1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 292 Possible values are: 293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 295 flushed before they will be reused, which 296 is a lot of faster 297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 298 the system 299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 301 allowed anymore to lift isolation 302 requirements as needed. This option 303 does not override iommu=pt 304 305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 309 IOMMU initialization. 310 311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 313 remapping modes: 314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 316 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 319 320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 322 Format: <a>,<b> 323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 324 325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 327 connected to one of 16 gameports 328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 329 330 apc= [HW,SPARC] 331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 332 Format: noidle 333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 335 APC and your system crashes randomly. 336 337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 338 Change the output verbosity while booting 339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 340 Change the amount of debugging information output 341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 343 driver name. 344 Format: apic=driver_name 345 Examples: apic=bigsmp 346 347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 351 backup of CPU 0 352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 354 shot down by NMI 355 356 autoconf= [IPV6] 357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 358 359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 365 apic=verbose is specified. 366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 367 368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 370 371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 373 374 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 375 Identification support 376 377 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 378 support 379 380 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 381 382 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 383 384 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 385 EzKey and similar keyboards 386 387 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 388 389 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 390 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 391 392 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 393 keyboards 394 395 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 396 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 397 398 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 399 Use software keyboard repeat 400 401 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 402 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 403 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 404 enabled until the next reboot 405 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 406 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 407 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 408 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 409 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 410 userspace auditd. 411 Default: unset 412 413 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 414 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 415 Default: 64 416 417 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 418 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 419 Format: { "0" | "1" } 420 0 - Disable the BAU. 421 1 - Enable the BAU. 422 unset - Disable the BAU. 423 424 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 425 Format: <io>,<mode> 426 427 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 428 Format: <io>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 430 431 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 432 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 433 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 434 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 435 436 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 437 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 438 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 439 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 440 441 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 442 embedded devices based on command line input. 443 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 444 445 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 446 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 447 no delay (0). 448 Format: integer 449 450 bootconfig [KNL] 451 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 452 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 453 454 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 455 456 bert_disable [ACPI] 457 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 458 459 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 460 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 461 462 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 463 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 464 kernel args too. 465 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 466 bttv.tuner= 467 468 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 469 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 470 at a time. 471 472 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 473 474 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 475 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 476 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 477 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 478 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 479 This option provides an override for these situations. 480 481 carrier_timeout= 482 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 483 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 484 it waits 120 seconds. 485 486 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 487 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 488 trust validation. 489 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 490 491 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 492 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 493 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 494 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 495 others). 496 497 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 498 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 499 500 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 501 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 502 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 503 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 504 a single hierarchy 505 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 506 subsystem 507 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 508 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 509 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 510 511 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 512 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 513 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 514 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 515 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 516 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 517 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 518 all v1 hierarchies. 519 520 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 521 Format: <string> 522 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 523 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 524 525 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 526 Format: { "0" | "1" } 527 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 528 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 529 any implied execute protection). 530 1 -- check protection requested by application. 531 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 532 Value can be changed at runtime via 533 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 534 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 535 536 cio_ignore= [S390] 537 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 538 clk_ignore_unused 539 [CLK] 540 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 541 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 542 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 543 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 544 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 545 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 546 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 547 platform with proper driver support. For more 548 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 549 550 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 551 [Deprecated] 552 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 553 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 554 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 555 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 556 557 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 558 Format: <string> 559 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 560 with the name specified. 561 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 562 the platform: 563 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 564 [ACPI] acpi_pm 565 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 566 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 567 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 568 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 569 [MIPS] MIPS 570 [PARISC] cr16 571 [S390] tod 572 [SH] SuperH 573 [SPARC64] tick 574 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 575 576 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 577 [ARM,ARM64] 578 Format: <bool> 579 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 580 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 581 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 582 systems. 583 584 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 585 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 586 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 587 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 588 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 589 ones should be. 590 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 591 or using the feature without checking anything 592 will still see it. This just prevents it from 593 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 594 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 595 some critical bits. 596 597 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 598 [KNL,CMA] 599 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 600 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 601 placement constraint by the physical address range of 602 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 603 altogether. For more information, see 604 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 605 606 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 607 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 608 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 609 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 610 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 611 specificed, the default value is 0. 612 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 613 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 614 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 615 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 616 617 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 618 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 619 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 620 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 621 a hypervisor. 622 Default: yes 623 624 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 625 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 626 allocations, by default set to 256K. 627 628 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 629 Format: 630 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 631 632 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 633 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 634 635 com90xx= [HW,NET] 636 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 637 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 638 639 condev= [HW,S390] console device 640 conmode= 641 642 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 643 644 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 645 646 ttyS<n>[,options] 647 ttyUSB0[,options] 648 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 649 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 650 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 651 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 652 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 653 654 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 655 information. See 656 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 657 alternative. 658 659 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 660 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 661 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 662 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 663 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 664 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 665 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 666 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 667 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 668 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 669 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 670 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 671 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 672 the h/w is not re-initialized. 673 674 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 675 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 676 677 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 678 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 679 console=brl,ttyS0 680 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 681 682 console_msg_format= 683 [KNL] Change console messages format 684 default 685 By default we print messages on consoles in 686 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 687 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 688 `printk_time' param). 689 syslog 690 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 691 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 692 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 693 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 694 from /proc/kmsg. 695 696 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 697 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 698 Defaults to 0. 699 700 coredump_filter= 701 [KNL] Change the default value for 702 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 703 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 704 705 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 706 [ARM,ARM64] 707 Format: <bool> 708 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 709 0: default value, disable debugging 710 1: enable debugging at boot time 711 712 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 713 disable the cpuidle sub-system 714 715 cpuidle.governor= 716 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 717 718 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 719 disable the cpufreq sub-system 720 721 cpufreq.default_governor= 722 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 723 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 724 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 725 726 cpu_init_udelay=N 727 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 728 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 729 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 730 Default: 10000 731 732 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 733 Format: 734 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 735 736 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 737 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 738 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 739 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 740 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 741 is selected automatically. 742 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 743 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 744 hasn't been specified. 745 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 746 747 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 748 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 749 in the running system. The syntax of range is 750 start-[end] where start and end are both 751 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 752 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 753 754 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 755 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 756 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 757 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 758 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 759 available. 760 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 761 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 762 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 763 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 764 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 765 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 766 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 767 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 768 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 769 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 770 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 771 for second kernel instead. 772 0: to disable low allocation. 773 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 774 or memory reserved is below 4G. 775 776 cryptomgr.notests 777 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 778 779 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 780 Format: <dma> 781 782 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 783 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 784 785 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 786 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 787 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 788 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 789 to resolve the hang situation. 790 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 791 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 792 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 793 but more data) 794 795 dasd= [HW,NET] 796 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 797 798 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 799 (one device per port) 800 Format: <port#>,<type> 801 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 802 803 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 804 time. See 805 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 806 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 807 808 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 809 810 debug_boot_weak_hash 811 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 812 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 813 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 814 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 815 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 816 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 817 818 debug_locks_verbose= 819 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 820 Format: <int> 821 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 822 self-tests. 823 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 824 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 825 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 826 useful to lockdep developers. 827 828 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 829 830 no_debug_objects 831 [KNL] Disable object debugging 832 833 debug_guardpage_minorder= 834 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 835 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 836 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 837 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 838 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 839 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 840 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 841 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 842 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 843 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 844 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 845 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 846 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 847 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 848 bypassed) which are not detectable by 849 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 850 tracking down these problems. 851 852 debug_pagealloc= 853 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 854 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 855 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 856 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 857 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 858 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 859 on: enable the feature 860 861 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 862 and debugfs internal clients. 863 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 864 on: All functions are enabled. 865 no-mount: 866 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 867 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 868 its content. There is nothing to mount. 869 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 870 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 871 or directories within debugfs. 872 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 873 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 874 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 875 876 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 877 878 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 879 Format: <area>[,<node>] 880 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 881 882 default_hugepagesz= 883 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 884 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 885 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 886 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 887 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 888 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 889 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 890 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 891 Format: size[KMG] 892 893 deferred_probe_timeout= 894 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 895 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 896 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 897 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 898 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 899 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 900 retrying. 901 902 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 903 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 904 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 905 level 1 and decompression (default) 906 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 907 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 908 only (compression on level 1) 909 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 910 only (decompression) 911 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 912 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 913 914 dhash_entries= [KNL] 915 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 916 917 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 918 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 919 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 920 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 921 miss to occur. 