1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 325 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 326 327 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 328 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 329 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 330 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 331 IOMMU initialization. 332 333 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 334 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 335 remapping modes: 336 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 337 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 338 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 339 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 340 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 341 342 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 343 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 344 Format: <a>,<b> 345 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 346 347 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 348 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 349 connected to one of 16 gameports 350 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 351 352 apc= [HW,SPARC] 353 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 354 Format: noidle 355 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 356 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 357 APC and your system crashes randomly. 358 359 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Change the output verbosity while booting 361 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 362 Change the amount of debugging information output 363 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 364 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 365 driver name. 366 Format: apic=driver_name 367 Examples: apic=bigsmp 368 369 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 370 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 371 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 372 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 373 backup of CPU 0 374 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 375 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 376 shot down by NMI 377 378 autoconf= [IPV6] 379 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 380 381 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 382 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 383 384 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 385 Format: { "0" | "1" } 386 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 387 0 -- disable. 388 1 -- enable. 389 Default value is set via kernel config option. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 482 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 483 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 484 erroneous and ignored. 485 Format: integer 486 487 bootconfig [KNL] 488 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 489 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 490 491 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 492 493 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 494 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 495 kernel args too. 496 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 497 bttv.tuner= 498 499 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 500 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 501 at a time. 502 503 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 504 505 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 506 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 507 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 508 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 509 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 510 This option provides an override for these situations. 511 512 carrier_timeout= 513 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 514 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 515 it waits 120 seconds. 516 517 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 518 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 519 trust validation. 520 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 521 522 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 523 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 524 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 525 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 526 others). 527 528 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 529 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 530 531 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 532 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 533 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 534 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 535 a single hierarchy 536 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 537 subsystem 538 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 539 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 540 created 541 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 542 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 543 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 544 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 545 stall information accounting feature 546 547 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 548 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 549 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 550 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 551 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 552 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 553 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 554 all v1 hierarchies. 555 556 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 557 Format: <string> 558 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 559 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 560 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 561 562 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 563 Format: { "0" | "1" } 564 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 565 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 566 any implied execute protection). 567 1 -- check protection requested by application. 568 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 569 Value can be changed at runtime via 570 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 571 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 572 573 cio_ignore= [S390] 574 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 575 576 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 577 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 578 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 579 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 580 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 581 ones should be. 582 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 583 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 584 instability issue. However, not all features have names 585 in /proc/cpuinfo. 586 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 587 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 588 or using the feature without checking anything 589 will still see it. This just prevents it from 590 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 591 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 592 some critical bits. 593 594 clk_ignore_unused 595 [CLK] 596 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 597 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 598 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 599 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 600 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 601 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 602 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 603 platform with proper driver support. For more 604 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 605 606 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 607 [Deprecated] 608 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 609 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 610 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 611 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 612 613 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 614 Format: <string> 615 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 616 with the name specified. 617 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 618 the platform: 619 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 620 [ACPI] acpi_pm 621 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 622 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 623 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 624 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 625 [MIPS] MIPS 626 [PARISC] cr16 627 [S390] tod 628 [SH] SuperH 629 [SPARC64] tick 630 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 631 632 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 633 [ARM,ARM64] 634 Format: <bool> 635 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 636 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 637 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 638 systems. 639 640 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 641 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 642 external delays before the clock will be marked 643 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 644 three attempts to read the clock under test. 645 646 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 647 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 648 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 649 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 650 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 651 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 652 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 653 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 654 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 655 656 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 657 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 658 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 659 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 660 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 661 662 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 663 [KNL,CMA] 664 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 665 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 666 placement constraint by the physical address range of 667 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 668 altogether. For more information, see 669 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 670 671 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 672 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 673 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 674 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 675 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 676 specified, the default value is 0. 677 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 678 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 679 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 680 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 681 682 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 683 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 684 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 685 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 686 a hypervisor. 687 Default: yes 688 689 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 690 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 691 allocations, by default set to 256K. 692 693 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 694 Format: 695 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 696 697 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 698 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 699 700 com90xx= [HW,NET] 701 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 702 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 703 704 condev= [HW,S390] console device 705 conmode= 706 707 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 708 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 709 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 710 the console buffer is full. In this case the 711 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 712 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 713 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 714 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 715 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 716 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 717 718 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 719 720 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 721 722 ttyS<n>[,options] 723 ttyUSB0[,options] 724 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 725 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 726 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 727 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 728 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 729 730 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 731 information. See 732 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 733 alternative. 734 735 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 736 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 737 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 738 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 739 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 740 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 741 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 742 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 743 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 744 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 745 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 746 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 747 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 748 the h/w is not re-initialized. 749 750 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 751 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 752 753 { null | "" } 754 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 755 console messages discarded. 756 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 757 kernel command line. 758 759 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 760 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 761 console=brl,ttyS0 762 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 763 764 console_msg_format= 765 [KNL] Change console messages format 766 default 767 By default we print messages on consoles in 768 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 769 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 770 `printk_time' param). 771 syslog 772 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 773 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 774 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 775 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 776 from /proc/kmsg. 777 778 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 779 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 780 Defaults to 0. 781 782 coredump_filter= 783 [KNL] Change the default value for 784 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 785 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 786 787 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 788 [ARM,ARM64] 789 Format: <bool> 790 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 791 0: default value, disable debugging 792 1: enable debugging at boot time 793 794 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 795 Format: 796 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 797 798 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 799 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 800 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 801 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 802 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 803 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 804 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 805 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 806 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 807 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 808 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 809 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 810 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 811 812 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 813 disable the cpuidle sub-system 814 815 cpuidle.governor= 816 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 817 818 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 819 disable the cpufreq sub-system 820 821 cpufreq.default_governor= 822 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 823 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 824 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 825 826 cpu_init_udelay=N 827 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 828 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 829 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 830 Default: 10000 831 832 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 833 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 834 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 835 succeeds in any situation. 836 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 837 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 838 kernel more unstable. 839 840 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 841 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 842 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 843 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 844 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 845 is selected automatically. 846 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and 847 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 848 hasn't been specified. 849 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 850 851 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 852 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 853 in the running system. The syntax of range is 854 start-[end] where start and end are both 855 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 856 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 857 858 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 859 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 860 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 861 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 862 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 863 available. 864 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 865 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 866 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 867 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 868 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 869 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 870 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 871 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 872 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 873 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 874 size is platform dependent. 875 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 876 --> arm64: 128MiB 877 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 878 for second kernel instead. 879 0: to disable low allocation. 880 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 881 or memory reserved is below 4G. 882 883 cryptomgr.notests 884 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 885 886 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 887 Format: <dma> 888 889 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 890 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 891 892 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 893 function call handling. When switched on, 894 additional debug data is printed to the console 895 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 896 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 897 the hang situation. The default value of this 898 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 899 Kconfig option. 900 901 dasd= [HW,NET] 902 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 903 904 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 905 (one device per port) 906 Format: <port#>,<type> 907 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 908 909 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 910 911 debug_boot_weak_hash 912 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 913 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 914 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 915 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 916 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 917 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 918 919 debug_locks_verbose= 920 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 921 Format: <int> 922 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 923 self-tests. 924 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 925 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 926 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 927 useful to lockdep developers. 928 929 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 930 931 no_debug_objects 932 [KNL] Disable object debugging 933 934 debug_guardpage_minorder= 935 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 936 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 937 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 938 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 939 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 940 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 941 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 942 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 943 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 944 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 945 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 946 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 947 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 948 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 949 bypassed) which are not detectable by 950 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 951 tracking down these problems. 952 953 debug_pagealloc= 954 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 955 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 956 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 957 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 958 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 959 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 960 on: enable the feature 961 962 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 963 and debugfs internal clients. 964 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 965 on: All functions are enabled. 966 no-mount: 967 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 968 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 969 its content. There is nothing to mount. 970 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 971 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 972 or directories within debugfs. 973 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 974 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 975 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 976 977 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 978 979 default_hugepagesz= 980 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 981 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 982 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 983 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 984 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 985 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 986 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 987 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 988 Format: size[KMG] 989 990 deferred_probe_timeout= 991 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 992 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 993 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 994 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 995 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 996 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 997 successful driver registration. This option will also 998 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 999 retrying. 1000 1001 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1002 1003 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1004 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1005 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1006 hardware. 1007 1008 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1009 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1010 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1011 blacklisted features. 1012 1013 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1014 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1015 (disabled by default). 1016 1017 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1018 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1019 capability is set. 1020 1021 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1022 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1023 1024 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1025 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1026 1027 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1028 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1029 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1030 level 1 and decompression (default) 1031 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1032 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1033 only (compression on level 1) 1034 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1035 only (decompression) 1036 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1037 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1038 1039 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1040 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1041 1042 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1043 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1044 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1045 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1046 miss to occur. 1047 1048 disable= [IPV6] 1049 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1050 1051 disable_radix [PPC] 1052 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1053 1054 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1055 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1056 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1057 1058 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1059 Format: <int> 1060 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1061 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1062 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1063 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1064 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1065 INIT from AP to BSP. 1066 1067 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1068 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1069 to workaround buggy firmware. 1070 1071 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1072 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1073 1074 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1075 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1076 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1077 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1078 1079 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1080 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1081 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1082 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1083 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1084 1085 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1086 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1087 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1088 1089 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1090 1091 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1092 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1093 1094 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1095 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1096 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1097 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1098 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1099 architectural default is too low. 1100 1101 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1102 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1103 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1104 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1105 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1106 driver later using sysfs. 1107 1108 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1109 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1110 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1111 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1112 match the *. 1113 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1114 1115 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1116 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1117 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1118 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1119 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1120 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1121 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1122 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1123 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1124 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1125 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1126 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1127 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1128 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1129 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1130 data set with no connector name will be used for 1131 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1132 1133 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1134 1135 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1136 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1137 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1138 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1139 exists). 1140 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1141 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1142 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1143 1144 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1145 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1146 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1147 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1148 1149 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1150 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1151 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1152 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1153 for details. 1154 1155 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1156 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1157 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1158 which are not unmapped. 1159 1160 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1161 1162 When used with no options, the early console is 1163 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1164 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1165 the platform. 1166 1167 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1168 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1169 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1170 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1171 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1172 configured. 1173 1174 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1175 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1176 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1177 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1178 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1179 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1180 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1181 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1182 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1183 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1184 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1185 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1186 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1187 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1188 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1189 1190 pl011,<addr> 1191 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1192 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1193 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1194 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1195 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1196 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1197 the device registers. 1198 1199 liteuart,<addr> 1200 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1201 specified address. The serial port must already be 1202 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1203 1204 meson,<addr> 1205 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1206 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1207 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1208 supported. 1209 1210 msm_serial,<addr> 1211 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1212 port at the specified address. The serial port 1213 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1214 yet supported. 1215 1216 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1217 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1218 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1219 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1220 yet supported. 1221 1222 owl,<addr> 1223 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1224 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1225 specified address. The serial port must already be 1226 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1227 1228 rda,<addr> 1229 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1230 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1231 specified address. The serial port must already be 1232 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1233 1234 sbi 1235 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1236 console. 