1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64] 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,riscv64] 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 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or 14 "acpi=force" 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/arch/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 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 327 328 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 329 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 330 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 331 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 332 IOMMU initialization. 333 334 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 335 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 336 remapping modes: 337 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 338 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 339 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 340 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 341 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 342 343 amd_pstate= [X86] 344 disable 345 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 346 scaling driver for the supported processors 347 passive 348 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 349 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 350 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 351 tries to match the same performance level if it is 352 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 353 active 354 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 355 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 356 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 357 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 358 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 359 frequency. 360 guided 361 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 362 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 363 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 364 to the current workload. 365 366 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 367 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 368 Format: <a>,<b> 369 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 370 371 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 372 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 373 connected to one of 16 gameports 374 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 375 376 apc= [HW,SPARC] 377 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 378 Format: noidle 379 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 380 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 381 APC and your system crashes randomly. 382 383 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 384 Change the output verbosity while booting 385 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 386 Change the amount of debugging information output 387 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 388 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 389 driver name. 390 Format: apic=driver_name 391 Examples: apic=bigsmp 392 393 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 394 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 395 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 396 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 397 backup of CPU 0 398 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 399 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 400 shot down by NMI 401 402 autoconf= [IPV6] 403 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 404 405 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 406 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 407 408 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 411 0 -- disable. 412 1 -- enable. 413 Default value is set via kernel config option. 414 415 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 416 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 417 418 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 419 Identification support 420 421 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 422 Set instructions support 423 424 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 425 support 426 427 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 428 support 429 430 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 431 Extension support 432 433 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 434 Extension support 435 436 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 437 438 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 439 440 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 441 EzKey and similar keyboards 442 443 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 444 445 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 446 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 447 448 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 449 keyboards 450 451 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 452 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 453 454 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 455 Use software keyboard repeat 456 457 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 458 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 459 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 460 enabled until the next reboot 461 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 462 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 463 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 464 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 465 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 466 userspace auditd. 467 Default: unset 468 469 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 470 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 471 Default: 64 472 473 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 474 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 475 Format: { "0" | "1" } 476 0 - Disable the BAU. 477 1 - Enable the BAU. 478 unset - Disable the BAU. 479 480 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 481 Format: <io>,<mode> 482 483 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 484 Format: <io>,<mode> 485 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 486 487 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 488 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 489 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 490 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 491 492 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 493 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 494 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 495 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 496 497 bert_disable [ACPI] 498 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 499 500 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 501 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 502 503 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 504 embedded devices based on command line input. 505 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 506 507 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 508 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 509 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 510 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 511 erroneous and ignored. 512 Format: integer 513 514 bootconfig [KNL] 515 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 516 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 517 518 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 519 520 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 521 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 522 kernel args too. 523 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 524 bttv.tuner= 525 526 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 527 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 528 at a time. 529 530 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 531 532 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 533 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 534 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 535 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 536 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 537 This option provides an override for these situations. 538 539 carrier_timeout= 540 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 541 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 542 it waits 120 seconds. 543 544 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 545 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 546 trust validation. 547 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 548 549 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 550 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 551 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 552 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 553 others). 554 555 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 556 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 557 558 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 559 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 560 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 561 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 562 a single hierarchy 563 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 564 subsystem 565 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 566 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 567 created 568 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 569 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 570 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 571 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 572 stall information accounting feature 573 574 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 575 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 576 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 577 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 578 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 579 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 580 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 581 all v1 hierarchies. 582 583 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 584 Format: { "true" | "false" } 585 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 586 587 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 588 Format: <string> 589 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 590 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 591 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 592 593 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 594 Format: { "0" | "1" } 595 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 596 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 597 any implied execute protection). 598 1 -- check protection requested by application. 599 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 600 Value can be changed at runtime via 601 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 602 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 603 604 cio_ignore= [S390] 605 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 606 607 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 608 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 609 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 610 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 611 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 612 ones should be. 613 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 614 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 615 instability issue. However, not all features have names 616 in /proc/cpuinfo. 617 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 618 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 619 or using the feature without checking anything 620 will still see it. This just prevents it from 621 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 622 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 623 some critical bits. 624 625 clk_ignore_unused 626 [CLK] 627 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 628 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 629 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 630 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 631 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 632 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 633 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 634 platform with proper driver support. For more 635 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 636 637 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 638 [Deprecated] 639 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 640 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 641 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 642 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 643 644 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 645 Format: <string> 646 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 647 with the name specified. 648 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 649 the platform: 650 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 651 [ACPI] acpi_pm 652 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 653 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 654 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 655 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 656 [MIPS] MIPS 657 [PARISC] cr16 658 [S390] tod 659 [SH] SuperH 660 [SPARC64] tick 661 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 662 663 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 664 [ARM,ARM64] 665 Format: <bool> 666 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 667 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 668 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 669 systems. 670 671 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 672 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 673 external delays before the clock will be marked 674 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 675 three attempts to read the clock under test. 676 677 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 678 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 679 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 680 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 681 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 682 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 683 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 684 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 685 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 686 687 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 688 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 689 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 690 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 691 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 692 693 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 694 [KNL,CMA] 695 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 696 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 697 placement constraint by the physical address range of 698 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 699 altogether. For more information, see 700 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 701 702 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 703 [KNL,CMA] 704 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 705 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 706 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 707 specified, the default value is 0. 708 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 709 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 710 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 711 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 712 713 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 714 [KNL,CMA] 715 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 716 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 717 area for the specified node. 718 719 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 720 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 721 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 722 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 723 724 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 725 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 726 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 727 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 728 a hypervisor. 729 Default: yes 730 731 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 732 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 733 allocations, by default set to 256K. 734 735 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 736 Format: 737 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 738 739 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 740 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 741 742 com90xx= [HW,NET] 743 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 744 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 745 746 condev= [HW,S390] console device 747 conmode= 748 749 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 750 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 751 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 752 the console buffer is full. In this case the 753 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 754 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 755 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 756 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 757 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 758 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 759 760 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 761 762 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 763 764 ttyS<n>[,options] 765 ttyUSB0[,options] 766 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 767 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 768 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 769 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 770 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 771 772 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 773 information. See 774 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 775 alternative. 776 777 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 778 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 779 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 780 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 781 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 782 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 783 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 784 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 785 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 786 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 787 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 788 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 789 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 790 the h/w is not re-initialized. 791 792 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 793 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 794 795 { null | "" } 796 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 797 console messages discarded. 798 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 799 kernel command line. 800 801 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 802 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 803 console=brl,ttyS0 804 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 805 806 console_msg_format= 807 [KNL] Change console messages format 808 default 809 By default we print messages on consoles in 810 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 811 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 812 `printk_time' param). 813 syslog 814 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 815 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 816 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 817 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 818 from /proc/kmsg. 819 820 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 821 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 822 Defaults to 0. 823 824 coredump_filter= 825 [KNL] Change the default value for 826 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 827 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 828 829 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 830 [ARM,ARM64] 831 Format: <bool> 832 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 833 0: default value, disable debugging 834 1: enable debugging at boot time 835 836 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 837 Format: 838 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 839 840 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 841 disable the cpuidle sub-system 842 843 cpuidle.governor= 844 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 845 846 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 847 disable the cpufreq sub-system 848 849 cpufreq.default_governor= 850 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 851 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 852 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 853 854 cpu_init_udelay=N 855 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 856 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 857 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 858 Default: 10000 859 860 cpuhp.parallel= 861 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 862 Format: <bool> 863 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 864 the parameter has no effect. 865 866 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 867 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 868 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 869 succeeds in any situation. 870 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 871 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 872 kernel more unstable. 873 874 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 875 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 876 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 877 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 878 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 879 is selected automatically. 880 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and 881 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 882 hasn't been specified. 883 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 884 885 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 886 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 887 in the running system. The syntax of range is 888 start-[end] where start and end are both 889 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 890 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 891 892 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 893 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G. 894 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 895 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 896 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 897 below 4G, if available. 898 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 899 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 900 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 901 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 902 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 903 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 904 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 905 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 906 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 907 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 908 size is platform dependent. 909 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 910 --> arm64: 128MiB 911 --> riscv: 128MiB 912 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 913 for second kernel instead. 914 0: to disable low allocation. 915 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 916 or memory reserved is below 4G. 917 918 cryptomgr.notests 919 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 920 921 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 922 Format: <dma> 923 924 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 925 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 926 927 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 928 function call handling. When switched on, 929 additional debug data is printed to the console 930 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 931 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 932 the hang situation. The default value of this 933 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 934 Kconfig option. 935 936 dasd= [HW,NET] 937 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 938 939 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 940 (one device per port) 941 Format: <port#>,<type> 942 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 943 944 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 945 946 debug_boot_weak_hash 947 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 948 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 949 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 950 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 951 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 952 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 953 954 debug_locks_verbose= 955 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 956 Format: <int> 957 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 958 self-tests. 959 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 960 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 961 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 962 useful to lockdep developers. 963 964 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 965 966 debug_guardpage_minorder= 967 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 968 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 969 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 970 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 971 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 972 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 973 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 974 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 975 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 976 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 977 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 978 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 979 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 980 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 981 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 982 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 983 help tracking down these problems. 984 985 debug_pagealloc= 986 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 987 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 988 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 989 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 990 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 991 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 992 on: enable the feature 993 994 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 995 and debugfs internal clients. 996 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 997 on: All functions are enabled. 998 no-mount: 999 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1000 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1001 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1002 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1003 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1004 or directories within debugfs. 1005 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1006 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1007 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1008 1009 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1010 1011 default_hugepagesz= 1012 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1013 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1014 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1015 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1016 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1017 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1018 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1019 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1020 Format: size[KMG] 1021 1022 deferred_probe_timeout= 1023 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1024 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1025 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1026 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1027 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1028 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1029 successful driver registration. This option will also 1030 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1031 retrying. 1032 1033 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1034 1035 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1036 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1037 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1038 hardware. 1039 1040 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1041 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1042 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1043 blacklisted features. 1044 1045 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1046 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1047 (disabled by default). 1048 1049 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1050 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1051 capability is set. 1052 1053 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1054 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1055 1056 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1057 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1058 1059 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1060 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1061 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1062 level 1 and decompression (default) 1063 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1064 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1065 only (compression on level 1) 1066 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1067 only (decompression) 1068 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1069 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1070 1071 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1072 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1073 1074 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1075 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1076 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1077 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1078 miss to occur. 1079 1080 disable= [IPV6] 1081 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1082 1083 disable_radix [PPC] 1084 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1085 1086 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1087 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1088 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1089 1090 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1091 Format: <int> 1092 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1093 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1094 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1095 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1096 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1097 INIT from AP to BSP. 1098 1099 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1100 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1101 to workaround buggy firmware. 1102 1103 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1104 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1105 1106 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1107 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1108 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1109 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1110 1111 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1112 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1113 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1114 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1115 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1116 1117 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1118 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1119 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1120 1121 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1122 1123 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1124 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1125 1126 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1127 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1128 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1129 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1130 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1131 architectural default is too low. 1132 1133 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1134 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1135 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1136 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1137 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1138 driver later using sysfs. 1139 1140 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1141 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1142 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1143 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1144 match the *. 1145 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1146 1147 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1148 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1149 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1150 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1151 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1152 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1153 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1154 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1155 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1156 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1157 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1158 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1159 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1160 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1161 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1162 data set with no connector name will be used for 1163 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1164 1165 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1166 1167 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1168 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1169 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1170 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1171 exists). 1172 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1173 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1174 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1175 1176 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1177 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1178 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1179 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1180 1181 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1182 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1183 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1184 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1185 for details. 1186 1187 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1188 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1189 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1190 which are not unmapped. 1191 1192 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1193 1194 When used with no options, the early console is 1195 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1196 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1197 the platform. 1198 1199 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1200 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1201 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1202 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1203 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1204 configured. 