922 923 stress_slb [PPC] 924 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 925 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 926 on kernel addresses. 927 928 disable= [IPV6] 929 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 930 931 hardened_usercopy= 932 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 933 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 934 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 935 from reading or writing beyond known memory 936 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 937 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 938 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 939 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 940 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 941 942 disable_radix [PPC] 943 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 944 945 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 946 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 947 invalidate. 948 949 disable_tlbie [PPC] 950 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 951 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 952 953 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 954 Format: <int> 955 The number of initial APIC ID for the 956 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 957 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 958 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 959 causing system reset or hang due to sending 960 INIT from AP to BSP. 961 962 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 963 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 964 to workaround buggy firmware. 965 966 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 967 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 968 969 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 970 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 971 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 972 entry later. This parameter disables that. 973 974 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 975 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 976 memory out of your available memory pool based on 977 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 978 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 979 980 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 981 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 982 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 983 984 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 985 986 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 987 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 988 989 dma_debug_entries=<number> 990 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 991 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 992 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 993 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 994 architectural default is too low. 995 996 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 997 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 998 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 999 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1000 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1001 driver later using sysfs. 1002 1003 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1004 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1005 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1006 1007 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1008 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1009 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1010 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1011 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1012 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1013 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1014 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1015 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1016 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1017 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1018 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1019 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1020 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1021 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1022 data set with no connector name will be used for 1023 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1024 1025 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1026 1027 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1028 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1029 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1030 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1031 exists). 1032 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1033 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1034 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1035 1036 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1037 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1038 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1039 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1040 1041 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1042 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1043 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1044 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1045 for details. 1046 1047 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1048 in some Intel CPUs. 1049 1050 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1051 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1052 1053 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1054 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1055 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1056 which are not unmapped. 1057 1058 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1059 1060 When used with no options, the early console is 1061 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1062 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1063 the platform. 1064 1065 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1067 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1068 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1069 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1070 configured. 1071 1072 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1073 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1074 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1075 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1076 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1077 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1078 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1079 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1080 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1081 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1082 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1083 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1084 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1085 1086 pl011,<addr> 1087 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1088 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1089 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1090 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1091 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1092 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1093 the device registers. 1094 1095 meson,<addr> 1096 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1097 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1098 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1099 supported. 1100 1101 msm_serial,<addr> 1102 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1103 port at the specified address. The serial port 1104 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1105 yet supported. 1106 1107 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1108 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1109 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1110 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1111 yet supported. 1112 1113 owl,<addr> 1114 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1115 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1116 specified address. The serial port must already be 1117 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1118 1119 rda,<addr> 1120 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1121 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1122 specified address. The serial port must already be 1123 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1124 1125 sbi 1126 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1127 console. 1128 1129 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1130 1131 s3c2410,<addr> 1132 s3c2412,<addr> 1133 s3c2440,<addr> 1134 s3c6400,<addr> 1135 s5pv210,<addr> 1136 exynos4210,<addr> 1137 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1138 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1139 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1140 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1141 Options are not yet supported. 1142 1143 lantiq,<addr> 1144 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1145 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1146 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1147 yet supported. 1148 1149 lpuart,<addr> 1150 lpuart32,<addr> 1151 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1152 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1153 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1154 port must already be setup and configured. 1155 1156 ec_imx21,<addr> 1157 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1158 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1159 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1160 must already be setup and configured. 1161 1162 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1163 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1164 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1165 address. The serial port must already be setup 1166 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1167 1168 qcom_geni,<addr> 1169 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1170 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1171 specified address. The serial port must already be 1172 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1173 1174 efifb,[options] 1175 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1176 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1177 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1178 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1179 mapped with the correct attributes. 1180 1181 linflex,<addr> 1182 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1183 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1184 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1185 already be setup and configured. 1186 1187 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1188 earlyprintk=vga 1189 earlyprintk=sclp 1190 earlyprintk=xen 1191 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1192 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1193 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1194 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1195 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1196 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1197 1198 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1199 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1200 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1201 1202 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1203 takes over. 1204 1205 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1206 be used at a time. 1207 1208 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1209 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1210 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1211 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1212 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1213 You can find the port for a given device in 1214 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1215 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1216 1217 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1218 very good. 1219 1220 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1221 the real console. 1222 1223 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1224 1225 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1226 1227 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1228 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1229 UART class. 1230 1231 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1232 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1233 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1234 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1235 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1236 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1237 default: on. 1238 1239 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1240 ekgdboc=kbd 1241 1242 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1243 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1244 1245 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1246 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1247 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1248 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1249 1250 edd= [EDD] 1251 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1252 1253 efi= [EFI] 1254 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1255 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1256 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1257 debug: enable misc debug output. 1258 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1259 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1260 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1261 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1262 firmware implementations. 1263 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1264 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1265 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1266 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1267 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1268 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1269 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1270 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1271 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1272 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1273 1274 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1275 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1276 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1277 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1278 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1279 1280 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1281 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1282 updating original EFI memory map. 1283 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1284 from ss to ss+nn. 1285 1286 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1287 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1288 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1289 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1290 1291 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1292 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1293 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1294 1295 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1296 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1297 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1298 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1299 "soft reserved". 1300 1301 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1302 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1303 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1304 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1305 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1306 1307 1308 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1309 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1310 1311 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1312 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1313 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1314 1315 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1316 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1317 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1318 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1319 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1320 1321 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1322 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1323 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1324 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1325 1326 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1327 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1328 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1329 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1330 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1331 1332 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1333 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1334 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1335 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1336 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1337 Default value is 0. 1338 Value can be changed at runtime via 1339 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1340 1341 erst_disable [ACPI] 1342 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1343 support. 1344 1345 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1346 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1347 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1348 1349 evm= [EVM] 1350 Format: { "fix" } 1351 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1352 current integrity status. 1353 1354 failslab= 1355 fail_usercopy= 1356 fail_page_alloc= 1357 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1358 General fault injection mechanism. 1359 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1360 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1361 1362 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1363 Format: { initns | none } 1364 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1365 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1366 1367 floppy= [HW] 1368 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1369 1370 force_pal_cache_flush 1371 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1372 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1373 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1374 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1375 1376 forcepae [X86-32] 1377 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1378 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1379 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1380 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1381 and may cause unknown problems. 1382 1383 ftrace=[tracer] 1384 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1385 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1386 boot debugging. 1387 1388 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1389 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1390 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1391 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1392 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1393 oops. 1394 1395 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1396 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1397 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1398 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1399 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1400 tracing directory. 1401 1402 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1403 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1404 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1405 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1406 tracing directory. 1407 1408 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1409 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1410 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1411 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1412 that can be changed at run time by the 1413 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1414 1415 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1416 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1417 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1418 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1419 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1420 1421 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1422 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1423 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1424 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1425 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1426 1427 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1428 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1429 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1430 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1431 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1432 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1433 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1434 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1435 suppliers). 1436 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1437 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1438 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1439 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1440 up (sync_state() calls). 1441 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1442 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1443 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1444 1445 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1446 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1447 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1448 Format: <bool> 1449 1450 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1451 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1452 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1453 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1454 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1455 1456 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1457 1458 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1459 Format: off | on 1460 default: on 1461 1462 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1463 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1464 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1465 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1466 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1467 1468 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1469 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1470 android emulator 1471 1472 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1473 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1474 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1475 GPT to be used instead. 