1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt | nospcr } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 25 default _serial_ console on ARM64 26 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 27 "acpi=nospcr" are available 28 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 29 are available 30 31 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 32 33 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 34 Format: <int> 35 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 36 1,0: use 1st APIC table 37 default: 0 38 39 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 40 { vendor | video | native | none } 41 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 42 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 43 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 44 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 45 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 46 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 47 48 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 49 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 50 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 51 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 52 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 53 54 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 55 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 56 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 57 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 58 This option is useful for developers to identify the 59 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 60 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 61 62 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 63 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 64 Format: <int> 65 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 66 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 67 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 68 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 69 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 70 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 71 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 72 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 73 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 74 debug layers and levels. 75 76 Enable processor driver info messages: 77 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 78 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 79 object while interpreting AML: 80 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 81 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 82 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 83 84 Some values produce so much output that the system is 85 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 86 if you need to capture more output. 87 88 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 89 { strict | lax | no } 90 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 91 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 92 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 93 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 94 can interfere with legacy drivers. 95 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 96 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 97 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 98 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 99 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 100 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 101 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 102 no further checks are performed. 103 104 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 105 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 106 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 107 size limitation. 108 109 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will balance active IRQs 111 default in APIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 115 default in PIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 121 use by PCI 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 125 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 126 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 127 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 128 the GPE dispatcher. 129 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 130 GPE floodings. 131 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 132 133 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 134 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 135 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 136 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 137 auto-serialization feature. 138 This feature is enabled by default. 139 This option allows to turn off the feature. 140 141 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 142 kernels. 143 144 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 145 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 146 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 147 installed automatically and they will appear under 148 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 149 This option turns off this feature. 150 Note that specifying this option does not affect 151 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 152 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 153 154 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 155 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 156 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 157 158 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 159 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 160 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 161 second kernel for kdump. 162 163 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 164 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 165 166 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 167 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 168 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 169 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 170 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 171 172 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 173 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 174 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 175 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 176 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 177 strings 178 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 179 strings 180 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 181 182 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 183 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 184 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 185 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 186 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 187 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 188 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 189 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 190 care about the state of the feature group strings which 191 should be controlled by the OSPM. 192 Examples: 193 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 194 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 195 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 196 197 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 198 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 199 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 200 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 201 multiple times through kernel command line is also 202 meaningless. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 205 FALSE. 206 207 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 208 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 209 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 210 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 211 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 212 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 213 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 214 there are quirks related to this string. This command 215 is useful when one want to control the state of the 216 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 217 the OSPM features. 218 Examples: 219 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 220 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 221 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 222 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 223 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 224 equivalent to 225 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 226 and 227 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 228 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 229 230 acpi_pm_good [X86] 231 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 232 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 233 and always returns good values. 234 235 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 236 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 237 238 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 239 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 240 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 241 242 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 243 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 244 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 245 sci_force_enable, nobl } 246 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 247 s3_bios and s3_mode. 248 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 249 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 250 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 251 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 252 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 253 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 254 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 255 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 256 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 257 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 258 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 259 used (or even warned about) during resume. 260 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 261 control method, with respect to putting devices into 262 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 263 of _PTS is used by default). 264 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 265 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 266 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 267 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 268 but some broken systems don't work without it). 269 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 270 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 271 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 272 273 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 274 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 275 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 276 277 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 278 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 279 280 agp= [AGP] 281 { off | try_unsupported } 282 off: disable AGP support 283 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 284 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 285 286 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 287 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 288 289 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 290 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 291 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 292 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 293 294 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 295 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 296 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 297 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 298 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 299 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 300 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 301 302 32: only for 32-bit processes 303 64: only for 64-bit processes 304 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 305 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 306 307 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 308 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 309 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 310 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 311 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 312 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 313 314 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 315 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 316 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 317 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 318 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 319 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 320 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 321 322 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 323 information. 324 325 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 326 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 327 Possible values are: 328 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 329 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 330 the system 331 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 332 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 333 allowed anymore to lift isolation 334 requirements as needed. This option 335 does not override iommu=pt 336 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 337 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 338 option with care. 339 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 340 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 341 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 342 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 343 to 4 KiB. 344 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 345 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB. 346 347 348 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 349 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 350 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 351 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 352 IOMMU initialization. 353 354 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 355 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 356 remapping modes: 357 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 358 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 359 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 360 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 361 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 362 363 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 364 disable 365 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 366 scaling driver for the supported processors 367 passive 368 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 369 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 370 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 371 tries to match the same performance level if it is 372 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 373 active 374 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 375 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 376 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 377 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 378 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 379 frequency. 380 guided 381 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 382 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 383 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 384 to the current workload. 385 386 amd_prefcore= 387 [X86] 388 disable 389 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 390 391 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 392 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 393 Format: <a>,<b> 394 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 395 396 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 397 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 398 connected to one of 16 gameports 399 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 400 401 apc= [HW,SPARC] 402 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 403 Format: noidle 404 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 405 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 406 APC and your system crashes randomly. 407 408 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 409 Change the output verbosity while booting 410 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 411 Change the amount of debugging information output 412 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 413 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 414 driver name. 415 Format: apic=driver_name 416 Examples: apic=bigsmp 417 418 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 419 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 420 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 421 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 422 backup of CPU 0 423 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 424 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 425 shot down by NMI 426 427 autoconf= [IPV6] 428 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 429 430 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 431 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 432 433 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 434 Format: { "0" | "1" } 435 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 436 0 -- disable. 437 1 -- enable. 438 Default value is set via kernel config option. 439 440 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 441 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 442 443 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 444 32 bit applications. 445 446 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 447 Identification support 448 449 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack 450 support 451 452 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 453 Set instructions support 454 455 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 456 support 457 458 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 459 support 460 461 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 462 Extension support 463 464 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 465 Extension support 466 467 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 468 469 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 470 471 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 472 EzKey and similar keyboards 473 474 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 475 476 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 477 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 478 479 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 480 keyboards 481 482 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 483 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 484 485 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 486 Use software keyboard repeat 487 488 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 489 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 490 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 491 enabled until the next reboot 492 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 493 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 494 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 495 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 496 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 497 userspace auditd. 498 Default: unset 499 500 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 501 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 502 Default: 64 503 504 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 505 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 506 Format: { "0" | "1" } 507 0 - Disable the BAU. 508 1 - Enable the BAU. 509 unset - Disable the BAU. 510 511 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 512 Format: <io>,<mode> 513 514 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 515 Format: <io>,<mode> 516 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 517 518 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 519 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 520 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 521 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 522 523 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 524 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 525 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 526 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 527 528 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 529 Format: <bool> 530 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 531 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 532 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 533 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 534 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 535 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 536 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 537 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 538 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 539 540 bert_disable [ACPI] 541 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 542 543 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 544 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 545 546 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 547 embedded devices based on command line input. 548 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 549 550 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 551 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 552 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 553 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 554 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 555 erroneous and ignored. 556 Format: integer 557 558 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 559 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 560 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 561 562 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 563 564 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 565 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 566 kernel args too. 567 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 568 bttv.tuner= 569 570 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 571 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 572 at a time. 573 574 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 575 576 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 577 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 578 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 579 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 580 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 581 This option provides an override for these situations. 582 583 carrier_timeout= 584 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 585 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 586 it waits 120 seconds. 587 588 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 589 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 590 trust validation. 591 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 592 593 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 594 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 595 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 596 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 597 others). 598 599 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 600 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 601 602 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 603 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 604 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 605 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 606 a single hierarchy 607 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 608 subsystem 609 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 610 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 611 created 612 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 613 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 614 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 615 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 616 stall information accounting feature 617 618 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 619 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 620 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 621 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 622 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 623 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 624 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 625 all v1 hierarchies. 626 627 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 628 Format: { "true" | "false" } 629 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 630 631 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 632 Format: <string> 633 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 634 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 635 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 636 637 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 638 Format: { "0" | "1" } 639 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 640 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 641 any implied execute protection). 642 1 -- check protection requested by application. 643 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 644 Value can be changed at runtime via 645 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 646 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 647 648 cio_ignore= [S390] 649 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 650 651 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 652 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 653 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 654 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 655 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 656 ones should be. 657 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 658 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 659 instability issue. However, not all features have names 660 in /proc/cpuinfo. 661 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 662 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 663 or using the feature without checking anything 664 will still see it. This just prevents it from 665 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 666 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 667 some critical bits. 668 669 clk_ignore_unused 670 [CLK] 671 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 672 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 673 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 674 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 675 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 676 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 677 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 678 platform with proper driver support. For more 679 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 680 681 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 682 [Deprecated] 683 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 684 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 685 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 686 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 687 688 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 689 Format: <string> 690 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 691 with the name specified. 692 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 693 the platform: 694 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 695 [ACPI] acpi_pm 696 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 697 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 698 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 699 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 700 [MIPS] MIPS 701 [PARISC] cr16 702 [S390] tod 703 [SH] SuperH 704 [SPARC64] tick 705 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 706 707 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 708 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 709 Format: <bool> 710 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 711 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 712 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 713 systems. 714 715 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 716 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 717 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 718 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 719 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 720 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 721 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 722 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 723 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 724 725 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 726 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 727 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 728 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 729 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 730 731 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 732 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 733 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 734 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 735 placement constraint by the physical address range of 736 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 737 altogether. For more information, see 738 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 739 740 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 741 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 742 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 743 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 744 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 745 specified, the default value is 0. 746 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 747 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 748 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 749 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 750 751 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 752 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 753 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 754 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 755 area for the specified node. 756 757 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 758 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 759 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 760 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 761 762 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 763 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 764 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 765 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 766 a hypervisor. 767 Default: yes 768 769 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 770 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 771 allocations, by default set to 256K. 772 773 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 774 Format: 775 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 776 777 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 778 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 779 780 com90xx= [HW,NET] 781 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 782 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 783 784 condev= [HW,S390] console device 785 conmode= 786 787 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 788 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 789 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 790 the console buffer is full. In this case the 791 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 792 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 793 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 794 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 795 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 796 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 797 798 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 799 800 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 801 802 ttyS<n>[,options] 803 ttyUSB0[,options] 804 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 805 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 806 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 807 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 808 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 809 810 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 811 information. See 812 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 813 alternative. 814 815 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 816 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 817 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 818 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 819 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 820 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 821 822 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 823 can be viewed with: 824 825 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 826 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 827 828 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 829 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 830 way will only get added when the related device driver 831 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 832 the console may be desired for console output early on. 833 834 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 835 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 836 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 837 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 838 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 839 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 840 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 841 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 842 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 843 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 844 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 845 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 846 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 847 the h/w is not re-initialized. 848 849 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 850 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 851 852 { null | "" } 853 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 854 console messages discarded. 855 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 856 kernel command line. 857 858 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 859 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 860 console=brl,ttyS0 861 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 862 863 console_msg_format= 864 [KNL] Change console messages format 865 default 866 By default we print messages on consoles in 867 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 868 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 869 `printk_time' param). 870 syslog 871 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 872 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 873 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 874 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 875 from /proc/kmsg. 876 877 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 878 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 879 Defaults to 0. 880 881 coredump_filter= 882 [KNL] Change the default value for 883 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 884 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 885 886 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 887 [ARM,ARM64] 888 Format: <bool> 889 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 890 0: default value, disable debugging 891 1: enable debugging at boot time 892 893 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 894 Format: 895 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 896 897 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 898 disable the cpuidle sub-system 899 900 cpuidle.governor= 901 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 902 903 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 904 disable the cpufreq sub-system 905 906 cpufreq.default_governor= 907 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 908 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 909 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 910 911 cpu_init_udelay=N 912 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 913 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 914 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 915 Default: 10000 916 917 cpuhp.parallel= 918 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 919 Format: <bool> 920 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 921 the parameter has no effect. 922 923 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 924 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic 925 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases 926 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic 927 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable. 928 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable, 929 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting 930 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS 931 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some 932 configurations enable this option unconditionally, 933 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP. 934 935 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 936 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 937 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 938 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 939 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 940 is selected automatically. 941 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 942 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 943 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 944 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 945 946 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 947 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 948 in the running system. The syntax of range is 949 start-[end] where start and end are both 950 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 951 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 952 953 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 954 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 955 above 4G. 956 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 957 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 958 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 959 below 4G, if available. 960 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 961 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 962 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 963 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 964 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 965 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 966 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 967 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 968 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 969 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 970 size is platform dependent. 971 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 972 --> arm64: 128MiB 973 --> riscv: 128MiB 974 --> loongarch: 128MiB 975 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 976 for second kernel instead. 977 0: to disable low allocation. 978 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 979 or memory reserved is below 4G. 980 981 cryptomgr.notests 982 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 983 984 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 985 Format: <dma> 986 987 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 988 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 989 990 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 991 function call handling. When switched on, 992 additional debug data is printed to the console 993 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 994 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 995 the hang situation. The default value of this 996 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 997 Kconfig option. 