory. 1635 1636 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1637 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1638 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1639 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1640 that can be changed at run time by the 1641 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1642 1643 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1644 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1645 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1646 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1647 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1648 1649 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1650 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1651 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1652 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1653 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1654 1655 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1656 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1657 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1658 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1659 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1660 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1661 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1662 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1663 suppliers). 1664 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1665 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1666 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1667 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1668 up (sync_state() calls). 1669 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1670 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1671 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1672 1673 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1674 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1675 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1676 Format: <bool> 1677 1678 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1679 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1680 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1681 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1682 calls. 1683 Format: { strict | timeout } 1684 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1685 probe successfully. 1686 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1687 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1688 received their sync_state() calls after 1689 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1690 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1691 1692 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1693 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1694 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1695 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1696 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1697 1698 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1699 1700 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1701 Format: off | on 1702 default: on 1703 1704 gather_data_sampling= 1705 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1706 mitigation. 1707 1708 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1709 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1710 previously stored in vector registers. 1711 1712 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1713 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1714 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1715 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1716 1717 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1718 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1719 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1720 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1721 1722 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1723 1724 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1725 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1726 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1727 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1728 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1729 1730 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1731 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1732 android emulator 1733 1734 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1735 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1736 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1737 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1738 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1739 1740 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1741 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1742 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1743 GPT to be used instead. 1744 1745 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1746 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1747 Format: 0 | 1 1748 Default: 0 1749 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1750 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1751 Format: 0 | 1 1752 Default: 0 1753 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1754 Format: 0 | 1 1755 Default: 0 1756 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1757 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1758 Default: 1024 1759 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1760 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1761 Default: 1024 1762 1763 hardened_usercopy= 1764 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1765 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1766 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1767 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1768 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1769 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1770 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1771 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1772 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1773 1774 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1775 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1776 backtraces on all cpus. 1777 Format: 0 | 1 1778 1779 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1780 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1781 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1782 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1783 1784 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1785 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1786 1787 hest_disable [ACPI] 1788 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1789 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1790 logic will be disabled. 1791 1792 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1793 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1794 present during boot. 1795 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1796 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1797 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1798 (that will set all pages holding image data 1799 during restoration read-only). 1800 1801 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1802 used with hibernation. 1803 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1804 Default: lzo 1805 1806 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1807 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1808 1809 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1810 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1811 1812 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1813 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1814 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1815 size on bigger boxes. 1816 1817 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1818 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1819 Default: "on" 1820 1821 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1822 1823 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1824 Format: <string> 1825 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1826 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1827 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1828 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1829 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1830 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1831 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1832 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1833 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1834 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1835 1836 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1837 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1838 verbose } 1839 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1840 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1841 VIA, nVidia) 1842 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1843 1844 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1845 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1846 1847 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1848 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1849 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1850 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1851 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1852 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1853 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1854 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1855 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1856 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1857 1858 hugepagesz= 1859 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1860 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1861 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1862 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1863 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1864 architecture dependent. See also 1865 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1866 Format: size[KMG] 1867 1868 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1869 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1870 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1871 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1872 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1873 1874 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1875 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1876 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1877 1878 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1879 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1880 enabled. 1881 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1882 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1883 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1884 Format: { on | off (default) } 1885 1886 on: enable HVO 1887 off: disable HVO 1888 1889 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1890 the default is on. 1891 1892 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1893 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1894 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1895 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1896 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1897 1898 hung_task_panic= 1899 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1900 Format: 0 | 1 1901 1902 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1903 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1904 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1905 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1906 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1907 1908 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1909 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1910 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1911 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1912 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1913 1914 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1915 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1916 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1917 on lock contention. 1918 1919 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1920 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1921 registered from board initialization code. 1922 Format: 1923 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1924 1925 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1926 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1927 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1928 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1929 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1930 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1931 1932 Format: 1933 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1934 Where <val> is one of: 1935 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1936 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1937 Anything else Set a string device-property 1938 1939 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1940 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1941 touchscreen-inverted-y 1942 1943 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1944 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1945 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1946 1947 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1948 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1949 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1950 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1951 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1952 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1953 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1954 keyboard and cannot control its state 1955 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1956 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1957 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1958 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1959 for the AUX port 1960 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1961 controller 1962 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1963 controllers 1964 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1965 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1966 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1967 transitions, or never reset 1968 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1969 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1970 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1971 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1972 architectures force reset to be always executed 1973 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1974 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1975 i8042.probe_defer 1976 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1977 1978 i810= [HW,DRM] 1979 1980 i915.invert_brightness= 1981 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1982 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1983 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1984 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1985 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1986 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1987 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1988 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1989 value switches the backlight off. 1990 -1 -- never invert brightness 1991 0 -- machine default 1992 1 -- force brightness inversion 1993 1994 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1995 Format: <bool> 1996 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1997 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1998 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1999 2000 icn= [HW,ISDN] 2001 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 2002 2003 2004 idle= [X86,EARLY] 2005 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 2006 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 2007 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 2008 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 2009 Not recommended. 2010 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2011 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2012 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2013 2014 idxd.sva= [HW] 2015 Format: <bool> 2016 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2017 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2018 true (1). 2019 2020 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2021 Format: <bool> 2022 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2023 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2024 2025 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2026 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2027 Default: strict 2028 2029 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2030 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2031 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2032 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2033 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2034 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2035 encoding mode. 2036 2037 Available settings are as follows: 2038 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2039 supported by the FPU 2040 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2041 by the FPU 2042 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2043 by the FPU 2044 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2045 supported by the FPU 2046 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2047 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2048 2049 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2050 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2051 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2052 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2053 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2054 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2055 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2056 MIPS64 CPUs. 2057 2058 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2059 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2060 except where unsupported by hardware. 2061 2062 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2063 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2064 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2065 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2066 could change it dynamically, usually by 2067 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2068 2069 ignore_rlimit_data 2070 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2071 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2072 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2073 2074 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2075 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2076 2077 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2078 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2079 default: "enforce" 2080 2081 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2082 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2083 owned by uid=0. 2084 2085 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2086 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2087 measurements, instead of host native format. 2088 2089 ima_hash= [IMA] 2090 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2091 | sha512 | ... } 2092 default: "sha1" 2093 2094 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2095 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2096 2097 ima_policy= [IMA] 2098 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2099 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2100 fail_securely | critical_data" 2101 2102 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2103 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2104 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2105 uid=0. 2106 2107 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2108 all files owned by root. 2109 2110 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2111 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2112 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2113 2114 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2115 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2116 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2117 flag. 2118 2119 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2120 critical data. 2121 2122 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2123 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2124 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2125 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2126 opened for read by uid=0. 2127 2128 ima_template= [IMA] 2129 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2130 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2131 "ima-sigv2" } 2132 Default: "ima-ng" 2133 2134 ima_template_fmt= 2135 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2136 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2137 2138 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2139 Format: <min_file_size> 2140 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2141 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2142 2143 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2144 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2145 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2146 2147 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2148 Format: <bufsize> 2149 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2150 2151 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2152 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2153 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2154 2155 init= [KNL] 2156 Format: <full_path> 2157 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2158 process. 2159 2160 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2161 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2162 startup. 2163 2164 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2165 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2166 modules and initcalls. 2167 2168 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2169 Format: <bool> 2170 Default: 1 2171 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2172 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2173 with devices being probed and 2174 initialized. This should normally just work, 2175 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2176 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2177 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2178 late_ initcalls. 2179 2180 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2181 2182 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2183 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2184 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2185 setting. 2186 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2187 Default is 0, 0 2188 2189 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2190 zeroes. 2191 Format: 0 | 1 2192 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2193 2194 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2195 Format: 0 | 1 2196 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2197 2198 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2199 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2200 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2201 override in debugfs after boot. 2202 2203 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2204 Format: <irq> 2205 2206 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2207 2208 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2209 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2210 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2211 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2212 2213 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2214 on 2215 Enable intel iommu driver. 2216 off 2217 Disable intel iommu driver. 2218 igfx_off [Default Off] 2219 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2220 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2221 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2222 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2223 DMA. 2224 strict [Default Off] 2225 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2226 sp_off [Default Off] 2227 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2228 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2229 not be supported. 2230 sm_on 2231 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2232 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2233 translation. 2234 sm_off 2235 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2236 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2237 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2238 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2239 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2240 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2241 mapping is enabled. 2242 Note that using this option lowers the security 2243 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2244 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2245 2246 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2247 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2248 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2249 2250 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2251 disable 2252 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2253 scaling driver for the supported processors 2254 active 2255 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2256 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2257 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2258 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2259 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2260 performance. The way they both operate depends 2261 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2262 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2263 and possibly on the processor model. 2264 passive 2265 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2266 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2267 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2268 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2269 feature. 2270 force 2271 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2272 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2273 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2274 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2275 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2276 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2277 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2278 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2279 no_hwp 2280 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2281 if available. 2282 hwp_only 2283 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2284 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2285 support_acpi_ppc 2286 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2287 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2288 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2289 then this feature is turned on by default. 2290 per_cpu_perf_limits 2291 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2292 cpufreq sysfs interface 2293 2294 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2295 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2296 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2297 nosid disable Source ID checking 2298 no_x2apic_optout 2299 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2300 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2301 posted_msi 2302 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2303 2304 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2305 strict regions from userspace. 2306 relaxed 2307 2308 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2309 off 2310 force 2311 noforce 2312 biomerge 2313 panic 2314 nopanic 2315 merge 2316 nomerge 2317 soft 2318 pt [X86] 2319 nopt [X86] 2320 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2321 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2322 2323 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2324 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2325 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2326 falling back to the full range if needed. 2327 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2328 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2329 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2330 2331 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2332 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2333 0 - Lazy mode. 2334 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2335 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2336 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2337 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2338 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2339 1 - Strict mode. 2340 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2341 synchronously. 2342 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2343 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2344 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2345 2346 iommu.passthrough= 2347 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2348 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2349 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2350 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2351 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2352 2353 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2354 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2355 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2356 2357 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2358 0x80 2359 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2360 0xed 2361 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2362 udelay 2363 Simple two microseconds delay 2364 none 2365 No delay 2366 2367 ip= [IP_PNP] 2368 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2369 2370 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2371 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2372 2373 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2374 Format: <bool> 2375 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2376 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2377 2378 ipe.success_audit= 2379 [IPE] 2380 Format: <bool> 2381 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2382 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2383 is 0. 2384 2385 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2386 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2387 2388 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2389 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2390 Format: <bool> 2391 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2392 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2393 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2394 2395 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2396 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2397 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2398 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2399 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2400 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2401 LPIs. 2402 2403 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2404 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2405 requires the kernel to be built with 2406 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2407 2408 irqfixup [HW] 2409 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2410 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2411 firmware running. 2412 2413 irqpoll [HW] 2414 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2415 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2416 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2417 firmware running. 