1476 1477 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1478 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1479 Format: 0 | 1 1480 Default: 0 1481 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1482 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1483 Format: 0 | 1 1484 Default: 0 1485 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1486 Format: 0 | 1 1487 Default: 0 1488 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1489 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1490 Default: 1024 1491 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1492 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1493 Default: 1024 1494 1495 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1496 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1497 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1498 1499 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1500 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1501 backtraces on all cpus. 1502 Format: 0 | 1 1503 1504 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1505 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1506 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1507 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1508 1509 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1510 1511 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1512 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1513 1514 hest_disable [ACPI] 1515 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1516 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1517 logic will be disabled. 1518 1519 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1520 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1521 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1522 size on bigger boxes. 1523 1524 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1525 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1526 Default: "on" 1527 1528 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1529 1530 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1531 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1532 verbose } 1533 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1534 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1535 VIA, nVidia) 1536 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1537 1538 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1539 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1540 1541 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1542 of gigantic hugepages. 1543 Format: nn[KMGTPE] 1544 1545 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1546 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1547 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1548 1549 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1550 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1551 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1552 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1553 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1554 the default huge page size. See also 1555 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1556 Format: <integer> 1557 1558 hugepagesz= 1559 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1560 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1561 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1562 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1563 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1564 architecture dependent. See also 1565 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1566 Format: size[KMG] 1567 1568 hung_task_panic= 1569 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1570 Format: 0 | 1 1571 1572 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1573 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1574 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1575 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1576 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1577 1578 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1579 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1580 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1581 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1582 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1583 1584 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1585 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1586 guest on lock contention. 1587 1588 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1589 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1590 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1591 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1592 the real console. 1593 1594 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1595 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1596 registered from board initialization code. 1597 Format: 1598 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1599 1600 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1601 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1602 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1603 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1604 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1605 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1606 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1607 keyboard and cannot control its state 1608 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1609 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1610 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1611 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1612 for the AUX port 1613 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1614 controller 1615 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1616 controllers 1617 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1618 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1619 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1620 transitions, or never reset 1621 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1622 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1623 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1624 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1625 architectures force reset to be always executed 1626 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1627 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1628 1629 i810= [HW,DRM] 1630 1631 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1632 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1633 hardware. 1634 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1635 does not match list of supported models. 1636 i8k.power_status 1637 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1638 (disabled by default) 1639 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1640 capability is set. 1641 1642 i915.invert_brightness= 1643 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1644 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1645 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1646 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1647 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1648 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1649 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1650 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1651 value switches the backlight off. 1652 -1 -- never invert brightness 1653 0 -- machine default 1654 1 -- force brightness inversion 1655 1656 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1657 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1658 1659 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1660 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1661 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1662 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1663 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1664 1665 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1666 Format: <int> 1667 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1668 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1669 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1670 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1671 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1672 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1673 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1674 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1675 was 0x3. 1676 1677 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1678 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1679 1680 idle= [X86] 1681 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1682 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1683 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1684 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1685 Not recommended. 1686 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1687 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1688 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1689 1690 idxd.sva= [HW] 1691 Format: <bool> 1692 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1693 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1694 true (1). 1695 1696 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1697 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1698 Default: strict 1699 1700 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1701 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1702 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1703 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1704 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1705 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1706 encoding mode. 1707 1708 Available settings are as follows: 1709 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1710 supported by the FPU 1711 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1712 by the FPU 1713 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1714 by the FPU 1715 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1716 supported by the FPU 1717 1718 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1719 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1720 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1721 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1722 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1723 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1724 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1725 MIPS64 CPUs. 1726 1727 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1728 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1729 except where unsupported by hardware. 1730 1731 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1732 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1733 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1734 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1735 could change it dynamically, usually by 1736 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1737 1738 ignore_rlimit_data 1739 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1740 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1741 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1742 1743 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1744 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1745 1746 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1747 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1748 default: "enforce" 1749 1750 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1751 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1752 owned by uid=0. 1753 1754 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1755 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1756 measurements, instead of host native format. 1757 1758 ima_hash= [IMA] 1759 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1760 | sha512 | ... } 1761 default: "sha1" 1762 1763 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1764 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1765 1766 ima_policy= [IMA] 1767 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1768 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1769 fail_securely | critical_data" 1770 1771 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1772 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1773 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1774 uid=0. 1775 1776 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1777 all files owned by root. 1778 1779 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1780 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1781 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1782 1783 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1784 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1785 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1786 flag. 1787 1788 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1789 critical data. 1790 1791 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1792 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1793 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1794 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1795 opened for read by uid=0. 1796 1797 ima_template= [IMA] 1798 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1799 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1800 Default: "ima-ng" 1801 1802 ima_template_fmt= 1803 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1804 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1805 1806 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1807 Format: <min_file_size> 1808 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1809 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1810 1811 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1812 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1813 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1814 1815 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1816 Format: <bufsize> 1817 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1818 1819 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1820 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1821 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1822 1823 init= [KNL] 1824 Format: <full_path> 1825 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1826 process. 1827 1828 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1829 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1830 startup. 1831 1832 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1833 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1834 modules and initcalls. 1835 1836 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1837 1838 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1839 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1840 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1841 setting. 1842 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1843 Default is 0, 0 1844 1845 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1846 zeroes. 1847 Format: 0 | 1 1848 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1849 1850 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1851 Format: 0 | 1 1852 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1853 1854 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1855 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1856 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1857 override in debugfs after boot. 1858 1859 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1860 Format: <irq> 1861 1862 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1863 1864 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1865 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1866 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1867 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1868 1869 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1870 on 1871 Enable intel iommu driver. 1872 off 1873 Disable intel iommu driver. 1874 igfx_off [Default Off] 1875 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1876 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1877 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1878 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1879 DMA. 1880 forcedac [X86-64] 1881 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1882 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1883 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1884 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1885 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1886 then look in the higher range. 1887 strict [Default Off] 1888 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1889 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1890 to batching them for performance. 1891 sp_off [Default Off] 1892 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1893 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1894 not be supported. 1895 sm_on [Default Off] 1896 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1897 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1898 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1899 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1900 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1901 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1902 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1903 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1904 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1905 mapping is enabled. 1906 Note that using this option lowers the security 1907 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1908 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1909 1910 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1911 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1912 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1913 1914 intel_pstate= [X86] 1915 disable 1916 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1917 scaling driver for the supported processors 1918 passive 1919 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1920 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1921 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1922 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1923 feature. 1924 force 1925 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1926 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1927 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1928 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1929 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1930 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1931 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1932 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1933 no_hwp 1934 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1935 if available. 1936 hwp_only 1937 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1938 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1939 support_acpi_ppc 1940 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1941 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1942 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1943 then this feature is turned on by default. 1944 per_cpu_perf_limits 1945 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1946 cpufreq sysfs interface 1947 1948 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1949 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1950 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1951 nosid disable Source ID checking 1952 no_x2apic_optout 1953 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1954 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1955 1956 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1957 strict regions from userspace. 1958 relaxed 1959 1960 iommu= [X86] 1961 off 1962 force 1963 noforce 1964 biomerge 1965 panic 1966 nopanic 1967 merge 1968 nomerge 1969 soft 1970 pt [X86] 1971 nopt [X86] 1972 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1973 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1974 1975 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1976 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1977 0 - Lazy mode. 1978 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1979 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1980 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1981 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1982 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1983 1 - Strict mode (default). 1984 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1985 synchronously. 1986 1987 iommu.passthrough= 1988 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1989 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1990 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1991 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1992 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1993 1994 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 1995 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1996 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1997 1998 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1999 0x80 2000 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2001 0xed 2002 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2003 udelay 2004 Simple two microseconds delay 2005 none 2006 No delay 2007 2008 ip= [IP_PNP] 2009 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2010 2011 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2012 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2013 2014 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2015 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2016 2017 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2018 [ARM, ARM64] 2019 Format: <bool> 2020 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2021 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2022 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2023 2024 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2025 [ARM, ARM64] 2026 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2027 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2028 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2029 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2030 LPIs. 2031 2032 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2033 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2034 requires the kernel to be built with 2035 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2036 2037 irqfixup [HW] 2038 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2039 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2040 firmware running. 2041 2042 irqpoll [HW] 2043 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2044 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2045 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2046 firmware running. 2047 2048 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2049 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2050 2051 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2052 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2053 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2054 2055 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2056 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2057 2058 nohz 2059 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2060 2061 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2062 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2063 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2064 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2065 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2066 2067 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2068 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2069 be configured manually after bootup. 