998 999 dasd= [HW,NET] 1000 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 1001 1002 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 1003 (one device per port) 1004 Format: <port#>,<type> 1005 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1006 1007 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 1008 1009 debug_boot_weak_hash 1010 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 1011 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1012 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1013 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1014 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1015 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1016 1017 debug_locks_verbose= 1018 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1019 Format: <int> 1020 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1021 self-tests. 1022 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1023 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1024 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1025 useful to lockdep developers. 1026 1027 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1028 1029 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1030 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1031 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1032 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1033 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1034 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1035 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1036 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1037 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1038 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1039 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1040 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1041 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1042 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1043 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1044 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1045 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1046 help tracking down these problems. 1047 1048 debug_pagealloc= 1049 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1050 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1051 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1052 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1053 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1054 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1055 on: enable the feature 1056 1057 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1058 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1059 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1060 on: All functions are enabled. 1061 no-mount: 1062 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1063 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1064 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1065 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1066 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1067 or directories within debugfs. 1068 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1069 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1070 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1071 1072 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1073 1074 default_hugepagesz= 1075 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1076 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1077 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1078 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1079 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1080 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1081 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1082 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1083 Format: size[KMG] 1084 1085 deferred_probe_timeout= 1086 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1087 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1088 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1089 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1090 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1091 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1092 successful driver registration. This option will also 1093 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1094 retrying. 1095 1096 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1097 1098 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1099 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1100 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1101 hardware. 1102 1103 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1104 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1105 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1106 blacklisted features. 1107 1108 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1109 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1110 (disabled by default). 1111 1112 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1113 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1114 capability is set. 1115 1116 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1117 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1118 1119 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1120 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1121 1122 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1123 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1124 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1125 level 1 and decompression (default) 1126 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1127 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1128 only (compression on level 1) 1129 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1130 only (decompression) 1131 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1132 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1133 1134 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1135 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1136 1137 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1138 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1139 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1140 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1141 miss to occur. 1142 1143 disable= [IPV6] 1144 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1145 1146 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1147 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1148 1149 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1150 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1151 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1152 1153 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1154 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1155 to workaround buggy firmware. 1156 1157 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1158 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1159 1160 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1161 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1162 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1163 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1164 1165 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1166 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1167 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1168 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1169 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1170 1171 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1172 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1173 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1174 1175 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1176 1177 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1178 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1179 1180 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1181 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1182 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1183 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1184 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1185 architectural default is too low. 1186 1187 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1188 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1189 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1190 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1191 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1192 driver later using sysfs. 1193 1194 reg_file_data_sampling= 1195 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1196 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1197 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1198 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1199 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1200 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1201 1202 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1203 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1204 1205 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1206 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1207 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1208 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1209 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1210 1211 For details see: 1212 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1213 1214 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1215 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1216 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1217 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1218 match the *. 1219 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1220 1221 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1222 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1223 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1224 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1225 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1226 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1227 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1228 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1229 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1230 data set with no connector name will be used for 1231 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1232 1233 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1234 1235 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1236 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1237 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1238 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1239 exists). 1240 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1241 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1242 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1243 1244 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1245 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1246 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1247 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1248 1249 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1250 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1251 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1252 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1253 for details. 1254 1255 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1256 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1257 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1258 which are not unmapped. 1259 1260 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1261 1262 When used with no options, the early console is 1263 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1264 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1265 the platform. 1266 1267 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1268 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1269 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1270 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1271 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1272 configured. 1273 1274 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1275 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1276 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1277 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1278 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1280 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1281 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1282 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1283 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1284 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1285 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1286 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1287 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1288 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1289 1290 pl011,<addr> 1291 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1292 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1293 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1294 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1295 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1296 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1297 the device registers. 1298 1299 liteuart,<addr> 1300 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1301 specified address. The serial port must already be 1302 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1303 1304 meson,<addr> 1305 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1306 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1307 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1308 supported. 1309 1310 msm_serial,<addr> 1311 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1312 port at the specified address. The serial port 1313 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1314 yet supported. 1315 1316 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1317 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1318 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1319 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1320 yet supported. 1321 1322 owl,<addr> 1323 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1324 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1325 specified address. The serial port must already be 1326 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1327 1328 rda,<addr> 1329 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1330 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1331 specified address. The serial port must already be 1332 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1333 1334 sbi 1335 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1336 console. 1337 1338 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1339 1340 s3c2410,<addr> 1341 s3c2412,<addr> 1342 s3c2440,<addr> 1343 s3c6400,<addr> 1344 s5pv210,<addr> 1345 exynos4210,<addr> 1346 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1347 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1348 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1349 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1350 Options are not yet supported. 1351 1352 lantiq,<addr> 1353 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1354 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1355 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1356 yet supported. 1357 1358 lpuart,<addr> 1359 lpuart32,<addr> 1360 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1361 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1362 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1363 port must already be setup and configured. 1364 1365 ec_imx21,<addr> 1366 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1367 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1368 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1369 must already be setup and configured. 1370 1371 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1372 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1373 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1374 address. The serial port must already be setup 1375 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1376 1377 qcom_geni,<addr> 1378 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1379 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1380 specified address. The serial port must already be 1381 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1382 1383 efifb,[options] 1384 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1385 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1386 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1387 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1388 mapped with the correct attributes. 1389 1390 linflex,<addr> 1391 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1392 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1393 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1394 already be setup and configured. 1395 1396 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1397 earlyprintk=vga 1398 earlyprintk=sclp 1399 earlyprintk=xen 1400 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1401 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1402 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1403 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1404 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1405 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1406 earlyprintk=bios 1407 1408 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1409 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1410 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1411 1412 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1413 takes over. 1414 1415 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1416 be used at a time. 1417 1418 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1419 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1420 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1421 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1422 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1423 You can find the port for a given device in 1424 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1425 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1426 1427 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1428 very good. 1429 1430 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1431 the real console. 1432 1433 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1434 1435 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1436 1437 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1438 1439 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1440 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1441 UART class. 1442 1443 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1444 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1445 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1446 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1447 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1448 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1449 default: on. 1450 1451 edd= [EDD] 1452 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1453 1454 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1455 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1456 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1457 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1458 debug: enable misc debug output. 1459 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1460 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1461 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1462 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1463 firmware implementations. 1464 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1465 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1466 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1467 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1468 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1469 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1470 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1471 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1472 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1473 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1474 1475 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1476 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1477 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1478 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1479 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1480 1481 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1482 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1483 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1484 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1485 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1486 1487 1488 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1489 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1490 1491 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1492 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1493 1494 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1495 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1496 1497 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1498 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1499 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1500 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1501 1502 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1503 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1504 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1505 1506 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1507 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1508 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1509 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1510 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1511 1512 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1513 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1514 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1515 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1516 1517 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1518 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1519 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1520 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1521 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1522 1523 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1524 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1525 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1526 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1527 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1528 Default value is 0. 1529 Value can be changed at runtime via 1530 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1531 1532 erst_disable [ACPI] 1533 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1534 support. 1535 1536 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1537 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1538 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1539 1540 evm= [EVM] 1541 Format: { "fix" } 1542 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1543 current integrity status. 1544 1545 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1546 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1547 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1548 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1549 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1550 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1551 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1552 1553 failslab= 1554 fail_usercopy= 1555 fail_page_alloc= 1556 fail_skb_realloc= 1557 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1558 General fault injection mechanism. 1559 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1560 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1561 1562 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1563 Format: { initns | none } 1564 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1565 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1566 1567 floppy= [HW] 1568 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1569 1570 forcepae [X86-32] 1571 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1572 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1573 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1574 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1575 and may cause unknown problems. 1576 1577 fred= [X86-64] 1578 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1579 Format: { on | off } 1580 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1581 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1582 1583 ftrace=[tracer] 1584 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1585 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1586 boot debugging. 1587 1588 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1589 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1590 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1591 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1592 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1593 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1594 start up functionality. 1595 1596 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1597 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1598 line parameter. 1599 1600 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1601 1602 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1603 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1604 1605 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1606 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1607 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1608 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1609 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1610 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1611 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1612 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1613 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1614 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1615 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1616 1617 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1618 1619 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1620 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1621 1622 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1623 1624 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1625 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1626 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1627 1628 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1629 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1630 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1631 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1632 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1633 tracing directory. 1634 1635 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1636 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1637 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1638 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1639 tracing directory. 1640 1641 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1642 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1643 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1644 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1645 that can be changed at run time by the 1646 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1647 1648 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1649 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1650 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1651 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1652 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1653 1654 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1655 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1656 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1657 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1658 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1659 1660 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1661 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1662 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1663 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1664 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1665 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1666 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1667 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1668 suppliers). 1669 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1670 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1671 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1672 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1673 up (sync_state() calls). 1674 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1675 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1676 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1677 1678 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1679 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1680 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1681 Format: <bool> 1682 1683 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1684 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1685 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1686 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1687 calls. 1688 Format: { strict | timeout } 1689 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1690 probe successfully. 1691 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1692 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1693 received their sync_state() calls after 1694 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1695 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1696 1697 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1698 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1699 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1700 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1701 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1702 1703 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1704 1705 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1706 Format: off | on 1707 default: on 1708 1709 gather_data_sampling= 1710 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1711 mitigation. 1712 1713 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1714 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1715 previously stored in vector registers. 1716 1717 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1718 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1719 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1720 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1721 1722 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1723 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1724 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1725 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1726 1727 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1728 1729 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1730 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1731 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1732 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1733 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1734 1735 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1736 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1737 android emulator 1738 1739 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1740 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1741 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1742 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1743 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1744 1745 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1746 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1747 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1748 GPT to be used instead. 1749 1750 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1751 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1752 Format: 0 | 1 1753 Default: 0 1754 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1755 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1756 Format: 0 | 1 1757 Default: 0 1758 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1759 Format: 0 | 1 1760 Default: 0 1761 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1762 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1763 Default: 1024 1764 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1765 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1766 Default: 1024 1767 1768 hardened_usercopy= 1769 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1770 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1771 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1772 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1773 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1774 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1775 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1776 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1777 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1778 1779 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1780 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1781 backtraces on all cpus. 1782 Format: 0 | 1 1783 1784 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1785 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1786 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1787 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1788 1789 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1790 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1791 1792 hest_disable [ACPI] 1793 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1794 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1795 logic will be disabled. 1796 1797 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1798 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1799 present during boot. 1800 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1801 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1802 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1803 (that will set all pages holding image data 1804 during restoration read-only). 1805 1806 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1807 used with hibernation. 1808 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1809 Default: lzo 1810 1811 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1812 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1813 1814 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1815 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1816 1817 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1818 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1819 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1820 size on bigger boxes. 1821 1822 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1823 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1824 Default: "on" 1825 1826 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1827 1828 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1829 Format: <string> 1830 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1831 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1832 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1833 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1834 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1835 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1836 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1837 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1838 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1839 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1840 1841 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1842 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1843 verbose } 1844 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1845 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1846 VIA, nVidia) 1847 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1848 1849 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1850 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1851 1852 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1853 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1854 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1855 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1856 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1857 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1858 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1859 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1860 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1861 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1862 1863 hugepagesz= 1864 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1865 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1866 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1867 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1868 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1869 architecture dependent. See also 1870 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1871 Format: size[KMG] 1872 1873 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1874 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1875 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1876 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1877 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1878 1879 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1880 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1881 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1882 1883 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1884 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1885 enabled. 1886 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1887 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1888 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1889 Format: { on | off (default) } 1890 1891 on: enable HVO 1892 off: disable HVO 1893 1894 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1895 the default is on. 1896 1897 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1898 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1899 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1900 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1901 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1902 1903 hung_task_panic= 1904 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1905 Format: 0 | 1 1906 1907 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1908 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1909 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1910 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1911 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1912 1913 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1914 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1915 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1916 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1917 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1918 1919 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1920 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1921 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1922 on lock contention. 