1205 1206 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1207 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1208 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1209 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1210 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1211 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1212 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1213 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1214 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1215 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1216 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1217 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1218 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1219 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1220 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1221 1222 pl011,<addr> 1223 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1225 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1226 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1227 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1228 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1229 the device registers. 1230 1231 liteuart,<addr> 1232 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1233 specified address. The serial port must already be 1234 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1235 1236 meson,<addr> 1237 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1238 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1239 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1240 supported. 1241 1242 msm_serial,<addr> 1243 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1244 port at the specified address. The serial port 1245 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1246 yet supported. 1247 1248 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1249 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1250 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1251 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1252 yet supported. 1253 1254 owl,<addr> 1255 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1256 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1257 specified address. The serial port must already be 1258 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1259 1260 rda,<addr> 1261 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1262 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1263 specified address. The serial port must already be 1264 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1265 1266 sbi 1267 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1268 console. 1269 1270 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1271 1272 s3c2410,<addr> 1273 s3c2412,<addr> 1274 s3c2440,<addr> 1275 s3c6400,<addr> 1276 s5pv210,<addr> 1277 exynos4210,<addr> 1278 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1279 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1280 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1281 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1282 Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 lantiq,<addr> 1285 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1286 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1287 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1288 yet supported. 1289 1290 lpuart,<addr> 1291 lpuart32,<addr> 1292 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1293 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1294 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1295 port must already be setup and configured. 1296 1297 ec_imx21,<addr> 1298 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1299 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1300 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1301 must already be setup and configured. 1302 1303 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1304 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1305 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1306 address. The serial port must already be setup 1307 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1308 1309 qcom_geni,<addr> 1310 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1311 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1312 specified address. The serial port must already be 1313 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1314 1315 efifb,[options] 1316 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1317 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1318 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1319 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1320 mapped with the correct attributes. 1321 1322 linflex,<addr> 1323 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1324 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1325 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1326 already be setup and configured. 1327 1328 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1329 earlyprintk=vga 1330 earlyprintk=sclp 1331 earlyprintk=xen 1332 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1333 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1334 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1335 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1336 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1337 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1338 earlyprintk=bios 1339 1340 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1341 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1342 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1343 1344 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1345 takes over. 1346 1347 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1348 be used at a time. 1349 1350 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1351 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1352 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1353 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1354 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1355 You can find the port for a given device in 1356 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1357 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1358 1359 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1360 very good. 1361 1362 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1363 the real console. 1364 1365 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1366 1367 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1368 1369 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1370 1371 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1372 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1373 UART class. 1374 1375 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1376 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1377 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1378 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1379 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1380 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1381 default: on. 1382 1383 edd= [EDD] 1384 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1385 1386 efi= [EFI] 1387 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1388 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1389 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1390 debug: enable misc debug output. 1391 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1392 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1393 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1394 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1395 firmware implementations. 1396 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1397 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1398 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1399 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1400 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1401 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1402 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1403 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1404 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1405 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1406 1407 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1408 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1409 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1410 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1411 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1412 1413 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1414 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1415 updating original EFI memory map. 1416 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1417 from ss to ss+nn. 1418 1419 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1420 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1421 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1422 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1423 1424 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1425 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1426 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1427 1428 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1429 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1430 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1431 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1432 "soft reserved". 1433 1434 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1435 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1436 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1437 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1438 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1439 1440 1441 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1442 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1443 1444 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1445 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1446 1447 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1448 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1449 1450 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1451 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1452 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1453 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1454 1455 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1456 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1457 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1458 1459 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1460 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1461 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1462 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1463 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1464 1465 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1466 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1467 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1468 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1469 1470 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1471 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1472 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1473 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1474 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1475 1476 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1477 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1478 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1479 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1480 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1481 Default value is 0. 1482 Value can be changed at runtime via 1483 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1484 1485 erst_disable [ACPI] 1486 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1487 support. 1488 1489 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1490 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1491 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1492 1493 evm= [EVM] 1494 Format: { "fix" } 1495 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1496 current integrity status. 1497 1498 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1499 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1500 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1501 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1502 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1503 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1504 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1505 1506 failslab= 1507 fail_usercopy= 1508 fail_page_alloc= 1509 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1510 General fault injection mechanism. 1511 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1512 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1513 1514 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1515 Format: { initns | none } 1516 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1517 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1518 1519 floppy= [HW] 1520 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1521 1522 forcepae [X86-32] 1523 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1524 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1525 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1526 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1527 and may cause unknown problems. 1528 1529 ftrace=[tracer] 1530 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1531 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1532 boot debugging. 1533 1534 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1535 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1536 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1537 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1538 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1539 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1540 start up functionality. 1541 1542 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1543 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1544 line parameter. 1545 1546 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1547 1548 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1549 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1550 1551 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1552 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1553 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1554 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1555 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1556 oops. 1557 1558 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1559 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1560 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1561 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1562 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1563 tracing directory. 1564 1565 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1566 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1567 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1568 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1569 tracing directory. 1570 1571 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1572 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1573 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1574 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1575 that can be changed at run time by the 1576 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1577 1578 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1579 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1580 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1581 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1582 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1583 1584 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1585 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1586 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1587 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1588 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1589 1590 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1591 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1592 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1593 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1594 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1595 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1596 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1597 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1598 suppliers). 1599 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1600 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1601 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1602 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1603 up (sync_state() calls). 1604 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1605 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1606 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1607 1608 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1609 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1610 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1611 Format: <bool> 1612 1613 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1614 [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished 1615 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1616 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1617 calls. 1618 Format: { strict | timeout } 1619 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1620 probe successfully. 1621 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1622 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1623 received their sync_state() calls after 1624 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1625 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1626 1627 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1628 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1629 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1630 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1631 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1632 1633 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1634 1635 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1636 Format: off | on 1637 default: on 1638 1639 gather_data_sampling= 1640 [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1641 mitigation. 1642 1643 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1644 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1645 previously stored in vector registers. 1646 1647 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1648 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1649 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1650 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1651 1652 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1653 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1654 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1655 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1656 1657 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1658 1659 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1660 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1661 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1662 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1663 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1664 1665 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1666 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1667 android emulator 1668 1669 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1670 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1671 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1672 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1673 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1674 1675 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1676 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1677 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1678 GPT to be used instead. 1679 1680 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1681 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1682 Format: 0 | 1 1683 Default: 0 1684 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1685 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1686 Format: 0 | 1 1687 Default: 0 1688 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1689 Format: 0 | 1 1690 Default: 0 1691 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1692 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1693 Default: 1024 1694 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1695 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1696 Default: 1024 1697 1698 hardened_usercopy= 1699 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1700 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1701 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1702 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1703 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1704 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1705 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1706 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1707 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1708 1709 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1710 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1711 backtraces on all cpus. 1712 Format: 0 | 1 1713 1714 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1715 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1716 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1717 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1718 1719 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1720 1721 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1722 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1723 1724 hest_disable [ACPI] 1725 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1726 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1727 logic will be disabled. 1728 1729 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1730 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1731 present during boot. 1732 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1733 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1734 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1735 (that will set all pages holding image data 1736 during restoration read-only). 1737 1738 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1739 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1740 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1741 size on bigger boxes. 1742 1743 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1744 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1745 Default: "on" 1746 1747 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1748 1749 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1750 Format: <string> 1751 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1752 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1753 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1754 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1755 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1756 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1757 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1758 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1759 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1760 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1761 1762 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1763 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1764 verbose } 1765 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1766 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1767 VIA, nVidia) 1768 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1769 1770 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1771 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1772 1773 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1774 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1775 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1776 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1777 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1778 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1779 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1780 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1781 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1782 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1783 1784 hugepagesz= 1785 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1786 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1787 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1788 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1789 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1790 architecture dependent. See also 1791 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1792 Format: size[KMG] 1793 1794 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1795 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1796 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1797 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1798 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1799 1800 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1801 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1802 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1803 1804 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1805 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1806 enabled. 1807 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1808 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1809 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1810 Format: { on | off (default) } 1811 1812 on: enable HVO 1813 off: disable HVO 1814 1815 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1816 the default is on. 1817 1818 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1819 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1820 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1821 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1822 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1823 1824 hung_task_panic= 1825 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1826 Format: 0 | 1 1827 1828 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1829 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1830 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1831 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1832 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1833 1834 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1835 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1836 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1837 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1838 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1839 1840 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1841 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1842 guest on lock contention. 1843 1844 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1845 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1846 registered from board initialization code. 1847 Format: 1848 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1849 1850 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1851 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1852 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1853 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1854 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1855 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1856 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1857 keyboard and cannot control its state 1858 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1859 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1860 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1861 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1862 for the AUX port 1863 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1864 controller 1865 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1866 controllers 1867 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1868 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1869 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1870 transitions, or never reset 1871 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1872 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1873 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1874 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1875 architectures force reset to be always executed 1876 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1877 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1878 i8042.probe_defer 1879 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1880 1881 i810= [HW,DRM] 1882 1883 i915.invert_brightness= 1884 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1885 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1886 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1887 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1888 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1889 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1890 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1891 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1892 value switches the backlight off. 1893 -1 -- never invert brightness 1894 0 -- machine default 1895 1 -- force brightness inversion 1896 1897 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1898 Format: <bool> 1899 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1900 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1901 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1902 1903 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1904 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1905 1906 1907 idle= [X86] 1908 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1909 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1910 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1911 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1912 Not recommended. 1913 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1914 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1915 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1916 1917 idxd.sva= [HW] 1918 Format: <bool> 1919 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1920 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1921 true (1). 1922 1923 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1924 Format: <bool> 1925 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1926 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1927 1928 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1929 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1930 Default: strict 1931 1932 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1933 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1934 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1935 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1936 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1937 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1938 encoding mode. 1939 1940 Available settings are as follows: 1941 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1942 supported by the FPU 1943 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1944 by the FPU 1945 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1946 by the FPU 1947 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1948 supported by the FPU 1949 1950 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1951 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1952 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1953 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1954 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1955 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1956 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1957 MIPS64 CPUs. 1958 1959 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1960 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1961 except where unsupported by hardware. 1962 1963 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1964 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1965 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1966 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1967 could change it dynamically, usually by 1968 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1969 1970 ignore_rlimit_data 1971 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1972 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1973 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1974 1975 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1976 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1977 1978 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1979 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1980 default: "enforce" 1981 1982 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1983 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1984 owned by uid=0. 1985 1986 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1987 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1988 measurements, instead of host native format. 1989 1990 ima_hash= [IMA] 1991 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1992 | sha512 | ... } 1993 default: "sha1" 1994 1995 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1996 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1997 1998 ima_policy= [IMA] 1999 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2000 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2001 fail_securely | critical_data" 2002 2003 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2004 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2005 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2006 uid=0. 2007 2008 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2009 all files owned by root. 2010 2011 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2012 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2013 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2014 2015 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2016 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2017 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2018 flag. 2019 2020 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2021 critical data. 2022 2023 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2024 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2025 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2026 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2027 opened for read by uid=0. 2028 2029 ima_template= [IMA] 2030 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2031 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2032 "ima-sigv2" } 2033 Default: "ima-ng" 2034 2035 ima_template_fmt= 2036 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2037 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2038 2039 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2040 Format: <min_file_size> 2041 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2042 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2043 2044 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2045 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2046 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2047 2048 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2049 Format: <bufsize> 2050 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2051 2052 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2053 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2054 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2055 2056 init= [KNL] 2057 Format: <full_path> 2058 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2059 process. 2060 2061 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2062 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2063 startup. 2064 2065 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2066 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2067 modules and initcalls. 2068 2069 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2070 Format: <bool> 2071 Default: 1 2072 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2073 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2074 with devices being probed and 2075 initialized. This should normally just work, 2076 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2077 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2078 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2079 late_ initcalls. 2080 2081 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2082 2083 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2084 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2085 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2086 setting. 2087 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2088 Default is 0, 0 2089 2090 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2091 zeroes. 2092 Format: 0 | 1 2093 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2094 2095 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2096 Format: 0 | 1 2097 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2098 2099 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2100 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2101 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2102 override in debugfs after boot. 2103 2104 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2105 Format: <irq> 2106 2107 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2108 2109 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2110 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2111 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2112 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2113 2114 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2115 on 2116 Enable intel iommu driver. 