2418 2419 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2420 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2421 2422 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2423 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2424 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2425 2426 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2427 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2428 2429 nohz 2430 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2431 2432 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2433 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2434 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2435 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2436 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2437 2438 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2439 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2440 be configured manually after bootup. 2441 2442 domain 2443 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2444 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2445 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2446 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2447 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2448 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2449 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2450 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2451 2452 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2453 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2454 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2455 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2456 2457 managed_irq 2458 2459 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2460 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2461 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2462 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2463 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2464 2465 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2466 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2467 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2468 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2469 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2470 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2471 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2472 2473 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2474 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2475 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2476 only delivered when tasks running on those 2477 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2478 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2479 queues. 2480 2481 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2482 2483 iucv= [HW,NET] 2484 2485 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2486 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2487 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2488 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2489 2490 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2491 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2492 write the parameter as: 2493 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2494 2495 Deprecated formats: 2496 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2497 write the parameter as: 2498 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2499 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2500 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2501 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2502 2503 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2504 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2505 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2506 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2507 2508 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2509 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2510 write the parameter as: 2511 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2512 2513 Deprecated formats: 2514 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2515 write the parameter as: 2516 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2517 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2518 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2519 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2520 2521 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2522 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2523 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2524 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2525 2526 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2527 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2528 write the parameter as: 2529 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2530 2531 Deprecated formats: 2532 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2533 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2534 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2535 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2536 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2537 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2538 2539 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2540 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2541 2542 kasan_multi_shot 2543 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2544 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2545 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2546 invalid access. 2547 2548 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2549 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2550 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2551 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2552 the real console. 2553 2554 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2555 2556 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2557 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2558 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2559 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2560 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2561 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2562 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2563 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2564 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2565 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2566 2567 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2568 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2569 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2570 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2571 zone if it does not. 2572 2573 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2574 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2575 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2576 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2577 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2578 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2579 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2580 2581 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2582 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2583 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2584 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2585 optional and is the number seconds in between 2586 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2587 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2588 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2589 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2590 the kernel debugger. 2591 2592 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2593 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2594 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2595 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2596 keyboard only format: kbd 2597 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2598 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2599 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2600 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2601 2602 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2603 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2604 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2605 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2606 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2607 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2608 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2609 2610 The name of the early console should be specified 2611 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2612 the early console might be different than the tty 2613 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2614 blank and the first boot console that implements 2615 read() will be picked. 2616 2617 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2618 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2619 2620 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2621 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2622 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2623 2624 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2625 Valid arguments: on, off 2626 Default: on 2627 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2628 the default is off. 2629 2630 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2631 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2632 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2633 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2634 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2635 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2636 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2637 2638 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2639 2640 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2641 Boot Parameter" section. 2642 2643 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2644 user and kernel address spaces. 2645 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2646 0: force disabled 2647 1: force enabled 2648 2649 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2650 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2651 default value can be overridden via 2652 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2653 Default is 1 (enabled) 2654 2655 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2656 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2657 2658 kvm.eager_page_split= 2659 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2660 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2661 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2662 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2663 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2664 required to split huge pages lazily. 2665 2666 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2667 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2668 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2669 still be used for reads. 2670 2671 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2672 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2673 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2674 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2675 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2676 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2677 cleared. 2678 2679 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2680 2681 Default is Y (on). 2682 2683 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86] 2684 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware 2685 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM 2686 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module). 2687 2688 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable 2689 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying 2690 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the 2691 number of VMs. 2692 2693 Enabling virtualization at module lode avoids potential 2694 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes 2695 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The 2696 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded, 2697 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree 2698 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware. 2699 2700 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2701 Default is false (don't support). 2702 2703 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2704 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2705 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2706 force : Always deploy workaround. 2707 off : Never deploy workaround. 2708 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2709 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2710 2711 Default is 'auto'. 2712 2713 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2714 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2715 2716 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2717 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2718 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2719 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2720 period (see below). The default is 60. 2721 2722 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2723 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2724 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2725 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2726 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2727 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2728 2729 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2730 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2731 2732 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2733 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2734 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2735 for NPT. 2736 2737 kvm-arm.mode= 2738 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2739 operation. 2740 2741 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2742 2743 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2744 protected guests. 2745 2746 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2747 state is kept private from the host. 2748 2749 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2750 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2751 hardware. 2752 2753 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2754 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2755 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2756 used with extreme caution. 2757 2758 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2759 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2760 system registers 2761 2762 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2763 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2764 system registers 2765 2766 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2767 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2768 system registers 2769 2770 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2771 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2772 injection of LPIs. 2773 2774 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2775 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2776 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2777 CPU architecture. 2778 2779 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2780 2781 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2782 2783 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2784 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2785 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2786 CPU architecture. 2787 2788 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2789 2790 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2791 2792 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2793 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2794 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2795 allocation. 2796 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2797 Format: <integer> 2798 Default: 5 2799 2800 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2801 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2802 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2803 for EPT. 2804 2805 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2806 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2807 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2808 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2809 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2810 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2811 Default is 1 (enabled). 2812 2813 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2814 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2815 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2816 hardware lacks support for it. 2817 2818 kvm-intel.nested= 2819 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2820 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2821 2822 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2823 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2824 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2825 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2826 hardware lacks support for it. 2827 2828 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2829 CVE-2018-3620. 2830 2831 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2832 2833 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2834 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2835 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2836 never: Disables the mitigation 2837 2838 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2839 2840 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2841 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2842 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2843 for it. 2844 2845 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2846 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2847 2848 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2849 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2850 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2851 2852 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2853 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2854 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2855 not have direct access. 2856 2857 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2858 options are: 2859 2860 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2861 2862 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2863 affected CPUs 2864 2865 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2866 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2867 2868 full 2869 Provides all available mitigations for the 2870 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2871 enables all mitigations in the 2872 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2873 2874 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2875 sysfs interface is still possible after 2876 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2877 when the first VM is started in a 2878 potentially insecure configuration, 2879 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2880 2881 full,force 2882 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2883 flush runtime control. Implies the 2884 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2885 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2886 2887 flush 2888 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2889 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2890 L1D flush. 2891 2892 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2893 sysfs interface is still possible after 2894 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2895 when the first VM is started in a 2896 potentially insecure configuration, 2897 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2898 2899 flush,nosmt 2900 2901 Disables SMT and enables the default 2902 hypervisor mitigation. 2903 2904 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2905 sysfs interface is still possible after 2906 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2907 when the first VM is started in a 2908 potentially insecure configuration, 2909 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2910 2911 flush,nowarn 2912 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2913 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2914 insecure configuration. 2915 2916 off 2917 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2918 emit any warnings. 2919 It also drops the swap size and available 2920 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2921 bare metal. 2922 2923 Default is 'flush'. 2924 2925 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2926 2927 l2cr= [PPC] 2928 2929 l3cr= [PPC] 2930 2931 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2932 disabled it. 2933 2934 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2935 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2936 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2937 Format: notscdeadline 2938 2939 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 2940 in C2 power state. 2941 2942 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2943 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2944 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2945 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2946 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2947 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2948 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2949 2950 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2951 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2952 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2953 2954 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2955 when set. 2956 Format: <int> 2957 2958 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2959 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2960 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2961 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2962 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2963 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2964 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2965 to all ports, links and devices. 2966 2967 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2968 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2969 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2970 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2971 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2972 host link and device attached to it. 2973 2974 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2975 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2976 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2977 The following configurations can be forced. 2978 2979 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2980 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2981 2982 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2983 2984 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2985 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2986 allowed. 2987 2988 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2989 resets. 2990 2991 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2992 link recovery. 2993 2994 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2995 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2996 detection. 2997 2998 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2999 3000 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 3001 3002 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 3003 3004 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 3005 3006 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 3007 3008 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 3009 3010 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 3011 3012 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 3013 3014 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 3015 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 3016 3017 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 3018 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 3019 3020 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 3021 identify device data log. 3022 3023 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 3024 purpose log directory. 3025 3026 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3027 3028 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3029 1024 sectors. 3030 3031 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3032 65535 sectors. 3033 3034 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3035 3036 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3037 should be skipped. 3038 3039 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3040 support for devices supporting this feature. 3041 3042 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3043 3044 * disable: Disable this device. 3045 3046 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3047 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3048 3049 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3050 3051 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3052 Format: <integer> 3053 3054 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3055 Format: <integer> 3056 3057 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3058 Format: <integer> 3059 3060 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3061 Format: <integer> 3062 3063 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3064 { integrity | confidentiality } 3065 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3066 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3067 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3068 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3069 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3070 are also disabled. 3071 3072 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3073 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3074 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3075 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3076 3077 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3078 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3079 to be bound. 3080 3081 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3082 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3083 to be bound. 3084 3085 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3086 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3087 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3088 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3089 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3090 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3091 3092 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3093 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3094 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3095 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3096 3097 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3098 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3099 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3100 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3101 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3102 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3103 3104 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3105 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3106 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3107 number of online CPUs. 3108 3109 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3110 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3111 3112 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3113 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3114 3115 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3116 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3117 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3118 3119 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3120 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3121 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3122 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3123 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3124 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3125 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3126 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3127 disable boosting. 3128 3129 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3130 Number that determines how often and for how 3131 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3132 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3133 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3134 constant as the number of writers increases. 3135 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3136 increases with the number of writers. 3137 3138 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3139 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3140 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3141 mode during the locktorture test. 3142 3143 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3144 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3145 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3146 3147 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3148 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3149 3150 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3151 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3152 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3153 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3154 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3155 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3156 3157 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3158 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3159 3160 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3161 Enable additional printk() statements. 3162 3163 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3164 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3165 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3166 3167 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3168 Format: <irq> 3169 3170 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3171 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3172 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3173 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3174 loglevels are defined as follows: 3175 3176 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3177 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3178 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3179 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3180 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3181 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3182 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3183 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3184 3185 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3186 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3187 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3188 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3189 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3190 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3191 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3192 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3193 for more details. 3194 3195 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3196 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3197 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3198 kernel boot problems. 