1923 1924 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1925 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1926 registered from board initialization code. 1927 Format: 1928 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1929 1930 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1931 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1932 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1933 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1934 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1935 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1936 1937 Format: 1938 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1939 Where <val> is one of: 1940 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1941 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1942 Anything else Set a string device-property 1943 1944 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1945 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1946 touchscreen-inverted-y 1947 1948 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1949 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1950 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1951 1952 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1953 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1954 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1955 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1956 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1957 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1958 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1959 keyboard and cannot control its state 1960 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1961 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1962 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1963 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1964 for the AUX port 1965 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1966 controller 1967 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1968 controllers 1969 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1970 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1971 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1972 transitions, or never reset 1973 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1974 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1975 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1976 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1977 architectures force reset to be always executed 1978 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1979 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1980 i8042.probe_defer 1981 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1982 1983 i810= [HW,DRM] 1984 1985 i915.invert_brightness= 1986 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1987 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1988 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1989 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1990 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1991 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1992 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1993 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1994 value switches the backlight off. 1995 -1 -- never invert brightness 1996 0 -- machine default 1997 1 -- force brightness inversion 1998 1999 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 2000 Format: <bool> 2001 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 2002 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 2003 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 2004 2005 icn= [HW,ISDN] 2006 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 2007 2008 2009 idle= [X86,EARLY] 2010 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 2011 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 2012 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 2013 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 2014 Not recommended. 2015 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2016 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2017 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2018 2019 idxd.sva= [HW] 2020 Format: <bool> 2021 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2022 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2023 true (1). 2024 2025 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2026 Format: <bool> 2027 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2028 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2029 2030 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2031 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2032 Default: strict 2033 2034 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2035 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2036 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2037 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2038 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2039 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2040 encoding mode. 2041 2042 Available settings are as follows: 2043 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2044 supported by the FPU 2045 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2046 by the FPU 2047 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2048 by the FPU 2049 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2050 supported by the FPU 2051 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2052 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2053 2054 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2055 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2056 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2057 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2058 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2059 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2060 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2061 MIPS64 CPUs. 2062 2063 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2064 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2065 except where unsupported by hardware. 2066 2067 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2068 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2069 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2070 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2071 could change it dynamically, usually by 2072 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2073 2074 ignore_rlimit_data 2075 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2076 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2077 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2078 2079 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2080 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2081 2082 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2083 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2084 default: "enforce" 2085 2086 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2087 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2088 owned by uid=0. 2089 2090 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2091 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2092 measurements, instead of host native format. 2093 2094 ima_hash= [IMA] 2095 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2096 | sha512 | ... } 2097 default: "sha1" 2098 2099 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2100 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2101 2102 ima_policy= [IMA] 2103 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2104 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2105 fail_securely | critical_data" 2106 2107 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2108 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2109 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2110 uid=0. 2111 2112 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2113 all files owned by root. 2114 2115 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2116 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2117 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2118 2119 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2120 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2121 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2122 flag. 2123 2124 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2125 critical data. 2126 2127 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2128 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2129 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2130 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2131 opened for read by uid=0. 2132 2133 ima_template= [IMA] 2134 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2135 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2136 "ima-sigv2" } 2137 Default: "ima-ng" 2138 2139 ima_template_fmt= 2140 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2141 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2142 2143 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2144 Format: <min_file_size> 2145 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2146 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2147 2148 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2149 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2150 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2151 2152 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2153 Format: <bufsize> 2154 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2155 2156 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2157 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2158 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2159 2160 init= [KNL] 2161 Format: <full_path> 2162 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2163 process. 2164 2165 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2166 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2167 startup. 2168 2169 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2170 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2171 modules and initcalls. 2172 2173 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2174 Format: <bool> 2175 Default: 1 2176 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2177 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2178 with devices being probed and 2179 initialized. This should normally just work, 2180 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2181 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2182 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2183 late_ initcalls. 2184 2185 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2186 2187 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2188 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2189 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2190 setting. 2191 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2192 Default is 0, 0 2193 2194 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2195 zeroes. 2196 Format: 0 | 1 2197 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2198 2199 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2200 Format: 0 | 1 2201 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2202 2203 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2204 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2205 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2206 override in debugfs after boot. 2207 2208 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2209 Format: <irq> 2210 2211 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2212 2213 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2214 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2215 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2216 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2217 2218 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2219 on 2220 Enable intel iommu driver. 2221 off 2222 Disable intel iommu driver. 2223 igfx_off [Default Off] 2224 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2225 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2226 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2227 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2228 DMA. 2229 strict [Default Off] 2230 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2231 sp_off [Default Off] 2232 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2233 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2234 not be supported. 2235 sm_on 2236 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2237 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2238 translation. 2239 sm_off 2240 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2241 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2242 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2243 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2244 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2245 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2246 mapping is enabled. 2247 Note that using this option lowers the security 2248 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2249 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2250 2251 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2252 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2253 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2254 2255 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2256 disable 2257 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2258 scaling driver for the supported processors 2259 active 2260 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2261 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2262 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2263 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2264 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2265 performance. The way they both operate depends 2266 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2267 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2268 and possibly on the processor model. 2269 passive 2270 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2271 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2272 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2273 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2274 feature. 2275 force 2276 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2277 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2278 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2279 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2280 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2281 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2282 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2283 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2284 no_hwp 2285 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2286 if available. 2287 hwp_only 2288 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2289 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2290 support_acpi_ppc 2291 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2292 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2293 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2294 then this feature is turned on by default. 2295 per_cpu_perf_limits 2296 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2297 cpufreq sysfs interface 2298 2299 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2300 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2301 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2302 nosid disable Source ID checking 2303 no_x2apic_optout 2304 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2305 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2306 posted_msi 2307 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2308 2309 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2310 strict regions from userspace. 2311 relaxed 2312 2313 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2314 off 2315 force 2316 noforce 2317 biomerge 2318 panic 2319 nopanic 2320 merge 2321 nomerge 2322 soft 2323 pt [X86] 2324 nopt [X86] 2325 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2326 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2327 2328 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2329 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2330 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2331 falling back to the full range if needed. 2332 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2333 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2334 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2335 2336 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2337 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2338 0 - Lazy mode. 2339 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2340 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2341 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2342 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2343 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2344 1 - Strict mode. 2345 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2346 synchronously. 2347 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2348 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2349 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2350 2351 iommu.passthrough= 2352 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2353 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2354 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2355 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2356 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2357 2358 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2359 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2360 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2361 2362 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2363 0x80 2364 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2365 0xed 2366 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2367 udelay 2368 Simple two microseconds delay 2369 none 2370 No delay 2371 2372 ip= [IP_PNP] 2373 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2374 2375 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2376 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2377 2378 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2379 Format: <bool> 2380 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2381 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2382 2383 ipe.success_audit= 2384 [IPE] 2385 Format: <bool> 2386 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2387 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2388 is 0. 2389 2390 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2391 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2392 2393 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2394 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2395 Format: <bool> 2396 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2397 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2398 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2399 2400 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2401 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2402 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2403 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2404 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2405 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2406 LPIs. 2407 2408 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2409 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2410 requires the kernel to be built with 2411 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2412 2413 irqfixup [HW] 2414 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2415 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2416 firmware running. 2417 2418 irqpoll [HW] 2419 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2420 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2421 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2422 firmware running. 2423 2424 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2425 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2426 2427 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2428 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2429 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2430 2431 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2432 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2433 2434 nohz 2435 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2436 2437 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2438 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2439 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2440 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2441 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2442 2443 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2444 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2445 be configured manually after bootup. 2446 2447 domain 2448 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2449 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2450 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2451 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2452 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2453 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2454 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2455 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2456 2457 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2458 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2459 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2460 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2461 2462 managed_irq 2463 2464 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2465 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2466 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2467 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2468 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2469 2470 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2471 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2472 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2473 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2474 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2475 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2476 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2477 2478 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2479 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2480 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2481 only delivered when tasks running on those 2482 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2483 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2484 queues. 2485 2486 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2487 2488 iucv= [HW,NET] 2489 2490 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2491 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2492 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2493 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2494 2495 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2496 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2497 write the parameter as: 2498 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2499 2500 Deprecated formats: 2501 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2502 write the parameter as: 2503 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2504 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2505 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2506 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2507 2508 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2509 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2510 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2511 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2512 2513 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2514 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2515 write the parameter as: 2516 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2517 2518 Deprecated formats: 2519 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2520 write the parameter as: 2521 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2522 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2523 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2524 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2525 2526 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2527 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2528 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2529 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2530 2531 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2532 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2533 write the parameter as: 2534 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2535 2536 Deprecated formats: 2537 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2538 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2539 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2540 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2541 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2542 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2543 2544 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2545 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2546 2547 kasan_multi_shot 2548 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2549 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2550 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2551 invalid access. 2552 2553 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2554 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2555 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2556 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2557 the real console. 2558 2559 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2560 2561 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2562 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2563 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2564 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2565 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2566 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2567 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2568 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2569 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2570 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2571 2572 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2573 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2574 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2575 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2576 zone if it does not. 2577 2578 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2579 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2580 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2581 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2582 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2583 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2584 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2585 2586 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2587 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2588 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2589 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2590 optional and is the number seconds in between 2591 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2592 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2593 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2594 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2595 the kernel debugger. 2596 2597 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2598 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2599 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2600 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2601 keyboard only format: kbd 2602 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2603 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2604 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2605 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2606 2607 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2608 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2609 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2610 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2611 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2612 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2613 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2614 2615 The name of the early console should be specified 2616 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2617 the early console might be different than the tty 2618 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2619 blank and the first boot console that implements 2620 read() will be picked. 2621 2622 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2623 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2624 2625 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2626 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2627 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2628 2629 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2630 Valid arguments: on, off 2631 Default: on 2632 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2633 the default is off. 2634 2635 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2636 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2637 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2638 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2639 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2640 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2641 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2642 2643 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2644 2645 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2646 Boot Parameter" section. 2647 2648 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2649 user and kernel address spaces. 2650 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2651 0: force disabled 2652 1: force enabled 2653 2654 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2655 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2656 default value can be overridden via 2657 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2658 Default is 1 (enabled) 2659 2660 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2661 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2662 2663 kvm.eager_page_split= 2664 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2665 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2666 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2667 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2668 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2669 required to split huge pages lazily. 2670 2671 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2672 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2673 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2674 still be used for reads. 2675 2676 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2677 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2678 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2679 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2680 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2681 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2682 cleared. 2683 2684 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2685 2686 Default is Y (on). 2687 2688 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86] 2689 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware 2690 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM 2691 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module). 2692 2693 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable 2694 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying 2695 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the 2696 number of VMs. 2697 2698 Enabling virtualization at module lode avoids potential 2699 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes 2700 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The 2701 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded, 2702 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree 2703 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware. 2704 2705 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2706 Default is false (don't support). 2707 2708 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2709 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2710 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2711 force : Always deploy workaround. 2712 off : Never deploy workaround. 2713 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2714 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2715 2716 Default is 'auto'. 2717 2718 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2719 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2720 2721 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2722 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2723 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2724 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2725 period (see below). The default is 60. 2726 2727 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2728 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2729 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2730 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2731 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2732 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2733 2734 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2735 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2736 2737 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2738 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2739 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2740 for NPT. 2741 2742 kvm-arm.mode= 2743 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2744 operation. 2745 2746 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2747 2748 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2749 protected guests. 2750 2751 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2752 state is kept private from the host. 2753 2754 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2755 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2756 hardware. 2757 2758 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2759 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2760 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2761 used with extreme caution. 2762 2763 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2764 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2765 system registers 2766 2767 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2768 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2769 system registers 2770 2771 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2772 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2773 system registers 2774 2775 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2776 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2777 injection of LPIs. 2778 2779 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2780 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2781 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2782 CPU architecture. 2783 2784 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2785 2786 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2787 2788 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2789 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2790 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2791 CPU architecture. 2792 2793 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2794 2795 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2796 2797 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2798 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2799 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2800 allocation. 2801 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2802 Format: <integer> 2803 Default: 5 2804 2805 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2806 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2807 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2808 for EPT. 2809 2810 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2811 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2812 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2813 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2814 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2815 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2816 Default is 1 (enabled). 2817 2818 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2819 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2820 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2821 hardware lacks support for it. 2822 2823 kvm-intel.nested= 2824 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2825 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2826 2827 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2828 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2829 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2830 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2831 hardware lacks support for it. 2832 2833 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2834 CVE-2018-3620. 2835 2836 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2837 2838 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2839 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2840 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2841 never: Disables the mitigation 2842 2843 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2844 2845 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2846 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2847 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2848 for it. 2849 2850 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2851 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2852 2853 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2854 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2855 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2856 2857 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2858 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2859 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2860 not have direct access. 2861 2862 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2863 options are: 2864 2865 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2866 2867 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2868 affected CPUs 2869 2870 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2871 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2872 2873 full 2874 Provides all available mitigations for the 2875 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2876 enables all mitigations in the 2877 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2878 2879 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2880 sysfs interface is still possible after 2881 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2882 when the first VM is started in a 2883 potentially insecure configuration, 2884 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2885 2886 full,force 2887 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2888 flush runtime control. Implies the 2889 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2890 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2891 2892 flush 2893 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2894 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2895 L1D flush. 2896 2897 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2898 sysfs interface is still possible after 2899 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2900 when the first VM is started in a 2901 potentially insecure configuration, 2902 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2903 2904 flush,nosmt 2905 2906 Disables SMT and enables the default 2907 hypervisor mitigation. 2908 2909 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2910 sysfs interface is still possible after 2911 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2912 when the first VM is started in a 2913 potentially insecure configuration, 2914 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2915 2916 flush,nowarn 2917 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2918 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2919 insecure configuration. 2920 2921 off 2922 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2923 emit any warnings. 2924 It also drops the swap size and available 2925 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2926 bare metal. 2927 2928 Default is 'flush'. 2929 2930 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2931 2932 l2cr= [PPC] 2933 2934 l3cr= [PPC] 2935 2936 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2937 disabled it. 2938 2939 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2940 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2941 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2942 Format: notscdeadline 2943 2944 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 2945 in C2 power state. 2946 2947 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2948 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2949 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2950 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2951 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2952 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2953 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2954 2955 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2956 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2957 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2958 2959 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2960 when set. 2961 Format: <int> 2962 2963 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2964 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2965 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2966 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2967 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2968 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2969 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2970 to all ports, links and devices. 