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 debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 893 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 894 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 895 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 896 to resolve the hang situation. 897 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 898 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 899 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 900 but more data) 901 902 dasd= [HW,NET] 903 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 904 905 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 906 (one device per port) 907 Format: <port#>,<type> 908 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 909 910 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 911 912 debug_boot_weak_hash 913 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 914 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 915 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 916 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 917 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 918 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 919 920 debug_locks_verbose= 921 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 922 Format: <int> 923 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 924 self-tests. 925 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 926 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 927 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 928 useful to lockdep developers. 929 930 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 931 932 no_debug_objects 933 [KNL] Disable object debugging 934 935 debug_guardpage_minorder= 936 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 937 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 938 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 939 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 940 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 941 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 942 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 943 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 944 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 945 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 946 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 947 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 948 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 949 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 950 bypassed) which are not detectable by 951 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 952 tracking down these problems. 953 954 debug_pagealloc= 955 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 956 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 957 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 958 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 959 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 960 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 961 on: enable the feature 962 963 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 964 and debugfs internal clients. 965 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 966 on: All functions are enabled. 967 no-mount: 968 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 969 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 970 its content. There is nothing to mount. 971 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 972 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 973 or directories within debugfs. 974 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 975 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 976 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 977 978 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 979 980 default_hugepagesz= 981 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 982 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 983 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 984 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 985 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 986 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 987 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 988 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 989 Format: size[KMG] 990 991 deferred_probe_timeout= 992 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 993 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 994 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 995 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 996 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 997 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 998 successful driver registration. This option will also 999 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1000 retrying. 1001 1002 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1003 1004 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1005 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1006 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1007 hardware. 1008 1009 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1010 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1011 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1012 blacklisted features. 1013 1014 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1015 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1016 (disabled by default). 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1019 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1020 capability is set. 1021 1022 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1023 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1024 1025 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1026 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1027 1028 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1029 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1030 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1031 level 1 and decompression (default) 1032 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1033 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1034 only (compression on level 1) 1035 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1036 only (decompression) 1037 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1038 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1039 1040 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1041 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1042 1043 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1044 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1045 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1046 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1047 miss to occur. 1048 1049 disable= [IPV6] 1050 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1051 1052 disable_radix [PPC] 1053 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1054 1055 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1056 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1057 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1058 1059 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1060 Format: <int> 1061 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1062 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1063 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1064 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1065 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1066 INIT from AP to BSP. 1067 1068 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1069 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1070 to workaround buggy firmware. 1071 1072 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1073 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1074 1075 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1076 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1077 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1078 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1079 1080 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1081 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1082 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1083 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1084 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1085 1086 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1087 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1088 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1089 1090 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1091 1092 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1093 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1094 1095 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1096 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1097 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1098 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1099 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1100 architectural default is too low. 1101 1102 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1103 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1104 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1105 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1106 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1107 driver later using sysfs. 1108 1109 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1110 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1111 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1112 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1113 match the *. 1114 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1115 1116 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1117 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1118 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1119 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1120 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1121 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1122 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1123 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1124 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1125 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1126 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1127 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1128 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1129 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1130 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1131 data set with no connector name will be used for 1132 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1133 1134 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1135 1136 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1137 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1138 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1139 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1140 exists). 1141 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1142 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1143 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1144 1145 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1146 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1147 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1148 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1149 1150 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1151 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1152 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1153 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1154 for details. 1155 1156 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1157 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1158 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1159 which are not unmapped. 1160 1161 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1162 1163 When used with no options, the early console is 1164 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1165 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1166 the platform. 1167 1168 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1169 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1170 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1171 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1172 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1173 configured. 1174 1175 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1176 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1177 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1178 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1179 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1180 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1181 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1182 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1183 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1184 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1185 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1186 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1187 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1188 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1189 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1190 1191 pl011,<addr> 1192 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1193 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1194 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1195 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1196 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1197 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1198 the device registers. 1199 1200 liteuart,<addr> 1201 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1202 specified address. The serial port must already be 1203 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1204 1205 meson,<addr> 1206 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1207 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1208 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1209 supported. 1210 1211 msm_serial,<addr> 1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1213 port at the specified address. The serial port 1214 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1215 yet supported. 1216 1217 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1219 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1220 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1221 yet supported. 1222 1223 owl,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1225 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1226 specified address. The serial port must already be 1227 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1228 1229 rda,<addr> 1230 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1231 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1232 specified address. The serial port must already be 1233 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1234 1235 sbi 1236 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1237 console. 1238 1239 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1240 1241 s3c2410,<addr> 1242 s3c2412,<addr> 1243 s3c2440,<addr> 1244 s3c6400,<addr> 1245 s5pv210,<addr> 1246 exynos4210,<addr> 1247 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1248 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1249 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1250 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1251 Options are not yet supported. 1252 1253 lantiq,<addr> 1254 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1255 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1256 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1257 yet supported. 1258 1259 lpuart,<addr> 1260 lpuart32,<addr> 1261 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1262 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1263 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1264 port must already be setup and configured. 1265 1266 ec_imx21,<addr> 1267 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1269 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1270 must already be setup and configured. 1271 1272 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1273 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1274 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1275 address. The serial port must already be setup 1276 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1277 1278 qcom_geni,<addr> 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1280 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1281 specified address. The serial port must already be 1282 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 efifb,[options] 1285 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1286 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1287 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1288 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1289 mapped with the correct attributes. 1290 1291 linflex,<addr> 1292 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1293 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1294 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1295 already be setup and configured. 1296 1297 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1298 earlyprintk=vga 1299 earlyprintk=sclp 1300 earlyprintk=xen 1301 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1302 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1303 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1304 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1305 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1306 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1307 1308 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1309 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1310 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1311 1312 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1313 takes over. 1314 1315 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1316 be used at a time. 1317 1318 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1319 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1320 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1321 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1322 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1323 You can find the port for a given device in 1324 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1325 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1326 1327 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1328 very good. 1329 1330 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1331 the real console. 1332 1333 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1334 1335 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1336 1337 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1338 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1339 UART class. 1340 1341 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1342 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1343 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1344 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1345 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1346 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1347 default: on. 1348 1349 edd= [EDD] 1350 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1351 1352 efi= [EFI] 1353 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1354 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1355 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1356 debug: enable misc debug output. 1357 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1358 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1359 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1360 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1361 firmware implementations. 1362 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1363 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1364 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1365 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1366 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1367 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1368 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1369 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1370 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1371 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1372 1373 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1374 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1375 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1376 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1377 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1378 1379 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1380 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1381 updating original EFI memory map. 1382 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1383 from ss to ss+nn. 1384 1385 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1386 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1387 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1388 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1389 1390 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1391 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1392 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1393 1394 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1395 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1396 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1397 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1398 "soft reserved". 1399 1400 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1401 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1402 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1403 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1404 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1405 1406 1407 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1408 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1409 1410 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1411 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1412 1413 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1414 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1415 1416 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1417 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1418 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1419 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1420 1421 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1422 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1423 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1424 1425 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1426 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1427 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1428 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1429 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1430 1431 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1432 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1433 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1434 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1435 1436 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1437 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1438 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1439 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1440 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1441 1442 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1443 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1444 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1445 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1446 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1447 Default value is 0. 1448 Value can be changed at runtime via 1449 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1450 1451 erst_disable [ACPI] 1452 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1453 support. 1454 1455 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1456 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1457 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1458 1459 evm= [EVM] 1460 Format: { "fix" } 1461 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1462 current integrity status. 1463 1464 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1465 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1466 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1467 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1468 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1469 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1470 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1471 1472 failslab= 1473 fail_usercopy= 1474 fail_page_alloc= 1475 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1476 General fault injection mechanism. 1477 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1478 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1479 1480 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1481 Format: { initns | none } 1482 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1483 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1484 1485 floppy= [HW] 1486 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1487 1488 force_pal_cache_flush 1489 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1490 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1491 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1492 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1493 1494 forcepae [X86-32] 1495 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1496 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1497 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1498 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1499 and may cause unknown problems. 1500 1501 ftrace=[tracer] 1502 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1503 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1504 boot debugging. 1505 1506 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1507 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1508 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1509 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1510 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1511 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1512 start up functionality. 1513 1514 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1515 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1516 line parameter. 1517 1518 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1519 1520 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1521 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1522 1523 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1524 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1525 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1526 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1527 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1528 oops. 1529 1530 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1531 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1532 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1533 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1534 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1535 tracing directory. 1536 1537 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1538 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1539 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1540 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1541 tracing directory. 1542 1543 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1544 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1545 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1546 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1547 that can be changed at run time by the 1548 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1549 1550 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1551 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1552 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1553 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1554 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1555 1556 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1557 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1558 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1559 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1560 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1561 1562 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1563 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1564 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1565 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1566 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1567 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1568 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1569 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1570 suppliers). 1571 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1572 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1573 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1574 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1575 up (sync_state() calls). 1576 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1577 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1578 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1579 1580 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1581 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1582 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1583 Format: <bool> 1584 1585 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1586 [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished 1587 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1588 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1589 calls. 1590 Format: { strict | timeout } 1591 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1592 probe successfully. 1593 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1594 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1595 received their sync_state() calls after 1596 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1597 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1598 1599 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1600 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1601 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1602 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1603 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1604 1605 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1606 1607 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1608 Format: off | on 1609 default: on 1610 1611 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1612 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1613 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1614 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1615 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1616 1617 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1618 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1619 android emulator 1620 1621 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1622 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1623 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1624 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1625 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1626 1627 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1628 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1629 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1630 GPT to be used instead. 1631 1632 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1633 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1634 Format: 0 | 1 1635 Default: 0 1636 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1637 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1638 Format: 0 | 1 1639 Default: 0 1640 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1641 Format: 0 | 1 1642 Default: 0 1643 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1644 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1645 Default: 1024 1646 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1647 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1648 Default: 1024 1649 1650 hardened_usercopy= 1651 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1652 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1653 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1654 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1655 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1656 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1657 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1658 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1659 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1660 1661 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1662 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1663 backtraces on all cpus. 1664 Format: 0 | 1 1665 1666 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1667 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1668 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1669 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1670 1671 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1672 1673 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1674 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1675 1676 hest_disable [ACPI] 1677 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1678 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1679 logic will be disabled. 