3199 3200 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3201 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3202 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3203 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3204 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3205 attached printers to be reset. Using 3206 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3207 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3208 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3209 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3210 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3211 port specification list means that device IDs 3212 from each port should be examined, to see if 3213 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3214 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3215 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3216 3217 lpj=n [KNL] 3218 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3219 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3220 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3221 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3222 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3223 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3224 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3225 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3226 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3227 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3228 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3229 hardware. 3230 3231 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3232 3233 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3234 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3235 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3236 3237 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3238 different yeeloong laptops. 3239 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3240 3241 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3242 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3243 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3244 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3245 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3246 only takes effect during system bootup. 3247 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3248 which also disables the IO APIC. 3249 3250 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3251 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3252 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3253 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3254 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3255 /dev/loop-control interface. 3256 3257 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3258 3259 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3260 3261 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3262 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3263 3264 mdacon= [MDA] 3265 Format: <first>,<last> 3266 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3267 3268 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3269 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3270 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3271 3272 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3273 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3274 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3275 3276 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3277 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3278 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3279 not have direct access. 3280 3281 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3282 options are: 3283 3284 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3285 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3286 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3287 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3288 3289 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3290 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3291 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3292 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3293 too. 3294 3295 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3296 mds=full. 3297 3298 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3299 3300 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3301 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3302 3303 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3304 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3305 as follows: 3306 3307 1 for test; 3308 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3309 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3310 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3311 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3312 3313 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3314 high memory is not affected. 3315 3316 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3317 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3318 3319 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3320 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3321 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3322 belonging to unused RAM. 3323 3324 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3325 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3326 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3327 3328 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3329 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3330 reported by firmware. 3331 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3332 ss[KMG]. 3333 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3334 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3335 3336 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3337 memory. 3338 3339 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3340 3341 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3342 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3343 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3344 3345 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3346 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3347 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3348 set according to the 3349 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3350 option. 3351 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3352 3353 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3354 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3355 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3356 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3357 option description. 3358 3359 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3360 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3361 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3362 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3363 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3364 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3365 comma delimited. 3366 Example: 3367 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3368 3369 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3370 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3371 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3372 3373 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3374 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3375 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3376 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3377 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3378 or 3379 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3380 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3381 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3382 will be eaten. 3383 3384 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3385 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3386 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3387 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3388 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3389 3390 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3391 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3392 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3393 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3394 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3395 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3396 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3397 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3398 3399 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3400 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3401 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3402 Setting this option will scan the memory 3403 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3404 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3405 from using the memory being corrupted. 3406 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3407 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3408 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3409 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3410 3411 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3412 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3413 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3414 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3415 corruption in more or less memory. 3416 3417 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3418 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3419 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3420 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3421 3422 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3423 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3424 Format: {on | off (default)} 3425 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3426 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3427 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3428 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3429 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3430 lot of memory without requiring additional 3431 memory to do so. 3432 This feature is disabled by default because it 3433 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3434 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3435 memory blocks). 3436 The state of the flag can be read in 3437 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3438 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3439 the feature is not effective. 3440 3441 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3442 Format: <integer> 3443 default : 0 <disable> 3444 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3445 performed. Each pass selects another test 3446 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3447 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3448 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3449 regions that are detected. 3450 3451 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3452 Valid arguments: on, off 3453 Default: off 3454 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3455 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3456 3457 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3458 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3459 3460 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3461 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3462 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3463 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3464 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3465 3466 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3467 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3468 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3469 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3470 3471 mga= [HW,DRM] 3472 3473 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3474 Format: <bool> 3475 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3476 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3477 3478 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3479 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3480 Default: "0tb" 3481 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3482 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3483 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3484 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3485 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3486 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3487 unconfigured. 3488 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3489 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3490 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3491 VGA shield. 3492 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3493 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3494 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3495 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3496 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3497 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3498 3499 mitigations= 3500 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3501 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3502 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3503 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3504 3505 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3506 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3507 3508 off 3509 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3510 improves system performance, but it may also 3511 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3512 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3513 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3514 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3515 l1tf=off [X86] 3516 mds=off [X86] 3517 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3518 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3519 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3520 nobp=0 [S390] 3521 nopti [X86,PPC] 3522 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3523 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3524 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3525 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3526 retbleed=off [X86] 3527 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3528 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3529 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3530 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3531 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3532 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3533 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3534 3535 Exceptions: 3536 This does not have any effect on 3537 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3538 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3539 3540 auto (default) 3541 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3542 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3543 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3544 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3545 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3546 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3547 3548 auto,nosmt 3549 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3550 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3551 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3552 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3553 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3554 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3555 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3556 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3557 3558 mminit_loglevel= 3559 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3560 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3561 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3562 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3563 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3564 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3565 3566 mmio_stale_data= 3567 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3568 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3569 3570 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3571 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3572 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3573 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3574 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3575 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3576 3577 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3578 options are: 3579 3580 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3581 3582 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3583 vulnerable CPUs. 3584 3585 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3586 3587 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3588 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3589 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3590 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3591 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3592 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3593 3594 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3595 mmio_stale_data=full. 3596 3597 For details see: 3598 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3599 3600 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3601 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3602 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3603 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3604 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3605 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3606 3607 module.async_probe=<bool> 3608 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3609 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3610 specific module, use the module specific control that 3611 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3612 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3613 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3614 the specific module. 3615 3616 module.enable_dups_trace 3617 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3618 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3619 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3620 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3621 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3622 module.sig_enforce 3623 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3624 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3625 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3626 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3627 3628 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3629 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3630 3631 mousedev.tap_time= 3632 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3633 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3634 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3635 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3636 Format: <msecs> 3637 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3638 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3639 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3640 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3641 3642 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3643 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3644 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3645 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3646 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3647 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3648 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3649 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3650 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3651 is not too small. 3652 3653 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3654 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3655 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3656 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3657 allocations. Use with caution! 3658 3659 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3660 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3661 3662 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3663 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3664 3665 mtdparts= [MTD] 3666 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3667 3668 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3669 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3670 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3671 3672 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3673 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3674 registers at boot time. 3675 3676 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3677 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3678 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3679 3680 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3681 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3682 Default is 1. 3683 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3684 using up MTRRs. 3685 3686 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3687 Format: <integer> 3688 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3689 Default : 1 3690 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3691 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3692 3693 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3694 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3695 at a time. 3696 3697 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3698 3699 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3700 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3701 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3702 something different and driver-specific. 3703 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3704 file if at all. 3705 3706 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3707 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3708 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3709 waits 4 seconds. 3710 3711 nf_conntrack.acct= 3712 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3713 0 to disable accounting 3714 1 to enable accounting 3715 Default value is 0. 3716 3717 nfs.cache_getent= 3718 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3719 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3720 3721 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3722 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3723 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3724 3725 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3726 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3727 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3728 requests. 3729 3730 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3731 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3732 channel should listen. 3733 3734 nfs.delay_retrans= 3735 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3736 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3737 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3738 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3739 and the specified value is >= 0. 3740 3741 nfs.enable_ino64= 3742 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3743 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3744 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3745 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3746 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3747 3748 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3749 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3750 entries. 3751 3752 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3753 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3754 slots the client will assign to the callback 3755 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3756 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3757 a particular server. 3758 3759 nfs.max_session_slots= 3760 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3761 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3762 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3763 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3764 Note that there is little point in setting this 3765 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3766 3767 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3768 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3769 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3770 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3771 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3772 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3773 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3774 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3775 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3776 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3777 back to using the idmapper. 3778 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3779 3780 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3781 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3782 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3783 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3784 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3785 3786 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3787 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3788 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3789 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3790 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3791 after the locks are lost. 3792 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3793 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3794 parameter to '1'. 3795 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3796 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3797 3798 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3799 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3800 information in exchange_id requests. 3801 If zero, no implementation identification information 3802 will be sent. 3803 The default is to send the implementation identification 3804 information. 3805 3806 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3807 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3808 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3809 3810 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3811 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3812 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3813 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3814 3815 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3816 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3817 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3818 the destination of the copy. 3819 3820 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3821 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3822 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3823 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3824 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3825 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3826 3827 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3828 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3829 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3830 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3831 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3832 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3833 this parameter. 3834 3835 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3836 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3837 3838 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3839 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3840 3841 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3842 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3843 3844 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3845 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3846 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3847 3848 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3849 when a NMI is triggered. 3850 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3851 3852 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3853 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 3854 Valid num: 0 or 1 3855 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3856 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3857 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 3858 3859 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3860 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3861 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3862 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3863 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3864 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3865 need the box quickly up again. 3866 3867 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3868 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3869 3870 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3871 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3872 is present. 3873 3874 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 3875 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3876 3877 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3878 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3879 3880 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3881 3882 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3883 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3884 3885 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3886 3887 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 3888 3889 no_console_suspend 3890 [HW] Never suspend the console 3891 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3892 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3893 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3894 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3895 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3896 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3897 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3898 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3899 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3900 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3901 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3902 turn on/off it dynamically. 3903 3904 no_debug_objects 3905 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 3906 3907 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3908 3909 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 3910 3911 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3912 3913 noexec32 [X86-64] 3914 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3915 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3916 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3917 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3918 read implies executable mappings 3919 3920 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3921 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3922 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3923 3924 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3925 3926 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3927 3928 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3929 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3930 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3931 3932 no_hash_pointers 3933 [KNL,EARLY] 3934 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3935 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3936 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3937 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3938 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3939 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3940 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3941 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3942 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3943 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3944 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3945 kernels. 