2117 off 2118 Disable intel iommu driver. 2119 igfx_off [Default Off] 2120 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2121 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2122 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2123 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2124 DMA. 2125 strict [Default Off] 2126 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2127 sp_off [Default Off] 2128 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2129 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2130 not be supported. 2131 sm_on 2132 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2133 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2134 translation. 2135 sm_off 2136 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2137 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2138 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2139 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2140 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2141 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2142 mapping is enabled. 2143 Note that using this option lowers the security 2144 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2145 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2146 2147 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2148 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2149 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2150 2151 intel_pstate= [X86] 2152 disable 2153 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2154 scaling driver for the supported processors 2155 active 2156 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2157 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2158 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2159 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2160 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2161 performance. The way they both operate depends 2162 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2163 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2164 and possibly on the processor model. 2165 passive 2166 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2167 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2168 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2169 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2170 feature. 2171 force 2172 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2173 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2174 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2175 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2176 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2177 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2178 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2179 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2180 no_hwp 2181 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2182 if available. 2183 hwp_only 2184 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2185 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2186 support_acpi_ppc 2187 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2188 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2189 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2190 then this feature is turned on by default. 2191 per_cpu_perf_limits 2192 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2193 cpufreq sysfs interface 2194 2195 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2196 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2197 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2198 nosid disable Source ID checking 2199 no_x2apic_optout 2200 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2201 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2202 2203 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2204 strict regions from userspace. 2205 relaxed 2206 2207 iommu= [X86] 2208 off 2209 force 2210 noforce 2211 biomerge 2212 panic 2213 nopanic 2214 merge 2215 nomerge 2216 soft 2217 pt [X86] 2218 nopt [X86] 2219 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2220 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2221 2222 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2223 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2224 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2225 falling back to the full range if needed. 2226 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2227 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2228 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2229 2230 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86, S390] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2231 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2232 0 - Lazy mode. 2233 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2234 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2235 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2236 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2237 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2238 1 - Strict mode. 2239 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2240 synchronously. 2241 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2242 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2243 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2244 2245 iommu.passthrough= 2246 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2247 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2248 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2249 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2250 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2251 2252 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2253 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2254 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2255 2256 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2257 0x80 2258 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2259 0xed 2260 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2261 udelay 2262 Simple two microseconds delay 2263 none 2264 No delay 2265 2266 ip= [IP_PNP] 2267 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2268 2269 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2270 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2271 2272 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2273 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2274 2275 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2276 [ARM, ARM64] 2277 Format: <bool> 2278 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2279 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2280 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2281 2282 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2283 [ARM, ARM64] 2284 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2285 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2286 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2287 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2288 LPIs. 2289 2290 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2291 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2292 requires the kernel to be built with 2293 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2294 2295 irqfixup [HW] 2296 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2297 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2298 firmware running. 2299 2300 irqpoll [HW] 2301 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2302 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2303 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2304 firmware running. 2305 2306 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2307 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2308 2309 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2310 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2311 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2312 2313 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2314 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2315 2316 nohz 2317 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2318 2319 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2320 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2321 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2322 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2323 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2324 2325 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2326 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2327 be configured manually after bootup. 2328 2329 domain 2330 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2331 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2332 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2333 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2334 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2335 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2336 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2337 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2338 2339 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2340 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2341 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2342 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2343 2344 managed_irq 2345 2346 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2347 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2348 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2349 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2350 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2351 2352 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2353 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2354 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2355 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2356 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2357 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2358 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2359 2360 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2361 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2362 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2363 only delivered when tasks running on those 2364 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2365 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2366 queues. 2367 2368 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2369 2370 iucv= [HW,NET] 2371 2372 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2373 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2374 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2375 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2376 2377 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2378 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2379 write the parameter as: 2380 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2381 2382 Deprecated formats: 2383 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2384 write the parameter as: 2385 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2386 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2387 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2388 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2389 2390 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2391 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2392 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2393 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2394 2395 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2396 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2397 write the parameter as: 2398 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2399 2400 Deprecated formats: 2401 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2402 write the parameter as: 2403 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2404 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2405 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2406 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2407 2408 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2409 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2410 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2411 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2412 2413 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2414 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2415 write the parameter as: 2416 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2417 2418 Deprecated formats: 2419 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2420 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2421 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2422 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2423 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2424 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2425 2426 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2427 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2428 2429 kasan_multi_shot 2430 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2431 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2432 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2433 invalid access. 2434 2435 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2436 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2437 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2438 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2439 the real console. 2440 2441 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2442 2443 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2444 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2445 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2446 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2447 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2448 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2449 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2450 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2451 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2452 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2453 2454 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2455 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2456 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2457 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2458 zone if it does not. 2459 2460 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2461 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2462 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2463 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2464 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2465 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2466 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2467 2468 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2469 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2470 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2471 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2472 optional and is the number seconds in between 2473 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2474 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2475 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2476 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2477 the kernel debugger. 2478 2479 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2480 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2481 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2482 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2483 keyboard only format: kbd 2484 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2485 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2486 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2487 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2488 2489 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2490 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2491 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2492 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2493 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2494 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2495 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2496 2497 The name of the early console should be specified 2498 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2499 the early console might be different than the tty 2500 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2501 blank and the first boot console that implements 2502 read() will be picked. 2503 2504 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2505 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2506 2507 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2508 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2509 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2510 2511 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2512 Valid arguments: on, off 2513 Default: on 2514 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2515 the default is off. 2516 2517 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2518 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2519 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2520 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2521 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2522 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2523 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2524 2525 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2526 2527 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2528 Boot Parameter" section. 2529 2530 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2531 and kernel address spaces. 2532 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2533 0: force disabled 2534 1: force enabled 2535 2536 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2537 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2538 default value can be overridden via 2539 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2540 Default is 1 (enabled) 2541 2542 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2543 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2544 2545 kvm.eager_page_split= 2546 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2547 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2548 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2549 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2550 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2551 required to split huge pages lazily. 2552 2553 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2554 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2555 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2556 still be used for reads. 2557 2558 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2559 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2560 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2561 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2562 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2563 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2564 cleared. 2565 2566 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2567 2568 Default is Y (on). 2569 2570 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2571 Default is false (don't support). 2572 2573 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2574 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2575 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2576 force : Always deploy workaround. 2577 off : Never deploy workaround. 2578 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2579 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2580 2581 Default is 'auto'. 2582 2583 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2584 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2585 2586 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2587 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2588 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2589 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2590 period (see below). The default is 60. 2591 2592 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2593 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2594 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2595 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2596 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2597 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2598 2599 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2600 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2601 2602 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2603 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2604 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2605 for NPT. 2606 2607 kvm-arm.mode= 2608 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2609 2610 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2611 2612 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2613 protected guests. 2614 2615 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2616 state is kept private from the host. 2617 2618 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2619 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2620 hardware. 2621 2622 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2623 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2624 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2625 used with extreme caution. 2626 2627 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2628 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2629 system registers 2630 2631 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2632 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2633 system registers 2634 2635 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2636 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2637 system registers 2638 2639 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2640 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2641 LPIs. 2642 2643 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2644 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2645 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2646 allocation. 2647 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2648 Format: <integer> 2649 Default: 5 2650 2651 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2652 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2653 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2654 for EPT. 2655 2656 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2657 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2658 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2659 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2660 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2661 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2662 Default is 1 (enabled). 2663 2664 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2665 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2666 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2667 hardware lacks support for it. 2668 2669 kvm-intel.nested= 2670 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2671 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2672 2673 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2674 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2675 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2676 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2677 hardware lacks support for it. 2678 2679 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2680 CVE-2018-3620. 2681 2682 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2683 2684 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2685 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2686 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2687 never: Disables the mitigation 2688 2689 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2690 2691 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2692 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2693 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2694 for it. 2695 2696 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2697 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2698 2699 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2700 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2701 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2702 2703 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2704 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2705 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2706 not have direct access. 2707 2708 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2709 options are: 2710 2711 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2712 2713 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2714 affected CPUs 2715 2716 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2717 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2718 2719 full 2720 Provides all available mitigations for the 2721 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2722 enables all mitigations in the 2723 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2724 2725 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2726 sysfs interface is still possible after 2727 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2728 when the first VM is started in a 2729 potentially insecure configuration, 2730 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2731 2732 full,force 2733 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2734 flush runtime control. Implies the 2735 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2736 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2737 2738 flush 2739 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2740 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2741 L1D flush. 2742 2743 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2744 sysfs interface is still possible after 2745 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2746 when the first VM is started in a 2747 potentially insecure configuration, 2748 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2749 2750 flush,nosmt 2751 2752 Disables SMT and enables the default 2753 hypervisor mitigation. 2754 2755 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2756 sysfs interface is still possible after 2757 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2758 when the first VM is started in a 2759 potentially insecure configuration, 2760 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2761 2762 flush,nowarn 2763 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2764 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2765 insecure configuration. 2766 2767 off 2768 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2769 emit any warnings. 2770 It also drops the swap size and available 2771 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2772 bare metal. 2773 2774 Default is 'flush'. 2775 2776 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2777 2778 l2cr= [PPC] 2779 2780 l3cr= [PPC] 2781 2782 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2783 disabled it. 2784 2785 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2786 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2787 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2788 Format: notscdeadline 2789 2790 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2791 in C2 power state. 2792 2793 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2794 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2795 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2796 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2797 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2798 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2799 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2800 2801 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2802 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2803 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2804 2805 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2806 when set. 2807 Format: <int> 2808 2809 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2810 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2811 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2812 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2813 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2814 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2815 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2816 to all ports, links and devices. 2817 2818 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2819 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2820 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2821 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2822 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2823 host link and device attached to it. 2824 2825 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2826 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2827 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2828 The following configurations can be forced. 2829 2830 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2831 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2832 2833 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2834 2835 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2836 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2837 allowed. 2838 2839 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2840 resets. 2841 2842 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2843 link recovery. 2844 2845 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2846 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2847 detection. 2848 2849 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2850 2851 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2852 2853 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2854 2855 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2856 2857 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2858 2859 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2860 2861 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2862 2863 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2864 2865 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2866 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2867 2868 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2869 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2870 2871 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2872 identify device data log. 2873 2874 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2875 purpose log directory. 2876 2877 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2878 2879 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2880 1024 sectors. 2881 2882 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2883 65535 sectors. 2884 2885 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2886 2887 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2888 should be skipped. 2889 2890 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2891 support for devices supporting this feature. 2892 2893 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2894 2895 * disable: Disable this device. 2896 2897 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2898 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2899 2900 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2901 2902 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2903 Format: <integer> 2904 2905 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2906 Format: <integer> 2907 2908 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2909 Format: <integer> 2910 2911 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2912 Format: <integer> 2913 2914 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2915 { integrity | confidentiality } 2916 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2917 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2918 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2919 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2920 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2921 are also disabled. 2922 2923 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 2924 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 2925 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 2926 will result in a splat once they do complete. 2927 2928 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 2929 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 2930 to be bound. 2931 2932 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 2933 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 2934 to be bound. 2935 2936 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 2937 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 2938 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 2939 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 2940 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 2941 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 2942 2943 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 2944 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 2945 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 2946 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 2947 2948 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 2949 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 2950 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 2951 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 2952 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 2953 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 2954 2955 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2956 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2957 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2958 number of online CPUs. 2959 2960 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2961 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2962 2963 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2964 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2965 2966 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2967 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2968 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2969 2970 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 2971 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 2972 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 2973 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 2974 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 2975 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 2976 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 2977 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 2978 disable boosting. 2979 2980 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 2981 Number that determines how often and for how 2982 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 2983 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 2984 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 2985 constant as the number of writers increases. 2986 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 2987 increases with the number of writers. 2988 2989 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2990 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2991 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2992 mode during the locktorture test. 2993 2994 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2995 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2996 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2997 2998 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2999 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3000 3001 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3002 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3003 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3004 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3005 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3006 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3007 3008 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3009 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3010 3011 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3012 Enable additional printk() statements. 