2971 2972 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2973 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2974 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2975 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2976 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2977 host link and device attached to it. 2978 2979 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2980 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2981 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2982 The following configurations can be forced. 2983 2984 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2985 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2986 2987 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2988 2989 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2990 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2991 allowed. 2992 2993 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2994 resets. 2995 2996 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2997 link recovery. 2998 2999 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 3000 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 3001 detection. 3002 3003 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 3004 3005 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 3006 3007 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 3008 3009 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 3010 3011 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 3012 3013 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 3014 3015 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 3016 3017 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 3018 3019 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 3020 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 3021 3022 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 3023 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 3024 3025 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 3026 identify device data log. 3027 3028 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 3029 purpose log directory. 3030 3031 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3032 3033 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3034 1024 sectors. 3035 3036 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3037 65535 sectors. 3038 3039 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3040 3041 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3042 should be skipped. 3043 3044 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3045 support for devices supporting this feature. 3046 3047 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3048 3049 * disable: Disable this device. 3050 3051 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3052 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3053 3054 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3055 3056 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3057 Format: <integer> 3058 3059 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3060 Format: <integer> 3061 3062 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3063 Format: <integer> 3064 3065 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3066 Format: <integer> 3067 3068 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3069 { integrity | confidentiality } 3070 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3071 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3072 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3073 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3074 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3075 are also disabled. 3076 3077 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3078 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3079 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3080 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3081 3082 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3083 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3084 to be bound. 3085 3086 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3087 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3088 to be bound. 3089 3090 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3091 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3092 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3093 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3094 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3095 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3096 3097 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3098 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3099 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3100 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3101 3102 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3103 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3104 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3105 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3106 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3107 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3108 3109 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3110 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3111 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3112 number of online CPUs. 3113 3114 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3115 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3116 3117 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3118 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3119 3120 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3121 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3122 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3123 3124 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3125 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3126 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3127 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3128 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3129 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3130 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3131 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3132 disable boosting. 3133 3134 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3135 Number that determines how often and for how 3136 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3137 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3138 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3139 constant as the number of writers increases. 3140 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3141 increases with the number of writers. 3142 3143 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3144 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3145 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3146 mode during the locktorture test. 3147 3148 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3149 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3150 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3151 3152 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3153 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3154 3155 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3156 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3157 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3158 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3159 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3160 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3161 3162 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3163 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3164 3165 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3166 Enable additional printk() statements. 3167 3168 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3169 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3170 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3171 3172 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3173 Format: <irq> 3174 3175 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3176 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3177 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3178 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3179 loglevels are defined as follows: 3180 3181 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3182 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3183 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3184 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3185 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3186 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3187 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3188 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3189 3190 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3191 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3192 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3193 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3194 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3195 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3196 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3197 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3198 for more details. 3199 3200 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3201 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3202 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3203 kernel boot problems. 3204 3205 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3206 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3207 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3208 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3209 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3210 attached printers to be reset. Using 3211 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3212 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3213 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3214 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3215 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3216 port specification list means that device IDs 3217 from each port should be examined, to see if 3218 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3219 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3220 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3221 3222 lpj=n [KNL] 3223 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3224 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3225 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3226 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3227 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3228 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3229 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3230 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3231 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3232 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3233 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3234 hardware. 3235 3236 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3237 3238 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3239 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3240 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3241 3242 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3243 different yeeloong laptops. 3244 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3245 3246 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3247 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3248 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3249 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3250 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3251 only takes effect during system bootup. 3252 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3253 which also disables the IO APIC. 3254 3255 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3256 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3257 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3258 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3259 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3260 /dev/loop-control interface. 3261 3262 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3263 3264 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3265 3266 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3267 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3268 3269 mdacon= [MDA] 3270 Format: <first>,<last> 3271 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3272 3273 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3274 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3275 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3276 3277 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3278 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3279 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3280 3281 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3282 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3283 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3284 not have direct access. 3285 3286 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3287 options are: 3288 3289 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3290 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3291 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3292 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3293 3294 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3295 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3296 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3297 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3298 too. 3299 3300 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3301 mds=full. 3302 3303 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3304 3305 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3306 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3307 3308 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3309 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3310 as follows: 3311 3312 1 for test; 3313 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3314 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3315 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3316 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3317 3318 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3319 high memory is not affected. 3320 3321 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3322 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3323 3324 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3325 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3326 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3327 belonging to unused RAM. 3328 3329 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3330 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3331 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3332 3333 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3334 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3335 reported by firmware. 3336 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3337 ss[KMG]. 3338 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3339 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3340 3341 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3342 memory. 3343 3344 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3345 3346 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3347 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3348 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3349 3350 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3351 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3352 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3353 set according to the 3354 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3355 option. 3356 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3357 3358 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3359 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3360 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3361 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3362 option description. 3363 3364 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3365 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3366 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3367 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3368 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3369 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3370 comma delimited. 3371 Example: 3372 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3373 3374 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3375 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3376 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3377 3378 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3379 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3380 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3381 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3382 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3383 or 3384 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3385 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3386 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3387 will be eaten. 3388 3389 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3390 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3391 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3392 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3393 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3394 3395 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3396 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3397 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3398 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3399 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3400 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3401 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3402 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3403 3404 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3405 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3406 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3407 Setting this option will scan the memory 3408 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3409 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3410 from using the memory being corrupted. 3411 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3412 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3413 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3414 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3415 3416 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3417 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3418 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3419 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3420 corruption in more or less memory. 3421 3422 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3423 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3424 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3425 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3426 3427 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3428 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3429 Format: {on | off (default)} 3430 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3431 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3432 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3433 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3434 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3435 lot of memory without requiring additional 3436 memory to do so. 3437 This feature is disabled by default because it 3438 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3439 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3440 memory blocks). 3441 The state of the flag can be read in 3442 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3443 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3444 the feature is not effective. 3445 3446 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3447 Format: <integer> 3448 default : 0 <disable> 3449 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3450 performed. Each pass selects another test 3451 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3452 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3453 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3454 regions that are detected. 3455 3456 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3457 Valid arguments: on, off 3458 Default: off 3459 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3460 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3461 3462 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3463 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3464 3465 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3466 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3467 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3468 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3469 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3470 3471 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3472 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3473 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3474 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3475 3476 mga= [HW,DRM] 3477 3478 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3479 Format: <bool> 3480 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3481 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3482 3483 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3484 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3485 Default: "0tb" 3486 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3487 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3488 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3489 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3490 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3491 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3492 unconfigured. 3493 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3494 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3495 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3496 VGA shield. 3497 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3498 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3499 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3500 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3501 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3502 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3503 3504 mitigations= 3505 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3506 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3507 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3508 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3509 3510 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3511 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3512 3513 off 3514 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3515 improves system performance, but it may also 3516 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3517 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3518 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3519 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3520 l1tf=off [X86] 3521 mds=off [X86] 3522 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3523 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3524 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3525 nobp=0 [S390] 3526 nopti [X86,PPC] 3527 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3528 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3529 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3530 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3531 retbleed=off [X86] 3532 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3533 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3534 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3535 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3536 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3537 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3538 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3539 3540 Exceptions: 3541 This does not have any effect on 3542 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3543 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3544 3545 auto (default) 3546 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3547 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3548 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3549 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3550 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3551 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3552 3553 auto,nosmt 3554 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3555 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3556 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3557 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3558 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3559 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3560 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3561 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3562 3563 mminit_loglevel= 3564 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3565 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3566 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3567 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3568 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3569 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3570 3571 mmio_stale_data= 3572 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3573 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3574 3575 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3576 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3577 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3578 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3579 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3580 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3581 3582 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3583 options are: 3584 3585 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3586 3587 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3588 vulnerable CPUs. 3589 3590 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3591 3592 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3593 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3594 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3595 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3596 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3597 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3598 3599 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3600 mmio_stale_data=full. 3601 3602 For details see: 3603 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3604 3605 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3606 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3607 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3608 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3609 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3610 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3611 3612 module.async_probe=<bool> 3613 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3614 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3615 specific module, use the module specific control that 3616 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3617 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3618 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3619 the specific module. 3620 3621 module.enable_dups_trace 3622 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3623 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3624 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3625 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3626 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3627 module.sig_enforce 3628 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3629 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3630 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3631 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3632 3633 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3634 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3635 3636 mousedev.tap_time= 3637 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3638 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3639 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3640 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3641 Format: <msecs> 3642 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3643 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3644 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3645 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3646 3647 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3648 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3649 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3650 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3651 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3652 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3653 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3654 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3655 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3656 is not too small. 3657 3658 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3659 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3660 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3661 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3662 allocations. Use with caution! 3663 3664 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3665 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3666 3667 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3668 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3669 3670 mtdparts= [MTD] 3671 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3672 3673 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3674 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3675 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3676 3677 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3678 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3679 registers at boot time. 3680 3681 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3682 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3683 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3684 3685 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3686 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3687 Default is 1. 3688 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3689 using up MTRRs. 3690 3691 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3692 Format: <integer> 3693 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3694 Default : 1 3695 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3696 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3697 3698 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3699 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3700 at a time. 3701 3702 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3703 3704 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3705 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3706 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3707 something different and driver-specific. 3708 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3709 file if at all. 3710 3711 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3712 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3713 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3714 waits 4 seconds. 3715 3716 nf_conntrack.acct= 3717 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3718 0 to disable accounting 3719 1 to enable accounting 3720 Default value is 0. 3721 3722 nfs.cache_getent= 3723 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3724 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3725 3726 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3727 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3728 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3729 3730 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3731 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3732 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3733 requests. 3734 3735 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3736 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3737 channel should listen. 3738 3739 nfs.delay_retrans= 3740 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3741 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3742 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3743 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3744 and the specified value is >= 0. 3745 3746 nfs.enable_ino64= 3747 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3748 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3749 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3750 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3751 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3752 3753 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3754 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3755 entries. 3756 3757 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3758 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3759 slots the client will assign to the callback 3760 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3761 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3762 a particular server. 3763 3764 nfs.max_session_slots= 3765 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3766 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3767 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3768 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3769 Note that there is little point in setting this 3770 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3771 3772 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3773 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3774 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3775 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3776 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3777 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3778 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3779 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3780 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3781 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3782 back to using the idmapper. 3783 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3784 3785 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3786 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3787 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3788 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3789 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3790 3791 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3792 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3793 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3794 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3795 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3796 after the locks are lost. 3797 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3798 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3799 parameter to '1'. 3800 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3801 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3802 3803 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3804 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3805 information in exchange_id requests. 3806 If zero, no implementation identification information 3807 will be sent. 3808 The default is to send the implementation identification 3809 information. 3810 3811 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3812 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3813 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3814 3815 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3816 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3817 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3818 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3819 3820 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3821 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3822 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3823 the destination of the copy. 3824 3825 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3826 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3827 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3828 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3829 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3830 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3831 3832 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3833 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3834 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3835 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3836 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3837 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3838 this parameter. 3839 3840 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3841 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3842 3843 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3844 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3845 3846 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3847 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3848 3849 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3850 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3851 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3852 3853 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3854 when a NMI is triggered. 3855 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3856 3857 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3858 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 3859 Valid num: 0 or 1 3860 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3861 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3862 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 3863 3864 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3865 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3866 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3867 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3868 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3869 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3870 need the box quickly up again. 3871 3872 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3873 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3874 3875 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3876 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3877 is present. 3878 3879 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 3880 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3881 3882 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3883 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3884 3885 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3886 3887 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3888 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3889 3890 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3891 3892 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 3893 3894 no_console_suspend 3895 [HW] Never suspend the console 3896 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3897 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3898 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3899 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3900 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3901 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3902 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3903 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3904 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3905 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3906 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3907 turn on/off it dynamically. 