3946 3947 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3948 3949 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 3950 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3951 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3952 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3953 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3954 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3955 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3956 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3957 3958 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3959 3960 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3961 3962 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3963 Valid arguments: on, off 3964 Default: on 3965 3966 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3967 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3968 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3969 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3970 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3971 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3972 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3973 just as if they had also been called out in the 3974 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3975 3976 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3977 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3978 3979 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3980 initial RAM disk. 3981 3982 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 3983 remapping. 3984 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3985 3986 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3987 3988 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3989 3990 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3991 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3992 3993 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3994 3995 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 3996 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3997 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3998 Layout Randomization). 3999 4000 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 4001 fault handling. 4002 4003 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 4004 4005 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 4006 4007 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 4008 4009 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 4010 4011 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4012 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4013 4014 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4015 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4016 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4017 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4018 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4019 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4020 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4021 4022 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4023 4024 nomodule Disable module load 4025 4026 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4027 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4028 irq. 4029 4030 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4031 pagetables) support. 4032 4033 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4034 4035 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4036 in some Intel CPUs. 4037 4038 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4039 Equivalent to pti=off 4040 4041 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4042 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4043 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4044 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4045 4046 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4047 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4048 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4049 contention. 4050 4051 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4052 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4053 4054 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4055 with UP alternatives 4056 4057 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4058 space. 4059 4060 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4061 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4062 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4063 4064 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4065 4066 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4067 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4068 even if it is supported by processor. 4069 4070 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4071 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4072 even if it is supported by processor. 4073 4074 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4075 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4076 4077 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4078 Equivalent to smt=1. 4079 4080 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4081 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4082 via the sysfs control file. 4083 4084 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4085 4086 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4087 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4088 Store Bypass vulnerability 4089 4090 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4091 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4092 with this option. 4093 4094 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4095 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4096 possible in the system. 4097 4098 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4099 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4100 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4101 leaks with this option. 4102 4103 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4104 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4105 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4106 4107 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4108 4109 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4110 broken timer IRQ sources. 4111 4112 no_uaccess_flush 4113 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4114 4115 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4116 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4117 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4118 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4119 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4120 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4121 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4122 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4123 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4124 is set. 4125 4126 no-vmw-sched-clock 4127 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4128 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4129 4130 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4131 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4132 4133 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4134 4135 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4136 4137 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4138 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4139 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4140 4141 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4142 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4143 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4144 4145 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4146 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4147 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4148 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4149 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4150 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4151 4152 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4153 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4154 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4155 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4156 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4157 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4158 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4159 4160 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4161 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4162 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4163 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4164 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4165 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4166 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4167 hot plugging. 4168 4169 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4170 4171 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4172 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4173 spanning all memory. 4174 4175 numa=fake=<size>[MG] 4176 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4177 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with 4178 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes. 4179 4180 numa=fake=<N> 4181 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4182 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N 4183 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. 4184 4185 numa=fake=<N>U 4186 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4187 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will 4188 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. 4189 4190 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4191 NUMA balancing. 4192 Allowed values are enable and disable 4193 4194 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4195 'node', 'default' can be specified 4196 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4197 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4198 4199 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4200 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4201 info. 4202 4203 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4204 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4205 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4206 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4207 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4208 interrupts *may* be lost! 4209 4210 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4211 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4212 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4213 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4214 4215 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4216 4217 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4218 4219 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4220 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4221 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4222 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4223 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4224 4225 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4226 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4227 process, but there is a small probability of 4228 deadlocking the machine. 4229 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4230 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4231 4232 page_alloc.shuffle= 4233 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4234 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4235 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4236 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4237 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4238 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4239 4240 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4241 Storage of the information about who allocated 4242 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4243 we can turn it on. 4244 on: enable the feature 4245 4246 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4247 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4248 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4249 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4250 on: turn on poisoning 4251 4252 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4253 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4254 Format: <integer> 4255 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4256 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4257 4258 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4259 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4260 timeout = 0: wait forever 4261 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4262 Format: <timeout> 4263 4264 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4265 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4266 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4267 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4268 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4269 called with any of the flags in this set. 4270 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4271 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4272 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4273 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4274 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4275 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4276 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4277 4278 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4279 on a WARN(). 4280 4281 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4282 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4283 bit 0: print all tasks info 4284 bit 1: print system memory info 4285 bit 2: print timer info 4286 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4287 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4288 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4289 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4290 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4291 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4292 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4293 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4294 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4295 4296 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4297 connected to, default is 0. 4298 Format: <parport#> 4299 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4300 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4301 Format: <mode> 4302 4303 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4304 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4305 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4306 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4307 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4308 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4309 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4310 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4311 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4312 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4313 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4314 are specified on the command line, starting 4315 with parport0. 4316 4317 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4318 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4319 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4320 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4321 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4322 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4323 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4324 4325 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4326 Format: <int> 4327 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4328 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4329 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4330 4331 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4332 Format: <int> 4333 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4334 changes. Disabled by default. 4335 4336 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4337 Format: <int> 4338 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4339 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4340 Disabled by default. 4341 4342 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4343 Format: <int> 4344 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4345 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4346 Disabled by default. 4347 4348 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4349 Format: <int> 4350 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4351 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4352 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4353 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4354 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4355 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4356 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4357 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4358 all channels. 4359 4360 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4361 Format: <int> 4362 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4363 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4364 respectively. Disabled by default. 4365 4366 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4367 Format: <int> 4368 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4369 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4370 respectively. Disabled by default. 4371 4372 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4373 Format: <int> 4374 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4375 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4376 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4377 All modes allowed by default. 4378 4379 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4380 Format: <int> 4381 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4382 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4383 4384 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4385 Format: <int> 4386 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4387 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4388 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4389 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4390 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4391 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4392 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4393 By default all supported ports are probed. 4394 4395 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4396 Format: <int> 4397 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4398 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4399 4400 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4401 Format: <int> 4402 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4403 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4404 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4405 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4406 0 otherwise. 4407 4408 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4409 Format: <int> 4410 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4411 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4412 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4413 allowed by default. 4414 4415 pause_on_oops=<int> 4416 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4417 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4418 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4419 4420 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4421 4422 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4423 4424 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4425 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4426 specified in one of the following formats: 4427 4428 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4429 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4430 4431 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4432 bus/device/function address which may change 4433 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4434 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4435 by other kernel parameters. If the 4436 domain is left unspecified, it is 4437 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4438 to a device through multiple device/function 4439 addresses can be specified after the base 4440 address (this is more robust against 4441 renumbering issues). The second format 4442 selects devices using IDs from the 4443 configuration space which may match multiple 4444 devices in the system. 4445 4446 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4447 changes anything 4448 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4449 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4450 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4451 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4452 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4453 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4454 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4455 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4456 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4457 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4458 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4459 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4460 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4461 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4462 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4463 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4464 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4465 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4466 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4467 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4468 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4469 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4470 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4471 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4472 Configuration 4473 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4474 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4475 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4476 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4477 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4478 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4479 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4480 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4481 should never be necessary. 4482 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4483 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4484 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4485 when the system masks IRQs. 4486 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4487 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4488 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4489 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4490 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4491 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4492 on several machines and they hang the machine 4493 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4494 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4495 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4496 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4497 motherboard. 4498 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4499 Use with caution as certain devices share 4500 address decoders between ROMs and other 4501 resources. 4502 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4503 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4504 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4505 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4506 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4507 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4508 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4509 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4510 this way. 4511 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4512 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4513 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4514 F0000h-100000h range. 4515 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4516 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4517 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4518 explicitly which ones they are. 4519 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4520 numbers ourselves, overriding 4521 whatever the firmware may have done. 4522 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4523 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4524 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4525 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4526 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4527 IRQ routing is enabled. 4528 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4529 or for PCI scanning. 4530 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4531 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4532 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4533 please report a bug. 4534 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4535 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4536 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4537 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4538 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4539 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4540 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4541 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4542 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4543 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4544 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4545 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4546 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4547 so this option is a temporary workaround 4548 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4549 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4550 handle more pci cards 4551 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4552 This might help on some broken boards which 4553 machine check when some devices' config space 4554 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4555 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4556 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4557 This sorting is done to get a device 4558 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4559 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4560 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4561 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4562 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4563 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4564 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4565 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4566 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4567 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4568 or bus can support) for best performance. 4569 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4570 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4571 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4572 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4573 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4574 that hot-added devices will work. 4575 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4576 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4577 The default value is 256 bytes. 4578 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4579 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4580 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4581 resource_alignment= 4582 Format: 4583 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4584 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4585 aligned memory resources. How to 4586 specify the device is described above. 4587 If <order of align> is not specified, 4588 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4589 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4590 windows need to be expanded. 4591 To specify the alignment for several 4592 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4593 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4594 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4595 for 4096-byte alignment. 4596 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4597 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4598 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4599 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4600 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4601 the default. 4602 off: Turn ECRC off 4603 on: Turn ECRC on. 4604 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4605 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4606 Default size is 256 bytes. 4607 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4608 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4609 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4610 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4611 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4612 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4613 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4614 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4615 MMIO_PREF window. 4616 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4617 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4618 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4619 Default is 1. 4620 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4621 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4622 accommodate resources required by all child 4623 devices. 4624 off: Turn realloc off 4625 on: Turn realloc on 4626 realloc same as realloc=on 4627 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4628 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4629 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4630 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4631 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4632 port. 4633 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4634 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4635 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4636 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4637 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4638 taints the kernel. 4639 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4640 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4641 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4642 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4643 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4644 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4645 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4646 this removes isolation between devices and 4647 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4648 config_acs= 4649 Format: 4650 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4651 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4652 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4653 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4654 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4655 unchanged based on what is specified in 4656 flags. 4657 4658 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4659 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4660 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4661 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4662 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4663 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4664 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4665 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4666 Each bit can be marked as: 4667 '0' – force disabled 4668 '1' – force enabled 4669 'x' – unchanged 4670 For example, 4671 pci=config_acs=10x 4672 would configure all devices that support 4673 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4674 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4675 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4676 or firmware set it to. 4677 4678 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4679 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4680 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4681 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4682 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4683 one PCI domain per PCI function 4684 4685 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4686 Management. 