3013 3014 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3015 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3016 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3017 3018 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3019 Format: <irq> 3020 3021 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3022 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3023 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3024 loglevels are defined as follows: 3025 3026 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3027 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3028 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3029 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3030 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3031 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3032 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3033 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3034 3035 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 3036 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 3037 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 3038 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 3039 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 3040 that allows to increase the default size depending on 3041 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 3042 3043 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3044 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3045 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3046 kernel boot problems. 3047 3048 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3049 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3050 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3051 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3052 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3053 attached printers to be reset. Using 3054 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3055 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3056 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3057 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3058 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3059 port specification list means that device IDs 3060 from each port should be examined, to see if 3061 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3062 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3063 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3064 3065 lpj=n [KNL] 3066 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3067 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3068 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3069 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3070 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3071 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3072 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3073 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3074 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3075 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3076 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3077 hardware. 3078 3079 ltpc= [NET] 3080 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 3081 3082 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3083 3084 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3085 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3086 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3087 3088 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 3089 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 3090 Example: machvec=hpzx1 3091 3092 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3093 different yeeloong laptops. 3094 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3095 3096 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 3097 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 3098 3099 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3100 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3101 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3102 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3103 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3104 only takes effect during system bootup. 3105 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3106 which also disables the IO APIC. 3107 3108 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3109 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3110 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3111 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3112 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3113 /dev/loop-control interface. 3114 3115 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3116 3117 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3118 3119 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3120 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3121 3122 mdacon= [MDA] 3123 Format: <first>,<last> 3124 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3125 3126 mds= [X86,INTEL] 3127 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3128 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3129 3130 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3131 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3132 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3133 3134 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3135 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3136 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3137 not have direct access. 3138 3139 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3140 options are: 3141 3142 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3143 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3144 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3145 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3146 3147 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3148 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3149 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3150 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3151 too. 3152 3153 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3154 mds=full. 3155 3156 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3157 3158 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3159 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3160 3161 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3162 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3163 3164 1 for test; 3165 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3166 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3167 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3168 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3169 3170 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3171 high memory is not affected. 3172 3173 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3174 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3175 3176 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3177 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3178 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3179 belonging to unused RAM. 3180 3181 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3182 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3183 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3184 3185 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3186 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3187 firmware. 3188 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3189 ss[KMG]. 3190 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3191 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3192 3193 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3194 memory. 3195 3196 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3197 3198 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3199 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3200 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3201 3202 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3203 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3204 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3205 set according to the 3206 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3207 option. 3208 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3209 3210 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3211 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3212 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3213 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3214 option description. 3215 3216 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3217 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3218 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3219 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3220 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3221 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3222 comma delimited. 3223 Example: 3224 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3225 3226 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3227 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3228 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3229 3230 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3231 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3232 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3233 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3234 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3235 or 3236 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3237 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3238 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3239 will be eaten. 3240 3241 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3242 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3243 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3244 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3245 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3246 3247 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3248 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3249 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3250 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3251 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3252 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3253 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3254 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3255 3256 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3257 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3258 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3259 Setting this option will scan the memory 3260 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3261 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3262 from using the memory being corrupted. 3263 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3264 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3265 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3266 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3267 3268 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3269 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3270 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3271 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3272 corruption in more or less memory. 3273 3274 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3275 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3276 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3277 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3278 3279 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3280 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3281 Format: {on | off (default)} 3282 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3283 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3284 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3285 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3286 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3287 lot of memory without requiring additional 3288 memory to do so. 3289 This feature is disabled by default because it 3290 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3291 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3292 memory blocks). 3293 The state of the flag can be read in 3294 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3295 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3296 the feature is not effective. 3297 3298 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3299 Format: <integer> 3300 default : 0 <disable> 3301 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3302 performed. Each pass selects another test 3303 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3304 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3305 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3306 regions that are detected. 3307 3308 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3309 Valid arguments: on, off 3310 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3311 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3312 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3313 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3314 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3315 3316 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3317 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3318 3319 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3320 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3321 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3322 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3323 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3324 3325 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3326 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3327 platforms. 3328 3329 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3330 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3331 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3332 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3333 3334 mga= [HW,DRM] 3335 3336 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3337 Format: <bool> 3338 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3339 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3340 3341 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3342 physical address is ignored. 3343 3344 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3345 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3346 Default: "0tb" 3347 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3348 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3349 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3350 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3351 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3352 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3353 unconfigured. 3354 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3355 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3356 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3357 VGA shield. 3358 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3359 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3360 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3361 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3362 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3363 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3364 3365 mitigations= 3366 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3367 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3368 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3369 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3370 3371 off 3372 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3373 improves system performance, but it may also 3374 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3375 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3376 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3377 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3378 l1tf=off [X86] 3379 mds=off [X86] 3380 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3381 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3382 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3383 nobp=0 [S390] 3384 nopti [X86,PPC] 3385 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3386 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3387 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3388 retbleed=off [X86] 3389 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3390 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3391 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3392 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3393 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3394 3395 Exceptions: 3396 This does not have any effect on 3397 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3398 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3399 3400 auto (default) 3401 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3402 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3403 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3404 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3405 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3406 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3407 3408 auto,nosmt 3409 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3410 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3411 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3412 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3413 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3414 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3415 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3416 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3417 3418 mminit_loglevel= 3419 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3420 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3421 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3422 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3423 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3424 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3425 3426 mmio_stale_data= 3427 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3428 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3429 3430 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3431 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3432 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3433 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3434 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3435 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3436 3437 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3438 options are: 3439 3440 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3441 3442 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3443 vulnerable CPUs. 3444 3445 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3446 3447 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3448 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3449 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3450 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3451 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3452 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3453 3454 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3455 mmio_stale_data=full. 3456 3457 For details see: 3458 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3459 3460 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3461 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3462 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3463 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3464 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3465 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3466 3467 module.async_probe=<bool> 3468 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3469 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3470 specific module, use the module specific control that 3471 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3472 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3473 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3474 the specific module. 3475 3476 module.enable_dups_trace 3477 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3478 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3479 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3480 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3481 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3482 module.sig_enforce 3483 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3484 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3485 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3486 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3487 3488 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3489 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3490 3491 mousedev.tap_time= 3492 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3493 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3494 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3495 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3496 Format: <msecs> 3497 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3498 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3499 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3500 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3501 3502 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3503 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3504 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3505 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3506 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3507 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3508 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3509 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3510 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3511 is not too small. 3512 3513 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3514 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3515 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3516 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3517 allocations. Use with caution! 3518 3519 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3520 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3521 3522 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3523 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3524 3525 mtdparts= [MTD] 3526 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3527 3528 mtdset= [ARM] 3529 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3530 3531 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3532 3533 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3534 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3535 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3536 3537 mtrr=debug [X86] 3538 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3539 registers at boot time. 3540 3541 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3542 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3543 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3544 3545 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3546 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3547 Default is 1. 3548 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3549 using up MTRRs. 3550 3551 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3552 Format: <integer> 3553 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3554 Default : 1 3555 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3556 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3557 3558 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3559 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3560 at a time. 3561 3562 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3563 3564 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3565 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3566 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3567 something different and driver-specific. 3568 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3569 file if at all. 3570 3571 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3572 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3573 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3574 waits 4 seconds. 3575 3576 nf_conntrack.acct= 3577 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3578 0 to disable accounting 3579 1 to enable accounting 3580 Default value is 0. 3581 3582 nfs.cache_getent= 3583 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3584 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3585 3586 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3587 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3588 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3589 3590 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3591 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3592 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3593 requests. 3594 3595 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3596 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3597 channel should listen. 3598 3599 nfs.delay_retrans= 3600 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3601 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3602 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3603 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3604 and the specified value is >= 0. 3605 3606 nfs.enable_ino64= 3607 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3608 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3609 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3610 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3611 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3612 3613 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3614 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3615 entries. 3616 3617 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3618 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3619 slots the client will assign to the callback 3620 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3621 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3622 a particular server. 3623 3624 nfs.max_session_slots= 3625 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3626 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3627 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3628 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3629 Note that there is little point in setting this 3630 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3631 3632 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3633 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3634 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3635 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3636 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3637 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3638 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3639 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3640 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3641 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3642 back to using the idmapper. 3643 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3644 3645 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3646 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3647 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3648 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3649 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3650 3651 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3652 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3653 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3654 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3655 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3656 after the locks are lost. 3657 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3658 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3659 parameter to '1'. 3660 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3661 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3662 3663 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3664 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3665 information in exchange_id requests. 3666 If zero, no implementation identification information 3667 will be sent. 3668 The default is to send the implementation identification 3669 information. 3670 3671 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3672 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3673 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3674 3675 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3676 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3677 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3678 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3679 3680 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3681 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3682 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3683 the destination of the copy. 3684 3685 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3686 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3687 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3688 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3689 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3690 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3691 3692 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3693 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3694 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3695 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3696 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3697 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3698 this parameter. 3699 3700 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3701 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3702 3703 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3704 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3705 3706 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3707 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3708 3709 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3710 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3711 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3712 3713 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3714 when a NMI is triggered. 3715 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3716 3717 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3718 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3719 Valid num: 0 or 1 3720 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3721 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3722 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3723 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3724 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3725 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3726 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3727 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3728 need the box quickly up again. 3729 3730 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3731 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3732 3733 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3734 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3735 is present. 3736 3737 no4lvl [RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces 3738 kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3739 3740 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3741 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3742 3743 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3744 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3745 but will impact performance. 3746 3747 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3748 3749 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3750 (CPU alternatives feature). 3751 3752 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3753 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3754 3755 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3756 3757 nocache [ARM] 3758 3759 no_console_suspend 3760 [HW] Never suspend the console 3761 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3762 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3763 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3764 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3765 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3766 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3767 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3768 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3769 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3770 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3771 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3772 turn on/off it dynamically. 3773 3774 no_debug_objects 3775 [KNL] Disable object debugging 3776 3777 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3778 3779 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3780 3781 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3782 3783 noexec [IA-64] 3784 3785 noexec32 [X86-64] 3786 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3787 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3788 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3789 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3790 read implies executable mappings 3791 3792 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3793 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3794 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3795 3796 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3797 3798 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3799 3800 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3801 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3802 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3803 3804 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3805 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3806 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3807 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3808 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3809 real-time systems. 3810 3811 no_hash_pointers 3812 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3813 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3814 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3815 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3816 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3817 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3818 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3819 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3820 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3821 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3822 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3823 kernels. 3824 3825 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3826 3827 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to 3828 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3829 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3830 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3831 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3832 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3833 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3834 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3835 3836 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3837 3838 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3839 3840 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3841 Valid arguments: on, off 3842 Default: on 3843 3844 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3845 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3846 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3847 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3848 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3849 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3850 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3851 just as if they had also been called out in the 3852 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3853 3854 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3855 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3856 3857 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3858 initial RAM disk. 3859 3860 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3861 remapping. 3862 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3863 3864 nointroute [IA-64] 3865 3866 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3867 3868 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3869 3870 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3871 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3872 3873 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3874 3875 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3876 3877 nokaslr [KNL] 3878 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3879 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3880 Layout Randomization). 3881 3882 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3883 fault handling. 3884 3885 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3886 3887 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3888 3889 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3890 3891 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3892 3893 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3894 3895 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3896 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3897 3898 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3899 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3900 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3901 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3902 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3903 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3904 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3905 3906 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3907 3908 nomodule Disable module load 3909 3910 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3911 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3912 irq. 3913 3914 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3915 pagetables) support. 