1680 1681 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1682 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1683 present during boot. 1684 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1685 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1686 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1687 (that will set all pages holding image data 1688 during restoration read-only). 1689 1690 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1691 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1692 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1693 size on bigger boxes. 1694 1695 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1696 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1697 Default: "on" 1698 1699 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1700 1701 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1702 Format: <string> 1703 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1704 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1705 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1706 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1707 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1708 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1709 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1710 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1711 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1712 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1713 1714 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1715 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1716 verbose } 1717 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1718 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1719 VIA, nVidia) 1720 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1721 1722 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1723 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1724 1725 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1726 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1727 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1728 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1729 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1730 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1731 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1732 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1733 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1734 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1735 1736 hugepagesz= 1737 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1738 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1739 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1740 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1741 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1742 architecture dependent. See also 1743 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1744 Format: size[KMG] 1745 1746 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1747 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1748 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1749 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1750 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1751 1752 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1753 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1754 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1755 1756 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1757 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1758 enabled. 1759 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1760 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1761 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1762 Format: { on | off (default) } 1763 1764 on: enable HVO 1765 off: disable HVO 1766 1767 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1768 the default is on. 1769 1770 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1771 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1772 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1773 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1774 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1775 1776 hung_task_panic= 1777 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1778 Format: 0 | 1 1779 1780 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1781 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1782 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1783 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1784 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1785 1786 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1787 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1788 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1789 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1790 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1791 1792 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1793 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1794 guest on lock contention. 1795 1796 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1797 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1798 registered from board initialization code. 1799 Format: 1800 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1801 1802 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1803 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1804 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1805 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1806 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1807 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1808 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1809 keyboard and cannot control its state 1810 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1811 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1812 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1813 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1814 for the AUX port 1815 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1816 controller 1817 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1818 controllers 1819 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1820 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1821 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1822 transitions, or never reset 1823 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1824 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1825 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1826 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1827 architectures force reset to be always executed 1828 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1829 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1830 i8042.probe_defer 1831 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1832 1833 i810= [HW,DRM] 1834 1835 i915.invert_brightness= 1836 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1837 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1838 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1839 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1840 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1841 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1842 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1843 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1844 value switches the backlight off. 1845 -1 -- never invert brightness 1846 0 -- machine default 1847 1 -- force brightness inversion 1848 1849 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1850 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1851 1852 1853 idle= [X86] 1854 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1855 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1856 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1857 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1858 Not recommended. 1859 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1860 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1861 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1862 1863 idxd.sva= [HW] 1864 Format: <bool> 1865 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1866 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1867 true (1). 1868 1869 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1870 Format: <bool> 1871 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1872 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1873 1874 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1875 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1876 Default: strict 1877 1878 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1879 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1880 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1881 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1882 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1883 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1884 encoding mode. 1885 1886 Available settings are as follows: 1887 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1888 supported by the FPU 1889 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1890 by the FPU 1891 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1892 by the FPU 1893 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1894 supported by the FPU 1895 1896 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1897 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1898 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1899 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1900 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1901 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1902 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1903 MIPS64 CPUs. 1904 1905 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1906 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1907 except where unsupported by hardware. 1908 1909 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1910 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1911 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1912 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1913 could change it dynamically, usually by 1914 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1915 1916 ignore_rlimit_data 1917 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1918 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1919 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1920 1921 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1922 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1923 1924 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1925 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1926 default: "enforce" 1927 1928 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1929 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1930 owned by uid=0. 1931 1932 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1933 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1934 measurements, instead of host native format. 1935 1936 ima_hash= [IMA] 1937 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1938 | sha512 | ... } 1939 default: "sha1" 1940 1941 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1942 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1943 1944 ima_policy= [IMA] 1945 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1946 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1947 fail_securely | critical_data" 1948 1949 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1950 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1951 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1952 uid=0. 1953 1954 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1955 all files owned by root. 1956 1957 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1958 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1959 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1960 1961 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1962 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1963 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1964 flag. 1965 1966 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1967 critical data. 1968 1969 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1970 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1971 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1972 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1973 opened for read by uid=0. 1974 1975 ima_template= [IMA] 1976 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1977 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1978 "ima-sigv2" } 1979 Default: "ima-ng" 1980 1981 ima_template_fmt= 1982 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1983 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1984 1985 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1986 Format: <min_file_size> 1987 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1988 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1989 1990 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1991 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1992 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1993 1994 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1995 Format: <bufsize> 1996 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1997 1998 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1999 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2000 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2001 2002 init= [KNL] 2003 Format: <full_path> 2004 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2005 process. 2006 2007 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2008 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2009 startup. 2010 2011 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2012 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2013 modules and initcalls. 2014 2015 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2016 Format: <bool> 2017 Default: 1 2018 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2019 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2020 with devices being probed and 2021 initialized. This should normally just work, 2022 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2023 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2024 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2025 late_ initcalls. 2026 2027 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2028 2029 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2030 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2031 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2032 setting. 2033 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2034 Default is 0, 0 2035 2036 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2037 zeroes. 2038 Format: 0 | 1 2039 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2040 2041 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2042 Format: 0 | 1 2043 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2044 2045 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2046 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2047 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2048 override in debugfs after boot. 2049 2050 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2051 Format: <irq> 2052 2053 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2054 2055 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2056 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2057 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2058 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2059 2060 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2061 on 2062 Enable intel iommu driver. 2063 off 2064 Disable intel iommu driver. 2065 igfx_off [Default Off] 2066 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2067 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2068 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2069 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2070 DMA. 2071 strict [Default Off] 2072 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2073 sp_off [Default Off] 2074 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2075 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2076 not be supported. 2077 sm_on 2078 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2079 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2080 translation. 2081 sm_off 2082 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2083 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2084 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2085 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2086 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2087 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2088 mapping is enabled. 2089 Note that using this option lowers the security 2090 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2091 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2092 2093 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2094 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2095 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2096 2097 intel_pstate= [X86] 2098 disable 2099 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2100 scaling driver for the supported processors 2101 passive 2102 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2103 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2104 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2105 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2106 feature. 2107 force 2108 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2109 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2110 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2111 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2112 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2113 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2114 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2115 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2116 no_hwp 2117 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2118 if available. 2119 hwp_only 2120 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2121 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2122 support_acpi_ppc 2123 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2124 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2125 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2126 then this feature is turned on by default. 2127 per_cpu_perf_limits 2128 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2129 cpufreq sysfs interface 2130 2131 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2132 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2133 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2134 nosid disable Source ID checking 2135 no_x2apic_optout 2136 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2137 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2138 2139 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2140 strict regions from userspace. 2141 relaxed 2142 2143 iommu= [X86] 2144 off 2145 force 2146 noforce 2147 biomerge 2148 panic 2149 nopanic 2150 merge 2151 nomerge 2152 soft 2153 pt [X86] 2154 nopt [X86] 2155 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2156 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2157 2158 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2159 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2160 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2161 falling back to the full range if needed. 2162 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2163 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2164 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2165 2166 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2167 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2168 0 - Lazy mode. 2169 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2170 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2171 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2172 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2173 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2174 1 - Strict mode. 2175 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2176 synchronously. 2177 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2178 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2179 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2180 2181 iommu.passthrough= 2182 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2183 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2184 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2185 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2186 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2187 2188 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2189 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2190 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2191 2192 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2193 0x80 2194 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2195 0xed 2196 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2197 udelay 2198 Simple two microseconds delay 2199 none 2200 No delay 2201 2202 ip= [IP_PNP] 2203 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2204 2205 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2206 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2207 2208 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2209 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2210 2211 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2212 [ARM, ARM64] 2213 Format: <bool> 2214 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2215 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2216 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2217 2218 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2219 [ARM, ARM64] 2220 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2221 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2222 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2223 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2224 LPIs. 2225 2226 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2227 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2228 requires the kernel to be built with 2229 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2230 2231 irqfixup [HW] 2232 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2233 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2234 firmware running. 2235 2236 irqpoll [HW] 2237 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2238 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2239 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2240 firmware running. 2241 2242 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2243 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2244 2245 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2246 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2247 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2248 2249 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2250 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2251 2252 nohz 2253 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2254 2255 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2256 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2257 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2258 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2259 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2260 2261 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2262 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2263 be configured manually after bootup. 2264 2265 domain 2266 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2267 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2268 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2269 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2270 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2271 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2272 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2273 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2274 2275 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2276 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2277 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2278 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2279 2280 managed_irq 2281 2282 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2283 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2284 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2285 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2286 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2287 2288 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2289 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2290 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2291 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2292 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2293 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2294 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2295 2296 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2297 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2298 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2299 only delivered when tasks running on those 2300 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2301 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2302 queues. 2303 2304 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2305 2306 iucv= [HW,NET] 2307 2308 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2309 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2310 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2311 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2312 2313 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2314 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2315 write the parameter as: 2316 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2317 2318 Deprecated formats: 2319 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2320 write the parameter as: 2321 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2322 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2323 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2324 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2325 2326 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2327 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2328 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2329 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2330 2331 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2332 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2333 write the parameter as: 2334 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2335 2336 Deprecated formats: 2337 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2338 write the parameter as: 2339 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2340 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2341 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2342 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2343 2344 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2345 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2346 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2347 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2348 2349 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2350 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2351 write the parameter as: 2352 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2353 2354 Deprecated formats: 2355 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2356 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2357 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2358 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2359 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2360 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2361 2362 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2363 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2364 2365 kasan_multi_shot 2366 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2367 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2368 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2369 invalid access. 2370 2371 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2372 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2373 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2374 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2375 the real console. 2376 2377 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2378 2379 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2380 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2381 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2382 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2383 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2384 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2385 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2386 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2387 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2388 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2389 2390 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2391 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2392 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2393 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2394 zone if it does not. 2395 2396 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2397 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2398 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2399 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2400 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2401 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2402 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2403 2404 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2405 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2406 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2407 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2408 optional and is the number seconds in between 2409 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2410 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2411 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2412 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2413 the kernel debugger. 2414 2415 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2416 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2417 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2418 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2419 keyboard only format: kbd 2420 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2421 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2422 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2423 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2424 2425 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2426 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2427 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2428 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2429 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2430 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2431 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2432 2433 The name of the early console should be specified 2434 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2435 the early console might be different than the tty 2436 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2437 blank and the first boot console that implements 2438 read() will be picked. 