3908 3909 no_debug_objects 3910 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 3911 3912 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3913 3914 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 3915 3916 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3917 3918 noexec32 [X86-64] 3919 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3920 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3921 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3922 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3923 read implies executable mappings 3924 3925 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3926 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3927 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3928 3929 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3930 3931 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3932 3933 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3934 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3935 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3936 3937 no_hash_pointers 3938 [KNL,EARLY] 3939 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3940 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3941 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3942 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3943 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3944 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3945 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3946 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3947 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3948 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3949 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3950 kernels. 3951 3952 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3953 3954 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 3955 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3956 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3957 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3958 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3959 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3960 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3961 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3962 3963 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3964 3965 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3966 3967 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3968 Valid arguments: on, off 3969 Default: on 3970 3971 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3972 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3973 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3974 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3975 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3976 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3977 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3978 just as if they had also been called out in the 3979 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3980 3981 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3982 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3983 3984 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3985 initial RAM disk. 3986 3987 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 3988 remapping. 3989 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3990 3991 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3992 3993 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3994 3995 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3996 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3997 3998 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3999 4000 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 4001 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 4002 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 4003 Layout Randomization). 4004 4005 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 4006 fault handling. 4007 4008 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 4009 4010 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 4011 4012 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 4013 4014 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 4015 4016 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4017 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4018 4019 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4020 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4021 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4022 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4023 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4024 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4025 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4026 4027 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4028 4029 nomodule Disable module load 4030 4031 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4032 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4033 irq. 4034 4035 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4036 pagetables) support. 4037 4038 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4039 4040 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4041 in some Intel CPUs. 4042 4043 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4044 Equivalent to pti=off 4045 4046 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4047 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4048 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4049 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4050 4051 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4052 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4053 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4054 contention. 4055 4056 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4057 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4058 4059 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4060 with UP alternatives 4061 4062 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4063 space. 4064 4065 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4066 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4067 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4068 4069 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4070 4071 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4072 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4073 even if it is supported by processor. 4074 4075 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4076 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4077 even if it is supported by processor. 4078 4079 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4080 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4081 4082 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4083 Equivalent to smt=1. 4084 4085 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4086 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4087 via the sysfs control file. 4088 4089 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4090 4091 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4092 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4093 Store Bypass vulnerability 4094 4095 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4096 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4097 with this option. 4098 4099 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4100 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4101 possible in the system. 4102 4103 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4104 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4105 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4106 leaks with this option. 4107 4108 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4109 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4110 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4111 4112 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4113 4114 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4115 broken timer IRQ sources. 4116 4117 no_uaccess_flush 4118 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4119 4120 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4121 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4122 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4123 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4124 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4125 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4126 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4127 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4128 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4129 is set. 4130 4131 no-vmw-sched-clock 4132 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4133 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4134 4135 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4136 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4137 4138 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4139 4140 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4141 4142 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4143 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4144 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4145 4146 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4147 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4148 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4149 4150 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4151 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4152 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4153 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4154 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4155 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4156 4157 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4158 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4159 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4160 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4161 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4162 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4163 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4164 4165 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4166 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4167 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4168 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4169 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4170 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4171 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4172 hot plugging. 4173 4174 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4175 4176 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4177 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4178 spanning all memory. 4179 4180 numa=fake=<size>[MG] 4181 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4182 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with 4183 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes. 4184 4185 numa=fake=<N> 4186 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4187 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N 4188 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. 4189 4190 numa=fake=<N>U 4191 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4192 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will 4193 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. 4194 4195 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4196 NUMA balancing. 4197 Allowed values are enable and disable 4198 4199 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4200 'node', 'default' can be specified 4201 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4202 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4203 4204 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4205 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4206 info. 4207 4208 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4209 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4210 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4211 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4212 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4213 interrupts *may* be lost! 4214 4215 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4216 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4217 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4218 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4219 4220 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4221 4222 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4223 4224 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4225 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4226 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4227 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4228 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4229 4230 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4231 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4232 process, but there is a small probability of 4233 deadlocking the machine. 4234 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4235 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4236 4237 page_alloc.shuffle= 4238 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4239 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4240 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4241 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4242 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4243 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4244 4245 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4246 Storage of the information about who allocated 4247 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4248 we can turn it on. 4249 on: enable the feature 4250 4251 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4252 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4253 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4254 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4255 on: turn on poisoning 4256 4257 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4258 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4259 Format: <integer> 4260 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4261 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4262 4263 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4264 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4265 timeout = 0: wait forever 4266 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4267 Format: <timeout> 4268 4269 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4270 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4271 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4272 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4273 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4274 called with any of the flags in this set. 4275 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4276 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4277 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4278 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4279 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4280 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4281 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4282 4283 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4284 on a WARN(). 4285 4286 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4287 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4288 bit 0: print all tasks info 4289 bit 1: print system memory info 4290 bit 2: print timer info 4291 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4292 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4293 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4294 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4295 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4296 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4297 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4298 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4299 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4300 4301 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4302 connected to, default is 0. 4303 Format: <parport#> 4304 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4305 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4306 Format: <mode> 4307 4308 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4309 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4310 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4311 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4312 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4313 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4314 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4315 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4316 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4317 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4318 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4319 are specified on the command line, starting 4320 with parport0. 4321 4322 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4323 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4324 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4325 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4326 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4327 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4328 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4329 4330 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4331 Format: <int> 4332 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4333 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4334 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4335 4336 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4337 Format: <int> 4338 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4339 changes. Disabled by default. 4340 4341 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4342 Format: <int> 4343 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4344 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4345 Disabled by default. 4346 4347 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4348 Format: <int> 4349 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4350 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4351 Disabled by default. 4352 4353 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4354 Format: <int> 4355 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4356 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4357 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4358 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4359 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4360 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4361 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4362 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4363 all channels. 4364 4365 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4366 Format: <int> 4367 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4368 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4369 respectively. Disabled by default. 4370 4371 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4372 Format: <int> 4373 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4374 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4375 respectively. Disabled by default. 4376 4377 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4378 Format: <int> 4379 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4380 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4381 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4382 All modes allowed by default. 4383 4384 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4385 Format: <int> 4386 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4387 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4388 4389 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4390 Format: <int> 4391 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4392 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4393 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4394 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4395 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4396 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4397 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4398 By default all supported ports are probed. 4399 4400 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4401 Format: <int> 4402 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4403 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4404 4405 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4406 Format: <int> 4407 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4408 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4409 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4410 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4411 0 otherwise. 4412 4413 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4414 Format: <int> 4415 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4416 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4417 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4418 allowed by default. 4419 4420 pause_on_oops=<int> 4421 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4422 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4423 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4424 4425 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4426 4427 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4428 4429 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4430 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4431 specified in one of the following formats: 4432 4433 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4434 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4435 4436 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4437 bus/device/function address which may change 4438 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4439 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4440 by other kernel parameters. If the 4441 domain is left unspecified, it is 4442 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4443 to a device through multiple device/function 4444 addresses can be specified after the base 4445 address (this is more robust against 4446 renumbering issues). The second format 4447 selects devices using IDs from the 4448 configuration space which may match multiple 4449 devices in the system. 4450 4451 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4452 changes anything 4453 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4454 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4455 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4456 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4457 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4458 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4459 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4460 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4461 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4462 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4463 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4464 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4465 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4466 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4467 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4468 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4469 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4470 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4471 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4472 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4473 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4474 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4475 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4476 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4477 Configuration 4478 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4479 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4480 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4481 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4482 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4483 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4484 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4485 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4486 should never be necessary. 4487 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4488 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4489 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4490 when the system masks IRQs. 4491 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4492 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4493 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4494 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4495 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4496 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4497 on several machines and they hang the machine 4498 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4499 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4500 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4501 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4502 motherboard. 4503 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4504 Use with caution as certain devices share 4505 address decoders between ROMs and other 4506 resources. 4507 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4508 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4509 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4510 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4511 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4512 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4513 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4514 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4515 this way. 4516 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4517 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4518 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4519 F0000h-100000h range. 4520 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4521 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4522 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4523 explicitly which ones they are. 4524 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4525 numbers ourselves, overriding 4526 whatever the firmware may have done. 4527 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4528 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4529 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4530 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4531 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4532 IRQ routing is enabled. 4533 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4534 or for PCI scanning. 4535 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4536 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4537 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4538 please report a bug. 4539 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4540 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4541 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4542 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4543 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4544 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4545 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4546 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4547 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4548 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4549 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4550 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4551 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4552 so this option is a temporary workaround 4553 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4554 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4555 handle more pci cards 4556 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4557 This might help on some broken boards which 4558 machine check when some devices' config space 4559 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4560 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4561 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4562 This sorting is done to get a device 4563 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4564 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4565 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4566 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4567 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4568 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4569 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4570 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4571 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4572 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4573 or bus can support) for best performance. 4574 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4575 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4576 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4577 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4578 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4579 that hot-added devices will work. 4580 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4581 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4582 The default value is 256 bytes. 4583 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4584 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4585 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4586 resource_alignment= 4587 Format: 4588 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4589 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4590 aligned memory resources. How to 4591 specify the device is described above. 4592 If <order of align> is not specified, 4593 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4594 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4595 windows need to be expanded. 4596 To specify the alignment for several 4597 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4598 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4599 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4600 for 4096-byte alignment. 4601 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4602 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4603 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4604 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4605 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4606 the default. 4607 off: Turn ECRC off 4608 on: Turn ECRC on. 4609 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4610 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4611 Default size is 256 bytes. 4612 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4613 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4614 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4615 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4616 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4617 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4618 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4619 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4620 MMIO_PREF window. 4621 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4622 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4623 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4624 Default is 1. 4625 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4626 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4627 accommodate resources required by all child 4628 devices. 4629 off: Turn realloc off 4630 on: Turn realloc on 4631 realloc same as realloc=on 4632 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4633 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4634 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4635 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4636 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4637 port. 4638 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4639 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4640 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4641 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4642 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4643 taints the kernel. 4644 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4645 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4646 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4647 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4648 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4649 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4650 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4651 this removes isolation between devices and 4652 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4653 config_acs= 4654 Format: 4655 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4656 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4657 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4658 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4659 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4660 unchanged based on what is specified in 4661 flags. 4662 4663 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4664 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4665 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4666 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4667 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4668 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4669 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4670 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4671 Each bit can be marked as: 4672 '0' – force disabled 4673 '1' – force enabled 4674 'x' – unchanged 4675 For example, 4676 pci=config_acs=10x 4677 would configure all devices that support 4678 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4679 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4680 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4681 or firmware set it to. 4682 4683 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4684 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4685 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4686 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4687 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4688 one PCI domain per PCI function 4689 4690 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4691 Management. 4692 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4693 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4694 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4695 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4696 4697 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4698 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4699 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4700 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4701 also tries to use these services. 4702 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4703 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4704 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4705 hotplug). 4706 4707 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4708 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4709 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4710 4711 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4712 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4713 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4714 4715 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4716 4717 pd_ignore_unused 4718 [PM] 4719 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4720 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4721 for debug and development, but should not be 4722 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4723 4724 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4725 boot time. 4726 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4727 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4728 4729 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4730 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4731 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4732 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4733 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4734 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4735 and performance comparison. 4736 4737 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4738 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4739 4740 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4741 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4742 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4743 4744 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4745 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4746 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4747 4748 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4749 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4750 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4751 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4752 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4753 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4754 remains 0. 4755 4756 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4757 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4758 4759 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4760 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4761 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4762 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4763 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4764 possible settings and some assignment information. 4765 4766 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4767 { off } 4768 4769 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4770 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4771 4772 pnp_reserve_irq= 4773 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4774 4775 pnp_reserve_dma= 4776 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4777 4778 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4779 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4780 4781 pnp_reserve_mem= 4782 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4783 autoconfiguration. 4784 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4785 4786 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4787 Default is 21. 4788 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4789 may be specified. 4790 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4791 4792 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4793 Format: <unsigned int> 4794 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4795 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4796 4797 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4798 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4799 platform machine description specific power_save 4800 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4801 execution priority. 4802 4803 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4804 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4805 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4806 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4807 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4808 4809 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4810 Format: {"off"} 4811 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4812 4813 preempt= [KNL] 4814 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4815 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4816 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4817 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4818 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 4819 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 4820 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 4821 4822 print-fatal-signals= 4823 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4824 4825 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4826 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4827 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4828 coredump - etc. 4829 4830 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4831 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4832 4833 default: off. 4834 4835 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4836 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4837 panics 4838 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4839 default: disabled 4840 4841 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4842 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4843 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4844 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4845 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4846 in order to provide more debug information. 