4687 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4688 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4689 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4690 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4691 4692 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4693 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4694 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4695 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4696 also tries to use these services. 4697 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4698 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4699 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4700 hotplug). 4701 4702 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4703 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4704 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4705 4706 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4707 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4708 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4709 4710 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4711 4712 pd_ignore_unused 4713 [PM] 4714 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4715 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4716 for debug and development, but should not be 4717 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4718 4719 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4720 boot time. 4721 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4722 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4723 4724 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4725 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4726 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4727 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4728 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4729 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4730 and performance comparison. 4731 4732 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4733 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4734 4735 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4736 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4737 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4738 4739 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4740 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4741 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4742 4743 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4744 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4745 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4746 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4747 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4748 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4749 remains 0. 4750 4751 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4752 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4753 4754 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4755 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4756 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4757 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4758 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4759 possible settings and some assignment information. 4760 4761 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4762 { off } 4763 4764 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4765 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4766 4767 pnp_reserve_irq= 4768 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4769 4770 pnp_reserve_dma= 4771 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4772 4773 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4774 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4775 4776 pnp_reserve_mem= 4777 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4778 autoconfiguration. 4779 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4780 4781 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4782 Default is 21. 4783 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4784 may be specified. 4785 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4786 4787 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4788 Format: <unsigned int> 4789 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4790 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4791 4792 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4793 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4794 platform machine description specific power_save 4795 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4796 execution priority. 4797 4798 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4799 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4800 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4801 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4802 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4803 4804 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4805 Format: {"off"} 4806 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4807 4808 preempt= [KNL] 4809 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4810 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4811 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4812 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4813 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 4814 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 4815 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 4816 4817 print-fatal-signals= 4818 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4819 4820 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4821 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4822 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4823 coredump - etc. 4824 4825 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4826 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4827 4828 default: off. 4829 4830 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4831 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4832 panics 4833 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4834 default: disabled 4835 4836 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4837 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4838 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4839 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4840 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4841 in order to provide more debug information. 4842 Format: <bool> 4843 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4844 4845 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4846 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4847 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4848 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4849 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4850 Default: ratelimit 4851 4852 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4853 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4854 4855 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 4856 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 4857 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 4858 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 4859 restrict that. Can be one of: 4860 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 4861 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 4862 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 4863 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 4864 4865 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4866 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4867 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4868 4869 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4870 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4871 instead using the legacy FADT method 4872 4873 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4874 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4875 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 4876 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4877 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4878 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4879 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4880 statistical time based profiling. 4881 4882 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4883 4884 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4885 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4886 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 4887 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 4888 Layout Randomization is disabled. 4889 Format: <bool> 4890 4891 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4892 tracking. 4893 Format: <bool> 4894 4895 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4896 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4897 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4898 per second. 4899 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4900 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4901 (0 = never). 4902 psmouse.resolution= 4903 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4904 psmouse.smartscroll= 4905 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4906 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4907 4908 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4909 4910 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4911 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4912 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4913 system calls and interrupts. 4914 4915 on - unconditionally enable 4916 off - unconditionally disable 4917 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4918 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4919 4920 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4921 4922 pty.legacy_count= 4923 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4924 default number. 4925 4926 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 4927 4928 r128= [HW,DRM] 4929 4930 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4931 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4932 invalidate. 4933 4934 raid= [HW,RAID] 4935 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4936 4937 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4938 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4939 4940 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4941 4942 random.trust_cpu=off 4943 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4944 random number generator (if available) to 4945 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4946 4947 random.trust_bootloader=off 4948 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4949 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4950 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4951 4952 randomize_kstack_offset= 4953 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4954 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4955 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4956 that depend on stack address determinism or 4957 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4958 available on architectures that have defined 4959 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4960 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4961 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4962 4963 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4964 4965 cec_disable [X86] 4966 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4967 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4968 4969 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4970 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4971 as described above. 4972 4973 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4974 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4975 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4976 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4977 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4978 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4979 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4980 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4981 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4982 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4983 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4984 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4985 4986 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4987 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4988 4989 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4990 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4991 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4992 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4993 4994 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4995 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4996 4997 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4998 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4999 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 5000 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 5001 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 5002 This improves the real-time response for the 5003 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 5004 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 5005 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 5006 periodically wake up to do the polling. 5007 5008 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 5009 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 5010 process in one batch. 5011 5012 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 5013 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 5014 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 5015 5016 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 5017 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 5018 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 5019 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 5020 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 5021 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 5022 5023 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 5024 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 5025 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 5026 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 5027 5028 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 5029 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5030 RCU grace-period cleanup. 5031 5032 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 5033 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5034 RCU grace-period initialization. 5035 5036 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5037 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5038 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5039 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5040 the rcu_node combining tree. 5041 5042 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5043 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5044 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5045 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5046 and maximum value is HZ. 5047 5048 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5049 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5050 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5051 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5052 5053 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5054 Set required age in jiffies for a 5055 given grace period before RCU starts 5056 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5057 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5058 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5059 a value based on the most recent settings 5060 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5061 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5062 This calculated value may be viewed in 5063 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5064 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5065 overwritten. 5066 5067 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5068 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5069 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5070 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5071 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5072 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5073 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5074 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5075 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5076 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5077 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5078 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5079 5080 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5081 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5082 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5083 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5084 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5085 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5086 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5087 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5088 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5089 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5090 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5091 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5092 5093 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5094 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5095 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5096 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5097 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5098 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5099 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5100 5101 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5102 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5103 batch limiting is disabled. 5104 5105 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5106 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5107 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5108 5109 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5110 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5111 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5112 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5113 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5114 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5115 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5116 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5117 5118 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5119 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5120 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5121 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5122 5123 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5124 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5125 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5126 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5127 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5128 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5129 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5130 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5131 5132 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5133 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5134 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5135 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5136 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5137 5138 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5139 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5140 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5141 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5142 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5143 5144 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5145 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5146 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5147 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5148 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5149 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5150 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5151 5152 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5153 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5154 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5155 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5156 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5157 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5158 condition. 5159 5160 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5161 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5162 each group, which defaults to the square root 5163 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5164 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5165 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5166 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5167 5168 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5169 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5170 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5171 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5172 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5173 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5174 5175 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5176 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5177 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5178 By default, this limit is checked only once 5179 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5180 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5181 5182 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5183 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5184 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5185 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5186 Larger delays increase the probability of 5187 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5188 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5189 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5190 5191 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5192 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5193 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5194 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5195 5196 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5197 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5198 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5199 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5200 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5201 5202 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5203 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5204 to zero. 5205 5206 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5207 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5208 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5209 big. 5210 5211 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5212 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5213 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5214 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5215 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5216 normal grace period. 5217 5218 How to enable it: 5219 5220 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5221 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5222 5223 Default is 0. 5224 5225 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5226 Measure performance of asynchronous 5227 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5228 5229 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5230 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5231 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5232 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5233 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5234 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5235 5236 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5237 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5238 grace-period primitives. 5239 5240 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5241 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5242 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5243 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5244 interference. 5245 5246 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5247 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5248 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5249 5250 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5251 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5252 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5253 Defaults to 1. 5254 5255 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5256 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5257 5258 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5259 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5260 If this parameter has the same value as 5261 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5262 and double-argument variants are tested. 5263 5264 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5265 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5266 If this parameter has the same value as 5267 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5268 and double-argument variants are tested. 5269 5270 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5271 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5272 5273 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5274 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5275 5276 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5277 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5278 of allocations and frees. 5279 5280 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5281 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5282 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5283 but instead allows better measurement of things 5284 like CPU consumption. 5285 5286 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5287 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5288 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5289 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5290 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5291 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5292 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5293 a single reader. 5294 5295 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5296 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5297 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5298 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5299 5300 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5301 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5302 5303 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5304 Shut the system down after performance tests 5305 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5306 testing. 5307 5308 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5309 Enable additional printk() statements. 5310 5311 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5312 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5313 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5314 no holdoff. 5315 5316 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5317 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5318 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5319 says no holdoff. 5320 5321 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5322 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5323 in microseconds. 5324 5325 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5326 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5327 in microseconds. 5328 5329 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5330 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5331 in seconds. 5332 5333 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5334 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5335 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5336 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5337 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5338 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5339 of CPUs to be used. 5340 5341 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5342 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5343 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5344 5345 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5346 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5347 forward-progress tests. 5348 5349 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5350 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5351 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5352 testing. 5353 5354 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5355 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5356 primitives, if available. 5357 5358 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5359 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5360 5361 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5362 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5363 update-side primitives, if available. 5364 5365 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5366 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5367 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5368 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5369 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5370 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5371 they are all non-zero. 5372 5373 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5374 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5375 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5376 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5377 5378 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5379 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5380 This can of course result in splats, and is 5381 intended to test the ability of things like 5382 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5383 such leaks. 5384 5385 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5386 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5387 5388 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5389 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5390 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5391 test, hence the "fake". 5392 5393 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5394 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5395 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5396 5397 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5398 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5399 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5400 5401 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5402 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5403 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5404 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5405 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5406 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5407 5408 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5409 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5410 5411 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5412 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5413 5414 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5415 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5416 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5417 5418 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5419 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5420 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5421 is spawned. 5422 5423 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5424 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5425 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5426 5427 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL] 5428 A bit mask indicating which readers to use. 5429 If there is more than one bit set, the readers 5430 are entered from low-order bit up, and are 5431 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the 5432 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers, 5433 and 0x4 light-weight readers. 