2439 2440 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2441 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2442 2443 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2444 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2445 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2446 2447 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2448 Valid arguments: on, off 2449 Default: on 2450 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2451 the default is off. 2452 2453 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2454 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2455 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2456 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2457 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2458 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2459 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2460 2461 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2462 2463 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2464 Boot Parameter" section. 2465 2466 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2467 and kernel address spaces. 2468 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2469 0: force disabled 2470 1: force enabled 2471 2472 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2473 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2474 default value can be overridden via 2475 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2476 Default is 1 (enabled) 2477 2478 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2479 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2480 2481 kvm.eager_page_split= 2482 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2483 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2484 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2485 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2486 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2487 required to split huge pages lazily. 2488 2489 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2490 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2491 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2492 still be used for reads. 2493 2494 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2495 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2496 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2497 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2498 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2499 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2500 cleared. 2501 2502 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2503 2504 Default is Y (on). 2505 2506 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2507 Default is false (don't support). 2508 2509 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2510 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2511 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2512 force : Always deploy workaround. 2513 off : Never deploy workaround. 2514 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2515 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2516 2517 Default is 'auto'. 2518 2519 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2520 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2521 2522 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2523 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2524 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2525 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2526 period (see below). The default is 60. 2527 2528 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2529 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2530 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2531 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2532 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2533 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2534 2535 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2536 Default is 1 (enabled) 2537 2538 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2539 for all guests. 2540 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2541 2542 kvm-arm.mode= 2543 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2544 2545 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2546 2547 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2548 protected guests. 2549 2550 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2551 state is kept private from the host. 2552 2553 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2554 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2555 hardware. 2556 2557 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2558 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2559 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2560 used with extreme caution. 2561 2562 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2563 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2564 system registers 2565 2566 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2567 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2568 system registers 2569 2570 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2571 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2572 system registers 2573 2574 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2575 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2576 LPIs. 2577 2578 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2579 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2580 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2581 allocation. 2582 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2583 Format: <integer> 2584 Default: 5 2585 2586 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2587 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2588 Default is 1 (enabled) 2589 2590 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2591 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2592 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2593 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2594 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2595 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2596 Default is 1 (enabled) 2597 2598 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2599 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2600 Default is 1 (enabled) 2601 2602 kvm-intel.nested= 2603 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2604 Default is 0 (disabled) 2605 2606 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2607 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2608 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2609 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2610 2611 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2612 CVE-2018-3620. 2613 2614 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2615 2616 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2617 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2618 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2619 never: Disables the mitigation 2620 2621 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2622 2623 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2624 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2625 Default is 1 (enabled) 2626 2627 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2628 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2629 2630 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2631 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2632 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2633 2634 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2635 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2636 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2637 not have direct access. 2638 2639 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2640 options are: 2641 2642 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2643 2644 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2645 affected CPUs 2646 2647 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2648 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2649 2650 full 2651 Provides all available mitigations for the 2652 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2653 enables all mitigations in the 2654 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2655 2656 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2657 sysfs interface is still possible after 2658 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2659 when the first VM is started in a 2660 potentially insecure configuration, 2661 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2662 2663 full,force 2664 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2665 flush runtime control. Implies the 2666 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2667 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2668 2669 flush 2670 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2671 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2672 L1D flush. 2673 2674 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2675 sysfs interface is still possible after 2676 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2677 when the first VM is started in a 2678 potentially insecure configuration, 2679 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2680 2681 flush,nosmt 2682 2683 Disables SMT and enables the default 2684 hypervisor mitigation. 2685 2686 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2687 sysfs interface is still possible after 2688 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2689 when the first VM is started in a 2690 potentially insecure configuration, 2691 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2692 2693 flush,nowarn 2694 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2695 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2696 insecure configuration. 2697 2698 off 2699 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2700 emit any warnings. 2701 It also drops the swap size and available 2702 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2703 bare metal. 2704 2705 Default is 'flush'. 2706 2707 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2708 2709 l2cr= [PPC] 2710 2711 l3cr= [PPC] 2712 2713 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2714 disabled it. 2715 2716 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2717 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2718 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2719 Format: notscdeadline 2720 2721 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2722 in C2 power state. 2723 2724 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2725 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2726 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2727 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2728 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2729 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2730 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2731 2732 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2733 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2734 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2735 2736 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2737 when set. 2738 Format: <int> 2739 2740 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2741 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2742 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2743 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2744 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2745 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2746 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2747 to all ports, links and devices. 2748 2749 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2750 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2751 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2752 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2753 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2754 host link and device attached to it. 2755 2756 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2757 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2758 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2759 The following configurations can be forced. 2760 2761 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2762 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2763 2764 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2765 2766 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2767 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2768 allowed. 2769 2770 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2771 resets. 2772 2773 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2774 link recovery. 2775 2776 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2777 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2778 detection. 2779 2780 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2781 2782 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2783 2784 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2785 2786 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2787 2788 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2789 2790 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2791 2792 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2793 2794 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2795 2796 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2797 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2798 2799 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2800 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2801 2802 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2803 identify device data log. 2804 2805 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2806 purpose log directory. 2807 2808 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2809 2810 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2811 1024 sectors. 2812 2813 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2814 65535 sectors. 2815 2816 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2817 2818 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2819 should be skipped. 2820 2821 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2822 support for devices supporting this feature. 2823 2824 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2825 2826 * disable: Disable this device. 2827 2828 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2829 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2830 2831 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2832 2833 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2834 Format: <integer> 2835 2836 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2837 Format: <integer> 2838 2839 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2840 Format: <integer> 2841 2842 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2843 Format: <integer> 2844 2845 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2846 { integrity | confidentiality } 2847 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2848 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2849 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2850 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2851 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2852 are also disabled. 2853 2854 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2855 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2856 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2857 number of online CPUs. 2858 2859 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2860 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2861 2862 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2863 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2864 2865 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2866 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2867 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2868 2869 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2870 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2871 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2872 mode during the locktorture test. 2873 2874 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2875 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2876 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2877 2878 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2879 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2880 2881 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2882 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2883 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2884 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2885 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2886 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2887 2888 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2889 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2890 2891 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2892 Enable additional printk() statements. 2893 2894 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2895 Format: <irq> 2896 2897 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2898 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2899 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2900 loglevels are defined as follows: 2901 2902 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2903 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2904 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2905 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2906 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2907 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2908 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2909 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2910 2911 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2912 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2913 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2914 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2915 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2916 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2917 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2918 2919 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2920 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2921 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2922 kernel boot problems. 2923 2924 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2925 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2926 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2927 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2928 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2929 attached printers to be reset. Using 2930 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2931 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2932 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2933 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2934 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2935 port specification list means that device IDs 2936 from each port should be examined, to see if 2937 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2938 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2939 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2940 2941 lpj=n [KNL] 2942 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2943 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2944 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2945 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2946 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2947 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2948 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2949 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2950 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2951 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2952 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2953 hardware. 2954 2955 ltpc= [NET] 2956 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2957 2958 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2959 2960 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2961 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2962 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2963 2964 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2965 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2966 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2967 2968 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2969 different yeeloong laptops. 2970 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2971 2972 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2973 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2974 2975 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2976 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2977 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2978 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2979 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2980 only takes effect during system bootup. 2981 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2982 which also disables the IO APIC. 2983 2984 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2985 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2986 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2987 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2988 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2989 /dev/loop-control interface. 2990 2991 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2992 2993 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2994 2995 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2996 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2997 2998 mdacon= [MDA] 2999 Format: <first>,<last> 3000 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3001 3002 mds= [X86,INTEL] 3003 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3004 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3005 3006 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3007 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3008 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3009 3010 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3011 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3012 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3013 not have direct access. 3014 3015 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3016 options are: 3017 3018 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3019 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3020 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3021 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3022 3023 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3024 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3025 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3026 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3027 too. 3028 3029 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3030 mds=full. 3031 3032 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3033 3034 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3035 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3036 3037 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3038 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3039 3040 1 for test; 3041 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3042 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3043 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3044 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3045 3046 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3047 high memory is not affected. 3048 3049 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3050 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3051 3052 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3053 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3054 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3055 belonging to unused RAM. 3056 3057 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3058 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3059 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3060 3061 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3062 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3063 firmware. 3064 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3065 ss[KMG]. 3066 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3067 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3068 3069 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3070 memory. 3071 3072 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3073 3074 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3075 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3076 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3077 3078 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3079 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3080 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3081 set according to the 3082 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3083 option. 3084 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3085 3086 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3087 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3088 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3089 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3090 option description. 3091 3092 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3093 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3094 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3095 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3096 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3097 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3098 comma delimited. 3099 Example: 3100 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3101 3102 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3103 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3104 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3105 3106 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3107 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3108 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3109 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3110 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3111 or 3112 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3113 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3114 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3115 will be eaten. 3116 3117 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3118 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3119 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3120 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3121 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3122 3123 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3124 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3125 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3126 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3127 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3128 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3129 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3130 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3131 3132 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3133 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3134 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3135 Setting this option will scan the memory 3136 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3137 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3138 from using the memory being corrupted. 3139 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3140 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3141 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3142 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3143 3144 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3145 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3146 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3147 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3148 corruption in more or less memory. 3149 3150 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3151 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3152 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3153 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3154 3155 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3156 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3157 Format: {on | off (default)} 3158 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3159 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3160 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3161 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3162 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3163 lot of memory without requiring additional 3164 memory to do so. 3165 This feature is disabled by default because it 3166 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3167 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3168 memory blocks). 3169 The state of the flag can be read in 3170 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3171 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3172 the feature is not effective. 3173 3174 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3175 Format: <integer> 3176 default : 0 <disable> 3177 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3178 performed. Each pass selects another test 3179 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3180 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3181 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3182 regions that are detected. 3183 3184 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3185 Valid arguments: on, off 3186 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3187 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3188 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3189 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3190 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3191 3192 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3193 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3194 3195 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3196 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3197 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3198 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3199 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3200 3201 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3202 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3203 3204 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3205 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3206 platforms. 3207 3208 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3209 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3210 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3211 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3212 3213 mga= [HW,DRM] 3214 3215 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3216 physical address is ignored. 3217 3218 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3219 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3220 Default: "0tb" 3221 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3222 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3223 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3224 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3225 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3226 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3227 unconfigured. 3228 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3229 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3230 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3231 VGA shield. 