3916 3917 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3918 3919 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3920 in some Intel CPUs. 3921 3922 nopti [X86-64] 3923 Equivalent to pti=off 3924 3925 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3926 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3927 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3928 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3929 3930 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3931 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3932 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3933 contention. 3934 3935 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3936 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3937 3938 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3939 with UP alternatives 3940 3941 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3942 space. 3943 3944 nosbagart [IA-64] 3945 3946 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3947 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3948 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3949 3950 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3951 3952 nosmap [PPC] 3953 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3954 even if it is supported by processor. 3955 3956 nosmep [PPC64s] 3957 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3958 even if it is supported by processor. 3959 3960 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3961 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3962 3963 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3964 Equivalent to smt=1. 3965 3966 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3967 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3968 via the sysfs control file. 3969 3970 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3971 3972 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3973 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3974 3975 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3976 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3977 with this option. 3978 3979 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3980 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3981 possible in the system. 3982 3983 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3984 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3985 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3986 option. 3987 3988 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3989 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3990 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3991 3992 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3993 3994 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3995 broken timer IRQ sources. 3996 3997 no_uaccess_flush 3998 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3999 4000 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4001 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4002 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4003 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4004 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4005 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4006 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4007 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4008 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4009 is set. 4010 4011 no-vmw-sched-clock 4012 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 4013 clock and use the default one. 4014 4015 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4016 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4017 4018 nowb [ARM] 4019 4020 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4021 4022 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4023 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4024 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4025 4026 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4027 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4028 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4029 4030 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4031 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4032 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4033 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4034 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4035 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4036 4037 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4038 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4039 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4040 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4041 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4042 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4043 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4044 4045 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 4046 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 4047 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 4048 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 4049 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 4050 parameter's value. 4051 Format: integer between 1 and 255 4052 Default: 255 4053 4054 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 4055 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 4056 SAL PALO. 4057 4058 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4059 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4060 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4061 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4062 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4063 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4064 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4065 hot plugging. 4066 4067 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4068 4069 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 4070 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 4071 4072 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4073 NUMA balancing. 4074 Allowed values are enable and disable 4075 4076 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4077 'node', 'default' can be specified 4078 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4079 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4080 4081 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4082 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4083 info. 4084 4085 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4086 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4087 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4088 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4089 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4090 interrupts *may* be lost! 4091 4092 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4093 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4094 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4095 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4096 4097 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4098 4099 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4100 4101 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4102 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4103 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4104 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4105 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4106 4107 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4108 process, but there is a small probability of 4109 deadlocking the machine. 4110 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4111 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4112 4113 page_alloc.shuffle= 4114 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4115 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 4116 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 4117 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 4118 cache, and this parameter can be used to 4119 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 4120 can be read from sysfs at: 4121 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4122 4123 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4124 Storage of the information about who allocated 4125 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4126 we can turn it on. 4127 on: enable the feature 4128 4129 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4130 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4131 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4132 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4133 on: turn on poisoning 4134 4135 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4136 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4137 Format: <integer> 4138 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4139 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4140 4141 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4142 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4143 timeout = 0: wait forever 4144 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4145 Format: <timeout> 4146 4147 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4148 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4149 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4150 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4151 called with any of the flags in this set. 4152 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4153 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4154 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4155 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4156 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4157 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4158 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4159 4160 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4161 on a WARN(). 4162 4163 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4164 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4165 bit 0: print all tasks info 4166 bit 1: print system memory info 4167 bit 2: print timer info 4168 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4169 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4170 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4171 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4172 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4173 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4174 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4175 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4176 4177 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4178 connected to, default is 0. 4179 Format: <parport#> 4180 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4181 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4182 Format: <mode> 4183 4184 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4185 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4186 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4187 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4188 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4189 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4190 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4191 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4192 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4193 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4194 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4195 are specified on the command line, starting 4196 with parport0. 4197 4198 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4199 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4200 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4201 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4202 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4203 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4204 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4205 4206 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4207 Format: <int> 4208 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4209 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4210 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4211 4212 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4213 Format: <int> 4214 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4215 changes. Disabled by default. 4216 4217 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4218 Format: <int> 4219 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4220 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4221 Disabled by default. 4222 4223 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4224 Format: <int> 4225 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4226 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4227 Disabled by default. 4228 4229 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4230 Format: <int> 4231 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4232 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4233 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4234 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4235 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4236 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4237 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4238 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4239 all channels. 4240 4241 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4242 Format: <int> 4243 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4244 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4245 respectively. Disabled by default. 4246 4247 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4248 Format: <int> 4249 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4250 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4251 respectively. Disabled by default. 4252 4253 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4254 Format: <int> 4255 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4256 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4257 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4258 All modes allowed by default. 4259 4260 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4261 Format: <int> 4262 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4263 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4264 4265 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4266 Format: <int> 4267 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4268 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4269 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4270 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4271 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4272 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4273 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4274 By default all supported ports are probed. 4275 4276 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4277 Format: <int> 4278 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4279 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4280 4281 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4282 Format: <int> 4283 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4284 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4285 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4286 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4287 0 otherwise. 4288 4289 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4290 Format: <int> 4291 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4292 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4293 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4294 allowed by default. 4295 4296 pause_on_oops=<int> 4297 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4298 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4299 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4300 4301 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4302 4303 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4304 4305 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4306 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4307 specified in one of the following formats: 4308 4309 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4310 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4311 4312 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4313 bus/device/function address which may change 4314 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4315 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4316 by other kernel parameters. If the 4317 domain is left unspecified, it is 4318 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4319 to a device through multiple device/function 4320 addresses can be specified after the base 4321 address (this is more robust against 4322 renumbering issues). The second format 4323 selects devices using IDs from the 4324 configuration space which may match multiple 4325 devices in the system. 4326 4327 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4328 changes anything 4329 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4330 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4331 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4332 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4333 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4334 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4335 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4336 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4337 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4338 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4339 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4340 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4341 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4342 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4343 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4344 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4345 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4346 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4347 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4348 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4349 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4350 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4351 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4352 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4353 Configuration 4354 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4355 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4356 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4357 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4358 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4359 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4360 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4361 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4362 should never be necessary. 4363 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4364 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4365 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4366 when the system masks IRQs. 4367 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4368 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4369 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4370 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4371 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4372 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4373 on several machines and they hang the machine 4374 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4375 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4376 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4377 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4378 motherboard. 4379 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4380 Use with caution as certain devices share 4381 address decoders between ROMs and other 4382 resources. 4383 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4384 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4385 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4386 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4387 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4388 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4389 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4390 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4391 this way. 4392 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4393 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4394 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4395 F0000h-100000h range. 4396 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4397 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4398 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4399 explicitly which ones they are. 4400 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4401 numbers ourselves, overriding 4402 whatever the firmware may have done. 4403 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4404 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4405 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4406 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4407 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4408 IRQ routing is enabled. 4409 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4410 or for PCI scanning. 4411 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4412 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4413 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4414 please report a bug. 4415 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4416 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4417 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4418 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4419 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4420 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4421 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4422 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4423 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4424 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4425 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4426 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4427 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4428 so this option is a temporary workaround 4429 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4430 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4431 handle more pci cards 4432 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4433 This might help on some broken boards which 4434 machine check when some devices' config space 4435 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4436 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4437 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4438 This sorting is done to get a device 4439 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4440 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4441 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4442 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4443 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4444 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4445 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4446 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4447 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4448 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4449 or bus can support) for best performance. 4450 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4451 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4452 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4453 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4454 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4455 that hot-added devices will work. 4456 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4457 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4458 The default value is 256 bytes. 4459 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4460 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4461 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4462 resource_alignment= 4463 Format: 4464 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4465 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4466 aligned memory resources. How to 4467 specify the device is described above. 4468 If <order of align> is not specified, 4469 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4470 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4471 windows need to be expanded. 4472 To specify the alignment for several 4473 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4474 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4475 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4476 for 4096-byte alignment. 4477 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4478 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4479 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4480 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4481 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4482 the default. 4483 off: Turn ECRC off 4484 on: Turn ECRC on. 4485 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4486 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4487 Default size is 256 bytes. 4488 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4489 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4490 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4491 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4492 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4493 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4494 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4495 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4496 MMIO_PREF window. 4497 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4498 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4499 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4500 Default is 1. 4501 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4502 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4503 accommodate resources required by all child 4504 devices. 4505 off: Turn realloc off 4506 on: Turn realloc on 4507 realloc same as realloc=on 4508 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4509 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4510 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4511 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4512 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4513 port. 4514 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4515 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4516 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4517 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4518 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4519 taints the kernel. 4520 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4521 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4522 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4523 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4524 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4525 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4526 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4527 this removes isolation between devices and 4528 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4529 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4530 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4531 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4532 one PCI domain per PCI function 4533 4534 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4535 Management. 4536 off Disable ASPM. 4537 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4538 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4539 4540 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4541 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4542 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4543 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4544 also tries to use these services. 4545 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4546 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4547 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4548 hotplug). 4549 4550 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4551 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4552 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4553 4554 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4555 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4556 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4557 4558 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4559 4560 pd_ignore_unused 4561 [PM] 4562 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4563 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4564 for debug and development, but should not be 4565 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4566 4567 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4568 boot time. 4569 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4570 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4571 4572 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4573 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4574 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4575 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4576 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4577 and performance comparison. 4578 4579 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4580 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4581 4582 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4583 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4584 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4585 4586 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4587 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4588 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4589 4590 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4591 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4592 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4593 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4594 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4595 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4596 remains 0. 4597 4598 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4599 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4600 4601 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4602 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4603 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4604 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4605 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4606 possible settings and some assignment information. 4607 4608 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4609 { off } 4610 4611 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4612 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4613 4614 pnp_reserve_irq= 4615 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4616 4617 pnp_reserve_dma= 4618 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4619 4620 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4621 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4622 4623 pnp_reserve_mem= 4624 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4625 autoconfiguration. 4626 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4627 4628 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4629 Default is 21. 4630 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4631 may be specified. 4632 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4633 4634 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4635 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4636 platform machine description specific power_save 4637 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4638 execution priority. 4639 4640 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4641 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4642 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4643 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4644 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4645 4646 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4647 Format: {"off"} 4648 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4649 4650 preempt= [KNL] 4651 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4652 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4653 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4654 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4655 can be preempted anytime. 4656 4657 print-fatal-signals= 4658 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4659 4660 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4661 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4662 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4663 coredump - etc. 4664 4665 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4666 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4667 4668 default: off. 4669 4670 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4671 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4672 panics 4673 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4674 default: disabled 4675 4676 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4677 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4678 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4679 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4680 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4681 in order to provide more debug information. 4682 Format: <bool> 4683 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4684 4685 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4686 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4687 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4688 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4689 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4690 Default: ratelimit 4691 4692 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4693 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4694 4695 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4696 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4697 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4698 4699 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4700 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4701 instead using the legacy FADT method 4702 4703 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4704 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4705 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4706 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4707 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4708 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4709 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4710 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4711 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4712 statistical time based profiling. 4713 4714 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4715 4716 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4717 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4718 that). 4719 Format: <bool> 4720 4721 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4722 tracking. 4723 Format: <bool> 4724 4725 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4726 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4727 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4728 per second. 4729 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4730 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4731 (0 = never). 4732 psmouse.resolution= 4733 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4734 psmouse.smartscroll= 4735 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4736 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4737 4738 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4739 4740 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4741 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4742 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4743 system calls and interrupts. 4744 4745 on - unconditionally enable 4746 off - unconditionally disable 4747 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4748 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4749 4750 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4751 4752 pty.legacy_count= 4753 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4754 default number. 4755 4756 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4757 4758 r128= [HW,DRM] 4759 4760 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4761 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4762 invalidate. 