1237 1238 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1239 1240 s3c2410,<addr> 1241 s3c2412,<addr> 1242 s3c2440,<addr> 1243 s3c6400,<addr> 1244 s5pv210,<addr> 1245 exynos4210,<addr> 1246 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1247 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1248 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1249 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1250 Options are not yet supported. 1251 1252 lantiq,<addr> 1253 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1254 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1255 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1256 yet supported. 1257 1258 lpuart,<addr> 1259 lpuart32,<addr> 1260 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1261 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1262 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1263 port must already be setup and configured. 1264 1265 ec_imx21,<addr> 1266 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1267 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1268 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1269 must already be setup and configured. 1270 1271 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1272 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1273 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1274 address. The serial port must already be setup 1275 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1276 1277 qcom_geni,<addr> 1278 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1279 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1280 specified address. The serial port must already be 1281 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1282 1283 efifb,[options] 1284 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1285 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1286 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1287 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1288 mapped with the correct attributes. 1289 1290 linflex,<addr> 1291 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1292 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1293 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1294 already be setup and configured. 1295 1296 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1297 earlyprintk=vga 1298 earlyprintk=sclp 1299 earlyprintk=xen 1300 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1301 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1302 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1303 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1304 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1305 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1306 1307 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1308 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1309 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1310 1311 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1312 takes over. 1313 1314 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1315 be used at a time. 1316 1317 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1318 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1319 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1320 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1321 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1322 You can find the port for a given device in 1323 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1324 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1325 1326 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1327 very good. 1328 1329 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1330 the real console. 1331 1332 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1333 1334 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1335 1336 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1337 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1338 UART class. 1339 1340 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1341 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1342 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1343 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1344 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1345 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1346 default: on. 1347 1348 edd= [EDD] 1349 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1350 1351 efi= [EFI] 1352 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1353 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1354 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1355 debug: enable misc debug output. 1356 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1357 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1358 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1359 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1360 firmware implementations. 1361 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1362 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1363 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1364 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1365 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1366 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1367 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1368 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1369 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1370 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1371 1372 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1373 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1374 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1375 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1376 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1377 1378 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1379 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1380 updating original EFI memory map. 1381 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1382 from ss to ss+nn. 1383 1384 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1385 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1386 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1387 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1388 1389 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1390 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1391 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1392 1393 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1394 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1395 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1396 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1397 "soft reserved". 1398 1399 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1400 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1401 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1402 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1403 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1404 1405 1406 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1407 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1408 1409 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1410 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1411 1412 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1413 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1414 1415 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1416 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1417 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1418 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1419 1420 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1421 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1422 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1423 1424 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1425 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1426 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1427 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1428 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1429 1430 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1431 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1432 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1433 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1434 1435 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1436 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1437 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1438 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1439 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1440 1441 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1442 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1443 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1444 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1445 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1446 Default value is 0. 1447 Value can be changed at runtime via 1448 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1449 1450 erst_disable [ACPI] 1451 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1452 support. 1453 1454 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1455 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1456 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1457 1458 evm= [EVM] 1459 Format: { "fix" } 1460 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1461 current integrity status. 1462 1463 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1464 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1465 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1466 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1467 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1468 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1469 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1470 1471 failslab= 1472 fail_usercopy= 1473 fail_page_alloc= 1474 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1475 General fault injection mechanism. 1476 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1477 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1478 1479 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1480 Format: { initns | none } 1481 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1482 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1483 1484 floppy= [HW] 1485 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1486 1487 force_pal_cache_flush 1488 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1489 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1490 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1491 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1492 1493 forcepae [X86-32] 1494 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1495 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1496 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1497 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1498 and may cause unknown problems. 1499 1500 ftrace=[tracer] 1501 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1502 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1503 boot debugging. 1504 1505 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1506 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1507 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1508 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1509 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1510 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1511 start up functionality. 1512 1513 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1514 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1515 line parameter. 1516 1517 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1518 1519 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1520 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1521 1522 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1523 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1524 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1525 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1526 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1527 oops. 1528 1529 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1530 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1531 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1532 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1533 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1534 tracing directory. 1535 1536 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1537 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1538 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1539 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1540 tracing directory. 1541 1542 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1543 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1544 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1545 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1546 that can be changed at run time by the 1547 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1548 1549 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1550 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1551 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1552 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1553 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1554 1555 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1556 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1557 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1558 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1559 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1560 1561 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1562 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1563 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1564 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1565 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1566 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1567 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1568 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1569 suppliers). 1570 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1571 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1572 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1573 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1574 up (sync_state() calls). 1575 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1576 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1577 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1578 1579 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1580 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1581 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1582 Format: <bool> 1583 1584 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1585 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1586 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1587 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1588 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1589 1590 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1591 1592 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1593 Format: off | on 1594 default: on 1595 1596 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1597 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1598 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1599 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1600 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1601 1602 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1603 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1604 android emulator 1605 1606 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1607 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1608 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1609 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1610 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1611 1612 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1613 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1614 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1615 GPT to be used instead. 1616 1617 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1618 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1619 Format: 0 | 1 1620 Default: 0 1621 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1622 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1623 Format: 0 | 1 1624 Default: 0 1625 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1626 Format: 0 | 1 1627 Default: 0 1628 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1629 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1630 Default: 1024 1631 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1632 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1633 Default: 1024 1634 1635 hardened_usercopy= 1636 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1637 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1638 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1639 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1640 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1641 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1642 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1643 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1644 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1645 1646 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1647 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1648 backtraces on all cpus. 1649 Format: 0 | 1 1650 1651 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1652 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1653 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1654 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1655 1656 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1657 1658 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1659 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1660 1661 hest_disable [ACPI] 1662 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1663 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1664 logic will be disabled. 1665 1666 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1667 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1668 present during boot. 1669 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1670 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1671 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1672 (that will set all pages holding image data 1673 during restoration read-only). 1674 1675 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1676 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1677 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1678 size on bigger boxes. 1679 1680 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1681 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1682 Default: "on" 1683 1684 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1685 1686 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1687 Format: <string> 1688 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1689 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1690 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1691 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1692 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1693 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1694 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1695 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1696 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1697 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1698 1699 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1700 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1701 verbose } 1702 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1703 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1704 VIA, nVidia) 1705 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1706 1707 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1708 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1709 1710 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1711 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1712 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1713 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1714 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1715 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1716 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1717 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1718 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1719 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1720 1721 hugepagesz= 1722 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1723 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1724 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1725 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1726 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1727 architecture dependent. See also 1728 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1729 Format: size[KMG] 1730 1731 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1732 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1733 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1734 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1735 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1736 1737 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1738 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1739 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1740 1741 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1742 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1743 enabled. 1744 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1745 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1746 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1747 Format: { on | off (default) } 1748 1749 on: enable HVO 1750 off: disable HVO 1751 1752 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1753 the default is on. 1754 1755 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1756 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1757 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1758 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1759 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1760 1761 hung_task_panic= 1762 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1763 Format: 0 | 1 1764 1765 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1766 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1767 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1768 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1769 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1770 1771 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1772 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1773 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1774 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1775 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1776 1777 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1778 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1779 guest on lock contention. 1780 1781 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1782 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1783 registered from board initialization code. 1784 Format: 1785 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1786 1787 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1788 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1789 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1790 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1791 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1792 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1793 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1794 keyboard and cannot control its state 1795 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1796 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1797 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1798 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1799 for the AUX port 1800 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1801 controller 1802 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1803 controllers 1804 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1805 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1806 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1807 transitions, or never reset 1808 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1809 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1810 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1811 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1812 architectures force reset to be always executed 1813 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1814 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1815 i8042.probe_defer 1816 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1817 1818 i810= [HW,DRM] 1819 1820 i915.invert_brightness= 1821 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1822 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1823 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1824 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1825 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1826 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1827 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1828 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1829 value switches the backlight off. 1830 -1 -- never invert brightness 1831 0 -- machine default 1832 1 -- force brightness inversion 1833 1834 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1835 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1836 1837 1838 idle= [X86] 1839 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1840 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1841 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1842 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1843 Not recommended. 1844 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1845 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1846 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1847 1848 idxd.sva= [HW] 1849 Format: <bool> 1850 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1851 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1852 true (1). 1853 1854 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1855 Format: <bool> 1856 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1857 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1858 1859 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1860 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1861 Default: strict 1862 1863 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1864 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1865 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1866 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1867 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1868 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1869 encoding mode. 1870 1871 Available settings are as follows: 1872 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1873 supported by the FPU 1874 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1875 by the FPU 1876 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1877 by the FPU 1878 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1879 supported by the FPU 1880 1881 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1882 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1883 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1884 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1885 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1886 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1887 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1888 MIPS64 CPUs. 1889 1890 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1891 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1892 except where unsupported by hardware. 1893 1894 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1895 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1896 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1897 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1898 could change it dynamically, usually by 1899 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1900 1901 ignore_rlimit_data 1902 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1903 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1904 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1905 1906 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1907 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1908 1909 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1910 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1911 default: "enforce" 1912 1913 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1914 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1915 owned by uid=0. 1916 1917 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1918 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1919 measurements, instead of host native format. 1920 1921 ima_hash= [IMA] 1922 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1923 | sha512 | ... } 1924 default: "sha1" 1925 1926 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1927 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1928 1929 ima_policy= [IMA] 1930 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1931 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1932 fail_securely | critical_data" 1933 1934 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1935 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1936 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1937 uid=0. 1938 1939 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1940 all files owned by root. 1941 1942 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1943 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1944 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1945 1946 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1947 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1948 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1949 flag. 1950 1951 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1952 critical data. 1953 1954 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1955 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1956 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1957 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1958 opened for read by uid=0. 1959 1960 ima_template= [IMA] 1961 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1962 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1963 "ima-sigv2" } 1964 Default: "ima-ng" 1965 1966 ima_template_fmt= 1967 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1968 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1969 1970 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1971 Format: <min_file_size> 1972 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1973 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1974 1975 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1976 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1977 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1978 1979 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1980 Format: <bufsize> 1981 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1982 1983 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1984 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1985 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1986 1987 init= [KNL] 1988 Format: <full_path> 1989 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1990 process. 1991 1992 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1993 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1994 startup. 1995 1996 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1997 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1998 modules and initcalls. 1999 2000 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2001 Format: <bool> 2002 Default: 1 2003 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2004 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2005 with devices being probed and 2006 initialized. This should normally just work, 2007 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2008 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2009 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2010 late_ initcalls. 2011 2012 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2013 2014 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2015 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2016 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2017 setting. 2018 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2019 Default is 0, 0 2020 2021 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2022 zeroes. 2023 Format: 0 | 1 2024 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2025 2026 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2027 Format: 0 | 1 2028 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2029 2030 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2031 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2032 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2033 override in debugfs after boot. 2034 2035 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2036 Format: <irq> 2037 2038 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2039 2040 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2041 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2042 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2043 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2044 2045 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2046 on 2047 Enable intel iommu driver. 2048 off 2049 Disable intel iommu driver. 2050 igfx_off [Default Off] 2051 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2052 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2053 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2054 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2055 DMA. 2056 strict [Default Off] 2057 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2058 sp_off [Default Off] 2059 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2060 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2061 not be supported. 2062 sm_on 2063 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2064 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2065 translation. 2066 sm_off 2067 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2068 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2069 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2070 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2071 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2072 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2073 mapping is enabled. 2074 Note that using this option lowers the security 2075 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2076 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2077 2078 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2079 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2080 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2081 2082 intel_pstate= [X86] 2083 disable 2084 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2085 scaling driver for the supported processors 2086 passive 2087 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2088 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2089 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2090 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2091 feature. 