5434 5435 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5436 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5437 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5438 during the rcutorture test. 5439 5440 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5441 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5442 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5443 5444 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5445 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5446 warnings, zero to disable. 5447 5448 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5449 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5450 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5451 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5452 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5453 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5454 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5455 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5456 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5457 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5458 5459 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5460 5461 5462 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5463 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5464 5465 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5466 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5467 on the first stall in the set. 5468 5469 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5470 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5471 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5472 in four stall sequences. 5473 5474 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5475 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5476 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5477 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5478 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5479 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5480 5481 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5482 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5483 5484 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5485 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5486 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5487 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5488 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5489 5490 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5491 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5492 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5493 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5494 5495 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5496 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5497 5498 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5499 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5500 5501 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5502 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5503 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5504 5505 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5506 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5507 5508 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5509 Enable additional printk() statements. 5510 5511 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5512 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5513 stall warning. 5514 5515 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5516 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5517 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5518 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5519 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5520 5521 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5522 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5523 5524 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5525 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5526 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5527 during early boot, that is, during the time 5528 before the init task is spawned. 5529 5530 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5531 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5532 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5533 value is 300 seconds. 5534 5535 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5536 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5537 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5538 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5539 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5540 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5541 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5542 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5543 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5544 5545 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5546 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5547 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5548 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5549 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5550 5551 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5552 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5553 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5554 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5555 5556 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5557 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5558 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5559 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5560 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5561 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5562 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5563 5564 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5565 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5566 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5567 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5568 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5569 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5570 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5571 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5572 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5573 5574 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5575 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5576 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5577 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5578 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5579 5580 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5581 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5582 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5583 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5584 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5585 grace-period processing. 5586 5587 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5588 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5589 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5590 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5591 a single callback queue. This switching only 5592 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5593 set to the default value of -1. 5594 5595 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5596 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5597 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5598 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5599 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5600 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5601 the default value of -1. 5602 5603 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5604 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5605 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5606 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5607 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5608 for use in testing. 5609 5610 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5611 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5612 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5613 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5614 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5615 but lengthens grace periods. 5616 5617 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5618 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5619 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5620 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5621 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5622 callback flooding. 5623 5624 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5625 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5626 informational messages, which give some indication 5627 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5628 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5629 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5630 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5631 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5632 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5633 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5634 5635 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5636 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5637 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5638 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5639 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5640 the value three, so that the first informational 5641 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5642 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5643 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5644 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5645 5646 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5647 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5648 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5649 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5650 A change in value does not take effect until 5651 the beginning of the next grace period. 5652 5653 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5654 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5655 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5656 A negative value will take the default. A value 5657 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5658 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5659 5660 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5661 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5662 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5663 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5664 will take the default. A value of zero will 5665 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5666 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5667 5668 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5669 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5670 5671 rdinit= [KNL] 5672 Format: <full_path> 5673 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5674 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5675 5676 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5677 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5678 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5679 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5680 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5681 path). 5682 5683 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5684 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5685 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5686 mba, smba, bmec. 5687 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5688 rdt=cmt,!mba 5689 5690 reboot= [KNL] 5691 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5692 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5693 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5694 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5695 [[,]f[orce] 5696 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5697 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5698 reboot only), 5699 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5700 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5701 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5702 to be used for rebooting. 5703 5704 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5705 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5706 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5707 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5708 interference. 5709 5710 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5711 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5712 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5713 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5714 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5715 5716 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5717 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5718 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5719 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5720 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5721 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5722 x86 laptops. 5723 5724 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5725 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5726 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5727 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5728 5729 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5730 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5731 the console log. 5732 5733 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5734 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5735 measured in microseconds. 5736 5737 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5738 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5739 5740 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5741 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5742 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5743 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5744 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5745 5746 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5747 Enable additional printk() statements. 5748 5749 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5750 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5751 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5752 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5753 specified. 5754 5755 regulator_ignore_unused 5756 [REGULATOR] 5757 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5758 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5759 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5760 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5761 5762 relax_domain_level= 5763 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5764 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5765 5766 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5767 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5768 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5769 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5770 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5771 5772 reserve_mem= [RAM] 5773 Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label> 5774 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 5775 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 5776 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 5777 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 5778 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 5779 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 5780 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 5781 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 5782 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 5783 different location. 5784 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 5785 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 5786 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 5787 located at the same location. 5788 5789 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 5790 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 5791 5792 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 5793 5794 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 5795 Format: nn[KMG] 5796 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5797 address space. 5798 5799 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5800 during initialization. 5801 5802 resume= [SWSUSP] 5803 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5804 Format: 5805 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5806 5807 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5808 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5809 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5810 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5811 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5812 5813 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5814 read the resume files 5815 5816 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5817 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5818 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5819 5820 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5821 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5822 5823 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5824 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5825 vulnerability. 5826 5827 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5828 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5829 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5830 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5831 that don't. 5832 5833 off - no mitigation 5834 auto - automatically select a migitation 5835 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5836 disabling SMT if necessary for 5837 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5838 and older without STIBP). 5839 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5840 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5841 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5842 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5843 on Intel. 5844 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5845 when STIBP is not available. This is 5846 the alternative for systems which do not 5847 have STIBP. 5848 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5849 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5850 systems. 5851 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5852 is not available. This is the alternative for 5853 systems which do not have STIBP. 5854 5855 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5856 time according to the CPU. 5857 5858 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5859 5860 rfkill.default_state= 5861 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5862 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5863 1 Unblocked. 5864 5865 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5866 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5867 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5868 blocked and the previous configuration. 5869 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5870 blocked and everything unblocked. 5871 5872 ring3mwait=disable 5873 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5874 CPUs. 5875 5876 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 5877 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5878 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5879 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5880 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5881 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5882 5883 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5884 5885 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 5886 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5887 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5888 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5889 [arm64] 5890 5891 rockchip.usb_uart 5892 [EARLY] 5893 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5894 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5895 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5896 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5897 5898 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5899 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5900 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5901 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5902 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5903 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5904 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5905 5906 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5907 mount the root filesystem 5908 5909 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5910 5911 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5912 5913 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5914 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5915 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5916 5917 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5918 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5919 filesystem. 5920 5921 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5922 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5923 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5924 managed by CMA. 5925 5926 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5927 5928 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5929 5930 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5931 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5932 strict 5933 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5934 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5935 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5936 iommu.strict=1. 5937 5938 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5939 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5940 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5941 factor of the size of main memory. 5942 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5943 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5944 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5945 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5946 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5947 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5948 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5949 5950 sa1100ir [NET] 5951 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5952 5953 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5954 5955 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5956 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5957 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5958 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5959 5960 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5961 [Deprecated] 5962 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5963 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5964 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5965 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5966 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5967 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5968 value. 5969 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5970 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5971 1 64 ms 5972 2 128 ms 5973 and so on. 5974 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5975 Default is 0. 5976 5977 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5978 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5979 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5980 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5981 tests. 5982 5983 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5984 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5985 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5986 default) disables this feature. Please note 5987 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5988 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5989 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5990 5991 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5992 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5993 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5994 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5995 equal to the number of CPUs. 5996 5997 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5998 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5999 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 6000 6001 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 6002 Number seconds to wait between successive 6003 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 6004 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 6005 6006 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 6007 The number of seconds following the start of the 6008 test after which to shut down the system. The 6009 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 6010 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 6011 6012 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 6013 The number of seconds between outputting the 6014 current test statistics to the console. A value 6015 of zero disables statistics output. 6016 6017 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 6018 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 6019 to the set of CPUs under test. 6020 6021 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 6022 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 6023 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 6024 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 6025 functions. 6026 6027 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 6028 Enable additional printk() statements. 6029 6030 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 6031 The probability weighting to use for the 6032 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 6033 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 6034 default if all other weights are -1. However, 6035 if at least one weight has some other value, a 6036 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 6037 6038 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6039 The probability weighting to use for the 6040 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6041 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6042 6043 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6044 The probability weighting to use for the 6045 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6046 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6047 Note well that setting a high probability for 6048 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6049 on the system. 6050 6051 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6052 The probability weighting to use for the 6053 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6054 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6055 and weight_many. 6056 6057 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6058 The probability weighting to use for the 6059 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6060 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6061 weight_many. 6062 6063 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6064 The probability weighting to use for the 6065 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6066 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6067 and weight_many. 6068 6069 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6070 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6071 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6072 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6073 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6074 1 -- enable. 6075 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6076 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6077 6078 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6079 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6080 "lsm=" parameter. 6081 6082 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6083 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6084 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6085 0 -- disable. 6086 1 -- enable. 6087 Default value is 1. 6088 6089 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6090 6091 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 6092 6093 shapers= [NET] 6094 Maximal number of shapers. 6095 6096 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6097 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6098 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6099 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6100 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6101 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6102 apic=verbose is specified. 6103 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6104 6105 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6106 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6107 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6108 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6109 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6110 last alloc / free. For more information see 6111 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6112 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6113 6114 slab_max_order= [MM] 6115 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6116 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6117 fragmentation. For more information see 6118 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6119 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6120 6121 slab_merge [MM] 6122 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6123 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6124 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6125 6126 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6127 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6128 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6129 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6130 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6131 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6132 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6133 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6134 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6135 6136 slab_min_order= [MM] 6137 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6138 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6139 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6140 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6141 6142 slab_nomerge [MM] 6143 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6144 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6145 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6146 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6147 layout control by attackers can usually be 6148 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6149 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6150 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6151 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6152 own. 6153 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6154 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6155 6156 slram= [HW,MTD] 6157 6158 smart2= [HW] 6159 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6160 6161 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6162 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6163 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6164 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6165 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6166 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6167 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6168 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6169 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6170 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6171 6172 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6173 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6174 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6175 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6176 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6177 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6178 6179 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6180 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6181 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6182 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6183 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6184 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6185 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6186 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6187 1: Fast pin select (default) 6188 2: ATC IRMode 6189 6190 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6191 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6192 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6193 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6194 Format: <integer> 6195 Default: -1 (no limit) 6196 6197 softlockup_panic= 6198 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6199 Format: 0 | 1 6200 6201 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6202 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6203 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6204 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6205 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6206 6207 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6208 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6209 backtraces on all cpus. 6210 Format: 0 | 1 6211 6212 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6213 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6214 6215 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6216 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6217 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6218 clearing sequence. 