2070 2071 domain 2072 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2073 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2074 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2075 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2076 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2077 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2078 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2079 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2080 2081 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2082 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2083 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2084 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2085 2086 managed_irq 2087 2088 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2089 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2090 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2091 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2092 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2093 2094 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2095 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2096 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2097 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2098 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2099 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2100 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2101 2102 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2103 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2104 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2105 only delivered when tasks running on those 2106 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2107 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2108 queues. 2109 2110 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2111 2112 iucv= [HW,NET] 2113 2114 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2115 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2116 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2117 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2118 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2119 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2120 2121 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2122 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2123 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2124 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2125 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2126 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2127 2128 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2129 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2130 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2131 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2132 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2133 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2134 2135 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2136 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2137 2138 nokaslr [KNL] 2139 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2140 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2141 Layout Randomization). 2142 2143 kasan_multi_shot 2144 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2145 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2146 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2147 invalid access. 2148 2149 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2150 2151 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2152 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2153 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2154 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2155 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2156 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2157 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2158 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2159 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2160 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2161 2162 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2163 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2164 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2165 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2166 zone if it does not. 2167 2168 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2169 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2170 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2171 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2172 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2173 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2174 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2175 2176 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2177 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2178 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2179 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2180 optional and is the number seconds in between 2181 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2182 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2183 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2184 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2185 the kernel debugger. 2186 2187 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2188 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2189 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2190 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2191 keyboard only format: kbd 2192 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2193 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2194 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2195 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2196 2197 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2198 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2199 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2200 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2201 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2202 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2203 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2204 2205 The name of the early console should be specified 2206 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2207 the early console might be different than the tty 2208 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2209 blank and the first boot console that implements 2210 read() will be picked. 2211 2212 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2213 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2214 2215 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2216 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2217 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2218 2219 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2220 Valid arguments: on, off 2221 Default: on 2222 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2223 the default is off. 2224 2225 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2226 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2227 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2228 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2229 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2230 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2231 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2232 2233 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2234 2235 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2236 Boot Parameter" section. 2237 2238 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2239 and kernel address spaces. 2240 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2241 0: force disabled 2242 1: force enabled 2243 2244 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2245 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2246 2247 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2248 Default is false (don't support). 2249 2250 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2251 KVM MMU at runtime. 2252 Default is 0 (off) 2253 2254 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2255 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2256 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2257 force : Always deploy workaround. 2258 off : Never deploy workaround. 2259 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2260 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2261 2262 Default is 'auto'. 2263 2264 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2265 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2266 2267 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2268 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2269 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2270 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2271 minute. The default is 60. 2272 2273 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2274 Default is 1 (enabled) 2275 2276 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2277 for all guests. 2278 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2279 2280 kvm-arm.mode= 2281 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2282 2283 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2284 protected guests. 2285 2286 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2287 state is kept private from the host. 2288 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2289 2290 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. 2291 2292 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2293 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2294 system registers 2295 2296 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2297 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2298 system registers 2299 2300 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2301 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2302 system registers 2303 2304 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2305 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2306 LPIs. 2307 2308 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2309 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2310 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2311 allocation. 2312 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2313 Format: <integer> 2314 Default: 5 2315 2316 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2317 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2318 Default is 1 (enabled) 2319 2320 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2321 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2322 Default is 0 (disabled) 2323 2324 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2325 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2326 Default is 1 (enabled) 2327 2328 kvm-intel.nested= 2329 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2330 Default is 0 (disabled) 2331 2332 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2333 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2334 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2335 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2336 2337 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2338 CVE-2018-3620. 2339 2340 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2341 2342 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2343 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2344 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2345 never: Disables the mitigation 2346 2347 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2348 2349 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2350 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2351 Default is 1 (enabled) 2352 2353 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2354 affected CPUs 2355 2356 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2357 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2358 2359 full 2360 Provides all available mitigations for the 2361 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2362 enables all mitigations in the 2363 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2364 2365 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2366 sysfs interface is still possible after 2367 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2368 when the first VM is started in a 2369 potentially insecure configuration, 2370 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2371 2372 full,force 2373 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2374 flush runtime control. Implies the 2375 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2376 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2377 2378 flush 2379 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2380 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2381 L1D flush. 2382 2383 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2384 sysfs interface is still possible after 2385 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2386 when the first VM is started in a 2387 potentially insecure configuration, 2388 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2389 2390 flush,nosmt 2391 2392 Disables SMT and enables the default 2393 hypervisor mitigation. 2394 2395 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2396 sysfs interface is still possible after 2397 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2398 when the first VM is started in a 2399 potentially insecure configuration, 2400 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2401 2402 flush,nowarn 2403 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2404 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2405 insecure configuration. 2406 2407 off 2408 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2409 emit any warnings. 2410 It also drops the swap size and available 2411 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2412 bare metal. 2413 2414 Default is 'flush'. 2415 2416 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2417 2418 l2cr= [PPC] 2419 2420 l3cr= [PPC] 2421 2422 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2423 disabled it. 2424 2425 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2426 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2427 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2428 Format: notscdeadline 2429 2430 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2431 in C2 power state. 2432 2433 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2434 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2435 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2436 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2437 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2438 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2439 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2440 2441 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2442 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2443 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2444 2445 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2446 when set. 2447 Format: <int> 2448 2449 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2450 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2451 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2452 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2453 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2454 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2455 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2456 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2457 2458 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2459 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2460 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2461 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2462 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2463 host link and device attached to it. 2464 2465 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2466 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2467 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2468 The following configurations can be forced. 2469 2470 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2471 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2472 2473 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2474 2475 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2476 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2477 allowed. 2478 2479 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2480 2481 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2482 2483 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2484 and both resets. 2485 2486 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2487 hot-unplug link recovery 2488 2489 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2490 2491 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2492 2493 * disable: Disable this device. 2494 2495 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2496 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2497 2498 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2499 2500 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2501 2502 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2503 Format: <integer> 2504 2505 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2506 Format: <integer> 2507 2508 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2509 Format: <integer> 2510 2511 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2512 Format: <integer> 2513 2514 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2515 { integrity | confidentiality } 2516 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2517 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2518 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2519 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2520 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2521 are also disabled. 2522 2523 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2524 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2525 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2526 number of online CPUs. 2527 2528 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2529 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2530 2531 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2532 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2533 2534 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2535 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2536 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2537 2538 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2539 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2540 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2541 mode during the locktorture test. 2542 2543 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2544 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2545 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2546 2547 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2548 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2549 2550 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2551 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2552 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2553 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2554 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2555 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2556 2557 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2558 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2559 2560 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2561 Enable additional printk() statements. 2562 2563 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2564 Format: <irq> 2565 2566 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2567 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2568 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2569 loglevels are defined as follows: 2570 2571 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2572 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2573 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2574 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2575 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2576 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2577 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2578 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2579 2580 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2581 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2582 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2583 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2584 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2585 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2586 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2587 2588 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2589 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2590 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2591 kernel boot problems. 2592 2593 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2594 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2595 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2596 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2597 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2598 attached printers to be reset. Using 2599 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2600 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2601 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2602 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2603 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2604 port specification list means that device IDs 2605 from each port should be examined, to see if 2606 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2607 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2608 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2609 2610 lpj=n [KNL] 2611 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2612 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2613 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2614 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2615 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2616 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2617 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2618 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2619 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2620 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2621 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2622 hardware. 2623 2624 ltpc= [NET] 2625 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2626 2627 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2628 2629 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2630 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2631 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2632 2633 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2634 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2635 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2636 2637 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2638 different yeeloong laptops. 2639 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2640 2641 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2642 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2643 2644 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2645 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2646 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2647 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2648 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2649 only takes effect during system bootup. 2650 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2651 which also disables the IO APIC. 2652 2653 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2654 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2655 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2656 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2657 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2658 /dev/loop-control interface. 2659 2660 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2661 2662 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2663 2664 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2665 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2666 2667 mdacon= [MDA] 2668 Format: <first>,<last> 2669 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2670 2671 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2672 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2673 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2674 2675 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2676 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2677 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2678 2679 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2680 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2681 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2682 not have direct access. 