2092 force 2093 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2094 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2095 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2096 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2097 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2098 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2099 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2100 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2101 no_hwp 2102 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2103 if available. 2104 hwp_only 2105 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2106 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2107 support_acpi_ppc 2108 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2109 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2110 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2111 then this feature is turned on by default. 2112 per_cpu_perf_limits 2113 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2114 cpufreq sysfs interface 2115 2116 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2117 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2118 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2119 nosid disable Source ID checking 2120 no_x2apic_optout 2121 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2122 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2123 2124 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2125 strict regions from userspace. 2126 relaxed 2127 2128 iommu= [X86] 2129 off 2130 force 2131 noforce 2132 biomerge 2133 panic 2134 nopanic 2135 merge 2136 nomerge 2137 soft 2138 pt [X86] 2139 nopt [X86] 2140 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2141 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2142 2143 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2144 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2145 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2146 falling back to the full range if needed. 2147 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2148 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2149 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2150 2151 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2152 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2153 0 - Lazy mode. 2154 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2155 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2156 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2157 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2158 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2159 1 - Strict mode. 2160 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2161 synchronously. 2162 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2163 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2164 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2165 2166 iommu.passthrough= 2167 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2168 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2169 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2170 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2171 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2172 2173 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2174 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2175 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2176 2177 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2178 0x80 2179 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2180 0xed 2181 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2182 udelay 2183 Simple two microseconds delay 2184 none 2185 No delay 2186 2187 ip= [IP_PNP] 2188 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2189 2190 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2191 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2192 2193 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2194 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2195 2196 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2197 [ARM, ARM64] 2198 Format: <bool> 2199 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2200 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2201 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2202 2203 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2204 [ARM, ARM64] 2205 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2206 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2207 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2208 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2209 LPIs. 2210 2211 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2212 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2213 requires the kernel to be built with 2214 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2215 2216 irqfixup [HW] 2217 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2218 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2219 firmware running. 2220 2221 irqpoll [HW] 2222 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2223 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2224 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2225 firmware running. 2226 2227 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2228 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2229 2230 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2231 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2232 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2233 2234 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2235 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2236 2237 nohz 2238 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2239 2240 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2241 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2242 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2243 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2244 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2245 2246 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2247 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2248 be configured manually after bootup. 2249 2250 domain 2251 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2252 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2253 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2254 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2255 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2256 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2257 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2258 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2259 2260 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2261 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2262 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2263 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2264 2265 managed_irq 2266 2267 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2268 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2269 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2270 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2271 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2272 2273 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2274 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2275 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2276 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2277 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2278 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2279 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2280 2281 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2282 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2283 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2284 only delivered when tasks running on those 2285 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2286 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2287 queues. 2288 2289 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2290 2291 iucv= [HW,NET] 2292 2293 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2294 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2295 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2296 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2297 2298 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2299 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2300 write the parameter as: 2301 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2302 2303 Deprecated formats: 2304 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2305 write the parameter as: 2306 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2307 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2308 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2309 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2310 2311 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2312 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2313 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2314 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2315 2316 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2317 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2318 write the parameter as: 2319 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2320 2321 Deprecated formats: 2322 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2323 write the parameter as: 2324 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2325 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2326 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2327 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2328 2329 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2330 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2331 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2332 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2333 2334 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2335 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2336 write the parameter as: 2337 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2338 2339 Deprecated formats: 2340 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2341 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2342 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2343 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2344 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2345 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2346 2347 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2348 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2349 2350 kasan_multi_shot 2351 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2352 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2353 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2354 invalid access. 2355 2356 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2357 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2358 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2359 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2360 the real console. 2361 2362 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2363 2364 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2365 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2366 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2367 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2368 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2369 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2370 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2371 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2372 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2373 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2374 2375 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2376 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2377 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2378 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2379 zone if it does not. 2380 2381 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2382 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2383 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2384 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2385 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2386 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2387 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2388 2389 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2390 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2391 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2392 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2393 optional and is the number seconds in between 2394 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2395 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2396 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2397 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2398 the kernel debugger. 2399 2400 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2401 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2402 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2403 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2404 keyboard only format: kbd 2405 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2406 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2407 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2408 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2409 2410 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2411 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2412 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2413 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2414 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2415 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2416 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2417 2418 The name of the early console should be specified 2419 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2420 the early console might be different than the tty 2421 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2422 blank and the first boot console that implements 2423 read() will be picked. 2424 2425 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2426 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2427 2428 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2429 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2430 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2431 2432 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2433 Valid arguments: on, off 2434 Default: on 2435 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2436 the default is off. 2437 2438 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2439 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2440 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2441 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2442 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2443 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2444 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2445 2446 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2447 2448 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2449 Boot Parameter" section. 2450 2451 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2452 and kernel address spaces. 2453 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2454 0: force disabled 2455 1: force enabled 2456 2457 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2458 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2459 default value can be overridden via 2460 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2461 Default is 1 (enabled) 2462 2463 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2464 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2465 2466 kvm.eager_page_split= 2467 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2468 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2469 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2470 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2471 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2472 required to split huge pages lazily. 2473 2474 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2475 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2476 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2477 still be used for reads. 2478 2479 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2480 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2481 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2482 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2483 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2484 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2485 cleared. 2486 2487 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2488 2489 Default is Y (on). 2490 2491 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2492 Default is false (don't support). 2493 2494 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2495 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2496 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2497 force : Always deploy workaround. 2498 off : Never deploy workaround. 2499 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2500 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2501 2502 Default is 'auto'. 2503 2504 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2505 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2506 2507 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2508 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2509 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2510 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2511 period (see below). The default is 60. 2512 2513 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2514 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2515 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2516 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2517 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2518 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2519 2520 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2521 Default is 1 (enabled) 2522 2523 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2524 for all guests. 2525 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2526 2527 kvm-arm.mode= 2528 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2529 2530 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2531 2532 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2533 protected guests. 2534 2535 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2536 state is kept private from the host. 2537 2538 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2539 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2540 hardware. 2541 2542 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2543 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2544 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2545 used with extreme caution. 2546 2547 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2548 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2549 system registers 2550 2551 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2552 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2553 system registers 2554 2555 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2556 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2557 system registers 2558 2559 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2560 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2561 LPIs. 2562 2563 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2564 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2565 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2566 allocation. 2567 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2568 Format: <integer> 2569 Default: 5 2570 2571 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2572 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2573 Default is 1 (enabled) 2574 2575 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2576 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2577 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2578 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2579 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2580 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2581 Default is 1 (enabled) 2582 2583 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2584 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2585 Default is 1 (enabled) 2586 2587 kvm-intel.nested= 2588 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2589 Default is 0 (disabled) 2590 2591 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2592 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2593 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2594 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2595 2596 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2597 CVE-2018-3620. 2598 2599 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2600 2601 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2602 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2603 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2604 never: Disables the mitigation 2605 2606 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2607 2608 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2609 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2610 Default is 1 (enabled) 2611 2612 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2613 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2614 2615 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2616 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2617 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2618 2619 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2620 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2621 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2622 not have direct access. 2623 2624 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2625 options are: 2626 2627 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2628 2629 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2630 affected CPUs 2631 2632 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2633 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2634 2635 full 2636 Provides all available mitigations for the 2637 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2638 enables all mitigations in the 2639 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2640 2641 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2642 sysfs interface is still possible after 2643 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2644 when the first VM is started in a 2645 potentially insecure configuration, 2646 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2647 2648 full,force 2649 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2650 flush runtime control. Implies the 2651 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2652 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2653 2654 flush 2655 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2656 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2657 L1D flush. 2658 2659 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2660 sysfs interface is still possible after 2661 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2662 when the first VM is started in a 2663 potentially insecure configuration, 2664 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2665 2666 flush,nosmt 2667 2668 Disables SMT and enables the default 2669 hypervisor mitigation. 2670 2671 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2672 sysfs interface is still possible after 2673 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2674 when the first VM is started in a 2675 potentially insecure configuration, 2676 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2677 2678 flush,nowarn 2679 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2680 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2681 insecure configuration. 2682 2683 off 2684 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2685 emit any warnings. 2686 It also drops the swap size and available 2687 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2688 bare metal. 2689 2690 Default is 'flush'. 2691 2692 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2693 2694 l2cr= [PPC] 2695 2696 l3cr= [PPC] 2697 2698 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2699 disabled it. 2700 2701 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2702 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2703 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2704 Format: notscdeadline 2705 2706 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2707 in C2 power state. 2708 2709 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2710 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2711 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2712 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2713 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2714 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2715 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2716 2717 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2718 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2719 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2720 2721 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2722 when set. 2723 Format: <int> 2724 2725 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2726 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2727 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2728 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2729 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2730 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2731 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2732 to all ports, links and devices. 2733 2734 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2735 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2736 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2737 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2738 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2739 host link and device attached to it. 2740 2741 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2742 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2743 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2744 The following configurations can be forced. 2745 2746 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2747 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2748 2749 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2750 2751 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2752 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2753 allowed. 2754 2755 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2756 resets. 2757 2758 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2759 link recovery. 2760 2761 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2762 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2763 detection. 2764 2765 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2766 2767 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2768 2769 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2770 2771 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2772 2773 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2774 2775 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2776 2777 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2778 2779 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2780 2781 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2782 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2783 2784 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2785 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2786 2787 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2788 identify device data log. 2789 2790 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2791 purpose log directory. 2792 2793 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2794 2795 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2796 1024 sectors. 2797 2798 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2799 65535 sectors. 2800 2801 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2802 2803 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2804 should be skipped. 2805 2806 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2807 support for devices supporting this feature. 2808 2809 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2810 2811 * disable: Disable this device. 2812 2813 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2814 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2815 2816 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2817 2818 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2819 Format: <integer> 2820 2821 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2822 Format: <integer> 2823 2824 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2825 Format: <integer> 2826 2827 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2828 Format: <integer> 2829 2830 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2831 { integrity | confidentiality } 2832 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2833 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2834 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2835 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2836 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2837 are also disabled. 2838 2839 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2840 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2841 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2842 number of online CPUs. 2843 2844 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2845 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2846 2847 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2848 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2849 2850 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2851 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2852 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2853 2854 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2855 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2856 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2857 mode during the locktorture test. 2858 2859 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2860 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2861 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2862 2863 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2864 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2865 2866 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2867 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2868 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2869 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2870 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2871 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2872 2873 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2874 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2875 2876 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2877 Enable additional printk() statements. 2878 2879 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2880 Format: <irq> 2881 2882 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2883 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2884 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2885 loglevels are defined as follows: 2886 2887 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2888 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2889 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2890 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2891 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2892 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2893 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2894 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2895 2896 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2897 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2898 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2899 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2900 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2901 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2902 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2903 2904 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2905 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2906 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2907 kernel boot problems. 2908 2909 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2910 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2911 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2912 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2913 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2914 attached printers to be reset. Using 2915 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2916 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2917 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2918 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2919 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2920 port specification list means that device IDs 2921 from each port should be examined, to see if 2922 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2923 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2924 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2925 2926 lpj=n [KNL] 2927 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2928 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2929 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2930 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2931 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2932 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2933 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2934 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2935 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2936 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2937 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2938 hardware. 2939 2940 ltpc= [NET] 2941 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2942 2943 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2944 2945 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2946 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2947 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2948 2949 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2950 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2951 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2952 2953 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2954 different yeeloong laptops. 2955 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2956 2957 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2958 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2959 2960 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2961 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2962 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2963 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2964 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2965 only takes effect during system bootup. 