6219 6220 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6221 needed. This protects the kernel from 6222 both syscalls and VMs. 6223 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6224 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6225 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6226 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6227 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6228 off - Disable the mitigation. 6229 6230 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6231 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6232 The default operation protects the kernel from 6233 user space attacks. 6234 6235 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6236 spectre_v2_user=on 6237 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6238 spectre_v2_user=off 6239 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6240 vulnerable 6241 6242 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6243 mitigation method at run time according to the 6244 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6245 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6246 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6247 6248 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6249 against user space to user space task attacks. 6250 6251 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6252 the user space protections. 6253 6254 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6255 6256 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6257 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6258 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6259 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6260 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6261 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6262 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6263 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6264 6265 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6266 spectre_v2=auto. 6267 6268 spectre_v2_user= 6269 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6270 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6271 user space tasks 6272 6273 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6274 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6275 6276 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6277 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6278 6279 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6280 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6281 per thread. The mitigation control state 6282 is inherited on fork. 6283 6284 prctl,ibpb 6285 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6286 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6287 always when switching between different user 6288 space processes. 6289 6290 seccomp 6291 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6292 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6293 they explicitly opt out. 6294 6295 seccomp,ibpb 6296 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6297 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6298 always when switching between different 6299 user space processes. 6300 6301 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6302 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6303 6304 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6305 6306 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6307 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6308 6309 spec_rstack_overflow= 6310 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6311 6312 off - Disable mitigation 6313 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6314 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6315 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6316 kernel entry 6317 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6318 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6319 6320 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6321 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6322 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6323 6324 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6325 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6326 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6327 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6328 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6329 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6330 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6331 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6332 6333 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6334 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6335 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6336 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6337 6338 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6339 Bypass optimization is used. 6340 6341 On x86 the options are: 6342 6343 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6344 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6345 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6346 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6347 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6348 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6349 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6350 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6351 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6352 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6353 for a process by default. The state of the control 6354 is inherited on fork. 6355 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6356 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6357 6358 Default mitigations: 6359 X86: "prctl" 6360 6361 On powerpc the options are: 6362 6363 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6364 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6365 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6366 exit. 6367 off - No action. 6368 6369 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6370 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6371 6372 split_lock_detect= 6373 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6374 6375 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6376 instructions that access data across cache line 6377 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6378 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6379 bus lock detection. 6380 6381 off - not enabled 6382 6383 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6384 about applications triggering the #AC 6385 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6386 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6387 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6388 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6389 enabled in hardware. 6390 6391 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6392 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6393 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6394 both features are enabled in hardware. 6395 6396 ratelimit:N - 6397 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6398 per second for bus lock detection. 6399 0 < N <= 1000. 6400 6401 N/A for split lock detection. 6402 6403 6404 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6405 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6406 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6407 mode. 6408 6409 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6410 CPL > 0. 6411 6412 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6413 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6414 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6415 6416 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6417 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6418 number generator. 6419 6420 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6421 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6422 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6423 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6424 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6425 6426 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6427 the following option: 6428 6429 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6430 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6431 6432 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6433 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6434 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6435 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6436 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6437 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6438 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6439 (decide at boot). 6440 6441 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6442 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6443 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6444 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6445 6446 0: Never. 6447 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6448 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6449 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6450 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6451 6452 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6453 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6454 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6455 6456 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6457 Specifies how frequently to check for 6458 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6459 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6460 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6461 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6462 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6463 are ignored. 6464 6465 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6466 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6467 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6468 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6469 grace period will be considered for automatic 6470 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6471 expediting. 6472 6473 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6474 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6475 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6476 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6477 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6478 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6479 6480 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6481 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6482 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6483 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6484 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6485 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6486 6487 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6488 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6489 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6490 6491 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6492 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6493 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6494 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6495 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6496 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6497 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6498 6499 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6500 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6501 6502 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6503 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6504 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6505 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6506 6507 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6508 for both kernel and userspace 6509 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6510 for both kernel and userspace 6511 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6512 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6513 to allow userspace to register its 6514 interest in being mitigated too. 6515 6516 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6517 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6518 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6519 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6520 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6521 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6522 6523 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6524 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6525 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6526 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6527 to false. 6528 6529 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6530 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6531 6532 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6533 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6534 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6535 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6536 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6537 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6538 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6539 6540 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6541 Format: <num> 6542 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6543 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6544 as the initial boot-console. 6545 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6546 6547 sti_font= [HW] 6548 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6549 6550 stifb= [HW] 6551 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6552 6553 strict_sas_size= 6554 [X86] 6555 Format: <bool> 6556 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6557 against the required signal frame size which 6558 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6559 be used to filter out binaries which have 6560 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6561 6562 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6563 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6564 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6565 faults on kernel addresses. 6566 6567 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6568 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6569 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6570 on kernel addresses. 6571 6572 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6573 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6574 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6575 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6576 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6577 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6578 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6579 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6580 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6581 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6582 maximum port values. 6583 6584 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6585 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6586 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6587 process in parallel from a single connection. 6588 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6589 6590 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6591 [NFS] 6592 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6593 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6594 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6595 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6596 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6597 NFS server is running. 6598 6599 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6600 automatically using heuristics 6601 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6602 percpu one pool for each CPU 6603 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6604 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6605 6606 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6607 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6608 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6609 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6610 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6611 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6612 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6613 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6614 6615 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6616 [SUSPEND] 6617 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6618 mode before resuming the system (see 6619 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6620 is set. Default value is 5. 6621 6622 svm= [PPC] 6623 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6624 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6625 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6626 6627 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 6628 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6629 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6630 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6631 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6632 to a power of 2. 6633 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6634 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6635 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6636 6637 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6638 6639 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6640 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6641 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6642 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6643 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6644 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6645 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6646 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6647 6648 sysrq_always_enabled 6649 [KNL] 6650 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6651 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6652 Useful for debugging. 6653 6654 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6655 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6656 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6657 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6658 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6659 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6660 6661 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6662 6663 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6664 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6665 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6666 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6667 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6668 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6669 The system is woken from this state using a 6670 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6671 6672 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6673 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6674 6675 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6676 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6677 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6678 6679 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6680 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6681 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6682 6683 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6684 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6685 6686 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6687 -1: disable all passive trip points 6688 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6689 value 6690 6691 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6692 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6693 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6694 0: no polling (default) 6695 6696 thp_anon= [KNL] 6697 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state> 6698 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit". 6699 Control the default behavior of the system with respect 6700 to anonymous transparent hugepages. 6701 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes. 6702 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 6703 details. 6704 6705 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 6706 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6707 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6708 6709 topology= [S390,EARLY] 6710 Format: {off | on} 6711 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6712 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6713 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6714 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6715 Default is on. 6716 6717 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6718 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6719 until after init has spawned. 6720 6721 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6722 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6723 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6724 very costly operation when many torture tests 6725 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6726 with rotating-rust storage. 6727 6728 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6729 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6730 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6731 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6732 6733 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6734 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6735 6736 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM] 6737 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical 6738 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of 6739 having an integrity protected session wrapped around 6740 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation 6741 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection 6742 causing a major performance hit, and the space where 6743 machines are deployed is by other means guarded. 6744 6745 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6746 Format: integer pcr id 6747 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6748 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6749 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6750 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6751 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6752 are saved. 6753 6754 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6755 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6756 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6757 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6758 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6759 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6760 6761 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6762 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6763 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6764 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6765 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6766 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6767 6768 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6769 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6770 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6771 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6772 6773 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6774 to stop the printing of events to console at 6775 late_initcall_sync. 6776 6777 ** CAUTION ** 6778 6779 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6780 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6781 the system to live lock. 6782 6783 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6784 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6785 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6786 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6787 make the system inoperable. 6788 6789 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6790 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6791 6792 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6793 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6794 6795 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6796 at boot up. 6797 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6798 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6799 depending on the architecture, may not be 6800 in sync between CPUs. 6801 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6802 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6803 but better for some race conditions. 6804 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6805 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6806 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6807 once per event. 6808 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6809 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6810 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6811 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6812 stamps. 6813 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6814 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6815 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6816 6817 trace_event=[event-list] 6818 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6819 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6820 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6821 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6822 6823 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6824 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6825 This will be listed in: 6826 6827 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6828 6829 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6830 via: 6831 6832 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6833 6834 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6835 unique. 6836 6837 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6838 6839 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6840 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6841 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6842 6843 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is 6844 created. The flags are separated by '^'. 6845 6846 The available flags are: 6847 6848 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created. 6849 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance 6850 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used) 6851 6852 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq 6853 6854 The flags must come before the defined events. 6855 6856 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance 6857 can use that memory: 6858 6859 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M 6860 6861 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical 6862 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that 6863 instance will be split up accordingly. 6864 6865 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option: 6866 6867 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace 6868 6869 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment 6870 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the 6871 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve 6872 the buffer content. 6873 6874 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between 6875 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer 6876 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel. 6877 6878 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled, 6879 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not 6880 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash 6881 at boot up). 6882 6883 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq 6884 6885 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst 6886 6887 6888 trace_options=[option-list] 6889 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6890 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6891 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6892 to echo the option name into 6893 6894 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6895 6896 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6897 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6898 6899 trace_options=stacktrace 6900 6901 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6902 section. 6903 6904 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6905 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6906 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6907 filter. 6908 6909 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6910 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6911 6912 For example: 6913 6914 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6915 6916 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6917 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6918 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6919 6920 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6921 6922 6923 traceoff_on_warning 6924 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6925 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6926 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6927 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6928 6929 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6930 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6931 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6932 6933 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6934 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6935 6936 transparent_hugepage= 6937 [KNL] 6938 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6939 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6940 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6941 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6942 for more details. 