2683 2684 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2685 options are: 2686 2687 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2688 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2689 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2690 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2691 2692 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2693 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2694 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2695 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2696 too. 2697 2698 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2699 mds=full. 2700 2701 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2702 2703 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2704 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2705 2706 1 for test; 2707 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2708 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2709 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2710 2711 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2712 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2713 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2714 belonging to unused RAM. 2715 2716 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2717 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2718 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2719 2720 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2721 memory. 2722 2723 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2724 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2725 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2726 2727 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2728 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2729 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2730 set according to the 2731 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2732 option. 2733 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2734 2735 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2736 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2737 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2738 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2739 option description. 2740 2741 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2742 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2743 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2744 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2745 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2746 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2747 comma delimited. 2748 Example: 2749 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2750 2751 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2752 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2753 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2754 2755 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2756 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2757 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2758 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2759 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2760 or 2761 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2762 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2763 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2764 will be eaten. 2765 2766 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2767 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2768 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2769 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2770 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2771 2772 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2773 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2774 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2775 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2776 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2777 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2778 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2779 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2780 2781 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2782 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2783 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2784 Setting this option will scan the memory 2785 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2786 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2787 from using the memory being corrupted. 2788 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2789 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2790 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2791 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2792 2793 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2794 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2795 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2796 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2797 corruption in more or less memory. 2798 2799 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2800 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2801 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2802 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2803 2804 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2805 Format: <integer> 2806 default : 0 <disable> 2807 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2808 performed. Each pass selects another test 2809 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2810 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2811 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2812 regions that are detected. 2813 2814 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2815 Valid arguments: on, off 2816 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2817 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2818 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2819 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2820 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2821 2822 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2823 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2824 2825 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2826 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2827 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2828 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2829 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2830 2831 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2832 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2833 2834 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2835 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2836 platforms. 2837 2838 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2839 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2840 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2841 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2842 2843 mga= [HW,DRM] 2844 2845 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2846 physical address is ignored. 2847 2848 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2849 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2850 Default: "0tb" 2851 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2852 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2853 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2854 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2855 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2856 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2857 unconfigured. 2858 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2859 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2860 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2861 VGA shield. 2862 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2863 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2864 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2865 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2866 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2867 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2868 2869 mitigations= 2870 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2871 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2872 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2873 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2874 2875 off 2876 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2877 improves system performance, but it may also 2878 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2879 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2880 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2881 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2882 nobp=0 [S390] 2883 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2884 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2885 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2886 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2887 l1tf=off [X86] 2888 mds=off [X86] 2889 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2890 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2891 no_entry_flush [PPC] 2892 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 2893 2894 Exceptions: 2895 This does not have any effect on 2896 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2897 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2898 2899 auto (default) 2900 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2901 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2902 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2903 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2904 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2905 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2906 2907 auto,nosmt 2908 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2909 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2910 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2911 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2912 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2913 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2914 2915 mminit_loglevel= 2916 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2917 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2918 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2919 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2920 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2921 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2922 2923 module.sig_enforce 2924 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2925 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2926 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2927 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2928 2929 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2930 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2931 2932 mousedev.tap_time= 2933 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2934 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2935 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2936 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2937 Format: <msecs> 2938 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2939 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2940 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2941 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2942 2943 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2944 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2945 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2946 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2947 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2948 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2949 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2950 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2951 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2952 is not too small. 2953 2954 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2955 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2956 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2957 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2958 allocations. Use with caution! 2959 2960 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2961 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2962 2963 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2964 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2965 2966 mtdparts= [MTD] 2967 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 2968 2969 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2970 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2971 at a time. 2972 2973 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2974 2975 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2976 2977 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2978 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2979 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2980 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2981 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2982 2983 mtdset= [ARM] 2984 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2985 2986 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 2987 2988 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2989 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2990 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2991 2992 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2993 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2994 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2995 2996 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2997 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2998 Default is 1. 2999 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3000 using up MTRRs. 3001 3002 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3003 Format: <integer> 3004 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3005 Default : 1 3006 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3007 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3008 3009 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3010 3011 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3012 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3013 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3014 something different and driver-specific. 3015 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3016 file if at all. 3017 3018 nf_conntrack.acct= 3019 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3020 0 to disable accounting 3021 1 to enable accounting 3022 Default value is 0. 3023 3024 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3025 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3026 3027 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3028 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3029 3030 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3031 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3032 3033 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3034 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3035 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3036 requests. 3037 3038 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3039 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3040 channel should listen. 3041 3042 nfs.cache_getent= 3043 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3044 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3045 3046 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3047 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3048 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3049 3050 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3051 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3052 entries. 3053 3054 nfs.enable_ino64= 3055 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3056 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3057 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3058 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3059 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3060 3061 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3062 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3063 slots the client will assign to the callback 3064 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3065 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3066 a particular server. 3067 3068 nfs.max_session_slots= 3069 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3070 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3071 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3072 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3073 Note that there is little point in setting this 3074 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3075 3076 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3077 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3078 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3079 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3080 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3081 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3082 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3083 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3084 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3085 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3086 back to using the idmapper. 3087 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3088 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3089 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3090 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3091 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3092 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3093 3094 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3095 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3096 information in exchange_id requests. 3097 If zero, no implementation identification information 3098 will be sent. 3099 The default is to send the implementation identification 3100 information. 3101 3102 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3103 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3104 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3105 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3106 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3107 after the locks are lost. 3108 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3109 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3110 parameter to '1'. 3111 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3112 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3113 3114 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3115 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3116 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3117 3118 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3119 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3120 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3121 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3122 3123 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3124 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3125 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3126 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3127 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3128 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3129 3130 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3131 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3132 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3133 3134 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3135 when a NMI is triggered. 3136 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3137 3138 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3139 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3140 Valid num: 0 or 1 3141 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3142 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3143 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3144 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3145 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3146 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3147 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3148 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3149 need the box quickly up again. 3150 3151 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3152 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3153 3154 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3155 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3156 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3157 waits 4 seconds. 3158 3159 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3160 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3161 is present. 3162 3163 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3164 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3165 3166 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3167 3168 no_console_suspend 3169 [HW] Never suspend the console 3170 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3171 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3172 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3173 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3174 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3175 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3176 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3177 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3178 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3179 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3180 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3181 turn on/off it dynamically. 3182 3183 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3184 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3185 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3186 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3187 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3188 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3189 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3190 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3191 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3192 is set. 3193 3194 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3195 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3196 but will impact performance. 3197 3198 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3199 3200 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3201 (CPU alternatives feature). 3202 3203 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3204 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3205 3206 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3207 3208 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3209 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3210 3211 nocache [ARM] 3212 3213 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3214 3215 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3216 3217 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3218 3219 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3220 3221 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3222 3223 noexec [IA-64] 3224 3225 noexec [X86] 3226 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3227 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3228 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3229 3230 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3231 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3232 even if it is supported by processor. 3233 3234 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3235 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3236 even if it is supported by processor. 3237 3238 noexec32 [X86-64] 3239 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3240 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3241 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3242 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3243 read implies executable mappings 3244 3245 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3246 3247 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3248 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3249 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3250 3251 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3252 3253 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3254 Equivalent to smt=1. 