2966 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2967 which also disables the IO APIC. 2968 2969 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2970 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2971 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2972 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2973 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2974 /dev/loop-control interface. 2975 2976 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2977 2978 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2979 2980 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2981 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2982 2983 mdacon= [MDA] 2984 Format: <first>,<last> 2985 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2986 2987 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2988 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2989 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2990 2991 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2992 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2993 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2994 2995 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2996 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2997 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2998 not have direct access. 2999 3000 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3001 options are: 3002 3003 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3004 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3005 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3006 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3007 3008 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3009 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3010 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3011 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3012 too. 3013 3014 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3015 mds=full. 3016 3017 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3018 3019 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3020 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3021 3022 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3023 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3024 3025 1 for test; 3026 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3027 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3028 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3029 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3030 3031 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3032 high memory is not affected. 3033 3034 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3035 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3036 3037 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3038 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3039 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3040 belonging to unused RAM. 3041 3042 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3043 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3044 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3045 3046 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3047 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3048 firmware. 3049 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3050 ss[KMG]. 3051 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3052 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3053 3054 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3055 memory. 3056 3057 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3058 3059 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3060 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3061 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3062 3063 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3064 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3065 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3066 set according to the 3067 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3068 option. 3069 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3070 3071 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3072 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3073 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3074 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3075 option description. 3076 3077 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3078 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3079 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3080 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3081 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3082 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3083 comma delimited. 3084 Example: 3085 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3086 3087 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3088 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3089 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3090 3091 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3092 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3093 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3094 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3095 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3096 or 3097 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3098 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3099 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3100 will be eaten. 3101 3102 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3103 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3104 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3105 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3106 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3107 3108 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3109 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3110 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3111 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3112 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3113 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3114 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3115 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3116 3117 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3118 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3119 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3120 Setting this option will scan the memory 3121 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3122 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3123 from using the memory being corrupted. 3124 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3125 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3126 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3127 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3128 3129 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3130 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3131 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3132 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3133 corruption in more or less memory. 3134 3135 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3136 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3137 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3138 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3139 3140 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3141 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3142 Format: {on | off (default)} 3143 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3144 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3145 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3146 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3147 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3148 lot of memory without requiring additional 3149 memory to do so. 3150 This feature is disabled by default because it 3151 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3152 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3153 memory blocks). 3154 The state of the flag can be read in 3155 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3156 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3157 the feature is not effective. 3158 3159 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3160 Format: <integer> 3161 default : 0 <disable> 3162 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3163 performed. Each pass selects another test 3164 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3165 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3166 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3167 regions that are detected. 3168 3169 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3170 Valid arguments: on, off 3171 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3172 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3173 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3174 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3175 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3176 3177 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3178 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3179 3180 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3181 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3182 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3183 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3184 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3185 3186 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3187 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3188 3189 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3190 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3191 platforms. 3192 3193 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3194 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3195 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3196 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3197 3198 mga= [HW,DRM] 3199 3200 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3201 physical address is ignored. 3202 3203 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3204 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3205 Default: "0tb" 3206 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3207 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3208 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3209 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3210 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3211 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3212 unconfigured. 3213 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3214 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3215 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3216 VGA shield. 3217 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3218 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3219 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3220 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3221 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3222 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3223 3224 mitigations= 3225 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3226 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3227 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3228 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3229 3230 off 3231 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3232 improves system performance, but it may also 3233 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3234 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3235 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3236 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3237 nobp=0 [S390] 3238 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3239 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3240 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3241 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3242 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3243 l1tf=off [X86] 3244 mds=off [X86] 3245 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3246 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3247 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3248 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3249 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3250 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3251 retbleed=off [X86] 3252 3253 Exceptions: 3254 This does not have any effect on 3255 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3256 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3257 3258 auto (default) 3259 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3260 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3261 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3262 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3263 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3264 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3265 3266 auto,nosmt 3267 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3268 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3269 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3270 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3271 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3272 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3273 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3274 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3275 3276 mminit_loglevel= 3277 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3278 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3279 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3280 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3281 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3282 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3283 3284 mmio_stale_data= 3285 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3286 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3287 3288 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3289 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3290 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3291 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3292 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3293 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3294 3295 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3296 options are: 3297 3298 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3299 3300 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3301 vulnerable CPUs. 3302 3303 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3304 3305 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3306 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3307 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3308 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3309 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3310 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3311 3312 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3313 mmio_stale_data=full. 3314 3315 For details see: 3316 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3317 3318 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3319 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3320 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3321 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3322 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3323 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3324 3325 module.async_probe=<bool> 3326 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3327 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3328 specific module, use the module specific control that 3329 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3330 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3331 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3332 the specific module. 3333 3334 module.sig_enforce 3335 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3336 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3337 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3338 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3339 3340 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3341 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3342 3343 mousedev.tap_time= 3344 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3345 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3346 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3347 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3348 Format: <msecs> 3349 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3350 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3351 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3352 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3353 3354 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3355 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3356 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3357 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3358 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3359 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3360 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3361 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3362 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3363 is not too small. 3364 3365 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3366 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3367 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3368 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3369 allocations. Use with caution! 3370 3371 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3372 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3373 3374 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3375 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3376 3377 mtdparts= [MTD] 3378 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3379 3380 mtdset= [ARM] 3381 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3382 3383 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3384 3385 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3386 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3387 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3388 3389 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3390 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3391 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3392 3393 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3394 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3395 Default is 1. 3396 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3397 using up MTRRs. 3398 3399 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3400 Format: <integer> 3401 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3402 Default : 1 3403 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3404 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3405 3406 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3407 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3408 at a time. 3409 3410 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3411 3412 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3413 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3414 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3415 something different and driver-specific. 3416 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3417 file if at all. 3418 3419 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3420 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3421 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3422 waits 4 seconds. 3423 3424 nf_conntrack.acct= 3425 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3426 0 to disable accounting 3427 1 to enable accounting 3428 Default value is 0. 3429 3430 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3431 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3432 3433 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3434 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3435 3436 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3437 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3438 3439 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3440 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3441 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3442 requests. 3443 3444 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3445 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3446 channel should listen. 3447 3448 nfs.cache_getent= 3449 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3450 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3451 3452 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3453 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3454 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3455 3456 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3457 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3458 entries. 3459 3460 nfs.enable_ino64= 3461 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3462 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3463 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3464 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3465 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3466 3467 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3468 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3469 slots the client will assign to the callback 3470 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3471 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3472 a particular server. 3473 3474 nfs.max_session_slots= 3475 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3476 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3477 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3478 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3479 Note that there is little point in setting this 3480 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3481 3482 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3483 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3484 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3485 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3486 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3487 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3488 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3489 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3490 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3491 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3492 back to using the idmapper. 3493 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3494 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3495 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3496 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3497 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3498 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3499 3500 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3501 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3502 information in exchange_id requests. 3503 If zero, no implementation identification information 3504 will be sent. 3505 The default is to send the implementation identification 3506 information. 3507 3508 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3509 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3510 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3511 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3512 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3513 after the locks are lost. 3514 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3515 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3516 parameter to '1'. 3517 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3518 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3519 3520 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3521 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3522 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3523 3524 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3525 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3526 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3527 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3528 3529 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3530 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3531 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3532 the destination of the copy. 3533 3534 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3535 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3536 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3537 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3538 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3539 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3540 this parameter. 3541 3542 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3543 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3544 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3545 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3546 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3547 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3548 3549 3550 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3551 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3552 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3553 3554 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3555 when a NMI is triggered. 3556 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3557 3558 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3559 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3560 Valid num: 0 or 1 3561 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3562 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3563 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3564 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3565 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3566 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3567 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3568 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3569 need the box quickly up again. 3570 3571 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3572 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3573 3574 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3575 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3576 is present. 3577 3578 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3579 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3580 3581 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3582 3583 no_console_suspend 3584 [HW] Never suspend the console 3585 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3586 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3587 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3588 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3589 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3590 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3591 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3592 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3593 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3594 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3595 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3596 turn on/off it dynamically. 3597 3598 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3599 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3600 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3601 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3602 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3603 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3604 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3605 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3606 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3607 is set. 3608 3609 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3610 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3611 but will impact performance. 3612 3613 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3614 3615 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3616 (CPU alternatives feature). 3617 3618 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3619 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3620 3621 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3622 3623 nocache [ARM] 3624 3625 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3626 3627 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3628 3629 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3630 3631 noexec [IA-64] 3632 3633 nosmap [PPC] 3634 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3635 even if it is supported by processor. 3636 3637 nosmep [PPC64s] 3638 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3639 even if it is supported by processor. 3640 3641 noexec32 [X86-64] 3642 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3643 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3644 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3645 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3646 read implies executable mappings 3647 3648 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3649 3650 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3651 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3652 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3653 3654 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3655 3656 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3657 3658 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3659 Equivalent to smt=1. 3660 3661 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3662 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3663 via the sysfs control file. 3664 3665 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3666 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3667 possible in the system. 3668 3669 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3670 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3671 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3672 option. 3673 3674 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3675 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3676 with this option. 3677 3678 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3679 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3680 3681 no_uaccess_flush 3682 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3683 3684 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3685 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3686 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3687 3688 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3689 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3690 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3691 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3692 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3693 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3694 3695 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3696 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3697 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3698 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3699 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3700 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3701 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3702 3703 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3704 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3705 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3706 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3707 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3708 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3709 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3710 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3711 3712 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3713 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3714 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3715 3716 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3717 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3718 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3719 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3720 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3721 real-time systems. 3722 3723 no_hash_pointers 3724 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3725 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3726 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3727 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3728 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3729 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3730 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3731 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3732 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3733 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3734 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3735 kernels. 3736 3737 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3738 3739 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3740 Valid arguments: on, off 3741 Default: on 3742 3743 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3744 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3745 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3746 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3747 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3748 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3749 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3750 just as if they had also been called out in the 3751 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3752 3753 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3754 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3755 3756 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3757 3758 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3759 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3760 3761 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3762 broken timer IRQ sources. 3763 3764 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3765 3766 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3767 initial RAM disk. 3768 3769 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3770 remapping. 3771 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3772 3773 nointroute [IA-64] 3774 3775 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3776 3777 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3778 3779 nokaslr [KNL] 3780 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3781 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3782 Layout Randomization). 3783 3784 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3785 3786 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3787 fault handling. 