4847 Format: <bool> 4848 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4849 4850 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4851 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4852 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4853 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4854 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4855 Default: ratelimit 4856 4857 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4858 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4859 4860 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 4861 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 4862 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 4863 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 4864 restrict that. Can be one of: 4865 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 4866 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 4867 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 4868 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 4869 4870 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4871 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4872 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4873 4874 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4875 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4876 instead using the legacy FADT method 4877 4878 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4879 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4880 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 4881 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4882 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4883 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4884 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4885 statistical time based profiling. 4886 4887 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4888 4889 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4890 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4891 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 4892 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 4893 Layout Randomization is disabled. 4894 Format: <bool> 4895 4896 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4897 tracking. 4898 Format: <bool> 4899 4900 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4901 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4902 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4903 per second. 4904 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4905 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4906 (0 = never). 4907 psmouse.resolution= 4908 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4909 psmouse.smartscroll= 4910 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4911 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4912 4913 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4914 4915 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4916 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4917 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4918 system calls and interrupts. 4919 4920 on - unconditionally enable 4921 off - unconditionally disable 4922 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4923 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4924 4925 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4926 4927 pty.legacy_count= 4928 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4929 default number. 4930 4931 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 4932 4933 r128= [HW,DRM] 4934 4935 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4936 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4937 invalidate. 4938 4939 raid= [HW,RAID] 4940 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4941 4942 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4943 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4944 4945 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4946 4947 random.trust_cpu=off 4948 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4949 random number generator (if available) to 4950 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4951 4952 random.trust_bootloader=off 4953 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4954 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4955 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4956 4957 randomize_kstack_offset= 4958 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4959 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4960 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4961 that depend on stack address determinism or 4962 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4963 available on architectures that have defined 4964 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4965 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4966 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4967 4968 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4969 4970 cec_disable [X86] 4971 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4972 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4973 4974 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4975 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4976 as described above. 4977 4978 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4979 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4980 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4981 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4982 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4983 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4984 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4985 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4986 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4987 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4988 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4989 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4990 4991 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4992 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4993 4994 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4995 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4996 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4997 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4998 4999 Note that this argument takes precedence over 5000 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 5001 5002 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 5003 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 5004 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 5005 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 5006 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 5007 This improves the real-time response for the 5008 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 5009 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 5010 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 5011 periodically wake up to do the polling. 5012 5013 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 5014 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 5015 process in one batch. 5016 5017 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 5018 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 5019 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 5020 5021 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 5022 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 5023 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 5024 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 5025 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 5026 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 5027 5028 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 5029 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 5030 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 5031 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 5032 5033 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 5034 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5035 RCU grace-period cleanup. 5036 5037 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 5038 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5039 RCU grace-period initialization. 5040 5041 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5042 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5043 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5044 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5045 the rcu_node combining tree. 5046 5047 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5048 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5049 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5050 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5051 and maximum value is HZ. 5052 5053 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5054 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5055 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5056 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5057 5058 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5059 Set required age in jiffies for a 5060 given grace period before RCU starts 5061 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5062 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5063 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5064 a value based on the most recent settings 5065 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5066 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5067 This calculated value may be viewed in 5068 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5069 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5070 overwritten. 5071 5072 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5073 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5074 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5075 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5076 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5077 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5078 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5079 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5080 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5081 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5082 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5083 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5084 5085 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5086 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5087 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5088 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5089 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5090 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5091 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5092 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5093 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5094 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5095 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5096 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5097 5098 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5099 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5100 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5101 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5102 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5103 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5104 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5105 5106 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5107 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5108 batch limiting is disabled. 5109 5110 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5111 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5112 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5113 5114 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5115 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5116 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5117 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5118 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5119 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5120 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5121 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5122 5123 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5124 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5125 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5126 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5127 5128 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5129 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5130 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5131 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5132 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5133 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5134 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5135 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5136 5137 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5138 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5139 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5140 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5141 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5142 5143 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5144 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5145 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5146 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5147 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5148 5149 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5150 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5151 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5152 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5153 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5154 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5155 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5156 5157 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5158 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5159 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5160 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5161 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5162 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5163 condition. 5164 5165 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5166 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5167 each group, which defaults to the square root 5168 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5169 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5170 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5171 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5172 5173 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5174 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5175 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5176 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5177 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5178 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5179 5180 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5181 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5182 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5183 By default, this limit is checked only once 5184 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5185 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5186 5187 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5188 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5189 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5190 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5191 Larger delays increase the probability of 5192 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5193 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5194 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5195 5196 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5197 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5198 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5199 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5200 5201 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5202 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5203 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5204 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5205 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5206 5207 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5208 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5209 to zero. 5210 5211 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5212 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5213 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5214 big. 5215 5216 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5217 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5218 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5219 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5220 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5221 normal grace period. 5222 5223 How to enable it: 5224 5225 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5226 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5227 5228 Default is 0. 5229 5230 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5231 Measure performance of asynchronous 5232 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5233 5234 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5235 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5236 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5237 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5238 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5239 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5240 5241 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5242 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5243 grace-period primitives. 5244 5245 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5246 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5247 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5248 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5249 interference. 5250 5251 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5252 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5253 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5254 5255 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5256 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5257 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5258 Defaults to 1. 5259 5260 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5261 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5262 5263 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5264 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5265 If this parameter has the same value as 5266 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5267 and double-argument variants are tested. 5268 5269 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5270 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5271 If this parameter has the same value as 5272 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5273 and double-argument variants are tested. 5274 5275 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5276 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5277 5278 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5279 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5280 5281 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5282 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5283 of allocations and frees. 5284 5285 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5286 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5287 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5288 but instead allows better measurement of things 5289 like CPU consumption. 5290 5291 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5292 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5293 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5294 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5295 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5296 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5297 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5298 a single reader. 5299 5300 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5301 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5302 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5303 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5304 5305 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5306 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5307 5308 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5309 Shut the system down after performance tests 5310 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5311 testing. 5312 5313 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5314 Enable additional printk() statements. 5315 5316 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5317 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5318 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5319 no holdoff. 5320 5321 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5322 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5323 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5324 says no holdoff. 5325 5326 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5327 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5328 in microseconds. 5329 5330 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5331 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5332 in microseconds. 5333 5334 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5335 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5336 in seconds. 5337 5338 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5339 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5340 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5341 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5342 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5343 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5344 of CPUs to be used. 5345 5346 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5347 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5348 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5349 5350 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5351 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5352 forward-progress tests. 5353 5354 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5355 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5356 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5357 testing. 5358 5359 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5360 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5361 primitives, if available. 5362 5363 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5364 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5365 5366 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5367 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5368 update-side primitives, if available. 5369 5370 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5371 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5372 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5373 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5374 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5375 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5376 they are all non-zero. 5377 5378 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5379 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5380 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5381 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5382 5383 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5384 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5385 This can of course result in splats, and is 5386 intended to test the ability of things like 5387 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5388 such leaks. 5389 5390 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5391 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5392 5393 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5394 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5395 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5396 test, hence the "fake". 5397 5398 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5399 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5400 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5401 5402 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5403 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5404 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5405 5406 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5407 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5408 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5409 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5410 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5411 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5412 5413 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5414 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5415 5416 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5417 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5418 5419 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5420 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5421 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5422 5423 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5424 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5425 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5426 is spawned. 5427 5428 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5429 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5430 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5431 5432 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL] 5433 A bit mask indicating which readers to use. 5434 If there is more than one bit set, the readers 5435 are entered from low-order bit up, and are 5436 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the 5437 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers, 5438 and 0x4 light-weight readers. 5439 5440 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5441 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5442 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5443 during the rcutorture test. 5444 5445 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5446 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5447 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5448 5449 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5450 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5451 warnings, zero to disable. 5452 5453 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5454 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5455 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5456 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5457 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5458 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5459 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5460 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5461 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5462 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5463 5464 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5465 5466 5467 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5468 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5469 5470 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5471 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5472 on the first stall in the set. 5473 5474 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5475 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5476 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5477 in four stall sequences. 5478 5479 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5480 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5481 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5482 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5483 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5484 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5485 5486 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5487 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5488 5489 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5490 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5491 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5492 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5493 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5494 5495 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5496 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5497 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5498 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5499 5500 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5501 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5502 5503 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5504 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5505 5506 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5507 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5508 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5509 5510 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5511 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5512 5513 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5514 Enable additional printk() statements. 5515 5516 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5517 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5518 stall warning. 5519 5520 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5521 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5522 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5523 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5524 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5525 5526 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5527 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5528 5529 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5530 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5531 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5532 during early boot, that is, during the time 5533 before the init task is spawned. 5534 5535 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5536 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5537 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5538 value is 300 seconds. 5539 5540 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5541 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5542 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5543 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5544 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5545 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5546 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5547 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5548 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5549 5550 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5551 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5552 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5553 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5554 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5555 5556 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5557 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5558 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5559 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5560 5561 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5562 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5563 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5564 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5565 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5566 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5567 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5568 5569 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5570 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5571 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5572 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5573 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5574 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5575 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5576 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5577 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5578 5579 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5580 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5581 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5582 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5583 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5584 5585 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5586 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5587 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5588 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5589 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5590 grace-period processing. 5591 5592 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5593 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5594 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5595 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5596 a single callback queue. This switching only 5597 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5598 set to the default value of -1. 5599 5600 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5601 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5602 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5603 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5604 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5605 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5606 the default value of -1. 5607 5608 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5609 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5610 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5611 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5612 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5613 for use in testing. 5614 5615 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5616 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5617 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5618 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5619 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5620 but lengthens grace periods. 5621 5622 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5623 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5624 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5625 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5626 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5627 callback flooding. 5628 5629 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5630 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5631 informational messages, which give some indication 5632 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5633 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5634 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5635 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5636 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5637 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5638 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5639 5640 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5641 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5642 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5643 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5644 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5645 the value three, so that the first informational 5646 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5647 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5648 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5649 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5650 5651 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5652 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5653 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5654 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5655 A change in value does not take effect until 5656 the beginning of the next grace period. 5657 5658 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5659 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5660 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5661 A negative value will take the default. A value 5662 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5663 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5664 5665 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5666 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5667 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5668 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5669 will take the default. A value of zero will 5670 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5671 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5672 5673 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5674 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5675 5676 rdinit= [KNL] 5677 Format: <full_path> 5678 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5679 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5680 5681 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5682 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5683 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5684 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5685 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5686 path). 5687 5688 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5689 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5690 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5691 mba, smba, bmec. 5692 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5693 rdt=cmt,!mba 5694 5695 reboot= [KNL] 5696 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5697 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5698 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5699 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5700 [[,]f[orce] 5701 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5702 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5703 reboot only), 5704 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5705 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5706 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5707 to be used for rebooting. 5708 5709 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5710 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5711 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5712 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5713 interference. 5714 5715 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5716 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5717 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5718 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5719 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5720 5721 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5722 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5723 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5724 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5725 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5726 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5727 x86 laptops. 5728 5729 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5730 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5731 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5732 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5733 5734 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5735 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5736 the console log. 5737 5738 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5739 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5740 measured in microseconds. 5741 5742 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5743 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5744 5745 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5746 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5747 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5748 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5749 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5750 5751 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5752 Enable additional printk() statements. 5753 5754 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5755 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5756 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5757 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5758 specified. 5759 5760 regulator_ignore_unused 5761 [REGULATOR] 5762 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5763 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5764 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5765 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5766 5767 relax_domain_level= 5768 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5769 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5770 5771 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5772 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5773 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5774 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5775 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5776 5777 reserve_mem= [RAM] 5778 Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label> 5779 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 5780 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 5781 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 5782 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 5783 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 5784 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 5785 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 5786 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 5787 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 5788 different location. 