3232 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3233 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3234 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3235 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3236 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3237 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3238 3239 mitigations= 3240 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3241 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3242 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3243 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3244 3245 off 3246 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3247 improves system performance, but it may also 3248 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3249 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3250 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3251 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3252 nobp=0 [S390] 3253 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3254 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3255 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3256 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3257 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3258 l1tf=off [X86] 3259 mds=off [X86] 3260 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3261 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3262 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3263 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3264 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3265 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3266 retbleed=off [X86] 3267 3268 Exceptions: 3269 This does not have any effect on 3270 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3271 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3272 3273 auto (default) 3274 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3275 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3276 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3277 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3278 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3279 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3280 3281 auto,nosmt 3282 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3283 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3284 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3285 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3286 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3287 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3288 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3289 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3290 3291 mminit_loglevel= 3292 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3293 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3294 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3295 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3296 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3297 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3298 3299 mmio_stale_data= 3300 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3301 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3302 3303 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3304 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3305 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3306 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3307 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3308 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3309 3310 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3311 options are: 3312 3313 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3314 3315 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3316 vulnerable CPUs. 3317 3318 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3319 3320 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3321 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3322 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3323 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3324 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3325 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3326 3327 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3328 mmio_stale_data=full. 3329 3330 For details see: 3331 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3332 3333 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3334 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3335 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3336 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3337 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3338 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3339 3340 module.async_probe=<bool> 3341 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3342 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3343 specific module, use the module specific control that 3344 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3345 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3346 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3347 the specific module. 3348 3349 module.sig_enforce 3350 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3351 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3352 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3353 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3354 3355 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3356 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3357 3358 mousedev.tap_time= 3359 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3360 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3361 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3362 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3363 Format: <msecs> 3364 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3365 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3366 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3367 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3368 3369 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3370 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3371 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3372 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3373 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3374 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3375 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3376 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3377 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3378 is not too small. 3379 3380 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3381 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3382 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3383 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3384 allocations. Use with caution! 3385 3386 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3387 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3388 3389 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3390 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3391 3392 mtdparts= [MTD] 3393 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3394 3395 mtdset= [ARM] 3396 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3397 3398 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3399 3400 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3401 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3402 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3403 3404 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3405 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3406 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3407 3408 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3409 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3410 Default is 1. 3411 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3412 using up MTRRs. 3413 3414 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3415 Format: <integer> 3416 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3417 Default : 1 3418 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3419 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3420 3421 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3422 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3423 at a time. 3424 3425 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3426 3427 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3428 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3429 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3430 something different and driver-specific. 3431 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3432 file if at all. 3433 3434 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3435 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3436 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3437 waits 4 seconds. 3438 3439 nf_conntrack.acct= 3440 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3441 0 to disable accounting 3442 1 to enable accounting 3443 Default value is 0. 3444 3445 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3446 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3447 3448 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3449 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3450 3451 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3452 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3453 3454 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3455 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3456 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3457 requests. 3458 3459 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3460 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3461 channel should listen. 3462 3463 nfs.cache_getent= 3464 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3465 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3466 3467 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3468 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3469 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3470 3471 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3472 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3473 entries. 3474 3475 nfs.enable_ino64= 3476 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3477 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3478 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3479 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3480 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3481 3482 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3483 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3484 slots the client will assign to the callback 3485 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3486 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3487 a particular server. 3488 3489 nfs.max_session_slots= 3490 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3491 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3492 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3493 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3494 Note that there is little point in setting this 3495 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3496 3497 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3498 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3499 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3500 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3501 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3502 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3503 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3504 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3505 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3506 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3507 back to using the idmapper. 3508 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3509 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3510 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3511 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3512 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3513 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3514 3515 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3516 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3517 information in exchange_id requests. 3518 If zero, no implementation identification information 3519 will be sent. 3520 The default is to send the implementation identification 3521 information. 3522 3523 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3524 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3525 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3526 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3527 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3528 after the locks are lost. 3529 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3530 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3531 parameter to '1'. 3532 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3533 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3534 3535 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3536 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3537 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3538 3539 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3540 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3541 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3542 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3543 3544 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3545 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3546 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3547 the destination of the copy. 3548 3549 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3550 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3551 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3552 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3553 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3554 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3555 this parameter. 3556 3557 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3558 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3559 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3560 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3561 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3562 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3563 3564 3565 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3566 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3567 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3568 3569 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3570 when a NMI is triggered. 3571 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3572 3573 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3574 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3575 Valid num: 0 or 1 3576 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3577 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3578 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3579 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3580 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3581 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3582 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3583 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3584 need the box quickly up again. 3585 3586 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3587 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3588 3589 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3590 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3591 is present. 3592 3593 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3594 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3595 3596 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3597 3598 no_console_suspend 3599 [HW] Never suspend the console 3600 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3601 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3602 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3603 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3604 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3605 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3606 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3607 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3608 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3609 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3610 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3611 turn on/off it dynamically. 3612 3613 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3614 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3615 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3616 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3617 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3618 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3619 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3620 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3621 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3622 is set. 3623 3624 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3625 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3626 but will impact performance. 3627 3628 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3629 3630 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3631 (CPU alternatives feature). 3632 3633 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3634 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3635 3636 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3637 3638 nocache [ARM] 3639 3640 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3641 3642 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3643 3644 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3645 3646 noexec [IA-64] 3647 3648 nosmap [PPC] 3649 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3650 even if it is supported by processor. 3651 3652 nosmep [PPC64s] 3653 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3654 even if it is supported by processor. 3655 3656 noexec32 [X86-64] 3657 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3658 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3659 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3660 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3661 read implies executable mappings 3662 3663 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3664 3665 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3666 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3667 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3668 3669 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3670 3671 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3672 3673 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3674 Equivalent to smt=1. 3675 3676 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3677 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3678 via the sysfs control file. 3679 3680 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3681 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3682 possible in the system. 3683 3684 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3685 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3686 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3687 option. 3688 3689 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3690 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3691 with this option. 3692 3693 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3694 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3695 3696 no_uaccess_flush 3697 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3698 3699 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3700 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3701 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3702 3703 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3704 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3705 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3706 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3707 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3708 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3709 3710 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3711 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3712 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3713 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3714 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3715 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3716 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3717 3718 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3719 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3720 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3721 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3722 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3723 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3724 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3725 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3726 3727 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3728 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3729 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3730 3731 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3732 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3733 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3734 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3735 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3736 real-time systems. 3737 3738 no_hash_pointers 3739 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3740 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3741 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3742 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3743 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3744 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3745 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3746 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3747 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3748 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3749 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3750 kernels. 3751 3752 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3753 3754 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3755 Valid arguments: on, off 3756 Default: on 3757 3758 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3759 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3760 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3761 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3762 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3763 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3764 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3765 just as if they had also been called out in the 3766 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3767 3768 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3769 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3770 3771 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3772 3773 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3774 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3775 3776 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3777 broken timer IRQ sources. 3778 3779 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3780 3781 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3782 initial RAM disk. 3783 3784 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3785 remapping. 3786 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3787 3788 nointroute [IA-64] 3789 3790 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3791 3792 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3793 3794 nokaslr [KNL] 3795 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3796 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3797 Layout Randomization). 3798 3799 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3800 3801 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3802 fault handling. 3803 3804 no-vmw-sched-clock 3805 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3806 clock and use the default one. 3807 3808 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3809 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3810 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3811 3812 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3813 3814 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3815 3816 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3817 3818 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3819 3820 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3821 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3822 3823 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3824 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3825 irq. 3826 3827 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3828 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3829 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3830 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3831 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3832 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3833 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3834 3835 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3836 3837 nomodule Disable module load 3838 3839 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3840 pagetables) support. 3841 3842 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3843 3844 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3845 in some Intel CPUs. 3846 3847 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3848 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3849 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3850 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3851 3852 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3853 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3854 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3855 contention. 3856 3857 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3858 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3859 3860 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3861 with UP alternatives 3862 3863 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3864 space. 3865 3866 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3867 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3868 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3869 3870 nosbagart [IA-64] 3871 3872 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3873 3874 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3875 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3876 3877 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3878 3879 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3880 3881 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3882 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3883 3884 nowb [ARM] 3885 3886 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3887 3888 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3889 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3890 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3891 3892 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3893 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3894 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3895 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3896 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3897 parameter's value. 3898 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3899 Default: 255 3900 3901 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3902 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3903 SAL PALO. 3904 3905 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3906 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3907 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3908 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3909 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3910 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3911 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3912 hot plugging. 3913 3914 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3915 3916 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3917 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3918 3919 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3920 NUMA balancing. 3921 Allowed values are enable and disable 3922 3923 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3924 'node', 'default' can be specified 3925 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3926 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3927 3928 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3929 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3930 info. 3931 3932 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3933 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3934 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3935 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3936 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3937 interrupts *may* be lost! 3938 3939 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3940 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3941 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3942 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3943 3944 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3945 3946 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3947 3948 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3949 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3950 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3951 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3952 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3953 3954 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3955 process, but there is a small probability of 3956 deadlocking the machine. 3957 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3958 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3959 3960 page_alloc.shuffle= 3961 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3962 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3963 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3964 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3965 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3966 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3967 can be read from sysfs at: 3968 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3969 3970 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3971 Storage of the information about who allocated 3972 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3973 we can turn it on. 3974 on: enable the feature 3975 3976 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3977 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3978 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3979 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3980 on: turn on poisoning 3981 3982 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3983 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3984 Format: <integer> 3985 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3986 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3987 3988 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3989 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3990 timeout = 0: wait forever 3991 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3992 Format: <timeout> 3993 3994 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3995 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3996 bit 0: print all tasks info 3997 bit 1: print system memory info 3998 bit 2: print timer info 3999 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4000 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4001 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4002 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4003 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4004 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4005 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4006 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4007 4008 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4009 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4010 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4011 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4012 called with any of the flags in this set. 4013 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4014 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4015 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4016 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4017 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4018 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4019 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4020 4021 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4022 on a WARN(). 4023 4024 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4025 connected to, default is 0. 4026 Format: <parport#> 4027 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4028 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4029 Format: <mode> 4030 4031 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4032 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4033 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4034 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4035 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4036 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4037 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4038 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4039 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4040 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4041 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4042 are specified on the command line, starting 4043 with parport0. 