3788 3789 no-vmw-sched-clock 3790 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3791 clock and use the default one. 3792 3793 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3794 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3795 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3796 3797 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3798 3799 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3800 3801 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3802 3803 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3804 3805 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3806 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3807 3808 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3809 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3810 irq. 3811 3812 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3813 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3814 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3815 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3816 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3817 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3818 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3819 3820 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3821 3822 nomodule Disable module load 3823 3824 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3825 pagetables) support. 3826 3827 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3828 3829 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3830 in some Intel CPUs. 3831 3832 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3833 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3834 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3835 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3836 3837 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3838 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3839 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3840 contention. 3841 3842 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3843 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3844 3845 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3846 with UP alternatives 3847 3848 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3849 space. 3850 3851 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3852 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3853 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3854 3855 nosbagart [IA-64] 3856 3857 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3858 3859 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3860 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3861 3862 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3863 3864 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3865 3866 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3867 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3868 3869 nowb [ARM] 3870 3871 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3872 3873 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3874 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3875 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3876 3877 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3878 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3879 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3880 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3881 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3882 parameter's value. 3883 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3884 Default: 255 3885 3886 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3887 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3888 SAL PALO. 3889 3890 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3891 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3892 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3893 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3894 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3895 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3896 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3897 hot plugging. 3898 3899 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3900 3901 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3902 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3903 3904 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3905 NUMA balancing. 3906 Allowed values are enable and disable 3907 3908 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3909 'node', 'default' can be specified 3910 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3911 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3912 3913 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3914 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3915 info. 3916 3917 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3918 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3919 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3920 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3921 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3922 interrupts *may* be lost! 3923 3924 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3925 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3926 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3927 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3928 3929 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3930 3931 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3932 3933 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3934 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3935 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3936 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3937 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3938 3939 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3940 process, but there is a small probability of 3941 deadlocking the machine. 3942 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3943 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3944 3945 page_alloc.shuffle= 3946 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3947 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3948 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3949 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3950 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3951 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3952 can be read from sysfs at: 3953 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3954 3955 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3956 Storage of the information about who allocated 3957 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3958 we can turn it on. 3959 on: enable the feature 3960 3961 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3962 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3963 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3964 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3965 on: turn on poisoning 3966 3967 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3968 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3969 Format: <integer> 3970 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3971 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3972 3973 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3974 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3975 timeout = 0: wait forever 3976 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3977 Format: <timeout> 3978 3979 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3980 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3981 bit 0: print all tasks info 3982 bit 1: print system memory info 3983 bit 2: print timer info 3984 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3985 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3986 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3987 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3988 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3989 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3990 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3991 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3992 3993 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3994 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3995 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3996 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3997 called with any of the flags in this set. 3998 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3999 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4000 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4001 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4002 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4003 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4004 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4005 4006 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4007 on a WARN(). 4008 4009 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4010 connected to, default is 0. 4011 Format: <parport#> 4012 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4013 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4014 Format: <mode> 4015 4016 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4017 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4018 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4019 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4020 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4021 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4022 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4023 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4024 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4025 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4026 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4027 are specified on the command line, starting 4028 with parport0. 4029 4030 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4031 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4032 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4033 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4034 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4035 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4036 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4037 4038 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4039 Format: <int> 4040 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4041 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4042 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4043 4044 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4045 Format: <int> 4046 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4047 changes. Disabled by default. 4048 4049 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4050 Format: <int> 4051 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4052 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4053 Disabled by default. 4054 4055 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4056 Format: <int> 4057 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4058 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4059 Disabled by default. 4060 4061 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4062 Format: <int> 4063 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4064 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4065 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4066 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4067 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4068 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4069 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4070 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4071 all channels. 4072 4073 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4074 Format: <int> 4075 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4076 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4077 respectively. Disabled by default. 4078 4079 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4080 Format: <int> 4081 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4082 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4083 respectively. Disabled by default. 4084 4085 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4086 Format: <int> 4087 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4088 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4089 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4090 All modes allowed by default. 4091 4092 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4093 Format: <int> 4094 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4095 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4096 4097 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4098 Format: <int> 4099 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4100 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4101 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4102 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4103 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4104 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4105 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4106 By default all supported ports are probed. 4107 4108 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4109 Format: <int> 4110 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4111 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4112 4113 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4114 Format: <int> 4115 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4116 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4117 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4118 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4119 0 otherwise. 4120 4121 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4122 Format: <int> 4123 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4124 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4125 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4126 allowed by default. 4127 4128 pause_on_oops= 4129 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4130 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4131 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4132 4133 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4134 4135 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4136 4137 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4138 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4139 specified in one of the following formats: 4140 4141 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4142 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4143 4144 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4145 bus/device/function address which may change 4146 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4147 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4148 by other kernel parameters. If the 4149 domain is left unspecified, it is 4150 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4151 to a device through multiple device/function 4152 addresses can be specified after the base 4153 address (this is more robust against 4154 renumbering issues). The second format 4155 selects devices using IDs from the 4156 configuration space which may match multiple 4157 devices in the system. 4158 4159 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4160 changes anything 4161 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4162 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4163 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4164 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4165 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4166 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4167 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4168 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4169 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4170 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4171 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4172 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4173 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4174 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4175 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4176 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4177 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4178 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4179 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4180 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4181 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4182 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4183 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4184 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4185 Configuration 4186 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4187 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4188 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4189 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4190 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4191 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4192 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4193 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4194 should never be necessary. 4195 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4196 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4197 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4198 when the system masks IRQs. 4199 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4200 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4201 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4202 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4203 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4204 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4205 on several machines and they hang the machine 4206 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4207 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4208 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4209 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4210 motherboard. 4211 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4212 Use with caution as certain devices share 4213 address decoders between ROMs and other 4214 resources. 4215 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4216 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4217 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4218 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4219 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4220 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4221 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4222 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4223 this way. 4224 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4225 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4226 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4227 F0000h-100000h range. 4228 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4229 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4230 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4231 explicitly which ones they are. 4232 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4233 numbers ourselves, overriding 4234 whatever the firmware may have done. 4235 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4236 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4237 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4238 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4239 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4240 IRQ routing is enabled. 4241 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4242 or for PCI scanning. 4243 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4244 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4245 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4246 please report a bug. 4247 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4248 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4249 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4250 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4251 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4252 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4253 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4254 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4255 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4256 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4257 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4258 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4259 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4260 so this option is a temporary workaround 4261 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4262 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4263 handle more pci cards 4264 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4265 This might help on some broken boards which 4266 machine check when some devices' config space 4267 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4268 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4269 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4270 This sorting is done to get a device 4271 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4272 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4273 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4274 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4275 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4276 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4277 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4278 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4279 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4280 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4281 or bus can support) for best performance. 4282 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4283 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4284 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4285 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4286 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4287 that hot-added devices will work. 4288 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4289 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4290 The default value is 256 bytes. 4291 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4292 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4293 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4294 resource_alignment= 4295 Format: 4296 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4297 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4298 aligned memory resources. How to 4299 specify the device is described above. 4300 If <order of align> is not specified, 4301 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4302 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4303 windows need to be expanded. 4304 To specify the alignment for several 4305 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4306 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4307 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4308 for 4096-byte alignment. 4309 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4310 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4311 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4312 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4313 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4314 the default. 4315 off: Turn ECRC off 4316 on: Turn ECRC on. 4317 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4318 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4319 Default size is 256 bytes. 4320 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4321 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4322 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4323 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4324 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4325 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4326 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4327 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4328 MMIO_PREF window. 4329 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4330 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4331 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4332 Default is 1. 4333 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4334 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4335 accommodate resources required by all child 4336 devices. 4337 off: Turn realloc off 4338 on: Turn realloc on 4339 realloc same as realloc=on 4340 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4341 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4342 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4343 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4344 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4345 port. 4346 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4347 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4348 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4349 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4350 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4351 taints the kernel. 4352 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4353 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4354 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4355 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4356 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4357 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4358 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4359 this removes isolation between devices and 4360 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4361 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4362 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4363 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4364 one PCI domain per PCI function 4365 4366 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4367 Management. 4368 off Disable ASPM. 4369 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4370 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4371 4372 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4373 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4374 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4375 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4376 also tries to use these services. 4377 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4378 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4379 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4380 hotplug). 4381 4382 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4383 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4384 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4385 4386 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4387 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4388 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4389 4390 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4391 4392 pd_ignore_unused 4393 [PM] 4394 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4395 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4396 for debug and development, but should not be 4397 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4398 4399 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4400 boot time. 4401 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4402 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4403 4404 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4405 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4406 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4407 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4408 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4409 and performance comparison. 4410 4411 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4412 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4413 4414 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4415 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4416 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4417 4418 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4419 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4420 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4421 4422 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4423 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4424 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4425 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4426 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4427 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4428 remains 0. 4429 4430 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4431 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4432 4433 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4434 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4435 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4436 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4437 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4438 possible settings and some assignment information. 4439 4440 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4441 { off } 4442 4443 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4444 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4445 4446 pnp_reserve_irq= 4447 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4448 4449 pnp_reserve_dma= 4450 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4451 4452 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4453 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4454 4455 pnp_reserve_mem= 4456 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4457 autoconfiguration. 4458 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4459 4460 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4461 Default is 21. 4462 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4463 may be specified. 4464 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4465 4466 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4467 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4468 platform machine description specific power_save 4469 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4470 execution priority. 4471 4472 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4473 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4474 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4475 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4476 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4477 4478 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4479 Format: {"off"} 4480 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4481 4482 preempt= [KNL] 4483 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4484 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4485 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4486 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4487 can be preempted anytime. 4488 4489 print-fatal-signals= 4490 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4491 4492 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4493 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4494 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4495 coredump - etc. 4496 4497 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4498 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4499 4500 default: off. 4501 4502 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4503 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4504 panics 4505 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4506 default: disabled 4507 4508 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4509 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4510 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4511 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4512 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4513 in order to provide more debug information. 4514 Format: <bool> 4515 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4516 4517 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4518 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4519 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4520 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4521 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4522 Default: ratelimit 4523 4524 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4525 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4526 4527 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4528 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4529 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4530 4531 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4532 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4533 instead using the legacy FADT method 4534 4535 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4536 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4537 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4538 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4539 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4540 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4541 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4542 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4543 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4544 statistical time based profiling. 4545 4546 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4547 4548 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4549 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4550 that). 4551 Format: <bool> 4552 4553 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4554 tracking. 4555 Format: <bool> 4556 4557 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4558 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4559 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4560 per second. 4561 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4562 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4563 (0 = never). 4564 psmouse.resolution= 4565 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4566 psmouse.smartscroll= 4567 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4568 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4569 4570 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4571 4572 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4573 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4574 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4575 system calls and interrupts. 4576 4577 on - unconditionally enable 4578 off - unconditionally disable 4579 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4580 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4581 4582 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4583 4584 nopti [X86-64] 4585 Equivalent to pti=off 4586 4587 pty.legacy_count= 4588 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4589 default number. 4590 4591 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4592 4593 r128= [HW,DRM] 4594 4595 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4596 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4597 invalidate. 