5789 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 5790 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 5791 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 5792 located at the same location. 5793 5794 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 5795 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 5796 5797 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 5798 5799 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 5800 Format: nn[KMG] 5801 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5802 address space. 5803 5804 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5805 during initialization. 5806 5807 resume= [SWSUSP] 5808 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5809 Format: 5810 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5811 5812 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5813 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5814 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5815 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5816 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5817 5818 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5819 read the resume files 5820 5821 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5822 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5823 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5824 5825 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5826 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5827 5828 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5829 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5830 vulnerability. 5831 5832 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5833 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5834 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5835 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5836 that don't. 5837 5838 off - no mitigation 5839 auto - automatically select a migitation 5840 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5841 disabling SMT if necessary for 5842 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5843 and older without STIBP). 5844 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5845 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5846 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5847 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5848 on Intel. 5849 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5850 when STIBP is not available. This is 5851 the alternative for systems which do not 5852 have STIBP. 5853 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5854 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5855 systems. 5856 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5857 is not available. This is the alternative for 5858 systems which do not have STIBP. 5859 5860 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5861 time according to the CPU. 5862 5863 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5864 5865 rfkill.default_state= 5866 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5867 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5868 1 Unblocked. 5869 5870 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5871 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5872 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5873 blocked and the previous configuration. 5874 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5875 blocked and everything unblocked. 5876 5877 ring3mwait=disable 5878 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5879 CPUs. 5880 5881 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 5882 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5883 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5884 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5885 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5886 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5887 5888 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5889 5890 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 5891 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5892 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5893 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5894 [arm64] 5895 5896 rockchip.usb_uart 5897 [EARLY] 5898 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5899 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5900 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5901 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5902 5903 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5904 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5905 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5906 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5907 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5908 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5909 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5910 5911 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5912 mount the root filesystem 5913 5914 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5915 5916 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5917 5918 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5919 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5920 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5921 5922 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5923 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5924 filesystem. 5925 5926 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5927 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5928 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5929 managed by CMA. 5930 5931 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5932 5933 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5934 5935 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5936 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5937 strict 5938 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5939 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5940 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5941 iommu.strict=1. 5942 5943 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5944 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5945 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5946 factor of the size of main memory. 5947 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5948 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5949 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5950 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5951 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5952 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5953 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5954 5955 sa1100ir [NET] 5956 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5957 5958 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5959 5960 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5961 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5962 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5963 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5964 5965 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5966 [Deprecated] 5967 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5968 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5969 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5970 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5971 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5972 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5973 value. 5974 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5975 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5976 1 64 ms 5977 2 128 ms 5978 and so on. 5979 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5980 Default is 0. 5981 5982 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5983 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5984 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5985 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5986 tests. 5987 5988 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5989 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5990 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5991 default) disables this feature. Please note 5992 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5993 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5994 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5995 5996 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5997 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5998 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5999 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 6000 equal to the number of CPUs. 6001 6002 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 6003 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 6004 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 6005 6006 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 6007 Number seconds to wait between successive 6008 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 6009 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 6010 6011 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 6012 The number of seconds following the start of the 6013 test after which to shut down the system. The 6014 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 6015 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 6016 6017 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 6018 The number of seconds between outputting the 6019 current test statistics to the console. A value 6020 of zero disables statistics output. 6021 6022 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 6023 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 6024 to the set of CPUs under test. 6025 6026 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 6027 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 6028 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 6029 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 6030 functions. 6031 6032 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 6033 Enable additional printk() statements. 6034 6035 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 6036 The probability weighting to use for the 6037 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 6038 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 6039 default if all other weights are -1. However, 6040 if at least one weight has some other value, a 6041 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 6042 6043 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6044 The probability weighting to use for the 6045 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6046 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6047 6048 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6049 The probability weighting to use for the 6050 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6051 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6052 Note well that setting a high probability for 6053 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6054 on the system. 6055 6056 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6057 The probability weighting to use for the 6058 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6059 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6060 and weight_many. 6061 6062 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6063 The probability weighting to use for the 6064 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6065 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6066 weight_many. 6067 6068 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6069 The probability weighting to use for the 6070 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6071 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6072 and weight_many. 6073 6074 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6075 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6076 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6077 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6078 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6079 1 -- enable. 6080 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6081 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6082 6083 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6084 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6085 "lsm=" parameter. 6086 6087 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6088 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6089 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6090 0 -- disable. 6091 1 -- enable. 6092 Default value is 1. 6093 6094 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6095 6096 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 6097 6098 shapers= [NET] 6099 Maximal number of shapers. 6100 6101 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6102 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6103 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6104 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6105 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6106 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6107 apic=verbose is specified. 6108 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6109 6110 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6111 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6112 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6113 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6114 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6115 last alloc / free. For more information see 6116 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6117 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6118 6119 slab_max_order= [MM] 6120 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6121 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6122 fragmentation. For more information see 6123 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6124 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6125 6126 slab_merge [MM] 6127 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6128 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6129 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6130 6131 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6132 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6133 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6134 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6135 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6136 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6137 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6138 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6139 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6140 6141 slab_min_order= [MM] 6142 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6143 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6144 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6145 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6146 6147 slab_nomerge [MM] 6148 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6149 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6150 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6151 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6152 layout control by attackers can usually be 6153 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6154 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6155 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6156 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6157 own. 6158 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6159 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6160 6161 slram= [HW,MTD] 6162 6163 smart2= [HW] 6164 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6165 6166 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6167 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6168 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6169 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6170 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6171 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6172 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6173 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6174 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6175 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6176 6177 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6178 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6179 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6180 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6181 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6182 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6183 6184 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6185 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6186 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6187 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6188 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6189 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6190 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6191 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6192 1: Fast pin select (default) 6193 2: ATC IRMode 6194 6195 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6196 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6197 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6198 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6199 Format: <integer> 6200 Default: -1 (no limit) 6201 6202 softlockup_panic= 6203 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6204 Format: 0 | 1 6205 6206 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6207 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6208 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6209 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6210 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6211 6212 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6213 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6214 backtraces on all cpus. 6215 Format: 0 | 1 6216 6217 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6218 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6219 6220 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6221 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6222 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6223 clearing sequence. 6224 6225 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6226 needed. This protects the kernel from 6227 both syscalls and VMs. 6228 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6229 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6230 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6231 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6232 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6233 off - Disable the mitigation. 6234 6235 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6236 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6237 The default operation protects the kernel from 6238 user space attacks. 6239 6240 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6241 spectre_v2_user=on 6242 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6243 spectre_v2_user=off 6244 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6245 vulnerable 6246 6247 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6248 mitigation method at run time according to the 6249 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6250 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6251 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6252 6253 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6254 against user space to user space task attacks. 6255 6256 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6257 the user space protections. 6258 6259 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6260 6261 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6262 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6263 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6264 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6265 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6266 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6267 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6268 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6269 6270 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6271 spectre_v2=auto. 6272 6273 spectre_v2_user= 6274 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6275 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6276 user space tasks 6277 6278 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6279 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6280 6281 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6282 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6283 6284 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6285 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6286 per thread. The mitigation control state 6287 is inherited on fork. 6288 6289 prctl,ibpb 6290 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6291 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6292 always when switching between different user 6293 space processes. 6294 6295 seccomp 6296 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6297 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6298 they explicitly opt out. 6299 6300 seccomp,ibpb 6301 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6302 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6303 always when switching between different 6304 user space processes. 6305 6306 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6307 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6308 6309 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6310 6311 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6312 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6313 6314 spec_rstack_overflow= 6315 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6316 6317 off - Disable mitigation 6318 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6319 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6320 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6321 kernel entry 6322 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6323 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6324 6325 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6326 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6327 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6328 6329 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6330 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6331 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6332 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6333 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6334 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6335 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6336 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6337 6338 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6339 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6340 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6341 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6342 6343 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6344 Bypass optimization is used. 6345 6346 On x86 the options are: 6347 6348 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6349 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6350 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6351 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6352 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6353 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6354 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6355 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6356 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6357 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6358 for a process by default. The state of the control 6359 is inherited on fork. 6360 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6361 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6362 6363 Default mitigations: 6364 X86: "prctl" 6365 6366 On powerpc the options are: 6367 6368 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6369 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6370 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6371 exit. 6372 off - No action. 6373 6374 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6375 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6376 6377 split_lock_detect= 6378 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6379 6380 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6381 instructions that access data across cache line 6382 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6383 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6384 bus lock detection. 6385 6386 off - not enabled 6387 6388 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6389 about applications triggering the #AC 6390 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6391 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6392 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6393 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6394 enabled in hardware. 6395 6396 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6397 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6398 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6399 both features are enabled in hardware. 6400 6401 ratelimit:N - 6402 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6403 per second for bus lock detection. 6404 0 < N <= 1000. 6405 6406 N/A for split lock detection. 6407 6408 6409 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6410 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6411 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6412 mode. 6413 6414 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6415 CPL > 0. 6416 6417 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6418 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6419 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6420 6421 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6422 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6423 number generator. 6424 6425 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6426 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6427 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6428 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6429 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6430 6431 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6432 the following option: 6433 6434 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6435 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6436 6437 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6438 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6439 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6440 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6441 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6442 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6443 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6444 (decide at boot). 6445 6446 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6447 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6448 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6449 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6450 6451 0: Never. 6452 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6453 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6454 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6455 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6456 6457 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6458 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6459 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6460 6461 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6462 Specifies how frequently to check for 6463 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6464 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6465 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6466 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6467 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6468 are ignored. 6469 6470 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6471 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6472 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6473 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6474 grace period will be considered for automatic 6475 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6476 expediting. 6477 6478 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6479 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6480 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6481 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6482 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6483 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6484 6485 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6486 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6487 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6488 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6489 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6490 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6491 6492 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6493 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6494 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6495 6496 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6497 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6498 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6499 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6500 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6501 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6502 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6503 6504 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6505 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6506 6507 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6508 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6509 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6510 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6511 6512 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6513 for both kernel and userspace 6514 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6515 for both kernel and userspace 6516 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6517 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6518 to allow userspace to register its 6519 interest in being mitigated too. 6520 6521 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6522 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6523 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6524 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6525 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6526 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6527 6528 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6529 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6530 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6531 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6532 to false. 6533 6534 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6535 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6536 6537 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6538 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6539 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6540 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6541 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6542 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6543 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6544 6545 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6546 Format: <num> 6547 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6548 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6549 as the initial boot-console. 6550 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6551 6552 sti_font= [HW] 6553 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6554 6555 stifb= [HW] 6556 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6557 6558 strict_sas_size= 6559 [X86] 6560 Format: <bool> 6561 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6562 against the required signal frame size which 6563 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6564 be used to filter out binaries which have 6565 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6566 6567 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6568 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6569 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6570 faults on kernel addresses. 6571 6572 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6573 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6574 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6575 on kernel addresses. 6576 6577 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6578 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6579 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6580 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6581 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6582 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6583 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6584 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6585 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6586 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6587 maximum port values. 6588 6589 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6590 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6591 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6592 process in parallel from a single connection. 6593 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6594 6595 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6596 [NFS] 6597 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6598 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6599 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6600 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6601 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6602 NFS server is running. 6603 6604 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6605 automatically using heuristics 6606 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6607 percpu one pool for each CPU 6608 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6609 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6610 6611 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6612 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6613 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6614 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6615 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6616 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6617 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6618 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6619 6620 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6621 [SUSPEND] 6622 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6623 mode before resuming the system (see 6624 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6625 is set. Default value is 5. 6626 6627 svm= [PPC] 6628 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6629 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6630 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6631 6632 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 6633 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6634 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6635 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6636 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6637 to a power of 2. 6638 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6639 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6640 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6641 6642 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6643 6644 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6645 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6646 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6647 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6648 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6649 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6650 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6651 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6652 6653 sysrq_always_enabled 6654 [KNL] 6655 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6656 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6657 Useful for debugging. 6658 6659 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6660 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6661 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6662 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6663 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6664 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6665 6666 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6667 6668 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6669 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6670 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6671 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6672 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6673 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6674 The system is woken from this state using a 6675 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6676 6677 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6678 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6679 6680 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6681 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6682 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6683 6684 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6685 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6686 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6687 6688 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6689 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6690 6691 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6692 -1: disable all passive trip points 6693 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6694 value 6695 6696 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6697 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6698 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6699 0: no polling (default) 6700 6701 thp_anon= [KNL] 6702 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state> 6703 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit". 6704 Control the default behavior of the system with respect 6705 to anonymous transparent hugepages. 6706 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes. 6707 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 6708 details. 6709 6710 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 6711 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6712 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6713 6714 thp_shmem= [KNL] 6715 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy> 6716 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the 6717 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available 6718 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size", 6719 and "advise"). 6720 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes. 6721 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 6722 details. 6723 6724 topology= [S390,EARLY] 6725 Format: {off | on} 6726 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6727 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6728 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6729 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6730 Default is on. 6731 6732 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6733 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6734 until after init has spawned. 6735 6736 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6737 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6738 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6739 very costly operation when many torture tests 6740 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6741 with rotating-rust storage. 6742 6743 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6744 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6745 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6746 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6747 6748 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6749 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6750 6751 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM] 6752 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical 6753 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of 6754 having an integrity protected session wrapped around 6755 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation 6756 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection 6757 causing a major performance hit, and the space where 6758 machines are deployed is by other means guarded. 