4044 4045 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4046 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4047 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4048 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4049 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4050 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4051 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4052 4053 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4054 Format: <int> 4055 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4056 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4057 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4058 4059 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4060 Format: <int> 4061 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4062 changes. Disabled by default. 4063 4064 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4065 Format: <int> 4066 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4067 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4068 Disabled by default. 4069 4070 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4071 Format: <int> 4072 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4073 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4074 Disabled by default. 4075 4076 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4077 Format: <int> 4078 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4079 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4080 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4081 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4082 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4083 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4084 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4085 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4086 all channels. 4087 4088 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4089 Format: <int> 4090 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4091 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4092 respectively. Disabled by default. 4093 4094 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4095 Format: <int> 4096 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4097 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4098 respectively. Disabled by default. 4099 4100 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4101 Format: <int> 4102 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4103 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4104 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4105 All modes allowed by default. 4106 4107 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4108 Format: <int> 4109 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4110 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4111 4112 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4113 Format: <int> 4114 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4115 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4116 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4117 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4118 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4119 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4120 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4121 By default all supported ports are probed. 4122 4123 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4124 Format: <int> 4125 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4126 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4127 4128 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4129 Format: <int> 4130 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4131 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4132 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4133 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4134 0 otherwise. 4135 4136 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4137 Format: <int> 4138 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4139 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4140 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4141 allowed by default. 4142 4143 pause_on_oops= 4144 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4145 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4146 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4147 4148 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4149 4150 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4151 4152 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4153 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4154 specified in one of the following formats: 4155 4156 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4157 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4158 4159 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4160 bus/device/function address which may change 4161 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4162 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4163 by other kernel parameters. If the 4164 domain is left unspecified, it is 4165 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4166 to a device through multiple device/function 4167 addresses can be specified after the base 4168 address (this is more robust against 4169 renumbering issues). The second format 4170 selects devices using IDs from the 4171 configuration space which may match multiple 4172 devices in the system. 4173 4174 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4175 changes anything 4176 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4177 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4178 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4179 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4180 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4181 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4182 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4183 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4184 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4185 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4186 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4187 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4188 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4189 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4190 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4191 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4192 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4193 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4194 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4195 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4196 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4197 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4198 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4199 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4200 Configuration 4201 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4202 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4203 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4204 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4205 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4206 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4207 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4208 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4209 should never be necessary. 4210 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4211 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4212 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4213 when the system masks IRQs. 4214 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4215 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4216 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4217 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4218 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4219 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4220 on several machines and they hang the machine 4221 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4222 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4223 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4224 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4225 motherboard. 4226 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4227 Use with caution as certain devices share 4228 address decoders between ROMs and other 4229 resources. 4230 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4231 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4232 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4233 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4234 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4235 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4236 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4237 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4238 this way. 4239 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4240 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4241 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4242 F0000h-100000h range. 4243 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4244 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4245 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4246 explicitly which ones they are. 4247 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4248 numbers ourselves, overriding 4249 whatever the firmware may have done. 4250 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4251 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4252 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4253 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4254 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4255 IRQ routing is enabled. 4256 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4257 or for PCI scanning. 4258 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4259 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4260 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4261 please report a bug. 4262 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4263 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4264 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4265 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4266 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4267 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4268 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4269 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4270 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4271 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4272 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4273 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4274 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4275 so this option is a temporary workaround 4276 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4277 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4278 handle more pci cards 4279 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4280 This might help on some broken boards which 4281 machine check when some devices' config space 4282 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4283 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4284 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4285 This sorting is done to get a device 4286 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4287 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4288 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4289 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4290 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4291 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4292 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4293 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4294 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4295 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4296 or bus can support) for best performance. 4297 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4298 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4299 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4300 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4301 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4302 that hot-added devices will work. 4303 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4304 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4305 The default value is 256 bytes. 4306 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4307 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4308 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4309 resource_alignment= 4310 Format: 4311 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4312 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4313 aligned memory resources. How to 4314 specify the device is described above. 4315 If <order of align> is not specified, 4316 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4317 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4318 windows need to be expanded. 4319 To specify the alignment for several 4320 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4321 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4322 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4323 for 4096-byte alignment. 4324 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4325 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4326 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4327 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4328 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4329 the default. 4330 off: Turn ECRC off 4331 on: Turn ECRC on. 4332 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4333 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4334 Default size is 256 bytes. 4335 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4336 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4337 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4338 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4339 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4340 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4341 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4342 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4343 MMIO_PREF window. 4344 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4345 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4346 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4347 Default is 1. 4348 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4349 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4350 accommodate resources required by all child 4351 devices. 4352 off: Turn realloc off 4353 on: Turn realloc on 4354 realloc same as realloc=on 4355 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4356 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4357 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4358 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4359 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4360 port. 4361 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4362 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4363 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4364 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4365 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4366 taints the kernel. 4367 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4368 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4369 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4370 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4371 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4372 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4373 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4374 this removes isolation between devices and 4375 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4376 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4377 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4378 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4379 one PCI domain per PCI function 4380 4381 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4382 Management. 4383 off Disable ASPM. 4384 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4385 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4386 4387 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4388 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4389 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4390 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4391 also tries to use these services. 4392 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4393 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4394 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4395 hotplug). 4396 4397 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4398 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4399 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4400 4401 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4402 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4403 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4404 4405 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4406 4407 pd_ignore_unused 4408 [PM] 4409 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4410 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4411 for debug and development, but should not be 4412 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4413 4414 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4415 boot time. 4416 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4417 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4418 4419 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4420 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4421 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4422 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4423 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4424 and performance comparison. 4425 4426 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4427 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4428 4429 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4430 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4431 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4432 4433 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4434 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4435 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4436 4437 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4438 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4439 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4440 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4441 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4442 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4443 remains 0. 4444 4445 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4446 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4447 4448 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4449 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4450 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4451 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4452 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4453 possible settings and some assignment information. 4454 4455 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4456 { off } 4457 4458 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4459 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4460 4461 pnp_reserve_irq= 4462 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4463 4464 pnp_reserve_dma= 4465 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4466 4467 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4468 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4469 4470 pnp_reserve_mem= 4471 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4472 autoconfiguration. 4473 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4474 4475 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4476 Default is 21. 4477 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4478 may be specified. 4479 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4480 4481 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4482 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4483 platform machine description specific power_save 4484 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4485 execution priority. 4486 4487 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4488 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4489 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4490 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4491 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4492 4493 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4494 Format: {"off"} 4495 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4496 4497 preempt= [KNL] 4498 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4499 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4500 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4501 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4502 can be preempted anytime. 4503 4504 print-fatal-signals= 4505 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4506 4507 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4508 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4509 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4510 coredump - etc. 4511 4512 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4513 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4514 4515 default: off. 4516 4517 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4518 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4519 panics 4520 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4521 default: disabled 4522 4523 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4524 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4525 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4526 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4527 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4528 in order to provide more debug information. 4529 Format: <bool> 4530 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4531 4532 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4533 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4534 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4535 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4536 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4537 Default: ratelimit 4538 4539 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4540 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4541 4542 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4543 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4544 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4545 4546 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4547 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4548 instead using the legacy FADT method 4549 4550 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4551 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4552 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4553 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4554 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4555 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4556 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4557 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4558 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4559 statistical time based profiling. 4560 4561 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4562 4563 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4564 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4565 that). 4566 Format: <bool> 4567 4568 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4569 tracking. 4570 Format: <bool> 4571 4572 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4573 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4574 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4575 per second. 4576 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4577 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4578 (0 = never). 4579 psmouse.resolution= 4580 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4581 psmouse.smartscroll= 4582 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4583 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4584 4585 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4586 4587 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4588 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4589 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4590 system calls and interrupts. 4591 4592 on - unconditionally enable 4593 off - unconditionally disable 4594 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4595 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4596 4597 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4598 4599 nopti [X86-64] 4600 Equivalent to pti=off 4601 4602 pty.legacy_count= 4603 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4604 default number. 4605 4606 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4607 4608 r128= [HW,DRM] 4609 4610 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4611 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4612 invalidate. 4613 4614 raid= [HW,RAID] 4615 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4616 4617 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4618 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4619 4620 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4621 4622 random.trust_cpu=off 4623 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4624 random number generator (if available) to 4625 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4626 4627 random.trust_bootloader=off 4628 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4629 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4630 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4631 4632 randomize_kstack_offset= 4633 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4634 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4635 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4636 that depend on stack address determinism or 4637 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4638 available on architectures that have defined 4639 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4640 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4641 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4642 4643 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4644 4645 cec_disable [X86] 4646 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4647 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4648 4649 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4650 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4651 as described above. 4652 4653 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4654 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4655 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4656 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4657 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4658 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4659 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4660 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4661 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4662 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4663 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4664 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4665 4666 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4667 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4668 4669 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4670 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4671 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4672 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4673 4674 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4675 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4676 4677 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4678 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4679 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4680 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4681 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4682 This improves the real-time response for the 4683 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4684 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4685 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4686 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4687 4688 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4689 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4690 process in one batch. 4691 4692 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4693 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4694 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4695 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4696 4697 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4698 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4699 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4700 4701 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4702 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4703 RCU grace-period initialization. 4704 4705 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4706 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4707 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4708 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4709 the rcu_node combining tree. 4710 4711 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4712 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4713 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4714 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4715 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4716 4717 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4718 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4719 to zero. 4720 4721 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4722 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4723 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4724 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4725 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4726 4727 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4728 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4729 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4730 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4731 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4732 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4733 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4734 4735 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4736 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4737 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4738 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4739 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4740 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4741 condition. 4742 4743 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4744 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4745 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4746 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4747 4748 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4749 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4750 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4751 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4752 and maximum value is HZ. 4753 4754 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4755 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4756 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4757 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4758 4759 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4760 Set required age in jiffies for a 4761 given grace period before RCU starts 4762 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4763 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4764 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4765 a value based on the most recent settings 4766 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4767 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4768 This calculated value may be viewed in 4769 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4770 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4771 overwritten. 