4598 4599 raid= [HW,RAID] 4600 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4601 4602 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4603 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4604 4605 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4606 4607 random.trust_cpu=off 4608 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4609 random number generator (if available) to 4610 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4611 4612 random.trust_bootloader=off 4613 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4614 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4615 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4616 4617 randomize_kstack_offset= 4618 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4619 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4620 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4621 that depend on stack address determinism or 4622 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4623 available on architectures that have defined 4624 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4625 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4626 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4627 4628 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4629 4630 cec_disable [X86] 4631 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4632 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4633 4634 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4635 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4636 as described above. 4637 4638 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4639 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4640 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4641 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4642 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4643 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4644 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4645 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4646 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4647 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4648 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4649 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4650 4651 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4652 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4653 4654 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4655 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4656 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4657 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4658 4659 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4660 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4661 4662 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4663 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4664 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4665 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4666 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4667 This improves the real-time response for the 4668 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4669 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4670 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4671 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4672 4673 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4674 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4675 process in one batch. 4676 4677 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4678 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4679 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4680 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4681 4682 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4683 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4684 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4685 4686 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4687 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4688 RCU grace-period initialization. 4689 4690 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4691 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4692 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4693 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4694 the rcu_node combining tree. 4695 4696 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4697 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4698 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4699 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4700 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4701 4702 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4703 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4704 to zero. 4705 4706 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4707 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4708 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4709 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4710 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4711 4712 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4713 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4714 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4715 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4716 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4717 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4718 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4719 4720 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4721 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4722 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4723 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4724 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4725 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4726 condition. 4727 4728 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4729 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4730 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4731 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4732 4733 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4734 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4735 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4736 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4737 and maximum value is HZ. 4738 4739 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4740 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4741 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4742 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4743 4744 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4745 Set required age in jiffies for a 4746 given grace period before RCU starts 4747 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4748 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4749 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4750 a value based on the most recent settings 4751 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4752 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4753 This calculated value may be viewed in 4754 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4755 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4756 overwritten. 4757 4758 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4759 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4760 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4761 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4762 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4763 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4764 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4765 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4766 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4767 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4768 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4769 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4770 4771 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4772 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4773 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4774 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4775 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4776 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4777 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4778 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4779 4780 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4781 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4782 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4783 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4784 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4785 4786 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4787 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4788 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4789 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4790 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4791 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4792 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4793 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4794 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4795 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4796 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4797 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4798 4799 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4800 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4801 each group, which defaults to the square root 4802 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4803 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4804 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4805 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4806 4807 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4808 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4809 batch limiting is disabled. 4810 4811 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4812 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4813 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4814 4815 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4816 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4817 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4818 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4819 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4820 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4821 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4822 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4823 4824 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4825 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4826 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4827 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4828 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4829 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4830 4831 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4832 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4833 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4834 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4835 Larger delays increase the probability of 4836 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4837 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4838 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4839 4840 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4841 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4842 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4843 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4844 4845 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4846 Measure performance of asynchronous 4847 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4848 4849 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4850 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4851 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4852 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4853 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4854 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4855 4856 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4857 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4858 grace-period primitives. 4859 4860 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4861 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4862 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4863 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4864 interference. 4865 4866 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4867 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4868 4869 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4870 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4871 If this parameter has the same value as 4872 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4873 and double-argument variants are tested. 4874 4875 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4876 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4877 If this parameter has the same value as 4878 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4879 and double-argument variants are tested. 4880 4881 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4882 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4883 4884 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4885 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4886 4887 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4888 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4889 of allocations and frees. 4890 4891 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4892 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4893 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4894 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4895 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4896 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4897 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4898 a single reader. 4899 4900 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4901 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4902 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4903 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4904 4905 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4906 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4907 4908 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4909 Shut the system down after performance tests 4910 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4911 testing. 4912 4913 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4914 Enable additional printk() statements. 4915 4916 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4917 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4918 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4919 no holdoff. 4920 4921 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4922 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4923 in microseconds. 4924 4925 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4926 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4927 in microseconds. 4928 4929 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4930 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4931 in seconds. 4932 4933 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4934 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4935 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4936 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4937 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4938 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4939 of CPUs to be used. 4940 4941 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4942 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4943 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4944 4945 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4946 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4947 forward-progress tests. 4948 4949 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4950 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4951 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4952 testing. 4953 4954 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4955 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4956 primitives, if available. 4957 4958 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4959 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4960 4961 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4962 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4963 update-side primitives, if available. 4964 4965 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4966 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4967 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4968 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4969 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4970 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4971 they are all non-zero. 4972 4973 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4974 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4975 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4976 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4977 4978 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4979 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4980 This can of course result in splats, and is 4981 intended to test the ability of things like 4982 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4983 such leaks. 4984 4985 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4986 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4987 4988 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4989 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4990 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4991 test, hence the "fake". 4992 4993 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4994 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4995 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4996 4997 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4998 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4999 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5000 5001 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5002 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5003 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5004 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5005 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5006 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5007 5008 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5009 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5010 5011 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5012 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5013 5014 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5015 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5016 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5017 5018 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5019 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5020 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5021 task-exit processing. 5022 5023 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5024 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5025 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5026 is spawned. 5027 5028 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5029 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5030 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5031 5032 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5033 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5034 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5035 during the rcutorture test. 5036 5037 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5038 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5039 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5040 5041 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5042 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5043 warnings, zero to disable. 5044 5045 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5046 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5047 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 5048 to any other stall-related activity. 5049 5050 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5051 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5052 5053 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5054 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5055 5056 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5057 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5058 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5059 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5060 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5061 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5062 5063 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5064 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5065 5066 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5067 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5068 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5069 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5070 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5071 5072 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5073 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5074 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5075 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5076 5077 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5078 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5079 5080 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5081 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5082 5083 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5084 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5085 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5086 5087 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5088 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5089 5090 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5091 Enable additional printk() statements. 5092 5093 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5094 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5095 stall warning. 5096 5097 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5098 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5099 5100 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5101 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5102 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5103 during early boot, that is, during the time 5104 before the init task is spawned. 5105 5106 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5107 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5108 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5109 value is 300 seconds. 5110 5111 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5112 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5113 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5114 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5115 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5116 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5117 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5118 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5119 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5120 5121 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5122 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5123 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5124 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5125 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5126 5127 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5128 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5129 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5130 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5131 5132 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5133 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5134 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5135 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5136 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5137 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5138 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5139 5140 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5141 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5142 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5143 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5144 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5145 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5146 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5147 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5148 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5149 5150 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5151 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5152 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5153 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5154 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5155 5156 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5157 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5158 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5159 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5160 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5161 grace-period processing. 5162 5163 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5164 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5165 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5166 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5167 a single callback queue. This switching only 5168 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5169 set to the default value of -1. 5170 5171 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5172 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5173 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5174 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5175 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5176 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5177 the default value of -1. 5178 5179 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5180 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5181 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5182 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5183 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5184 for use in testing. 5185 5186 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5187 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5188 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5189 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5190 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5191 but lengthens grace periods. 5192 5193 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5194 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5195 informational messages, which give some indication 5196 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5197 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5198 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5199 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5200 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5201 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5202 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5203 5204 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5205 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5206 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5207 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5208 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5209 the value three, so that the first informational 5210 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5211 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5212 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5213 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5214 5215 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5216 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5217 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5218 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5219 A change in value does not take effect until 5220 the beginning of the next grace period. 5221 5222 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5223 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5224 5225 rdinit= [KNL] 5226 Format: <full_path> 5227 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5228 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5229 5230 rdrand= [X86] 5231 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5232 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5233 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5234 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5235 path). 5236 5237 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5238 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5239 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5240 mba, smba, bmec. 5241 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5242 rdt=cmt,!mba 5243 5244 reboot= [KNL] 5245 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5246 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5247 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5248 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5249 [[,]f[orce] 5250 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5251 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5252 reboot only), 5253 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5254 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5255 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5256 to be used for rebooting. 5257 5258 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5259 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5260 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5261 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5262 interference. 5263 5264 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5265 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5266 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5267 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5268 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5269 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5270 x86 laptops. 5271 5272 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5273 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5274 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5275 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5276 5277 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5278 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5279 the console log. 5280 5281 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5282 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5283 measured in microseconds. 5284 5285 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5286 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5287 5288 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5289 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5290 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5291 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5292 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5293 5294 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5295 Enable additional printk() statements. 5296 5297 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5298 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5299 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5300 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5301 specified. 5302 5303 relax_domain_level= 5304 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5305 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5306 5307 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5308 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5309 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5310 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5311 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5312 5313 reservetop= [X86-32] 5314 Format: nn[KMG] 5315 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5316 address space. 5317 5318 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5319 during initialization. 5320 5321 resume= [SWSUSP] 5322 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5323 Format: 5324 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5325 5326 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5327 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5328 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5329 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5330 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5331 5332 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5333 read the resume files 5334 5335 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5336 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5337 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5338 5339 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5340 5341 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5342 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5343 vulnerability. 5344 5345 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5346 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5347 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5348 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5349 that don't. 5350 5351 off - no mitigation 5352 auto - automatically select a migitation 5353 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5354 disabling SMT if necessary for 5355 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5356 and older without STIBP). 5357 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5358 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5359 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5360 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5361 on Intel. 5362 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5363 when STIBP is not available. This is 5364 the alternative for systems which do not 5365 have STIBP. 5366 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5367 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5368 systems. 5369 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5370 is not available. This is the alternative for 5371 systems which do not have STIBP. 5372 5373 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5374 time according to the CPU. 5375 5376 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5377 5378 rfkill.default_state= 5379 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5380 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5381 1 Unblocked. 5382 5383 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5384 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5385 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5386 blocked and the previous configuration. 5387 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5388 blocked and everything unblocked. 