3255 3256 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3257 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3258 via the sysfs control file. 3259 3260 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3261 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3262 possible in the system. 3263 3264 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3265 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3266 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3267 option. 3268 3269 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3270 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3271 3272 no_uaccess_flush 3273 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3274 3275 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3276 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3277 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3278 3279 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3280 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3281 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3282 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3283 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3284 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3285 3286 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3287 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3288 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3289 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3290 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3291 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3292 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3293 3294 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3295 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3296 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3297 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3298 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3299 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3300 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3301 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3302 3303 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3304 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3305 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3306 3307 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3308 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3309 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3310 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3311 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3312 real-time systems. 3313 3314 no_hash_pointers 3315 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3316 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3317 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3318 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3319 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3320 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3321 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3322 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3323 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3324 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be 3325 hashed. This option should only be specified when 3326 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3327 kernels. 3328 3329 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3330 3331 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3332 Valid arguments: on, off 3333 Default: on 3334 3335 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3336 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3337 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3338 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3339 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3340 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3341 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3342 just as if they had also been called out in the 3343 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3344 3345 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3346 3347 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3348 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3349 3350 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3351 broken timer IRQ sources. 3352 3353 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3354 3355 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3356 initial RAM disk. 3357 3358 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3359 remapping. 3360 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3361 3362 nointroute [IA-64] 3363 3364 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3365 3366 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3367 3368 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3369 3370 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3371 fault handling. 3372 3373 no-vmw-sched-clock 3374 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3375 clock and use the default one. 3376 3377 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3378 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3379 influence scheduler behaviour 3380 3381 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3382 3383 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3384 3385 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3386 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3387 3388 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3389 3390 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3391 3392 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3393 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3394 3395 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3396 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3397 irq. 3398 3399 nomodule Disable module load 3400 3401 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3402 pagetables) support. 3403 3404 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3405 3406 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3407 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3408 3409 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3410 with UP alternatives 3411 3412 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3413 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3414 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3415 available to user space applications. 3416 3417 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3418 space. 3419 3420 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3421 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3422 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3423 3424 nosbagart [IA-64] 3425 3426 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3427 3428 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3429 3430 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3431 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3432 3433 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3434 3435 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3436 3437 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3438 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3439 3440 nowb [ARM] 3441 3442 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3443 3444 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3445 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3446 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3447 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3448 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3449 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3450 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3451 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3452 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3453 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3454 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3455 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3456 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3457 3458 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3459 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3460 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3461 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3462 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3463 parameter's value. 3464 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3465 Default: 255 3466 3467 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3468 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3469 SAL PALO. 3470 3471 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3472 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3473 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3474 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3475 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3476 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3477 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3478 hot plugging. 3479 3480 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3481 3482 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3483 NUMA balancing. 3484 Allowed values are enable and disable 3485 3486 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3487 'node', 'default' can be specified 3488 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3489 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3490 3491 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3492 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3493 info. 3494 3495 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3496 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3497 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3498 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3499 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3500 interrupts *may* be lost! 3501 3502 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3503 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3504 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3505 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3506 3507 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3508 process, but there is a small probability of 3509 deadlocking the machine. 3510 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3511 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3512 3513 page_alloc.shuffle= 3514 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3515 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3516 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3517 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3518 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3519 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3520 can be read from sysfs at: 3521 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3522 3523 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3524 Storage of the information about who allocated 3525 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3526 we can turn it on. 3527 on: enable the feature 3528 3529 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3530 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3531 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3532 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3533 on: turn on poisoning 3534 3535 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3536 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3537 timeout = 0: wait forever 3538 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3539 Format: <timeout> 3540 3541 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3542 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3543 bit 0: print all tasks info 3544 bit 1: print system memory info 3545 bit 2: print timer info 3546 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3547 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3548 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3549 3550 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3551 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3552 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3553 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3554 called with any of the flags in this set. 3555 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3556 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3557 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3558 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3559 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3560 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3561 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3562 3563 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3564 on a WARN(). 3565 3566 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3567 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3568 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3569 succeeds in any situation. 3570 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3571 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3572 kernel more unstable. 3573 3574 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3575 connected to, default is 0. 3576 Format: <parport#> 3577 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3578 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3579 Format: <mode> 3580 3581 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3582 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3583 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3584 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3585 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3586 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3587 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3588 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3589 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3590 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3591 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3592 are specified on the command line, starting 3593 with parport0. 3594 3595 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3596 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3597 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3598 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3599 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3600 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3601 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3602 3603 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3604 Format: <int> 3605 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3606 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3607 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3608 3609 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3610 Format: <int> 3611 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3612 changes. Disabled by default. 3613 3614 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3615 Format: <int> 3616 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3617 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3618 Disabled by default. 3619 3620 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3621 Format: <int> 3622 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3623 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3624 Disabled by default. 3625 3626 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3627 Format: <int> 3628 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3629 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3630 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3631 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3632 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3633 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3634 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3635 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3636 all channels. 3637 3638 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3639 Format: <int> 3640 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3641 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3642 respectively. Disabled by default. 3643 3644 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3645 Format: <int> 3646 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3647 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3648 respectively. Disabled by default. 3649 3650 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3651 Format: <int> 3652 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3653 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3654 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3655 All modes allowed by default. 3656 3657 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3658 Format: <int> 3659 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3660 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3661 3662 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3663 Format: <int> 3664 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3665 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3666 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3667 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3668 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3669 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3670 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3671 By default all supported ports are probed. 3672 3673 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3674 Format: <int> 3675 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3676 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3677 3678 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3679 Format: <int> 3680 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3681 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3682 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3683 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3684 0 otherwise. 3685 3686 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3687 Format: <int> 3688 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3689 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3690 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3691 allowed by default. 3692 3693 pause_on_oops= 3694 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3695 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3696 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3697 3698 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3699 3700 pcd. [PARIDE] 3701 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3702 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3703 3704 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3705 3706 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3707 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3708 specified in one of the following formats: 3709 3710 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3711 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3712 3713 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3714 bus/device/function address which may change 3715 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3716 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3717 by other kernel parameters. If the 3718 domain is left unspecified, it is 3719 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3720 to a device through multiple device/function 3721 addresses can be specified after the base 3722 address (this is more robust against 3723 renumbering issues). The second format 3724 selects devices using IDs from the 3725 configuration space which may match multiple 3726 devices in the system. 3727 3728 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3729 changes anything 3730 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3731 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3732 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3733 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3734 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3735 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3736 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3737 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3738 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3739 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3740 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3741 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3742 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3743 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3744 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3745 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3746 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3747 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3748 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3749 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3750 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3751 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3752 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3753 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3754 Configuration 3755 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3756 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3757 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3758 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3759 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3760 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3761 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3762 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3763 should never be necessary. 3764 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3765 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3766 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3767 when the system masks IRQs. 3768 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3769 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3770 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3771 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3772 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3773 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3774 on several machines and they hang the machine 3775 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3776 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3777 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3778 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3779 motherboard. 3780 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3781 Use with caution as certain devices share 3782 address decoders between ROMs and other 3783 resources. 3784 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3785 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3786 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3787 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3788 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3789 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3790 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3791 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3792 this way. 3793 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3794 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3795 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3796 F0000h-100000h range. 3797 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3798 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3799 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3800 explicitly which ones they are. 3801 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3802 numbers ourselves, overriding 3803 whatever the firmware may have done. 3804 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3805 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3806 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3807 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3808 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3809 IRQ routing is enabled. 3810 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3811 or for PCI scanning. 