6943 6944 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6945 Format: <string> 6946 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6947 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6948 sources: 6949 - "tpm" 6950 - "tee" 6951 - "caam" 6952 - "dcp" 6953 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6954 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6955 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6956 successfully during iteration. 6957 6958 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6959 Format: <string> 6960 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6961 Can be one of: 6962 - "kernel" 6963 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6964 - "default" 6965 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6966 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6967 6968 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 6969 This is intended to be used in combination with 6970 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 6971 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 6972 6973 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 6974 This is intended to be used in combination with 6975 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 6976 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 6977 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 6978 scenarios. 6979 6980 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6981 Format: <string> 6982 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6983 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6984 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6985 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6986 virtualized environment. 6987 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6988 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6989 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6990 can add overhead. 6991 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6992 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6993 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6994 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6995 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6996 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6997 acceptable). 6998 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6999 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 7000 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 7001 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 7002 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 7003 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 7004 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 7005 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 7006 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 7007 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 7008 7009 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 7010 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 7011 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 7012 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 7013 Format: <unsigned int> 7014 7015 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 7016 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 7017 support TSX control. 7018 7019 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 7020 7021 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 7022 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 7023 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 7024 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 7025 so there may be unknown security risks associated 7026 with leaving it enabled. 7027 7028 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 7029 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 7030 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 7031 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 7032 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 7033 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 7034 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 7035 7036 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 7037 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 7038 7039 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 7040 7041 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7042 for more details. 7043 7044 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 7045 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 7046 7047 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 7048 certain CPUs that support Transactional 7049 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 7050 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 7051 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 7052 conditions. 7053 7054 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 7055 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 7056 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 7057 access. 7058 7059 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 7060 options are: 7061 7062 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 7063 if TSX is enabled. 7064 7065 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 7066 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 7067 is not disabled because CPU is not 7068 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 7069 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 7070 7071 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 7072 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 7073 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 7074 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 7075 7076 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 7077 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 7078 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 7079 required and doesn't provide any additional 7080 mitigation. 7081 7082 For details see: 7083 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7084 7085 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 7086 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 7087 Format: 7088 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 7089 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 7090 7091 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 7092 happen after console_init() and before a proper 7093 console driver takes over, this boot options might 7094 help "seeing" what's going on. 7095 7096 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7097 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 7098 7099 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 7100 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7101 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7102 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7103 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7104 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7105 reported either. 7106 7107 unknown_nmi_panic 7108 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7109 7110 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7111 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7112 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7113 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7114 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7115 7116 usbcore.authorized_default= 7117 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7118 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7119 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7120 if device connected to internal port) 7121 7122 usbcore.autosuspend= 7123 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7124 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7125 is the time required before an idle device will be 7126 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7127 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7128 7129 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7130 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7131 7132 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7133 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7134 (default = 65536). 7135 7136 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7137 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7138 7139 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7140 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7141 scheme (default 0 = off). 7142 7143 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7144 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7145 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7146 7147 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7148 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7149 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7150 7151 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7152 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7153 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7154 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7155 7156 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7157 7158 usbcore.quirks= 7159 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7160 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7161 commas. Each entry has the form 7162 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7163 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7164 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7165 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7166 the following meanings: 7167 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7168 descriptors must not be fetched using 7169 a 255-byte read); 7170 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7171 correctly so reset it instead); 7172 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7173 Set-Interface requests); 7174 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7175 handle its Configuration or Interface 7176 strings); 7177 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7178 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7179 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7180 more interface descriptions than the 7181 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7182 talking to these interfaces); 7183 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7184 during initialization, after we read 7185 the device descriptor); 7186 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7187 high speed and super speed interrupt 7188 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7189 require the interval in microframes (1 7190 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7191 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7192 (bInterval-1). 7193 Devices with this quirk report their 7194 bInterval as the result of this 7195 calculation instead of the exponent 7196 variable used in the calculation); 7197 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7198 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7199 requests); 7200 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7201 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7202 remote wakeup capability); 7203 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7204 Power Management); 7205 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7206 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7207 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7208 calculation); 7209 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7210 to be disconnected before suspend to 7211 prevent spurious wakeup); 7212 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7213 pause after every control message); 7214 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7215 delay after resetting its port); 7216 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7217 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7218 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7219 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7220 7221 usbhid.mousepoll= 7222 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7223 7224 usbhid.jspoll= 7225 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7226 7227 usbhid.kbpoll= 7228 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7229 7230 usb-storage.delay_use= 7231 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7232 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7233 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7234 suffix with "ms". 7235 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7236 7237 usb-storage.quirks= 7238 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7239 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7240 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7241 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7242 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7243 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7244 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7245 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7246 of sense data, not on uas); 7247 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7248 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7249 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7250 device capacity by one sector); 7251 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7252 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7253 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7254 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7255 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7256 command, uas only); 7257 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7258 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7259 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7260 reported device capacity by one 7261 sector if the number is odd); 7262 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7263 device); 7264 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7265 command, uas only); 7266 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7267 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7268 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7269 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7270 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7271 not on uas); 7272 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7273 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7274 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7275 reported by the device, not on uas); 7276 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7277 by default, not on uas); 7278 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7279 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7280 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7281 Logical Unit); 7282 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7283 commands, uas only); 7284 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7285 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7286 medium is write-protected). 7287 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7288 even if the device claims no cache, 7289 not on uas) 7290 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7291 7292 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7293 Format: <int> 7294 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7295 1 - undefined instruction events 7296 2 - system calls 7297 4 - invalid data aborts 7298 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7299 16 - SIGBUS faults 7300 Example: user_debug=31 7301 7302 userpte= 7303 [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7304 7305 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7306 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7307 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7308 7309 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7310 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7311 7312 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7313 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7314 7315 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7316 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7317 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7318 7319 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7320 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7321 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7322 7323 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7324 alias for vdso32=0. 7325 7326 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7327 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7328 7329 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7330 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7331 7332 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7333 Format: [0|1] 7334 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7335 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7336 level and then send out the event to user space through 7337 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7338 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7339 brightness level. 7340 default: 1 7341 7342 virtio_mmio.device= 7343 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7344 7345 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7346 where: 7347 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7348 like K, M and G) 7349 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7350 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7351 request_irq()) 7352 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7353 example: 7354 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7355 7356 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7357 7358 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7359 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7360 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7361 Use vga=ask for menu. 7362 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7363 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7364 7365 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7366 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7367 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7368 All options are enabled by default, and this 7369 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7370 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7371 debugging features. 7372 7373 Available options are: 7374 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7375 - Disable all of the above options 7376 7377 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7378 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7379 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7380 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7381 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7382 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7383 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7384 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7385 7386 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7387 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7388 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7389 7390 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7391 Format: <command> 7392 7393 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7394 Format: <command> 7395 7396 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7397 Format: <command> 7398 7399 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7400 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7401 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7402 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7403 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7404 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7405 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7406 7407 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7408 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7409 readable. 7410 7411 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7412 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7413 page is not readable. 7414 7415 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7416 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7417 might break your system. 7418 7419 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7420 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7421 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7422 7423 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7424 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7425 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7426 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7427 7428 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7429 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7430 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7431 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7432 ranging from 0-255. 7433 7434 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7435 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7436 Change the default green palette of the console. 7437 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7438 ranging from 0-255. 7439 7440 vt.default_red= [VT] 7441 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7442 Change the default red palette of the console. 7443 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7444 ranging from 0-255. 7445 7446 vt.default_utf8= 7447 [VT] 7448 Format=<0|1> 7449 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7450 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7451 newly opened terminals. 7452 7453 vt.global_cursor_default= 7454 [VT] 7455 Format=<-1|0|1> 7456 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7457 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7458 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7459 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7460 cursors, 1 will display them. 7461 7462 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7463 Default: 2 = green. 7464 7465 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7466 Default: 3 = cyan. 7467 7468 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7469 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7470 or other driver-specific files in the 7471 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7472 7473 watchdog_thresh= 7474 [KNL] 7475 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7476 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7477 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7478 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7479 seconds. 7480 7481 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7482 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7483 to use in unbound workqueues. 7484 Format: <cpu-list> 7485 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7486 unbound workqueues. 7487 7488 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7489 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7490 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7491 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7492 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7493 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7494 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7495 corresponding sysfs file. 7496 7497 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 7498 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 7499 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 7500 stall to trigger panic. 7501 7502 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 7503 7504 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7505 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7506 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7507 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7508 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7509 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7510 7511 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7512 will report the work functions which violate this 7513 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7514 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7515 7516 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7517 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7518 will report the work functions which violate the 7519 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7520 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7521 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7522 7523 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7524 7525 workqueue.power_efficient 7526 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7527 they show better performance thanks to cache 7528 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7529 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7530 7531 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7532 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7533 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7534 power usage at the cost of small performance 7535 overhead. 7536 7537 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7538 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7539 7540 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7541 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7542 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7543 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7544 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7545 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7546 7547 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7548 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7549 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7550 updated accordingly. 7551 7552 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7553 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7554 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7555 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7556 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7557 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7558 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7559 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7560 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7561 impacted. 7562 7563 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7564 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7565 7566 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7567 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7568 7569 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7570 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7571 supporting x2apic. 7572 7573 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7574 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7575 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7576 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7577 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7578 domains. 7579 7580 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7581 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7582 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7583 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7584 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7585 nics -- unplug network devices 7586 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7587 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7588 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7589 the unplug protocol 7590 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7591 7592 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7593 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7594 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7595 7596 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7597 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 7598 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 7599 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 7600 debug data in case of multicall errors. 7601 7602 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7603 Format: <bool> 7604 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7605 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7606 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7607 7608 xen_nopv [X86] 7609 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7610 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7611 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7612 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7613 7614 xen_no_vector_callback 7615 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7616 event channel interrupts. 7617 7618 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7619 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7620 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7621 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7622 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7623 7624 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7625 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7626 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7627 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7628 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7629 more timer interrupts. 7630 7631 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7632 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7633 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7634 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7635 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7636 max. Default is 180. 7637 7638 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7639 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7640 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7641 7642 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7643 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7644 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7645 7646 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7647 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7648 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7649 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7650 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7651 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7652 7653 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7654 Format: 7655 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7656 7657 xive= [PPC] 7658 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7659 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7660 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7661 7662 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7663 controller on both pseries and powernv 7664 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7665 7666 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7667 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7668 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7669 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7670 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7671 7672 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7673 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7674 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7675 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7676 7677 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 7678 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7679 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7680 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7681 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7682 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7683 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7684 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7685 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7686 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7687 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7688 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7689 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7690 can be written using xmon commands. 7691 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7692 memory, and other data can't be written using 7693 xmon commands. 7694 off xmon is disabled. 7695