5389 5390 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5391 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5392 5393 ring3mwait=disable 5394 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5395 CPUs. 5396 5397 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5398 5399 rodata= [KNL] 5400 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5401 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5402 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5403 [arm64] 5404 5405 rockchip.usb_uart 5406 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5407 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5408 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5409 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5410 5411 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5412 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5413 5414 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5415 mount the root filesystem 5416 5417 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5418 5419 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5420 5421 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5422 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5423 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5424 5425 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5426 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5427 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5428 managed by CMA. 5429 5430 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5431 5432 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5433 5434 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5435 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5436 strict 5437 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5438 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5439 which is faster. 5440 5441 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5442 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5443 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5444 factor of the size of main memory. 5445 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5446 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5447 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5448 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5449 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5450 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5451 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5452 5453 sa1100ir [NET] 5454 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5455 5456 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5457 5458 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5459 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5460 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5461 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5462 5463 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5464 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5465 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5466 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5467 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5468 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5469 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5470 value. 5471 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5472 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5473 1 64 ms 5474 2 128 ms 5475 and so on. 5476 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5477 Default is 0. 5478 5479 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5480 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5481 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5482 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5483 tests. 5484 5485 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5486 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5487 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5488 default) disables this feature. Please note 5489 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5490 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5491 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5492 5493 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5494 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5495 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5496 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5497 equal to the number of CPUs. 5498 5499 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5500 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5501 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5502 5503 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5504 Number seconds to wait between successive 5505 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5506 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5507 5508 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5509 The number of seconds following the start of the 5510 test after which to shut down the system. The 5511 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5512 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5513 5514 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5515 The number of seconds between outputting the 5516 current test statistics to the console. A value 5517 of zero disables statistics output. 5518 5519 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5520 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5521 to the set of CPUs under test. 5522 5523 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5524 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5525 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5526 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5527 functions. 5528 5529 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5530 Enable additional printk() statements. 5531 5532 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5533 The probability weighting to use for the 5534 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5535 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5536 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5537 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5538 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5539 5540 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5541 The probability weighting to use for the 5542 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5543 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5544 5545 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5546 The probability weighting to use for the 5547 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5548 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5549 Note well that setting a high probability for 5550 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5551 on the system. 5552 5553 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5554 The probability weighting to use for the 5555 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5556 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5557 and weight_many. 5558 5559 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5560 The probability weighting to use for the 5561 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5562 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5563 weight_many. 5564 5565 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5566 The probability weighting to use for the 5567 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5568 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5569 and weight_many. 5570 5571 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5572 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5573 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5574 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5575 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5576 1 -- enable. 5577 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5578 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5579 5580 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5581 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5582 "lsm=" parameter. 5583 5584 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5585 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5586 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5587 0 -- disable. 5588 1 -- enable. 5589 Default value is 1. 5590 5591 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5592 5593 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5594 5595 shapers= [NET] 5596 Maximal number of shapers. 5597 5598 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5599 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5600 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5601 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5602 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5603 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5604 apic=verbose is specified. 5605 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5606 5607 simeth= [IA-64] 5608 simscsi= 5609 5610 slram= [HW,MTD] 5611 5612 slab_merge [MM] 5613 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5614 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5615 5616 slab_nomerge [MM] 5617 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5618 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5619 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5620 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5621 layout control by attackers can usually be 5622 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5623 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5624 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5625 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5626 own. 5627 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5628 5629 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5630 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5631 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5632 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5633 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5634 5635 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5636 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5637 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5638 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5639 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5640 last alloc / free. For more information see 5641 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5642 5643 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5644 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5645 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5646 fragmentation. For more information see 5647 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5648 5649 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5650 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5651 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5652 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5653 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5654 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5655 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5656 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5657 5658 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5659 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5660 lower than slub_max_order. 5661 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5662 5663 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5664 Same with slab_merge. 5665 5666 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5667 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5668 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5669 5670 smart2= [HW] 5671 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5672 5673 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5674 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5675 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5676 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5677 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5678 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5679 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5680 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5681 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5682 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5683 5684 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5685 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5686 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5687 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5688 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5689 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5690 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5691 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5692 1: Fast pin select (default) 5693 2: ATC IRMode 5694 5695 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5696 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5697 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5698 actual hardware limit. 5699 Format: <integer> 5700 Default: -1 (no limit) 5701 5702 softlockup_panic= 5703 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5704 Format: 0 | 1 5705 5706 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5707 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5708 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5709 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5710 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5711 5712 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5713 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5714 backtraces on all cpus. 5715 Format: 0 | 1 5716 5717 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5718 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5719 5720 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5721 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5722 The default operation protects the kernel from 5723 user space attacks. 5724 5725 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5726 spectre_v2_user=on 5727 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5728 spectre_v2_user=off 5729 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5730 vulnerable 5731 5732 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5733 mitigation method at run time according to the 5734 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5735 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5736 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5737 5738 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5739 against user space to user space task attacks. 5740 5741 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5742 the user space protections. 5743 5744 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5745 5746 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5747 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5748 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5749 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5750 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5751 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5752 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5753 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5754 5755 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5756 spectre_v2=auto. 5757 5758 spectre_v2_user= 5759 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5760 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5761 user space tasks 5762 5763 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5764 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5765 5766 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5767 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5768 5769 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5770 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5771 per thread. The mitigation control state 5772 is inherited on fork. 5773 5774 prctl,ibpb 5775 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5776 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5777 always when switching between different user 5778 space processes. 5779 5780 seccomp 5781 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5782 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5783 they explicitly opt out. 5784 5785 seccomp,ibpb 5786 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5787 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5788 always when switching between different 5789 user space processes. 5790 5791 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5792 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5793 5794 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5795 5796 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5797 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5798 5799 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5800 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5801 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5802 5803 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5804 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5805 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5806 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5807 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5808 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5809 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5810 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5811 5812 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5813 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5814 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5815 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5816 5817 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5818 Bypass optimization is used. 5819 5820 On x86 the options are: 5821 5822 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5823 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5824 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5825 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5826 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5827 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5828 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5829 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5830 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5831 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5832 for a process by default. The state of the control 5833 is inherited on fork. 5834 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5835 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5836 5837 Default mitigations: 5838 X86: "prctl" 5839 5840 On powerpc the options are: 5841 5842 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5843 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5844 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5845 exit. 5846 off - No action. 5847 5848 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5849 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5850 5851 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5852 spia_fio_base= 5853 spia_pedr= 5854 spia_peddr= 5855 5856 split_lock_detect= 5857 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5858 5859 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5860 instructions that access data across cache line 5861 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5862 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5863 bus lock detection. 5864 5865 off - not enabled 5866 5867 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5868 about applications triggering the #AC 5869 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5870 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5871 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5872 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5873 enabled in hardware. 5874 5875 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5876 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5877 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5878 both features are enabled in hardware. 5879 5880 ratelimit:N - 5881 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5882 per second for bus lock detection. 5883 0 < N <= 1000. 5884 5885 N/A for split lock detection. 5886 5887 5888 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5889 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5890 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5891 mode. 5892 5893 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5894 CPL > 0. 5895 5896 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5897 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5898 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5899 5900 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5901 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5902 number generator. 5903 5904 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5905 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5906 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5907 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5908 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5909 5910 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5911 the following option: 5912 5913 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5914 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5915 5916 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5917 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5918 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5919 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5920 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5921 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5922 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5923 (decide at boot). 5924 5925 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5926 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5927 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5928 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5929 5930 0: Never. 5931 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5932 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5933 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5934 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5935 5936 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5937 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5938 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5939 5940 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5941 Specifies how frequently to check for 5942 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5943 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5944 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5945 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5946 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5947 are ignored. 5948 5949 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5950 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5951 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5952 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5953 grace period will be considered for automatic 5954 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5955 expediting. 5956 5957 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5958 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5959 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5960 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5961 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5962 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5963 5964 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5965 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5966 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5967 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5968 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5969 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5970 5971 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5972 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5973 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5974 5975 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5976 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5977 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5978 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5979 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5980 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5981 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5982 5983 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5984 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5985 5986 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5987 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5988 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5989 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5990 5991 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5992 for both kernel and userspace 5993 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5994 for both kernel and userspace 5995 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5996 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5997 to allow userspace to register its 5998 interest in being mitigated too. 5999 6000 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6001 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6002 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6003 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6004 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6005 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6006 6007 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6008 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6009 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6010 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6011 to false. 6012 6013 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6014 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6015 6016 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6017 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6018 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6019 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6020 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6021 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6022 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6023 6024 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6025 Format: <num> 6026 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6027 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6028 as the initial boot-console. 6029 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6030 6031 sti_font= [HW] 6032 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6033 6034 stifb= [HW] 6035 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6036 6037 strict_sas_size= 6038 [X86] 6039 Format: <bool> 6040 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6041 against the required signal frame size which 6042 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6043 be used to filter out binaries which have 6044 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6045 6046 stress_hpt [PPC] 6047 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6048 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6049 faults on kernel addresses. 6050 6051 stress_slb [PPC] 6052 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6053 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6054 on kernel addresses. 6055 6056 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6057 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6058 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6059 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6060 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6061 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6062 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6063 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6064 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6065 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6066 maximum port values. 6067 6068 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6069 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6070 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6071 process in parallel from a single connection. 6072 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6073 6074 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6075 [NFS] 6076 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6077 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6078 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6079 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6080 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6081 NFS server is running. 6082 6083 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6084 automatically using heuristics 6085 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6086 percpu one pool for each CPU 6087 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6088 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6089 6090 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6091 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6092 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6093 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6094 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6095 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6096 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6097 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6098 6099 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6100 [SUSPEND] 6101 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6102 mode before resuming the system (see 6103 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6104 is set. Default value is 5. 6105 6106 svm= [PPC] 6107 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6108 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6109 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6110 6111 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6112 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6113 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6114 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6115 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6116 to a power of 2. 6117 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6118 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6119 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6120 6121 switches= [HW,M68k] 6122 6123 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6124 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6125 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6126 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6127 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6128 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6129 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6130 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6131 6132 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6133 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6134 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6135 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6136 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6137 in older udev will not work anymore. 6138 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6139 the kernel configuration. 6140 6141 sysrq_always_enabled 6142 [KNL] 6143 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6144 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6145 Useful for debugging. 6146 6147 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6148 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6149 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6150 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6151 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6152 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6153 6154 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6155 6156 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6157 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6158 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6159 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6160 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6161 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6162 The system is woken from this state using a 6163 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6164 6165 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6166 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6167 6168 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6169 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6170 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6171 6172 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6173 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6174 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6175 6176 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6177 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6178 critical and hot trip points. 6179 6180 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6181 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6182 6183 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6184 -1: disable all passive trip points 6185 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6186 value 6187 6188 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6189 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6190 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6191 0: no polling (default) 6192 6193 threadirqs [KNL] 6194 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6195 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6196 6197 topology= [S390] 6198 Format: {off | on} 6199 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6200 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6201 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6202 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6203 Default is on. 6204 6205 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6206 Format: {off} 6207 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6208 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6209 LPAR. 6210 6211 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6212 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6213 until after init has spawned. 6214 6215 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6216 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6217 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6218 very costly operation when many torture tests 6219 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6220 with rotating-rust storage. 6221 6222 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6223 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6224 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6225 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6226 6227 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6228 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6229 6230 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6231 6232 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6233 Format: integer pcr id 6234 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6235 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6236 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6237 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6238 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6239 are saved. 