4772 4773 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4774 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4775 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4776 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4777 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4778 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4779 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4780 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4781 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4782 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4783 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4784 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4785 4786 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4787 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4788 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4789 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4790 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4791 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4792 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4793 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4794 4795 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4796 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4797 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4798 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4799 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4800 4801 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4802 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4803 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4804 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4805 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4806 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4807 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4808 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4809 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4810 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4811 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4812 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4813 4814 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4815 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4816 each group, which defaults to the square root 4817 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4818 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4819 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4820 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4821 4822 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4823 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4824 batch limiting is disabled. 4825 4826 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4827 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4828 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4829 4830 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4831 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4832 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4833 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4834 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4835 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4836 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4837 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4838 4839 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4840 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4841 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4842 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4843 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4844 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4845 4846 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4847 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4848 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4849 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4850 Larger delays increase the probability of 4851 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4852 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4853 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4854 4855 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4856 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4857 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4858 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4859 4860 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4861 Measure performance of asynchronous 4862 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4863 4864 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4865 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4866 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4867 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4868 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4869 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4870 4871 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4872 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4873 grace-period primitives. 4874 4875 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4876 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4877 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4878 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4879 interference. 4880 4881 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4882 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4883 4884 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4885 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4886 If this parameter has the same value as 4887 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4888 and double-argument variants are tested. 4889 4890 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4891 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4892 If this parameter has the same value as 4893 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4894 and double-argument variants are tested. 4895 4896 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4897 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4898 4899 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4900 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4901 4902 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4903 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4904 of allocations and frees. 4905 4906 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4907 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4908 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4909 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4910 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4911 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4912 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4913 a single reader. 4914 4915 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4916 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4917 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4918 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4919 4920 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4921 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4922 4923 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4924 Shut the system down after performance tests 4925 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4926 testing. 4927 4928 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4929 Enable additional printk() statements. 4930 4931 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4932 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4933 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4934 no holdoff. 4935 4936 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4937 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4938 in microseconds. 4939 4940 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4941 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4942 in microseconds. 4943 4944 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4945 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4946 in seconds. 4947 4948 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4949 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4950 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4951 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4952 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4953 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4954 of CPUs to be used. 4955 4956 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4957 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4958 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4959 4960 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4961 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4962 forward-progress tests. 4963 4964 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4965 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4966 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4967 testing. 4968 4969 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4970 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4971 primitives, if available. 4972 4973 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4974 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4975 4976 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4977 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4978 update-side primitives, if available. 4979 4980 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4981 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4982 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4983 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4984 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4985 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4986 they are all non-zero. 4987 4988 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4989 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4990 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4991 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4992 4993 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4994 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4995 This can of course result in splats, and is 4996 intended to test the ability of things like 4997 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4998 such leaks. 4999 5000 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5001 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5002 5003 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5004 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5005 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5006 test, hence the "fake". 5007 5008 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5009 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5010 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5011 5012 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5013 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5014 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5015 5016 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5017 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5018 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5019 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5020 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5021 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5022 5023 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5024 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5025 5026 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5027 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5028 5029 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5030 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5031 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5032 5033 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5034 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5035 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5036 task-exit processing. 5037 5038 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5039 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5040 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5041 is spawned. 5042 5043 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5044 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5045 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5046 5047 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5048 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5049 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5050 during the rcutorture test. 5051 5052 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5053 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5054 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5055 5056 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5057 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5058 warnings, zero to disable. 5059 5060 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5061 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5062 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 5063 to any other stall-related activity. 5064 5065 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5066 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5067 5068 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5069 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5070 5071 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5072 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5073 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5074 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5075 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5076 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5077 5078 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5079 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5080 5081 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5082 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5083 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5084 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5085 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5086 5087 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5088 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5089 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5090 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5091 5092 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5093 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5094 5095 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5096 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5097 5098 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5099 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5100 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5101 5102 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5103 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5104 5105 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5106 Enable additional printk() statements. 5107 5108 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5109 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5110 stall warning. 5111 5112 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5113 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5114 5115 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5116 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5117 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5118 during early boot, that is, during the time 5119 before the init task is spawned. 5120 5121 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5122 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5123 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5124 value is 300 seconds. 5125 5126 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5127 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5128 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5129 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5130 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5131 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5132 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5133 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5134 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5135 5136 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5137 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5138 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5139 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5140 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5141 5142 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5143 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5144 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5145 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5146 5147 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5148 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5149 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5150 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5151 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5152 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5153 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5154 5155 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5156 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5157 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5158 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5159 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5160 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5161 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5162 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5163 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5164 5165 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5166 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5167 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5168 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5169 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5170 5171 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5172 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5173 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5174 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5175 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5176 grace-period processing. 5177 5178 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5179 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5180 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5181 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5182 a single callback queue. This switching only 5183 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5184 set to the default value of -1. 5185 5186 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5187 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5188 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5189 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5190 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5191 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5192 the default value of -1. 5193 5194 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5195 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5196 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5197 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5198 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5199 for use in testing. 5200 5201 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5202 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5203 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5204 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5205 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5206 but lengthens grace periods. 5207 5208 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5209 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5210 informational messages, which give some indication 5211 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5212 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5213 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5214 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5215 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5216 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5217 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5218 5219 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5220 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5221 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5222 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5223 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5224 the value three, so that the first informational 5225 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5226 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5227 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5228 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5229 5230 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5231 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5232 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5233 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5234 A change in value does not take effect until 5235 the beginning of the next grace period. 5236 5237 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5238 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5239 5240 rdinit= [KNL] 5241 Format: <full_path> 5242 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5243 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5244 5245 rdrand= [X86] 5246 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5247 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5248 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5249 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5250 path). 5251 5252 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5253 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5254 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5255 mba, smba, bmec. 5256 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5257 rdt=cmt,!mba 5258 5259 reboot= [KNL] 5260 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5261 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5262 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5263 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5264 [[,]f[orce] 5265 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5266 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5267 reboot only), 5268 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5269 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5270 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5271 to be used for rebooting. 5272 5273 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5274 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5275 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5276 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5277 interference. 5278 5279 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5280 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5281 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5282 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5283 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5284 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5285 x86 laptops. 5286 5287 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5288 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5289 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5290 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5291 5292 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5293 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5294 the console log. 5295 5296 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5297 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5298 measured in microseconds. 5299 5300 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5301 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5302 5303 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5304 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5305 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5306 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5307 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5308 5309 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5310 Enable additional printk() statements. 5311 5312 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5313 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5314 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5315 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5316 specified. 5317 5318 relax_domain_level= 5319 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5320 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5321 5322 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5323 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5324 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5325 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5326 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5327 5328 reservetop= [X86-32] 5329 Format: nn[KMG] 5330 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5331 address space. 5332 5333 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5334 during initialization. 5335 5336 resume= [SWSUSP] 5337 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5338 Format: 5339 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5340 5341 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5342 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5343 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5344 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5345 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5346 5347 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5348 read the resume files 5349 5350 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5351 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5352 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5353 5354 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5355 5356 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5357 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5358 vulnerability. 5359 5360 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5361 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5362 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5363 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5364 that don't. 5365 5366 off - no mitigation 5367 auto - automatically select a migitation 5368 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5369 disabling SMT if necessary for 5370 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5371 and older without STIBP). 5372 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5373 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5374 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5375 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5376 on Intel. 5377 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5378 when STIBP is not available. This is 5379 the alternative for systems which do not 5380 have STIBP. 5381 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5382 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5383 systems. 5384 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5385 is not available. This is the alternative for 5386 systems which do not have STIBP. 5387 5388 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5389 time according to the CPU. 5390 5391 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5392 5393 rfkill.default_state= 5394 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5395 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5396 1 Unblocked. 5397 5398 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5399 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5400 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5401 blocked and the previous configuration. 5402 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5403 blocked and everything unblocked. 5404 5405 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5406 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5407 5408 ring3mwait=disable 5409 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5410 CPUs. 5411 5412 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5413 5414 rodata= [KNL] 5415 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5416 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5417 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5418 [arm64] 5419 5420 rockchip.usb_uart 5421 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5422 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5423 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5424 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5425 5426 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5427 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5428 5429 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5430 mount the root filesystem 5431 5432 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5433 5434 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5435 5436 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5437 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5438 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5439 5440 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5441 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5442 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5443 managed by CMA. 5444 5445 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5446 5447 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5448 5449 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5450 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5451 strict 5452 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5453 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5454 which is faster. 5455 5456 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5457 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5458 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5459 factor of the size of main memory. 5460 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5461 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5462 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5463 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5464 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5465 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5466 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5467 5468 sa1100ir [NET] 5469 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5470 5471 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5472 5473 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5474 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5475 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5476 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5477 5478 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5479 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5480 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5481 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5482 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5483 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5484 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5485 value. 5486 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5487 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5488 1 64 ms 5489 2 128 ms 5490 and so on. 5491 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5492 Default is 0. 5493 5494 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5495 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5496 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5497 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5498 tests. 5499 5500 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5501 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5502 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5503 default) disables this feature. Please note 5504 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5505 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5506 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5507 5508 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5509 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5510 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5511 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5512 equal to the number of CPUs. 5513 5514 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5515 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5516 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5517 5518 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5519 Number seconds to wait between successive 5520 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5521 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5522 5523 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5524 The number of seconds following the start of the 5525 test after which to shut down the system. The 5526 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5527 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5528 5529 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5530 The number of seconds between outputting the 5531 current test statistics to the console. A value 5532 of zero disables statistics output. 