6759 6760 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6761 Format: integer pcr id 6762 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6763 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6764 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6765 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6766 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6767 are saved. 6768 6769 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6770 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6771 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6772 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6773 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6774 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6775 6776 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6777 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6778 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6779 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6780 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6781 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6782 6783 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6784 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6785 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6786 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6787 6788 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6789 to stop the printing of events to console at 6790 late_initcall_sync. 6791 6792 ** CAUTION ** 6793 6794 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6795 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6796 the system to live lock. 6797 6798 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6799 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6800 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6801 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6802 make the system inoperable. 6803 6804 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6805 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6806 6807 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6808 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6809 6810 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6811 at boot up. 6812 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6813 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6814 depending on the architecture, may not be 6815 in sync between CPUs. 6816 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6817 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6818 but better for some race conditions. 6819 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6820 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6821 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6822 once per event. 6823 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6824 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6825 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6826 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6827 stamps. 6828 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6829 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6830 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6831 6832 trace_event=[event-list] 6833 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6834 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6835 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6836 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6837 6838 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6839 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6840 This will be listed in: 6841 6842 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6843 6844 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6845 via: 6846 6847 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6848 6849 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6850 unique. 6851 6852 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6853 6854 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6855 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6856 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6857 6858 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is 6859 created. The flags are separated by '^'. 6860 6861 The available flags are: 6862 6863 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created. 6864 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance 6865 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used) 6866 6867 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq 6868 6869 The flags must come before the defined events. 6870 6871 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance 6872 can use that memory: 6873 6874 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M 6875 6876 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical 6877 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that 6878 instance will be split up accordingly. 6879 6880 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option: 6881 6882 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace 6883 6884 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment 6885 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the 6886 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve 6887 the buffer content. 6888 6889 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between 6890 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer 6891 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel. 6892 6893 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled, 6894 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not 6895 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash 6896 at boot up). 6897 6898 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq 6899 6900 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system 6901 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION 6902 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored. 6903 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system 6904 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. 6905 6906 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst 6907 6908 6909 trace_options=[option-list] 6910 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6911 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6912 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6913 to echo the option name into 6914 6915 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6916 6917 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6918 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6919 6920 trace_options=stacktrace 6921 6922 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6923 section. 6924 6925 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6926 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6927 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6928 filter. 6929 6930 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6931 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6932 6933 For example: 6934 6935 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6936 6937 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6938 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6939 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6940 6941 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6942 6943 6944 traceoff_on_warning 6945 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6946 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6947 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6948 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6949 6950 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6951 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6952 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6953 6954 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6955 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6956 6957 transparent_hugepage= 6958 [KNL] 6959 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6960 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6961 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6962 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6963 for more details. 6964 6965 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL] 6966 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force] 6967 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for 6968 the internal shmem mount. 6969 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6970 for more details. 6971 6972 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6973 Format: <string> 6974 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6975 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6976 sources: 6977 - "tpm" 6978 - "tee" 6979 - "caam" 6980 - "dcp" 6981 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6982 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6983 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6984 successfully during iteration. 6985 6986 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6987 Format: <string> 6988 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6989 Can be one of: 6990 - "kernel" 6991 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6992 - "default" 6993 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6994 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6995 6996 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 6997 This is intended to be used in combination with 6998 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 6999 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 7000 7001 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 7002 This is intended to be used in combination with 7003 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 7004 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 7005 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 7006 scenarios. 7007 7008 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 7009 Format: <string> 7010 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 7011 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 7012 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 7013 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 7014 virtualized environment. 7015 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 7016 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 7017 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 7018 can add overhead. 7019 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 7020 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 7021 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 7022 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 7023 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 7024 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 7025 acceptable). 7026 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 7027 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 7028 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 7029 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 7030 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 7031 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 7032 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 7033 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 7034 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 7035 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 7036 7037 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 7038 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 7039 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 7040 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 7041 Format: <unsigned int> 7042 7043 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 7044 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 7045 support TSX control. 7046 7047 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 7048 7049 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 7050 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 7051 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 7052 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 7053 so there may be unknown security risks associated 7054 with leaving it enabled. 7055 7056 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 7057 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 7058 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 7059 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 7060 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 7061 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 7062 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 7063 7064 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 7065 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 7066 7067 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 7068 7069 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7070 for more details. 7071 7072 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 7073 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 7074 7075 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 7076 certain CPUs that support Transactional 7077 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 7078 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 7079 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 7080 conditions. 7081 7082 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 7083 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 7084 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 7085 access. 7086 7087 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 7088 options are: 7089 7090 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 7091 if TSX is enabled. 7092 7093 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 7094 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 7095 is not disabled because CPU is not 7096 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 7097 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 7098 7099 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 7100 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 7101 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 7102 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 7103 7104 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 7105 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 7106 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 7107 required and doesn't provide any additional 7108 mitigation. 7109 7110 For details see: 7111 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7112 7113 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 7114 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 7115 Format: 7116 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 7117 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 7118 7119 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 7120 happen after console_init() and before a proper 7121 console driver takes over, this boot options might 7122 help "seeing" what's going on. 7123 7124 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7125 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 7126 7127 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 7128 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7129 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7130 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7131 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7132 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7133 reported either. 7134 7135 unknown_nmi_panic 7136 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7137 7138 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7139 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7140 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7141 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7142 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7143 7144 usbcore.authorized_default= 7145 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7146 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7147 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7148 if device connected to internal port) 7149 7150 usbcore.autosuspend= 7151 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7152 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7153 is the time required before an idle device will be 7154 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7155 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7156 7157 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7158 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7159 7160 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7161 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7162 (default = 65536). 7163 7164 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7165 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7166 7167 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7168 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7169 scheme (default 0 = off). 7170 7171 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7172 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7173 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7174 7175 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7176 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7177 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7178 7179 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7180 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7181 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7182 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7183 7184 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7185 7186 usbcore.quirks= 7187 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7188 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7189 commas. Each entry has the form 7190 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7191 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7192 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7193 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7194 the following meanings: 7195 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7196 descriptors must not be fetched using 7197 a 255-byte read); 7198 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7199 correctly so reset it instead); 7200 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7201 Set-Interface requests); 7202 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7203 handle its Configuration or Interface 7204 strings); 7205 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7206 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7207 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7208 more interface descriptions than the 7209 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7210 talking to these interfaces); 7211 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7212 during initialization, after we read 7213 the device descriptor); 7214 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7215 high speed and super speed interrupt 7216 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7217 require the interval in microframes (1 7218 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7219 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7220 (bInterval-1). 7221 Devices with this quirk report their 7222 bInterval as the result of this 7223 calculation instead of the exponent 7224 variable used in the calculation); 7225 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7226 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7227 requests); 7228 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7229 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7230 remote wakeup capability); 7231 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7232 Power Management); 7233 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7234 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7235 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7236 calculation); 7237 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7238 to be disconnected before suspend to 7239 prevent spurious wakeup); 7240 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7241 pause after every control message); 7242 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7243 delay after resetting its port); 7244 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7245 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7246 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7247 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7248 7249 usbhid.mousepoll= 7250 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7251 7252 usbhid.jspoll= 7253 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7254 7255 usbhid.kbpoll= 7256 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7257 7258 usb-storage.delay_use= 7259 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7260 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7261 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7262 suffix with "ms". 7263 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7264 7265 usb-storage.quirks= 7266 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7267 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7268 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7269 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7270 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7271 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7272 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7273 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7274 of sense data, not on uas); 7275 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7276 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7277 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7278 device capacity by one sector); 7279 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7280 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7281 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7282 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7283 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7284 command, uas only); 7285 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7286 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7287 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7288 reported device capacity by one 7289 sector if the number is odd); 7290 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7291 device); 7292 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7293 command, uas only); 7294 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7295 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7296 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7297 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7298 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7299 not on uas); 7300 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7301 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7302 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7303 reported by the device, not on uas); 7304 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7305 by default, not on uas); 7306 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7307 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7308 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7309 Logical Unit); 7310 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7311 commands, uas only); 7312 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7313 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7314 medium is write-protected). 7315 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7316 even if the device claims no cache, 7317 not on uas) 7318 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7319 7320 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7321 Format: <int> 7322 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7323 1 - undefined instruction events 7324 2 - system calls 7325 4 - invalid data aborts 7326 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7327 16 - SIGBUS faults 7328 Example: user_debug=31 7329 7330 userpte= 7331 [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7332 7333 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7334 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7335 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7336 7337 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7338 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7339 7340 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7341 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7342 7343 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7344 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7345 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7346 7347 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7348 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7349 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7350 7351 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7352 alias for vdso32=0. 7353 7354 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7355 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7356 7357 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7358 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7359 7360 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7361 Format: [0|1] 7362 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7363 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7364 level and then send out the event to user space through 7365 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7366 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7367 brightness level. 7368 default: 1 7369 7370 virtio_mmio.device= 7371 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7372 7373 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7374 where: 7375 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7376 like K, M and G) 7377 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7378 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7379 request_irq()) 7380 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7381 example: 7382 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7383 7384 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7385 7386 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7387 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7388 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7389 Use vga=ask for menu. 7390 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7391 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7392 7393 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7394 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7395 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7396 All options are enabled by default, and this 7397 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7398 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7399 debugging features. 7400 7401 Available options are: 7402 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7403 - Disable all of the above options 7404 7405 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7406 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7407 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7408 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7409 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7410 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7411 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7412 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7413 7414 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7415 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7416 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7417 7418 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7419 Format: <command> 7420 7421 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7422 Format: <command> 7423 7424 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7425 Format: <command> 7426 7427 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7428 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7429 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7430 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7431 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7432 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7433 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7434 7435 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7436 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7437 readable. 7438 7439 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7440 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7441 page is not readable. 7442 7443 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7444 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7445 might break your system. 7446 7447 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7448 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7449 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7450 7451 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7452 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7453 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7454 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7455 7456 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7457 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7458 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7459 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7460 ranging from 0-255. 7461 7462 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7463 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7464 Change the default green palette of the console. 7465 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7466 ranging from 0-255. 7467 7468 vt.default_red= [VT] 7469 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7470 Change the default red palette of the console. 7471 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7472 ranging from 0-255. 7473 7474 vt.default_utf8= 7475 [VT] 7476 Format=<0|1> 7477 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7478 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7479 newly opened terminals. 7480 7481 vt.global_cursor_default= 7482 [VT] 7483 Format=<-1|0|1> 7484 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7485 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7486 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7487 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7488 cursors, 1 will display them. 7489 7490 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7491 Default: 2 = green. 7492 7493 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7494 Default: 3 = cyan. 7495 7496 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7497 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7498 or other driver-specific files in the 7499 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7500 7501 watchdog_thresh= 7502 [KNL] 7503 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7504 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7505 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7506 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7507 seconds. 7508 7509 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7510 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7511 to use in unbound workqueues. 7512 Format: <cpu-list> 7513 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7514 unbound workqueues. 7515 7516 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7517 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7518 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7519 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7520 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7521 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7522 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7523 corresponding sysfs file. 7524 7525 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 7526 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 7527 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 7528 stall to trigger panic. 7529 7530 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 7531 7532 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7533 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7534 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7535 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7536 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7537 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7538 7539 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7540 will report the work functions which violate this 7541 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7542 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7543 7544 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7545 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7546 will report the work functions which violate the 7547 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7548 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7549 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7550 7551 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7552 7553 workqueue.power_efficient 7554 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7555 they show better performance thanks to cache 7556 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7557 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7558 7559 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7560 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7561 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7562 power usage at the cost of small performance 7563 overhead. 7564 7565 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7566 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7567 7568 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7569 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7570 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7571 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7572 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7573 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7574 7575 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7576 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7577 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7578 updated accordingly. 7579 7580 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7581 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7582 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7583 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7584 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7585 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7586 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7587 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7588 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7589 impacted. 7590 7591 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7592 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7593 7594 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7595 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7596 7597 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7598 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7599 supporting x2apic. 7600 7601 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7602 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7603 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7604 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7605 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7606 domains. 7607 7608 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7609 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7610 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7611 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7612 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7613 nics -- unplug network devices 7614 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7615 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7616 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7617 the unplug protocol 7618 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7619 7620 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7621 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7622 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7623 7624 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7625 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 7626 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 7627 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 7628 debug data in case of multicall errors. 7629 7630 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7631 Format: <bool> 7632 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7633 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7634 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7635 7636 xen_nopv [X86] 7637 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7638 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7639 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7640 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7641 7642 xen_no_vector_callback 7643 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7644 event channel interrupts. 7645 7646 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7647 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7648 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7649 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7650 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7651 7652 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7653 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7654 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7655 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7656 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7657 more timer interrupts. 7658 7659 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7660 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7661 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7662 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7663 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7664 max. Default is 180. 7665 7666 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7667 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7668 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7669 7670 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7671 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7672 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7673 7674 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7675 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7676 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7677 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7678 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7679 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7680 7681 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7682 Format: 7683 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7684 7685 xive= [PPC] 7686 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7687 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7688 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7689 7690 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7691 controller on both pseries and powernv 7692 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7693 7694 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7695 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7696 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7697 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7698 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7699 7700 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7701 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7702 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7703 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7704 7705 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 7706 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7707 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7708 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7709 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7710 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7711 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7712 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7713 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7714 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7715 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7716 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7717 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7718 can be written using xmon commands. 7719 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7720 memory, and other data can't be written using 7721 xmon commands. 7722 off xmon is disabled. 7723