3812 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3813 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3814 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3815 please report a bug. 3816 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3817 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3818 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3819 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3820 so this option is a temporary workaround 3821 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3822 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3823 handle more pci cards 3824 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3825 This might help on some broken boards which 3826 machine check when some devices' config space 3827 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3828 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3829 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3830 This sorting is done to get a device 3831 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3832 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3833 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3834 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3835 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3836 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3837 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3838 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3839 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3840 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3841 or bus can support) for best performance. 3842 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3843 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3844 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3845 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3846 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3847 that hot-added devices will work. 3848 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3849 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3850 The default value is 256 bytes. 3851 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3852 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3853 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3854 resource_alignment= 3855 Format: 3856 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3857 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3858 aligned memory resources. How to 3859 specify the device is described above. 3860 If <order of align> is not specified, 3861 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3862 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3863 windows need to be expanded. 3864 To specify the alignment for several 3865 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3866 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3867 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3868 for 4096-byte alignment. 3869 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3870 end-to-end CRC checking). 3871 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3872 the default. 3873 off: Turn ECRC off 3874 on: Turn ECRC on. 3875 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3876 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3877 Default size is 256 bytes. 3878 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3879 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3880 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3881 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3882 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3883 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3884 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3885 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3886 MMIO_PREF window. 3887 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3888 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3889 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3890 Default is 1. 3891 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3892 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3893 accommodate resources required by all child 3894 devices. 3895 off: Turn realloc off 3896 on: Turn realloc on 3897 realloc same as realloc=on 3898 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3899 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3900 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3901 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3902 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3903 port. 3904 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3905 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3906 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3907 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3908 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3909 taints the kernel. 3910 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3911 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3912 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3913 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3914 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3915 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3916 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3917 this removes isolation between devices and 3918 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3919 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3920 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3921 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 3922 one PCI domain per PCI function 3923 3924 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3925 Management. 3926 off Disable ASPM. 3927 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3928 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3929 3930 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3931 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3932 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3933 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3934 also tries to use these services. 3935 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3936 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3937 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3938 hotplug). 3939 3940 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3941 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3942 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3943 3944 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3945 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3946 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3947 3948 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3949 3950 pd_ignore_unused 3951 [PM] 3952 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3953 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3954 for debug and development, but should not be 3955 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3956 3957 pd. [PARIDE] 3958 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3959 3960 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3961 boot time. 3962 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3963 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3964 3965 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3966 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3967 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3968 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3969 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3970 and performance comparison. 3971 3972 pf. [PARIDE] 3973 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3974 3975 pg. [PARIDE] 3976 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3977 3978 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3979 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3980 3981 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3982 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3983 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3984 3985 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3986 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3987 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3988 3989 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 3990 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 3991 3992 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3993 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3994 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3995 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3996 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3997 possible settings and some assignment information. 3998 3999 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4000 { off } 4001 4002 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4003 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4004 4005 pnp_reserve_irq= 4006 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4007 4008 pnp_reserve_dma= 4009 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4010 4011 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4012 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4013 4014 pnp_reserve_mem= 4015 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4016 autoconfiguration. 4017 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4018 4019 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4020 Default is 21. 4021 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4022 may be specified. 4023 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4024 4025 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4026 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4027 platform machine description specific power_save 4028 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4029 execution priority. 4030 4031 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4032 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4033 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4034 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4035 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4036 4037 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4038 Format: {"off"} 4039 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4040 4041 preempt= [KNL] 4042 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4043 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4044 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4045 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4046 can be preempted anytime. 4047 4048 print-fatal-signals= 4049 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4050 4051 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4052 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4053 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4054 coredump - etc. 4055 4056 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4057 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4058 4059 default: off. 4060 4061 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4062 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4063 panics 4064 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4065 default: disabled 4066 4067 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4068 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4069 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4070 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4071 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4072 Default: ratelimit 4073 4074 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4075 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4076 4077 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4078 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4079 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4080 4081 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4082 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4083 instead using the legacy FADT method 4084 4085 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4086 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4087 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4088 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4089 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4090 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4091 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4092 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4093 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4094 statistical time based profiling. 4095 4096 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4097 4098 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4099 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4100 that). 4101 Format: <bool> 4102 4103 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4104 tracking. 4105 Format: <bool> 4106 4107 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4108 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4109 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4110 per second. 4111 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4112 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4113 (0 = never). 4114 psmouse.resolution= 4115 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4116 psmouse.smartscroll= 4117 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4118 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4119 4120 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4121 4122 pt. [PARIDE] 4123 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4124 4125 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4126 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4127 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4128 system calls and interrupts. 4129 4130 on - unconditionally enable 4131 off - unconditionally disable 4132 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4133 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4134 4135 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4136 4137 nopti [X86-64] 4138 Equivalent to pti=off 4139 4140 pty.legacy_count= 4141 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4142 default number. 4143 4144 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4145 4146 r128= [HW,DRM] 4147 4148 raid= [HW,RAID] 4149 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4150 4151 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4152 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4153 4154 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4155 4156 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4157 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4158 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4159 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4160 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4161 4162 randomize_kstack_offset= 4163 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4164 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4165 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4166 that depend on stack address determinism or 4167 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4168 available on architectures that have defined 4169 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4170 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4171 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4172 4173 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4174 4175 cec_disable [X86] 4176 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4177 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4178 4179 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4180 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4181 4182 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4183 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4184 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4185 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4186 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4187 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4188 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4189 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4190 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4191 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4192 4193 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4194 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4195 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4196 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4197 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4198 This improves the real-time response for the 4199 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4200 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4201 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4202 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4203 4204 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4205 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4206 process in one batch. 4207 4208 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4209 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4210 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4211 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4212 4213 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4214 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4215 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4216 4217 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4218 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4219 RCU grace-period initialization. 4220 4221 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4222 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4223 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4224 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4225 the rcu_node combining tree. 4226 4227 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4228 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4229 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4230 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4231 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4232 4233 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4234 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4235 to zero. 4236 4237 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4238 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4239 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4240 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4241 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4242 4243 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4244 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4245 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4246 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4247 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4248 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4249 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4250 4251 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4252 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4253 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4254 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4255 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4256 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4257 condition. 4258 4259 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4260 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4261 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4262 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4263 and maximum value is HZ. 4264 4265 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4266 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4267 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4268 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4269 4270 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4271 Set required age in jiffies for a 4272 given grace period before RCU starts 4273 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4274 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4275 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4276 a value based on the most recent settings 4277 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4278 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4279 This calculated value may be viewed in 4280 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4281 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4282 overwritten. 4283 4284 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4285 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4286 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4287 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4288 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4289 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4290 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4291 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4292 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4293 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4294 4295 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4296 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4297 each group, which defaults to the square root 4298 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4299 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4300 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4301 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4302 4303 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4304 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4305 batch limiting is disabled. 4306 4307 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4308 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4309 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4310 4311 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4312 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4313 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4314 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4315 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4316 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4317 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4318 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4319 4320 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4321 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4322 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4323 4324 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4325 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4326 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4327 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4328 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4329 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4330 4331 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4332 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4333 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4334 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4335 Larger delays increase the probability of 4336 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4337 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4338 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4339 4340 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4341 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4342 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4343 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4344 4345 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4346 Measure performance of asynchronous 4347 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4348 4349 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4350 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4351 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4352 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4353 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4354 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4355 4356 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4357 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4358 grace-period primitives. 4359 4360 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4361 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4362 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4363 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4364 interference. 