4763 4764 raid= [HW,RAID] 4765 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4766 4767 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4768 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4769 4770 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4771 4772 random.trust_cpu=off 4773 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4774 random number generator (if available) to 4775 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4776 4777 random.trust_bootloader=off 4778 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4779 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4780 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4781 4782 randomize_kstack_offset= 4783 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4784 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4785 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4786 that depend on stack address determinism or 4787 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4788 available on architectures that have defined 4789 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4790 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4791 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4792 4793 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4794 4795 cec_disable [X86] 4796 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4797 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4798 4799 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4800 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4801 as described above. 4802 4803 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4804 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4805 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4806 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4807 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4808 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4809 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4810 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4811 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4812 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4813 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4814 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4815 4816 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4817 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4818 4819 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4820 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4821 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4822 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4823 4824 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4825 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4826 4827 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4828 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4829 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4830 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4831 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4832 This improves the real-time response for the 4833 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4834 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4835 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4836 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4837 4838 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4839 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4840 process in one batch. 4841 4842 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4843 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4844 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4845 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4846 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4847 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4848 4849 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4850 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4851 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4852 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4853 4854 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4855 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4856 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4857 4858 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4859 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4860 RCU grace-period initialization. 4861 4862 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4863 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4864 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4865 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4866 the rcu_node combining tree. 4867 4868 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4869 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4870 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4871 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4872 and maximum value is HZ. 4873 4874 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4875 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4876 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4877 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4878 4879 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4880 Set required age in jiffies for a 4881 given grace period before RCU starts 4882 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4883 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4884 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4885 a value based on the most recent settings 4886 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4887 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4888 This calculated value may be viewed in 4889 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4890 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4891 overwritten. 4892 4893 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4894 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4895 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4896 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4897 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4898 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4899 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4900 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4901 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4902 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4903 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4904 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4905 4906 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4907 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4908 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4909 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4910 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4911 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4912 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4913 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4914 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4915 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4916 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4917 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4918 4919 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4920 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4921 batch limiting is disabled. 4922 4923 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4924 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4925 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4926 4927 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4928 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4929 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4930 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4931 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4932 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4933 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4934 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4935 4936 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4937 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4938 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4939 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4940 4941 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4942 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4943 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4944 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4945 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4946 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4947 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4948 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4949 4950 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4951 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4952 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4953 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4954 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4955 4956 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4957 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4958 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4959 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4960 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4961 4962 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4963 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4964 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4965 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4966 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4967 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4968 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4969 4970 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4971 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4972 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4973 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4974 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4975 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4976 condition. 4977 4978 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4979 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4980 each group, which defaults to the square root 4981 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4982 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4983 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4984 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4985 4986 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4987 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4988 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4989 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4990 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4991 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4992 4993 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 4994 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 4995 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 4996 By default, this limit is checked only once 4997 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 4998 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 4999 5000 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5001 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5002 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5003 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5004 Larger delays increase the probability of 5005 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5006 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5007 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5008 5009 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5010 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5011 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5012 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5013 5014 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5015 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5016 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5017 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5018 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5019 5020 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5021 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5022 to zero. 5023 5024 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5025 Measure performance of asynchronous 5026 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5027 5028 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5029 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5030 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5031 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5032 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5033 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5034 5035 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5036 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5037 grace-period primitives. 5038 5039 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5040 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5041 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5042 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5043 interference. 5044 5045 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5046 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5047 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5048 5049 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5050 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5051 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5052 Defaults to 1. 5053 5054 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5055 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5056 5057 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5058 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5059 If this parameter has the same value as 5060 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5061 and double-argument variants are tested. 5062 5063 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5064 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5065 If this parameter has the same value as 5066 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5067 and double-argument variants are tested. 5068 5069 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5070 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5071 5072 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5073 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5074 5075 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5076 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5077 of allocations and frees. 5078 5079 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5080 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5081 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5082 but instead allows better measurement of things 5083 like CPU consumption. 5084 5085 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5086 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5087 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5088 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5089 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5090 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5091 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5092 a single reader. 5093 5094 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5095 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5096 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5097 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5098 5099 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5100 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5101 5102 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5103 Shut the system down after performance tests 5104 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5105 testing. 5106 5107 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5108 Enable additional printk() statements. 5109 5110 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5111 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5112 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5113 no holdoff. 5114 5115 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5116 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5117 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5118 says no holdoff. 5119 5120 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5121 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5122 in microseconds. 5123 5124 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5125 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5126 in microseconds. 5127 5128 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5129 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5130 in seconds. 5131 5132 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5133 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5134 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5135 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5136 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5137 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5138 of CPUs to be used. 5139 5140 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5141 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5142 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5143 5144 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5145 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5146 forward-progress tests. 5147 5148 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5149 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5150 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5151 testing. 5152 5153 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5154 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5155 primitives, if available. 5156 5157 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5158 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5159 5160 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5161 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5162 update-side primitives, if available. 5163 5164 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5165 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5166 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5167 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5168 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5169 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5170 they are all non-zero. 5171 5172 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5173 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5174 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5175 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5176 5177 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5178 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5179 This can of course result in splats, and is 5180 intended to test the ability of things like 5181 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5182 such leaks. 5183 5184 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5185 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5186 5187 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5188 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5189 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5190 test, hence the "fake". 5191 5192 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5193 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5194 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5195 5196 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5197 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5198 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5199 5200 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5201 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5202 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5203 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5204 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5205 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5206 5207 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5208 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5209 5210 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5211 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5212 5213 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5214 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5215 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5216 5217 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5218 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5219 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5220 task-exit processing. 5221 5222 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5223 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5224 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5225 is spawned. 5226 5227 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5228 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5229 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5230 5231 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5232 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5233 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5234 during the rcutorture test. 5235 5236 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5237 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5238 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5239 5240 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5241 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5242 warnings, zero to disable. 5243 5244 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5245 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5246 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5247 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5248 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5249 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5250 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5251 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5252 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5253 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5254 5255 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5256 5257 5258 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5259 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5260 5261 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5262 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5263 5264 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5265 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5266 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5267 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5268 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5269 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5270 5271 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5272 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5273 5274 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5275 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5276 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5277 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5278 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5279 5280 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5281 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5282 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5283 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5284 5285 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5286 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5287 5288 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5289 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5290 5291 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5292 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5293 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5294 5295 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5296 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5297 5298 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5299 Enable additional printk() statements. 5300 5301 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5302 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5303 stall warning. 5304 5305 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5306 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5307 5308 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5309 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5310 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5311 during early boot, that is, during the time 5312 before the init task is spawned. 5313 5314 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5315 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5316 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5317 value is 300 seconds. 5318 5319 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5320 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5321 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5322 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5323 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5324 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5325 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5326 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5327 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5328 5329 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5330 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5331 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5332 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5333 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5334 5335 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5336 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5337 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5338 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5339 5340 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5341 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5342 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5343 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5344 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5345 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5346 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5347 5348 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5349 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5350 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5351 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5352 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5353 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5354 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5355 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5356 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5357 5358 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5359 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5360 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5361 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5362 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5363 5364 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5365 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5366 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5367 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5368 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5369 grace-period processing. 5370 5371 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5372 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5373 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5374 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5375 a single callback queue. This switching only 5376 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5377 set to the default value of -1. 5378 5379 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5380 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5381 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5382 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5383 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5384 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5385 the default value of -1. 5386 5387 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5388 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5389 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5390 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5391 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5392 for use in testing. 5393 5394 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5395 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5396 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5397 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5398 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5399 but lengthens grace periods. 5400 5401 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5402 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5403 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5404 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5405 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5406 callback flooding. 5407 5408 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5409 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5410 informational messages, which give some indication 5411 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5412 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5413 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5414 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5415 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5416 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5417 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5418 5419 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5420 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5421 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5422 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5423 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5424 the value three, so that the first informational 5425 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5426 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5427 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5428 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5429 5430 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5431 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5432 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5433 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5434 A change in value does not take effect until 5435 the beginning of the next grace period. 5436 5437 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5438 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5439 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5440 A negative value will take the default. A value 5441 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5442 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5443 5444 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5445 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5446 Rude asynchronous callback batching for 5447 call_rcu_tasks_rude(). A negative value 5448 will take the default. A value of zero will 5449 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5450 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(). 5451 5452 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5453 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5454 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5455 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5456 will take the default. A value of zero will 5457 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5458 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5459 5460 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5461 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5462 5463 rdinit= [KNL] 5464 Format: <full_path> 5465 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5466 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5467 5468 rdrand= [X86] 5469 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5470 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5471 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5472 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5473 path). 5474 5475 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5476 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5477 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5478 mba, smba, bmec. 5479 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5480 rdt=cmt,!mba 5481 5482 reboot= [KNL] 5483 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5484 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5485 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5486 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5487 [[,]f[orce] 5488 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5489 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5490 reboot only), 5491 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5492 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5493 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5494 to be used for rebooting. 5495 5496 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5497 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5498 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5499 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5500 interference. 5501 5502 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5503 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5504 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5505 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5506 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5507 5508 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5509 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5510 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5511 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5512 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5513 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5514 x86 laptops. 5515 5516 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5517 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5518 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5519 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5520 5521 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5522 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5523 the console log. 5524 5525 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5526 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5527 measured in microseconds. 5528 5529 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5530 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5531 5532 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5533 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5534 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5535 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5536 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5537 5538 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5539 Enable additional printk() statements. 5540 5541 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5542 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5543 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5544 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5545 specified. 5546 5547 regulator_ignore_unused 5548 [REGULATOR] 5549 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5550 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5551 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5552 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5553 5554 relax_domain_level= 5555 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5556 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5557 5558 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5559 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5560 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5561 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5562 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5563 5564 reservetop= [X86-32] 5565 Format: nn[KMG] 5566 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5567 address space. 5568 5569 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5570 during initialization. 5571 5572 resume= [SWSUSP] 5573 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5574 Format: 5575 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5576 5577 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5578 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5579 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5580 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5581 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5582 5583 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5584 read the resume files 5585 5586 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5587 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5588 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5589 5590 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5591 5592 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5593 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5594 vulnerability. 