5533 5534 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5535 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5536 to the set of CPUs under test. 5537 5538 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5539 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5540 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5541 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5542 functions. 5543 5544 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5545 Enable additional printk() statements. 5546 5547 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5548 The probability weighting to use for the 5549 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5550 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5551 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5552 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5553 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5554 5555 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5556 The probability weighting to use for the 5557 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5558 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5559 5560 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5561 The probability weighting to use for the 5562 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5563 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5564 Note well that setting a high probability for 5565 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5566 on the system. 5567 5568 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5569 The probability weighting to use for the 5570 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5571 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5572 and weight_many. 5573 5574 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5575 The probability weighting to use for the 5576 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5577 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5578 weight_many. 5579 5580 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5581 The probability weighting to use for the 5582 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5583 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5584 and weight_many. 5585 5586 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5587 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5588 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5589 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5590 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5591 1 -- enable. 5592 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5593 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5594 5595 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5596 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5597 "lsm=" parameter. 5598 5599 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5600 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5601 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5602 0 -- disable. 5603 1 -- enable. 5604 Default value is 1. 5605 5606 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5607 5608 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5609 5610 shapers= [NET] 5611 Maximal number of shapers. 5612 5613 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5614 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5615 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5616 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5617 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5618 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5619 apic=verbose is specified. 5620 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5621 5622 simeth= [IA-64] 5623 simscsi= 5624 5625 slram= [HW,MTD] 5626 5627 slab_merge [MM] 5628 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5629 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5630 5631 slab_nomerge [MM] 5632 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5633 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5634 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5635 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5636 layout control by attackers can usually be 5637 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5638 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5639 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5640 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5641 own. 5642 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5643 5644 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5645 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5646 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5647 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5648 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5649 5650 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5651 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5652 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5653 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5654 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5655 last alloc / free. For more information see 5656 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5657 5658 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5659 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5660 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5661 fragmentation. For more information see 5662 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5663 5664 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5665 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5666 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5667 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5668 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5669 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5670 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5671 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5672 5673 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5674 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5675 lower than slub_max_order. 5676 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5677 5678 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5679 Same with slab_merge. 5680 5681 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5682 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5683 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5684 5685 smart2= [HW] 5686 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5687 5688 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5689 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5690 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5691 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5692 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5693 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5694 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5695 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5696 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5697 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5698 5699 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5700 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5701 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5702 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5703 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5704 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5705 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5706 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5707 1: Fast pin select (default) 5708 2: ATC IRMode 5709 5710 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5711 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5712 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5713 actual hardware limit. 5714 Format: <integer> 5715 Default: -1 (no limit) 5716 5717 softlockup_panic= 5718 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5719 Format: 0 | 1 5720 5721 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5722 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5723 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5724 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5725 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5726 5727 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5728 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5729 backtraces on all cpus. 5730 Format: 0 | 1 5731 5732 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5733 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5734 5735 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5736 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5737 The default operation protects the kernel from 5738 user space attacks. 5739 5740 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5741 spectre_v2_user=on 5742 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5743 spectre_v2_user=off 5744 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5745 vulnerable 5746 5747 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5748 mitigation method at run time according to the 5749 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5750 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5751 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5752 5753 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5754 against user space to user space task attacks. 5755 5756 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5757 the user space protections. 5758 5759 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5760 5761 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5762 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5763 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5764 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5765 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5766 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5767 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5768 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5769 5770 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5771 spectre_v2=auto. 5772 5773 spectre_v2_user= 5774 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5775 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5776 user space tasks 5777 5778 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5779 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5780 5781 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5782 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5783 5784 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5785 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5786 per thread. The mitigation control state 5787 is inherited on fork. 5788 5789 prctl,ibpb 5790 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5791 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5792 always when switching between different user 5793 space processes. 5794 5795 seccomp 5796 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5797 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5798 they explicitly opt out. 5799 5800 seccomp,ibpb 5801 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5802 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5803 always when switching between different 5804 user space processes. 5805 5806 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5807 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5808 5809 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5810 5811 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5812 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5813 5814 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5815 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5816 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5817 5818 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5819 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5820 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5821 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5822 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5823 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5824 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5825 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5826 5827 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5828 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5829 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5830 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5831 5832 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5833 Bypass optimization is used. 5834 5835 On x86 the options are: 5836 5837 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5838 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5839 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5840 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5841 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5842 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5843 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5844 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5845 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5846 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5847 for a process by default. The state of the control 5848 is inherited on fork. 5849 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5850 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5851 5852 Default mitigations: 5853 X86: "prctl" 5854 5855 On powerpc the options are: 5856 5857 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5858 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5859 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5860 exit. 5861 off - No action. 5862 5863 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5864 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5865 5866 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5867 spia_fio_base= 5868 spia_pedr= 5869 spia_peddr= 5870 5871 split_lock_detect= 5872 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5873 5874 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5875 instructions that access data across cache line 5876 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5877 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5878 bus lock detection. 5879 5880 off - not enabled 5881 5882 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5883 about applications triggering the #AC 5884 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5885 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5886 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5887 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5888 enabled in hardware. 5889 5890 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5891 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5892 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5893 both features are enabled in hardware. 5894 5895 ratelimit:N - 5896 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5897 per second for bus lock detection. 5898 0 < N <= 1000. 5899 5900 N/A for split lock detection. 5901 5902 5903 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5904 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5905 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5906 mode. 5907 5908 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5909 CPL > 0. 5910 5911 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5912 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5913 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5914 5915 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5916 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5917 number generator. 5918 5919 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5920 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5921 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5922 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5923 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5924 5925 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5926 the following option: 5927 5928 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5929 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5930 5931 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5932 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5933 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5934 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5935 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5936 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5937 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5938 (decide at boot). 5939 5940 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5941 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5942 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5943 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5944 5945 0: Never. 5946 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5947 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5948 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5949 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5950 5951 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5952 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5953 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5954 5955 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5956 Specifies how frequently to check for 5957 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5958 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5959 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5960 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5961 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5962 are ignored. 5963 5964 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5965 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5966 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5967 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5968 grace period will be considered for automatic 5969 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5970 expediting. 5971 5972 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5973 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5974 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5975 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5976 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5977 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5978 5979 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5980 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5981 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5982 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5983 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5984 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5985 5986 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5987 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5988 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5989 5990 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5991 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5992 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5993 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5994 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5995 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5996 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5997 5998 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5999 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6000 6001 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6002 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6003 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6004 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6005 6006 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6007 for both kernel and userspace 6008 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6009 for both kernel and userspace 6010 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6011 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6012 to allow userspace to register its 6013 interest in being mitigated too. 6014 6015 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6016 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6017 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6018 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6019 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6020 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6021 6022 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6023 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6024 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6025 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6026 to false. 6027 6028 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6029 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6030 6031 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6032 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6033 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6034 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6035 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6036 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6037 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6038 6039 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6040 Format: <num> 6041 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6042 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6043 as the initial boot-console. 6044 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6045 6046 sti_font= [HW] 6047 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6048 6049 stifb= [HW] 6050 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6051 6052 strict_sas_size= 6053 [X86] 6054 Format: <bool> 6055 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6056 against the required signal frame size which 6057 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6058 be used to filter out binaries which have 6059 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6060 6061 stress_hpt [PPC] 6062 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6063 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6064 faults on kernel addresses. 6065 6066 stress_slb [PPC] 6067 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6068 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6069 on kernel addresses. 6070 6071 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6072 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6073 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6074 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6075 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6076 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6077 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6078 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6079 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6080 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6081 maximum port values. 6082 6083 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6084 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6085 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6086 process in parallel from a single connection. 6087 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6088 6089 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6090 [NFS] 6091 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6092 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6093 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6094 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6095 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6096 NFS server is running. 6097 6098 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6099 automatically using heuristics 6100 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6101 percpu one pool for each CPU 6102 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6103 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6104 6105 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6106 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6107 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6108 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6109 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6110 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6111 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6112 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6113 6114 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6115 [SUSPEND] 6116 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6117 mode before resuming the system (see 6118 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6119 is set. Default value is 5. 6120 6121 svm= [PPC] 6122 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6123 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6124 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6125 6126 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6127 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6128 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6129 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6130 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6131 to a power of 2. 6132 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6133 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6134 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6135 6136 switches= [HW,M68k] 6137 6138 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6139 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6140 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6141 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6142 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6143 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6144 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6145 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6146 6147 sysrq_always_enabled 6148 [KNL] 6149 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6150 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6151 Useful for debugging. 6152 6153 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6154 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6155 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6156 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6157 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6158 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6159 6160 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6161 6162 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6163 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6164 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6165 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6166 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6167 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6168 The system is woken from this state using a 6169 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6170 6171 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6172 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6173 6174 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6175 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6176 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6177 6178 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6179 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6180 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6181 6182 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6183 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6184 critical and hot trip points. 6185 6186 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6187 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6188 6189 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6190 -1: disable all passive trip points 6191 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6192 value 6193 6194 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6195 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6196 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6197 0: no polling (default) 6198 6199 threadirqs [KNL] 6200 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6201 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6202 6203 topology= [S390] 6204 Format: {off | on} 6205 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6206 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6207 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6208 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6209 Default is on. 6210 6211 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6212 Format: {off} 6213 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6214 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6215 LPAR. 6216 6217 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6218 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6219 until after init has spawned. 6220 6221 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6222 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6223 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6224 very costly operation when many torture tests 6225 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6226 with rotating-rust storage. 6227 6228 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6229 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6230 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6231 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6232 6233 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6234 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6235 6236 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6237 6238 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6239 Format: integer pcr id 6240 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6241 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6242 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6243 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6244 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6245 are saved. 6246 6247 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6248 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6249 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6250 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6251 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6252 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6253 6254 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6255 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6256 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6257 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6258 6259 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6260 to stop the printing of events to console at 6261 late_initcall_sync. 6262 6263 ** CAUTION ** 6264 6265 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6266 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6267 the system to live lock. 6268 6269 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6270 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6271 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6272 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6273 make the system inoperable. 6274 6275 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6276 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6277 6278 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6279 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6280 6281 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6282 at boot up. 6283 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6284 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6285 depending on the architecture, may not be 6286 in sync between CPUs. 6287 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6288 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6289 but better for some race conditions. 6290 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6291 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6292 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6293 once per event. 6294 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6295 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6296 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6297 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6298 stamps. 