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