5595 5596 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5597 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5598 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5599 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5600 that don't. 5601 5602 off - no mitigation 5603 auto - automatically select a migitation 5604 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5605 disabling SMT if necessary for 5606 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5607 and older without STIBP). 5608 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5609 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5610 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5611 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5612 on Intel. 5613 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5614 when STIBP is not available. This is 5615 the alternative for systems which do not 5616 have STIBP. 5617 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5618 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5619 systems. 5620 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5621 is not available. This is the alternative for 5622 systems which do not have STIBP. 5623 5624 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5625 time according to the CPU. 5626 5627 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5628 5629 rfkill.default_state= 5630 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5631 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5632 1 Unblocked. 5633 5634 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5635 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5636 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5637 blocked and the previous configuration. 5638 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5639 blocked and everything unblocked. 5640 5641 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5642 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5643 5644 ring3mwait=disable 5645 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5646 CPUs. 5647 5648 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV] 5649 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5650 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5651 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5652 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5653 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5654 5655 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5656 5657 rodata= [KNL] 5658 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5659 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5660 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5661 [arm64] 5662 5663 rockchip.usb_uart 5664 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5665 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5666 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5667 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5668 5669 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5670 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5671 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5672 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5673 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5674 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5675 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5676 5677 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5678 mount the root filesystem 5679 5680 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5681 5682 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5683 5684 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5685 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5686 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5687 5688 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5689 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5690 filesystem. 5691 5692 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5693 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5694 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5695 managed by CMA. 5696 5697 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5698 5699 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5700 5701 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5702 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5703 strict 5704 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5705 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5706 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5707 iommu.strict=1. 5708 5709 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5710 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5711 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5712 factor of the size of main memory. 5713 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5714 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5715 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5716 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5717 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5718 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5719 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5720 5721 sa1100ir [NET] 5722 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5723 5724 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5725 5726 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5727 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5728 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5729 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5730 5731 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5732 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5733 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5734 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5735 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5736 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5737 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5738 value. 5739 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5740 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5741 1 64 ms 5742 2 128 ms 5743 and so on. 5744 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5745 Default is 0. 5746 5747 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5748 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5749 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5750 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5751 tests. 5752 5753 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5754 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5755 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5756 default) disables this feature. Please note 5757 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5758 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5759 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5760 5761 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5762 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5763 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5764 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5765 equal to the number of CPUs. 5766 5767 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5768 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5769 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5770 5771 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5772 Number seconds to wait between successive 5773 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5774 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5775 5776 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5777 The number of seconds following the start of the 5778 test after which to shut down the system. The 5779 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5780 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5781 5782 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5783 The number of seconds between outputting the 5784 current test statistics to the console. A value 5785 of zero disables statistics output. 5786 5787 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5788 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5789 to the set of CPUs under test. 5790 5791 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5792 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5793 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5794 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5795 functions. 5796 5797 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5798 Enable additional printk() statements. 5799 5800 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5801 The probability weighting to use for the 5802 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5803 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5804 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5805 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5806 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5807 5808 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5809 The probability weighting to use for the 5810 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5811 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5812 5813 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5814 The probability weighting to use for the 5815 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5816 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5817 Note well that setting a high probability for 5818 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5819 on the system. 5820 5821 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5822 The probability weighting to use for the 5823 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5824 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5825 and weight_many. 5826 5827 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5828 The probability weighting to use for the 5829 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5830 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5831 weight_many. 5832 5833 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5834 The probability weighting to use for the 5835 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5836 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5837 and weight_many. 5838 5839 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5840 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5841 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5842 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5843 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5844 1 -- enable. 5845 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5846 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5847 5848 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5849 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5850 "lsm=" parameter. 5851 5852 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5853 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5854 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5855 0 -- disable. 5856 1 -- enable. 5857 Default value is 1. 5858 5859 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5860 5861 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5862 5863 shapers= [NET] 5864 Maximal number of shapers. 5865 5866 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5867 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5868 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5869 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5870 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5871 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5872 apic=verbose is specified. 5873 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5874 5875 simeth= [IA-64] 5876 simscsi= 5877 5878 slram= [HW,MTD] 5879 5880 slab_merge [MM] 5881 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5882 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5883 5884 slab_nomerge [MM] 5885 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5886 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5887 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5888 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5889 layout control by attackers can usually be 5890 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5891 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5892 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5893 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5894 own. 5895 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5896 5897 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5898 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5899 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5900 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5901 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5902 5903 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5904 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5905 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5906 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5907 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5908 last alloc / free. For more information see 5909 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5910 5911 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5912 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5913 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5914 fragmentation. For more information see 5915 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5916 5917 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5918 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5919 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5920 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5921 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5922 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5923 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5924 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5925 5926 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5927 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5928 lower than slub_max_order. 5929 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5930 5931 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5932 Same with slab_merge. 5933 5934 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5935 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5936 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5937 5938 smart2= [HW] 5939 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5940 5941 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5942 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5943 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5944 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5945 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5946 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5947 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5948 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5949 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5950 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5951 5952 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 5953 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 5954 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 5955 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 5956 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 5957 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 5958 5959 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5960 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5961 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5962 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5963 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5964 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5965 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5966 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5967 1: Fast pin select (default) 5968 2: ATC IRMode 5969 5970 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5971 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5972 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5973 actual hardware limit. 5974 Format: <integer> 5975 Default: -1 (no limit) 5976 5977 softlockup_panic= 5978 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5979 Format: 0 | 1 5980 5981 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5982 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5983 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5984 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5985 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5986 5987 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5988 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5989 backtraces on all cpus. 5990 Format: 0 | 1 5991 5992 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5993 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5994 5995 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5996 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5997 The default operation protects the kernel from 5998 user space attacks. 5999 6000 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6001 spectre_v2_user=on 6002 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6003 spectre_v2_user=off 6004 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6005 vulnerable 6006 6007 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6008 mitigation method at run time according to the 6009 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6010 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 6011 compiler with which the kernel was built. 6012 6013 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6014 against user space to user space task attacks. 6015 6016 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6017 the user space protections. 6018 6019 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6020 6021 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6022 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6023 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6024 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6025 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6026 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6027 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6028 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6029 6030 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6031 spectre_v2=auto. 6032 6033 spectre_v2_user= 6034 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6035 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6036 user space tasks 6037 6038 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6039 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6040 6041 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6042 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6043 6044 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6045 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6046 per thread. The mitigation control state 6047 is inherited on fork. 6048 6049 prctl,ibpb 6050 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6051 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6052 always when switching between different user 6053 space processes. 6054 6055 seccomp 6056 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6057 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6058 they explicitly opt out. 6059 6060 seccomp,ibpb 6061 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6062 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6063 always when switching between different 6064 user space processes. 6065 6066 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6067 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6068 6069 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6070 6071 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6072 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6073 6074 spec_rstack_overflow= 6075 [X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6076 6077 off - Disable mitigation 6078 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6079 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6080 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6081 kernel entry 6082 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6083 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6084 6085 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6086 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6087 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6088 6089 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6090 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6091 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6092 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6093 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6094 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6095 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6096 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6097 6098 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6099 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6100 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6101 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6102 6103 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6104 Bypass optimization is used. 6105 6106 On x86 the options are: 6107 6108 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6109 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6110 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6111 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6112 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6113 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6114 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6115 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6116 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6117 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6118 for a process by default. The state of the control 6119 is inherited on fork. 6120 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6121 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6122 6123 Default mitigations: 6124 X86: "prctl" 6125 6126 On powerpc the options are: 6127 6128 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6129 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6130 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6131 exit. 6132 off - No action. 6133 6134 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6135 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6136 6137 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 6138 spia_fio_base= 6139 spia_pedr= 6140 spia_peddr= 6141 6142 split_lock_detect= 6143 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6144 6145 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6146 instructions that access data across cache line 6147 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6148 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6149 bus lock detection. 6150 6151 off - not enabled 6152 6153 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6154 about applications triggering the #AC 6155 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6156 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6157 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6158 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6159 enabled in hardware. 6160 6161 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6162 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6163 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6164 both features are enabled in hardware. 6165 6166 ratelimit:N - 6167 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6168 per second for bus lock detection. 6169 0 < N <= 1000. 6170 6171 N/A for split lock detection. 6172 6173 6174 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6175 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6176 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6177 mode. 6178 6179 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6180 CPL > 0. 6181 6182 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 6183 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6184 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6185 6186 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6187 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6188 number generator. 6189 6190 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6191 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6192 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6193 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6194 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6195 6196 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6197 the following option: 6198 6199 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6200 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6201 6202 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6203 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6204 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6205 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6206 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6207 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6208 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6209 (decide at boot). 6210 6211 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6212 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6213 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6214 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6215 6216 0: Never. 6217 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6218 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6219 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6220 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6221 6222 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6223 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6224 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6225 6226 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6227 Specifies how frequently to check for 6228 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6229 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6230 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6231 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6232 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6233 are ignored. 6234 6235 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6236 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6237 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6238 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6239 grace period will be considered for automatic 6240 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6241 expediting. 6242 6243 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6244 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6245 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6246 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6247 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6248 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6249 6250 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6251 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6252 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6253 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6254 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6255 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6256 6257 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6258 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6259 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6260 6261 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6262 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6263 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6264 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6265 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6266 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6267 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6268 6269 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 6270 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6271 6272 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6273 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6274 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6275 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6276 6277 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6278 for both kernel and userspace 6279 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6280 for both kernel and userspace 6281 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6282 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6283 to allow userspace to register its 6284 interest in being mitigated too. 6285 6286 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6287 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6288 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6289 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6290 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6291 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6292 6293 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6294 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6295 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6296 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6297 to false. 6298 6299 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6300 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6301 6302 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6303 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6304 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6305 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6306 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6307 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6308 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6309 6310 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6311 Format: <num> 6312 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6313 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6314 as the initial boot-console. 6315 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6316 6317 sti_font= [HW] 6318 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6319 6320 stifb= [HW] 6321 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6322 6323 strict_sas_size= 6324 [X86] 6325 Format: <bool> 6326 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6327 against the required signal frame size which 6328 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6329 be used to filter out binaries which have 6330 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6331 6332 stress_hpt [PPC] 6333 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6334 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6335 faults on kernel addresses. 6336 6337 stress_slb [PPC] 6338 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6339 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6340 on kernel addresses. 6341 6342 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6343 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6344 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6345 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6346 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6347 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6348 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6349 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6350 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6351 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6352 maximum port values. 6353 6354 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6355 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6356 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6357 process in parallel from a single connection. 6358 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6359 6360 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6361 [NFS] 6362 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6363 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6364 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6365 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6366 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6367 NFS server is running. 6368 6369 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6370 automatically using heuristics 6371 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6372 percpu one pool for each CPU 6373 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6374 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6375 6376 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6377 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6378 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6379 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6380 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6381 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6382 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6383 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6384 6385 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6386 [SUSPEND] 6387 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6388 mode before resuming the system (see 6389 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6390 is set. Default value is 5. 6391 6392 svm= [PPC] 6393 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6394 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6395 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6396 6397 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6398 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6399 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6400 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6401 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6402 to a power of 2. 6403 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6404 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6405 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6406 6407 switches= [HW,M68k] 6408 6409 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6410 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6411 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6412 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6413 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6414 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6415 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6416 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6417 6418 sysrq_always_enabled 6419 [KNL] 6420 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6421 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6422 Useful for debugging. 6423 6424 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6425 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6426 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6427 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6428 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6429 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6430 6431 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6432 6433 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6434 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6435 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6436 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6437 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6438 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6439 The system is woken from this state using a 6440 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6441 6442 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6443 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6444 6445 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6446 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6447 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6448 6449 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6450 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6451 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6452 6453 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6454 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6455 6456 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6457 -1: disable all passive trip points 6458 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6459 value 6460 6461 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6462 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6463 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6464 0: no polling (default) 6465 6466 threadirqs [KNL] 6467 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6468 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6469 6470 topology= [S390] 6471 Format: {off | on} 6472 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6473 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6474 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6475 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6476 Default is on. 6477 6478 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6479 Format: {off} 6480 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6481 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6482 LPAR. 6483 6484 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6485 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6486 until after init has spawned. 