6299 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6300 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6301 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6302 6303 trace_event=[event-list] 6304 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6305 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6306 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6307 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6308 6309 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6310 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6311 This will be listed in: 6312 6313 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6314 6315 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6316 via: 6317 6318 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6319 6320 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6321 unique. 6322 6323 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6324 6325 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6326 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6327 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6328 6329 trace_options=[option-list] 6330 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6331 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6332 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6333 to echo the option name into 6334 6335 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6336 6337 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6338 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6339 6340 trace_options=stacktrace 6341 6342 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6343 section. 6344 6345 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6346 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6347 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6348 filter. 6349 6350 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6351 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6352 6353 For example: 6354 6355 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6356 6357 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6358 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6359 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6360 6361 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6362 6363 6364 traceoff_on_warning 6365 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6366 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6367 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6368 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6369 6370 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6371 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6372 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6373 6374 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6375 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6376 6377 transparent_hugepage= 6378 [KNL] 6379 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6380 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6381 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6382 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6383 for more details. 6384 6385 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6386 Format: <string> 6387 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6388 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6389 sources: 6390 - "tpm" 6391 - "tee" 6392 - "caam" 6393 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6394 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6395 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6396 successfully during iteration. 6397 6398 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6399 Format: <string> 6400 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6401 Can be one of: 6402 - "kernel" 6403 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6404 - "default" 6405 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6406 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6407 6408 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6409 Format: <string> 6410 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6411 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6412 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6413 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6414 virtualized environment. 6415 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6416 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6417 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6418 can add overhead. 6419 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6420 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6421 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6422 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6423 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6424 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6425 acceptable). 6426 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6427 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6428 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6429 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6430 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6431 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6432 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6433 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6434 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6435 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6436 6437 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6438 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6439 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6440 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6441 Format: <unsigned int> 6442 6443 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6444 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6445 support TSX control. 6446 6447 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6448 6449 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6450 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6451 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6452 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6453 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6454 with leaving it enabled. 6455 6456 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6457 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6458 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6459 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6460 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6461 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6462 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6463 6464 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6465 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6466 6467 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6468 6469 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6470 for more details. 6471 6472 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6473 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6474 6475 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6476 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6477 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6478 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6479 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6480 conditions. 6481 6482 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6483 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6484 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6485 access. 6486 6487 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6488 options are: 6489 6490 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6491 if TSX is enabled. 6492 6493 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6494 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6495 is not disabled because CPU is not 6496 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6497 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6498 6499 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6500 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6501 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6502 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6503 6504 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6505 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6506 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6507 required and doesn't provide any additional 6508 mitigation. 6509 6510 For details see: 6511 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6512 6513 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6514 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6515 Format: 6516 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6517 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6518 6519 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6520 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6521 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6522 help "seeing" what's going on. 6523 6524 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6525 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6526 6527 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6528 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6529 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6530 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6531 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6532 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6533 reported either. 6534 6535 unknown_nmi_panic 6536 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6537 6538 usbcore.authorized_default= 6539 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6540 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6541 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6542 if device connected to internal port) 6543 6544 usbcore.autosuspend= 6545 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6546 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6547 is the time required before an idle device will be 6548 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6549 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6550 6551 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6552 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6553 6554 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6555 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6556 (default = 65536). 6557 6558 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6559 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6560 6561 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6562 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6563 scheme (default 0 = off). 6564 6565 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6566 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6567 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6568 6569 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6570 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6571 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6572 6573 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6574 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6575 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6576 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6577 6578 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6579 6580 usbcore.quirks= 6581 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6582 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6583 commas. Each entry has the form 6584 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6585 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6586 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6587 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6588 the following meanings: 6589 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6590 descriptors must not be fetched using 6591 a 255-byte read); 6592 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6593 correctly so reset it instead); 6594 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6595 Set-Interface requests); 6596 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6597 handle its Configuration or Interface 6598 strings); 6599 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6600 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6601 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6602 more interface descriptions than the 6603 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6604 talking to these interfaces); 6605 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6606 during initialization, after we read 6607 the device descriptor); 6608 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6609 high speed and super speed interrupt 6610 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6611 require the interval in microframes (1 6612 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6613 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6614 (bInterval-1). 6615 Devices with this quirk report their 6616 bInterval as the result of this 6617 calculation instead of the exponent 6618 variable used in the calculation); 6619 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6620 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6621 requests); 6622 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6623 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6624 remote wakeup capability); 6625 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6626 Power Management); 6627 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6628 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6629 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6630 calculation); 6631 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6632 to be disconnected before suspend to 6633 prevent spurious wakeup); 6634 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6635 pause after every control message); 6636 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6637 delay after resetting its port); 6638 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6639 6640 usbhid.mousepoll= 6641 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6642 6643 usbhid.jspoll= 6644 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6645 6646 usbhid.kbpoll= 6647 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6648 6649 usb-storage.delay_use= 6650 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6651 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6652 6653 usb-storage.quirks= 6654 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6655 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6656 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6657 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6658 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6659 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6660 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6661 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6662 of sense data, not on uas); 6663 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6664 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6665 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6666 device capacity by one sector); 6667 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6668 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6669 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6670 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6671 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6672 command, uas only); 6673 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6674 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6675 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6676 reported device capacity by one 6677 sector if the number is odd); 6678 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6679 device); 6680 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6681 command, uas only); 6682 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6683 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6684 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6685 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6686 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6687 not on uas); 6688 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6689 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6690 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6691 reported by the device, not on uas); 6692 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6693 by default, not on uas); 6694 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6695 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6696 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6697 Logical Unit); 6698 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6699 commands, uas only); 6700 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6701 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6702 medium is write-protected). 6703 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6704 even if the device claims no cache, 6705 not on uas) 6706 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6707 6708 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6709 Format: <int> 6710 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6711 1 - undefined instruction events 6712 2 - system calls 6713 4 - invalid data aborts 6714 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6715 16 - SIGBUS faults 6716 Example: user_debug=31 6717 6718 userpte= 6719 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6720 6721 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6722 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6723 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6724 6725 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6726 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6727 6728 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6729 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6730 6731 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6732 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6733 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6734 6735 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6736 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6737 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6738 6739 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6740 alias for vdso32=0. 6741 6742 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6743 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6744 6745 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6746 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6747 6748 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6749 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6750 6751 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6752 Format: [0|1] 6753 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6754 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6755 level and then send out the event to user space through 6756 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6757 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6758 brightness level. 6759 default: 1 6760 6761 virtio_mmio.device= 6762 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6763 6764 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6765 where: 6766 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6767 like K, M and G) 6768 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6769 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6770 request_irq()) 6771 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6772 example: 6773 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6774 6775 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6776 6777 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6778 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6779 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6780 Use vga=ask for menu. 6781 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6782 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6783 6784 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6785 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6786 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6787 All options are enabled by default, and this 6788 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6789 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6790 debugging features. 6791 6792 Available options are: 6793 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6794 - Disable all of the above options 6795 6796 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6797 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6798 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6799 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6800 mapped kernel RAM. 6801 6802 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6803 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6804 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6805 6806 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6807 Format: <command> 6808 6809 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6810 Format: <command> 6811 6812 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6813 Format: <command> 6814 6815 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6816 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6817 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6818 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6819 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6820 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6821 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6822 6823 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 6824 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 6825 readable. 6826 6827 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6828 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6829 page is not readable. 6830 6831 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6832 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6833 might break your system. 6834 6835 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6836 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6837 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6838 6839 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6840 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6841 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6842 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6843 6844 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6845 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6846 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6847 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6848 ranging from 0-255. 6849 6850 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6851 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6852 Change the default green palette of the console. 6853 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6854 ranging from 0-255. 6855 6856 vt.default_red= [VT] 6857 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6858 Change the default red palette of the console. 6859 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6860 ranging from 0-255. 6861 6862 vt.default_utf8= 6863 [VT] 6864 Format=<0|1> 6865 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6866 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6867 newly opened terminals. 6868 6869 vt.global_cursor_default= 6870 [VT] 6871 Format=<-1|0|1> 6872 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6873 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6874 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6875 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6876 cursors, 1 will display them. 6877 6878 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6879 Default: 2 = green. 6880 6881 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6882 Default: 3 = cyan. 6883 6884 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6885 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6886 or other driver-specific files in the 6887 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6888 6889 watchdog_thresh= 6890 [KNL] 6891 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6892 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6893 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6894 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6895 seconds. 6896 6897 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6898 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6899 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6900 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6901 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6902 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6903 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6904 corresponding sysfs file. 6905 6906 workqueue.disable_numa 6907 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6908 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6909 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6910 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6911 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6912 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6913 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6914 6915 workqueue.power_efficient 6916 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6917 they show better performance thanks to cache 6918 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6919 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6920 6921 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6922 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6923 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6924 power usage at the cost of small performance 6925 overhead. 6926 6927 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6928 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6929 6930 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6931 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6932 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6933 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6934 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6935 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6936 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6937 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6938 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6939 impacted. 6940 6941 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6942 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6943 supporting x2apic. 6944 6945 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6946 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6947 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6948 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6949 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6950 domains. 6951 6952 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6953 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6954 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6955 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6956 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6957 nics -- unplug network devices 6958 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6959 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6960 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6961 the unplug protocol 6962 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6963 6964 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6965 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6966 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6967 6968 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 6969 Format: <bool> 6970 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 6971 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 6972 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 6973 6974 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6975 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6976 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6977 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6978 6979 xen_nopv [X86] 6980 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6981 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6982 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6983 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6984 6985 xen_no_vector_callback 6986 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6987 event channel interrupts. 6988 6989 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6990 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6991 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6992 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6993 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6994 6995 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6996 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6997 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6998 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6999 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7000 more timer interrupts. 7001 7002 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7003 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7004 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7005 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7006 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7007 max. Default is 180. 7008 7009 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7010 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7011 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7012 7013 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7014 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7015 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7016 7017 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7018 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7019 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7020 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7021 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7022 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7023 7024 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7025 Format: 7026 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7027 7028 xive= [PPC] 7029 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7030 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7031 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7032 7033 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7034 controller on both pseries and powernv 7035 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7036 7037 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7038 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7039 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7040 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7041 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7042 7043 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7044 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7045 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7046 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7047 7048 xmon [PPC] 7049 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7050 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7051 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7052 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7053 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7054 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7055 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7056 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7057 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7058 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7059 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7060 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7061 can be written using xmon commands. 7062 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7063 memory, and other data can't be written using 7064 xmon commands. 7065 off xmon is disabled. 7066 7067 amd_pstate= [X86] 7068 disable 7069 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 7070 scaling driver for the supported processors 7071 passive 7072 Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a 7073 desired performance on this abstract scale and the power 7074 management firmware translates the requests into actual 7075 hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory 7076 clocks etc.) 7077 active 7078 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 7079 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 7080 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 7081 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 7082 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 7083 frequency. 7084