6240 6241 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6242 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6243 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6244 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6245 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6246 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6247 6248 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6249 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6250 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6251 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6252 6253 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6254 to stop the printing of events to console at 6255 late_initcall_sync. 6256 6257 ** CAUTION ** 6258 6259 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6260 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6261 the system to live lock. 6262 6263 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6264 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6265 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6266 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6267 make the system inoperable. 6268 6269 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6270 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6271 6272 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6273 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6274 6275 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6276 at boot up. 6277 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6278 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6279 depending on the architecture, may not be 6280 in sync between CPUs. 6281 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6282 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6283 but better for some race conditions. 6284 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6285 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6286 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6287 once per event. 6288 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6289 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6290 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6291 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6292 stamps. 6293 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6294 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6295 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6296 6297 trace_event=[event-list] 6298 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6299 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6300 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6301 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6302 6303 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6304 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6305 This will be listed in: 6306 6307 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6308 6309 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6310 via: 6311 6312 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6313 6314 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6315 unique. 6316 6317 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6318 6319 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6320 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6321 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6322 6323 trace_options=[option-list] 6324 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6325 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6326 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6327 to echo the option name into 6328 6329 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6330 6331 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6332 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6333 6334 trace_options=stacktrace 6335 6336 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6337 section. 6338 6339 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6340 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6341 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6342 filter. 6343 6344 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6345 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6346 6347 For example: 6348 6349 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6350 6351 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6352 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6353 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6354 6355 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6356 6357 6358 traceoff_on_warning 6359 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6360 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6361 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6362 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6363 6364 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6365 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6366 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6367 6368 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6369 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6370 6371 transparent_hugepage= 6372 [KNL] 6373 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6374 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6375 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6376 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6377 for more details. 6378 6379 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6380 Format: <string> 6381 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6382 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6383 sources: 6384 - "tpm" 6385 - "tee" 6386 - "caam" 6387 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6388 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6389 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6390 successfully during iteration. 6391 6392 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6393 Format: <string> 6394 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6395 Can be one of: 6396 - "kernel" 6397 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6398 - "default" 6399 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6400 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6401 6402 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6403 Format: <string> 6404 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6405 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6406 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6407 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6408 virtualized environment. 6409 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6410 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6411 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6412 can add overhead. 6413 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6414 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6415 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6416 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6417 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6418 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6419 acceptable). 6420 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6421 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6422 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6423 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6424 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6425 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6426 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6427 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6428 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6429 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6430 6431 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6432 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6433 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6434 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6435 Format: <unsigned int> 6436 6437 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6438 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6439 support TSX control. 6440 6441 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6442 6443 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6444 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6445 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6446 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6447 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6448 with leaving it enabled. 6449 6450 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6451 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6452 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6453 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6454 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6455 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6456 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6457 6458 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6459 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6460 6461 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6462 6463 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6464 for more details. 6465 6466 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6467 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6468 6469 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6470 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6471 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6472 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6473 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6474 conditions. 6475 6476 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6477 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6478 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6479 access. 6480 6481 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6482 options are: 6483 6484 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6485 if TSX is enabled. 6486 6487 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6488 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6489 is not disabled because CPU is not 6490 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6491 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6492 6493 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6494 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6495 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6496 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6497 6498 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6499 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6500 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6501 required and doesn't provide any additional 6502 mitigation. 6503 6504 For details see: 6505 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6506 6507 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6508 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6509 Format: 6510 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6511 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6512 6513 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6514 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6515 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6516 help "seeing" what's going on. 6517 6518 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6519 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6520 6521 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6522 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6523 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6524 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6525 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6526 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6527 reported either. 6528 6529 unknown_nmi_panic 6530 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6531 6532 usbcore.authorized_default= 6533 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6534 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6535 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6536 if device connected to internal port) 6537 6538 usbcore.autosuspend= 6539 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6540 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6541 is the time required before an idle device will be 6542 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6543 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6544 6545 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6546 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6547 6548 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6549 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6550 (default = 65536). 6551 6552 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6553 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6554 6555 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6556 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6557 scheme (default 0 = off). 6558 6559 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6560 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6561 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6562 6563 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6564 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6565 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6566 6567 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6568 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6569 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6570 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6571 6572 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6573 6574 usbcore.quirks= 6575 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6576 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6577 commas. Each entry has the form 6578 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6579 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6580 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6581 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6582 the following meanings: 6583 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6584 descriptors must not be fetched using 6585 a 255-byte read); 6586 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6587 correctly so reset it instead); 6588 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6589 Set-Interface requests); 6590 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6591 handle its Configuration or Interface 6592 strings); 6593 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6594 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6595 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6596 more interface descriptions than the 6597 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6598 talking to these interfaces); 6599 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6600 during initialization, after we read 6601 the device descriptor); 6602 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6603 high speed and super speed interrupt 6604 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6605 require the interval in microframes (1 6606 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6607 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6608 (bInterval-1). 6609 Devices with this quirk report their 6610 bInterval as the result of this 6611 calculation instead of the exponent 6612 variable used in the calculation); 6613 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6614 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6615 requests); 6616 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6617 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6618 remote wakeup capability); 6619 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6620 Power Management); 6621 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6622 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6623 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6624 calculation); 6625 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6626 to be disconnected before suspend to 6627 prevent spurious wakeup); 6628 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6629 pause after every control message); 6630 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6631 delay after resetting its port); 6632 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6633 6634 usbhid.mousepoll= 6635 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6636 6637 usbhid.jspoll= 6638 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6639 6640 usbhid.kbpoll= 6641 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6642 6643 usb-storage.delay_use= 6644 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6645 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6646 6647 usb-storage.quirks= 6648 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6649 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6650 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6651 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6652 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6653 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6654 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6655 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6656 of sense data, not on uas); 6657 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6658 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6659 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6660 device capacity by one sector); 6661 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6662 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6663 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6664 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6665 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6666 command, uas only); 6667 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6668 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6669 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6670 reported device capacity by one 6671 sector if the number is odd); 6672 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6673 device); 6674 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6675 command, uas only); 6676 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6677 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6678 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6679 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6680 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6681 not on uas); 6682 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6683 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6684 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6685 reported by the device, not on uas); 6686 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6687 by default, not on uas); 6688 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6689 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6690 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6691 Logical Unit); 6692 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6693 commands, uas only); 6694 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6695 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6696 medium is write-protected). 6697 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6698 even if the device claims no cache, 6699 not on uas) 6700 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6701 6702 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6703 Format: <int> 6704 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6705 1 - undefined instruction events 6706 2 - system calls 6707 4 - invalid data aborts 6708 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6709 16 - SIGBUS faults 6710 Example: user_debug=31 6711 6712 userpte= 6713 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6714 6715 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6716 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6717 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6718 6719 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6720 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6721 6722 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6723 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6724 6725 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6726 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6727 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6728 6729 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6730 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6731 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6732 6733 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6734 alias for vdso32=0. 6735 6736 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6737 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6738 6739 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6740 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6741 6742 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6743 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6744 6745 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6746 Format: [0|1] 6747 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6748 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6749 level and then send out the event to user space through 6750 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6751 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6752 brightness level. 6753 default: 1 6754 6755 virtio_mmio.device= 6756 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6757 6758 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6759 where: 6760 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6761 like K, M and G) 6762 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6763 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6764 request_irq()) 6765 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6766 example: 6767 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6768 6769 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6770 6771 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6772 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6773 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6774 Use vga=ask for menu. 6775 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6776 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6777 6778 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6779 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6780 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6781 All options are enabled by default, and this 6782 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6783 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6784 debugging features. 6785 6786 Available options are: 6787 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6788 - Disable all of the above options 6789 6790 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6791 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6792 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6793 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6794 mapped kernel RAM. 6795 6796 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6797 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6798 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6799 6800 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6801 Format: <command> 6802 6803 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6804 Format: <command> 6805 6806 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6807 Format: <command> 6808 6809 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6810 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6811 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6812 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6813 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6814 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6815 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6816 6817 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 6818 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 6819 readable. 6820 6821 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6822 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6823 page is not readable. 6824 6825 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6826 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6827 might break your system. 6828 6829 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6830 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6831 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6832 6833 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6834 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6835 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6836 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6837 6838 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6839 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6840 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6841 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6842 ranging from 0-255. 6843 6844 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6845 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6846 Change the default green palette of the console. 6847 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6848 ranging from 0-255. 6849 6850 vt.default_red= [VT] 6851 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6852 Change the default red palette of the console. 6853 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6854 ranging from 0-255. 6855 6856 vt.default_utf8= 6857 [VT] 6858 Format=<0|1> 6859 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6860 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6861 newly opened terminals. 6862 6863 vt.global_cursor_default= 6864 [VT] 6865 Format=<-1|0|1> 6866 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6867 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6868 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6869 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6870 cursors, 1 will display them. 6871 6872 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6873 Default: 2 = green. 6874 6875 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6876 Default: 3 = cyan. 6877 6878 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6879 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6880 or other driver-specific files in the 6881 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6882 6883 watchdog_thresh= 6884 [KNL] 6885 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6886 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6887 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6888 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6889 seconds. 6890 6891 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6892 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6893 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6894 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6895 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6896 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6897 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6898 corresponding sysfs file. 6899 6900 workqueue.disable_numa 6901 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6902 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6903 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6904 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6905 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6906 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6907 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6908 6909 workqueue.power_efficient 6910 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6911 they show better performance thanks to cache 6912 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6913 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6914 6915 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6916 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6917 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6918 power usage at the cost of small performance 6919 overhead. 6920 6921 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6922 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6923 6924 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6925 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6926 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6927 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6928 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6929 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6930 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6931 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6932 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6933 impacted. 6934 6935 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6936 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6937 supporting x2apic. 6938 6939 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6940 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6941 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6942 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6943 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6944 domains. 6945 6946 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6947 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6948 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6949 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6950 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6951 nics -- unplug network devices 6952 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6953 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6954 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6955 the unplug protocol 6956 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6957 6958 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6959 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6960 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6961 6962 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 6963 Format: <bool> 6964 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 6965 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 6966 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 6967 6968 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6969 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6970 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6971 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6972 6973 xen_nopv [X86] 6974 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6975 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6976 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6977 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6978 6979 xen_no_vector_callback 6980 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6981 event channel interrupts. 6982 6983 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6984 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6985 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6986 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6987 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6988 6989 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6990 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6991 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6992 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6993 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6994 more timer interrupts. 6995 6996 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6997 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6998 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6999 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7000 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7001 max. Default is 180. 7002 7003 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7004 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7005 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7006 7007 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7008 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7009 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7010 7011 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7012 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7013 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7014 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7015 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7016 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7017 7018 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7019 Format: 7020 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7021 7022 xive= [PPC] 7023 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7024 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7025 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7026 7027 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7028 controller on both pseries and powernv 7029 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7030 7031 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7032 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7033 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7034 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7035 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7036 7037 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7038 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7039 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7040 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7041 7042 xmon [PPC] 7043 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7044 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7045 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7046 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7047 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7048 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7049 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7050 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7051 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7052 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7053 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7054 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7055 can be written using xmon commands. 7056 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7057 memory, and other data can't be written using 7058 xmon commands. 7059 off xmon is disabled. 7060 7061 amd_pstate= [X86] 7062 disable 7063 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 7064 scaling driver for the supported processors 7065 passive 7066 Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a 7067 desired performance on this abstract scale and the power 7068 management firmware translates the requests into actual 7069 hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory 7070 clocks etc.) 7071 active 7072 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 7073 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 7074 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 7075 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 7076 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 7077 frequency. 7078