6487 6488 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6489 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6490 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6491 very costly operation when many torture tests 6492 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6493 with rotating-rust storage. 6494 6495 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6496 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6497 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6498 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6499 6500 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6501 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6502 6503 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6504 6505 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6506 Format: integer pcr id 6507 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6508 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6509 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6510 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6511 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6512 are saved. 6513 6514 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6515 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6516 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6517 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6518 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6519 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6520 6521 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6522 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6523 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6524 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6525 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6526 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6527 6528 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6529 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6530 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6531 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6532 6533 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6534 to stop the printing of events to console at 6535 late_initcall_sync. 6536 6537 ** CAUTION ** 6538 6539 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6540 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6541 the system to live lock. 6542 6543 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6544 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6545 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6546 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6547 make the system inoperable. 6548 6549 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6550 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6551 6552 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6553 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6554 6555 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6556 at boot up. 6557 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6558 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6559 depending on the architecture, may not be 6560 in sync between CPUs. 6561 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6562 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6563 but better for some race conditions. 6564 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6565 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6566 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6567 once per event. 6568 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6569 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6570 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6571 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6572 stamps. 6573 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6574 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6575 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6576 6577 trace_event=[event-list] 6578 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6579 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6580 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6581 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6582 6583 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6584 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6585 This will be listed in: 6586 6587 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6588 6589 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6590 via: 6591 6592 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6593 6594 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6595 unique. 6596 6597 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6598 6599 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6600 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6601 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6602 6603 trace_options=[option-list] 6604 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6605 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6606 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6607 to echo the option name into 6608 6609 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6610 6611 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6612 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6613 6614 trace_options=stacktrace 6615 6616 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6617 section. 6618 6619 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6620 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6621 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6622 filter. 6623 6624 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6625 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6626 6627 For example: 6628 6629 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6630 6631 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6632 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6633 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6634 6635 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6636 6637 6638 traceoff_on_warning 6639 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6640 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6641 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6642 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6643 6644 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6645 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6646 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6647 6648 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6649 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6650 6651 transparent_hugepage= 6652 [KNL] 6653 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6654 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6655 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6656 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6657 for more details. 6658 6659 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6660 Format: <string> 6661 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6662 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6663 sources: 6664 - "tpm" 6665 - "tee" 6666 - "caam" 6667 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6668 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6669 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6670 successfully during iteration. 6671 6672 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6673 Format: <string> 6674 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6675 Can be one of: 6676 - "kernel" 6677 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6678 - "default" 6679 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6680 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6681 6682 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6683 Format: <string> 6684 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6685 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6686 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6687 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6688 virtualized environment. 6689 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6690 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6691 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6692 can add overhead. 6693 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6694 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6695 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6696 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6697 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6698 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6699 acceptable). 6700 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6701 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6702 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6703 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6704 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6705 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6706 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6707 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6708 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6709 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6710 6711 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6712 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6713 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6714 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6715 Format: <unsigned int> 6716 6717 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6718 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6719 support TSX control. 6720 6721 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6722 6723 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6724 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6725 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6726 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6727 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6728 with leaving it enabled. 6729 6730 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6731 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6732 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6733 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6734 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6735 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6736 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6737 6738 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6739 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6740 6741 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6742 6743 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6744 for more details. 6745 6746 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6747 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6748 6749 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6750 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6751 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6752 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6753 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6754 conditions. 6755 6756 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6757 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6758 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6759 access. 6760 6761 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6762 options are: 6763 6764 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6765 if TSX is enabled. 6766 6767 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6768 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6769 is not disabled because CPU is not 6770 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6771 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6772 6773 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6774 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6775 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6776 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6777 6778 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6779 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6780 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6781 required and doesn't provide any additional 6782 mitigation. 6783 6784 For details see: 6785 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6786 6787 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6788 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6789 Format: 6790 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6791 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6792 6793 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6794 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6795 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6796 help "seeing" what's going on. 6797 6798 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6799 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6800 6801 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6802 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6803 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6804 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6805 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6806 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6807 reported either. 6808 6809 unknown_nmi_panic 6810 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6811 6812 unwind_debug [X86-64] 6813 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 6814 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 6815 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 6816 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 6817 6818 usbcore.authorized_default= 6819 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6820 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 6821 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6822 if device connected to internal port) 6823 6824 usbcore.autosuspend= 6825 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6826 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6827 is the time required before an idle device will be 6828 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6829 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6830 6831 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6832 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6833 6834 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6835 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6836 (default = 65536). 6837 6838 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6839 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6840 6841 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6842 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6843 scheme (default 0 = off). 6844 6845 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6846 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6847 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6848 6849 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6850 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6851 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6852 6853 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6854 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6855 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6856 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6857 6858 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6859 6860 usbcore.quirks= 6861 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6862 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6863 commas. Each entry has the form 6864 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6865 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6866 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6867 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6868 the following meanings: 6869 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6870 descriptors must not be fetched using 6871 a 255-byte read); 6872 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6873 correctly so reset it instead); 6874 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6875 Set-Interface requests); 6876 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6877 handle its Configuration or Interface 6878 strings); 6879 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6880 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6881 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6882 more interface descriptions than the 6883 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6884 talking to these interfaces); 6885 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6886 during initialization, after we read 6887 the device descriptor); 6888 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6889 high speed and super speed interrupt 6890 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6891 require the interval in microframes (1 6892 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6893 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6894 (bInterval-1). 6895 Devices with this quirk report their 6896 bInterval as the result of this 6897 calculation instead of the exponent 6898 variable used in the calculation); 6899 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6900 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6901 requests); 6902 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6903 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6904 remote wakeup capability); 6905 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6906 Power Management); 6907 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6908 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6909 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6910 calculation); 6911 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6912 to be disconnected before suspend to 6913 prevent spurious wakeup); 6914 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6915 pause after every control message); 6916 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6917 delay after resetting its port); 6918 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6919 6920 usbhid.mousepoll= 6921 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6922 6923 usbhid.jspoll= 6924 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6925 6926 usbhid.kbpoll= 6927 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6928 6929 usb-storage.delay_use= 6930 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6931 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6932 6933 usb-storage.quirks= 6934 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6935 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6936 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6937 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6938 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6939 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6940 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6941 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6942 of sense data, not on uas); 6943 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6944 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6945 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6946 device capacity by one sector); 6947 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6948 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6949 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6950 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6951 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6952 command, uas only); 6953 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6954 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6955 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6956 reported device capacity by one 6957 sector if the number is odd); 6958 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6959 device); 6960 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6961 command, uas only); 6962 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6963 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6964 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6965 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6966 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6967 not on uas); 6968 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6969 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6970 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6971 reported by the device, not on uas); 6972 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6973 by default, not on uas); 6974 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6975 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6976 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6977 Logical Unit); 6978 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6979 commands, uas only); 6980 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6981 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6982 medium is write-protected). 6983 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6984 even if the device claims no cache, 6985 not on uas) 6986 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6987 6988 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6989 Format: <int> 6990 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6991 1 - undefined instruction events 6992 2 - system calls 6993 4 - invalid data aborts 6994 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6995 16 - SIGBUS faults 6996 Example: user_debug=31 6997 6998 userpte= 6999 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7000 7001 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7002 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7003 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7004 7005 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7006 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7007 7008 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7009 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7010 7011 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7012 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7013 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7014 7015 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7016 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7017 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7018 7019 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7020 alias for vdso32=0. 7021 7022 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7023 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7024 7025 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 7026 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 7027 7028 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 7029 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7030 7031 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7032 Format: [0|1] 7033 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7034 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7035 level and then send out the event to user space through 7036 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7037 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7038 brightness level. 7039 default: 1 7040 7041 virtio_mmio.device= 7042 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7043 7044 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7045 where: 7046 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7047 like K, M and G) 7048 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7049 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7050 request_irq()) 7051 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7052 example: 7053 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7054 7055 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7056 7057 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7058 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7059 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7060 Use vga=ask for menu. 7061 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7062 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7063 7064 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7065 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7066 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7067 All options are enabled by default, and this 7068 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7069 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7070 debugging features. 7071 7072 Available options are: 7073 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7074 - Disable all of the above options 7075 7076 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 7077 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 7078 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 7079 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 7080 mapped kernel RAM. 7081 7082 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 7083 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7084 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7085 7086 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7087 Format: <command> 7088 7089 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7090 Format: <command> 7091 7092 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7093 Format: <command> 7094 7095 vsyscall= [X86-64] 7096 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7097 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7098 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7099 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7100 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7101 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7102 7103 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7104 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7105 readable. 7106 7107 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7108 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7109 page is not readable. 7110 7111 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7112 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7113 might break your system. 7114 7115 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7116 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7117 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7118 7119 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7120 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7121 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7122 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7123 7124 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7125 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7126 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7127 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7128 ranging from 0-255. 7129 7130 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7131 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7132 Change the default green palette of the console. 7133 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7134 ranging from 0-255. 7135 7136 vt.default_red= [VT] 7137 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7138 Change the default red palette of the console. 7139 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7140 ranging from 0-255. 7141 7142 vt.default_utf8= 7143 [VT] 7144 Format=<0|1> 7145 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7146 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7147 newly opened terminals. 7148 7149 vt.global_cursor_default= 7150 [VT] 7151 Format=<-1|0|1> 7152 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7153 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7154 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7155 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7156 cursors, 1 will display them. 7157 7158 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7159 Default: 2 = green. 7160 7161 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7162 Default: 3 = cyan. 7163 7164 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7165 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7166 or other driver-specific files in the 7167 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7168 7169 watchdog_thresh= 7170 [KNL] 7171 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7172 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7173 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7174 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7175 seconds. 7176 7177 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7178 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7179 to use in unbound workqueues. 7180 Format: <cpu-list> 7181 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7182 unbound workqueues. 7183 7184 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7185 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7186 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7187 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7188 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7189 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7190 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7191 corresponding sysfs file. 7192 7193 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7194 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7195 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7196 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7197 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7198 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7199 7200 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7201 will report the work functions which violate this 7202 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7203 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7204 7205 workqueue.power_efficient 7206 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7207 they show better performance thanks to cache 7208 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7209 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7210 7211 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7212 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7213 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7214 power usage at the cost of small performance 7215 overhead. 7216 7217 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7218 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7219 7220 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7221 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7222 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7223 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7224 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7225 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7226 7227 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7228 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7229 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7230 updated accordignly. 7231 7232 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7233 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7234 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7235 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7236 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7237 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7238 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7239 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7240 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7241 impacted. 7242 7243 writecombine= [LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of 7244 ioremap_wc(). 7245 7246 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7247 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7248 7249 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7250 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7251 supporting x2apic. 7252 7253 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7254 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7255 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7256 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7257 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7258 domains. 7259 7260 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 7261 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7262 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7263 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7264 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7265 nics -- unplug network devices 7266 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7267 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7268 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7269 the unplug protocol 7270 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7271 7272 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 7273 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7274 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7275 7276 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 7277 Format: <bool> 7278 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7279 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7280 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7281 7282 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 7283 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 7284 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 7285 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7286 7287 xen_nopv [X86] 7288 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7289 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7290 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7291 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7292 7293 xen_no_vector_callback 7294 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7295 event channel interrupts. 7296 7297 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7298 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7299 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7300 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7301 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7302 7303 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 7304 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7305 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7306 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7307 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7308 more timer interrupts. 7309 7310 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7311 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7312 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7313 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7314 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7315 max. Default is 180. 7316 7317 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7318 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7319 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7320 7321 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7322 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7323 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7324 7325 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7326 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7327 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7328 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7329 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7330 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7331 7332 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7333 Format: 7334 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7335 7336 xive= [PPC] 7337 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7338 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7339 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7340 7341 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7342 controller on both pseries and powernv 7343 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7344 7345 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7346 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7347 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7348 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7349 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7350 7351 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7352 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7353 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7354 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7355 7356 xmon [PPC] 7357 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7358 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7359 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7360 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7361 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7362 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7363 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7364 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7365 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7366 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7367 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7368 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7369 can be written using xmon commands. 7370 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7371 memory, and other data can't be written using 7372 xmon commands. 7373 off xmon is disabled. 7374 7375