4365 4366 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4367 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4368 4369 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4370 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4371 If this parameter has the same value as 4372 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4373 and double-argument variants are tested. 4374 4375 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4376 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4377 If this parameter has the same value as 4378 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4379 and double-argument variants are tested. 4380 4381 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4382 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4383 4384 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4385 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4386 4387 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4388 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4389 of allocations and frees. 4390 4391 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4392 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4393 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4394 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4395 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4396 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4397 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4398 a single reader. 4399 4400 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4401 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4402 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4403 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4404 4405 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4406 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4407 4408 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4409 Shut the system down after performance tests 4410 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4411 testing. 4412 4413 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4414 Enable additional printk() statements. 4415 4416 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4417 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4418 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4419 no holdoff. 4420 4421 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4422 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4423 in microseconds. 4424 4425 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4426 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4427 in microseconds. 4428 4429 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4430 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4431 in seconds. 4432 4433 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4434 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4435 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4436 4437 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4438 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4439 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4440 4441 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4442 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4443 forward-progress tests. 4444 4445 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4446 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4447 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4448 testing. 4449 4450 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4451 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4452 primitives, if available. 4453 4454 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4455 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4456 4457 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4458 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4459 update-side primitives, if available. 4460 4461 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4462 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4463 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4464 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4465 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4466 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4467 they are all non-zero. 4468 4469 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4470 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4471 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4472 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4473 4474 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4475 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4476 This can of course result in splats, and is 4477 intended to test the ability of things like 4478 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4479 such leaks. 4480 4481 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4482 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4483 4484 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4485 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4486 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4487 test, hence the "fake". 4488 4489 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4490 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4491 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4492 4493 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4494 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4495 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4496 4497 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4498 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4499 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4500 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4501 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4502 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4503 4504 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4505 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4506 4507 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4508 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4509 4510 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4511 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4512 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4513 4514 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4515 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4516 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4517 task-exit processing. 4518 4519 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4520 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4521 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4522 is spawned. 4523 4524 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4525 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4526 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4527 4528 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4529 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4530 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4531 during the rcutorture test. 4532 4533 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4534 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4535 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4536 4537 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4538 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4539 warnings, zero to disable. 4540 4541 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4542 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4543 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4544 to any other stall-related activity. 4545 4546 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4547 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4548 4549 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4550 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4551 4552 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4553 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4554 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4555 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4556 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4557 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4558 4559 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4560 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4561 4562 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4563 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4564 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4565 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4566 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4567 4568 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4569 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4570 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4571 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4572 4573 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4574 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4575 4576 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4577 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4578 4579 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4580 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4581 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4582 4583 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4584 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4585 4586 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4587 Enable additional printk() statements. 4588 4589 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4590 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4591 stall warning. 4592 4593 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4594 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4595 4596 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4597 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4598 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4599 during early boot, that is, during the time 4600 before the init task is spawned. 4601 4602 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4603 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4604 4605 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4606 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4607 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4608 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4609 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4610 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4611 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4612 4613 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4614 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4615 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4616 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4617 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4618 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4619 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4620 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4621 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4622 4623 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4624 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4625 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4626 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4627 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4628 4629 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4630 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4631 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4632 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4633 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4634 grace-period processing. 4635 4636 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4637 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4638 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4639 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4640 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4641 but lengthens grace periods. 4642 4643 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4644 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4645 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4646 to zero. 4647 4648 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4649 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4650 4651 rdinit= [KNL] 4652 Format: <full_path> 4653 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4654 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4655 4656 rdrand= [X86] 4657 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4658 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4659 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4660 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4661 path). 4662 4663 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4664 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4665 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4666 mba. 4667 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4668 rdt=cmt,!mba 4669 4670 reboot= [KNL] 4671 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4672 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4673 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4674 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4675 [[,]f[orce] 4676 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4677 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4678 reboot only), 4679 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4680 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4681 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4682 to be used for rebooting. 4683 4684 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4685 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4686 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4687 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4688 interference. 4689 4690 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4691 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4692 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4693 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4694 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4695 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4696 x86 laptops. 4697 4698 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4699 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4700 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4701 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4702 4703 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4704 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4705 the console log. 4706 4707 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4708 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4709 measured in microseconds. 4710 4711 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4712 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4713 4714 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4715 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4716 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4717 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4718 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4719 4720 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4721 Enable additional printk() statements. 4722 4723 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4724 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4725 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4726 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4727 specified. 4728 4729 relax_domain_level= 4730 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4731 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4732 4733 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4734 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4735 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4736 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4737 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4738 4739 reservetop= [X86-32] 4740 Format: nn[KMG] 4741 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4742 address space. 4743 4744 reservelow= [X86] 4745 Format: nn[K] 4746 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4747 the bottom of the address space. 4748 4749 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4750 during initialization. 4751 4752 resume= [SWSUSP] 4753 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4754 Format: 4755 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4756 4757 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4758 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4759 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4760 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4761 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4762 4763 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4764 read the resume files 4765 4766 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4767 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4768 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4769 4770 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4771 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4772 present during boot. 4773 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4774 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4775 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4776 (that will set all pages holding image data 4777 during restoration read-only). 4778 4779 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4780 4781 rfkill.default_state= 4782 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4783 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4784 1 Unblocked. 4785 4786 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4787 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4788 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4789 blocked and the previous configuration. 4790 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4791 blocked and everything unblocked. 4792 4793 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4794 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4795 4796 ring3mwait=disable 4797 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4798 CPUs. 4799 4800 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4801 4802 rodata= [KNL] 4803 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4804 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4805 4806 rockchip.usb_uart 4807 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4808 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4809 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4810 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4811 4812 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4813 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4814 4815 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4816 mount the root filesystem 4817 4818 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4819 4820 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4821 4822 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4823 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4824 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4825 4826 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4827 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4828 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4829 managed by CMA. 4830 4831 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4832 4833 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4834 4835 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4836 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4837 strict 4838 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4839 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4840 which is faster. 4841 4842 sa1100ir [NET] 4843 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4844 4845 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4846 4847 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4848 4849 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4850 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4851 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4852 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4853 4854 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 4855 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 4856 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 4857 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 4858 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 4859 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 4860 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 4861 value. 4862 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 4863 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 4864 1 64 ms 4865 2 128 ms 4866 and so on. 4867 Format: integer between 0 and 10 4868 Default is 0. 4869 4870 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 4871 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 4872 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 4873 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 4874 tests. 4875 4876 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 4877 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 4878 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 4879 default) disables this feature. Please note 4880 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 4881 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 4882 softlockup complaints, and so on. 4883 4884 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 4885 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 4886 smp_call_function() family of functions. 4887 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 4888 equal to the number of CPUs. 4889 4890 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4891 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 4892 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 4893 4894 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4895 Number seconds to wait between successive 4896 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 4897 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 4898 4899 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4900 The number of seconds following the start of the 4901 test after which to shut down the system. The 4902 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 4903 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 4904 4905 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4906 The number of seconds between outputting the 4907 current test statistics to the console. A value 4908 of zero disables statistics output. 4909 4910 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 4911 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 4912 to the set of CPUs under test. 4913 4914 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 4915 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 4916 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 4917 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 4918 functions. 4919 4920 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 4921 Enable additional printk() statements. 4922 4923 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 4924 The probability weighting to use for the 4925 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 4926 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 4927 default if all other weights are -1. However, 4928 if at least one weight has some other value, a 4929 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 4930 4931 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 4932 The probability weighting to use for the 4933 smp_call_function_single() function with a 4934 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4935 4936 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 4937 The probability weighting to use for the 4938 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 4939 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4940 Note well that setting a high probability for 4941 this weighting can place serious IPI load 4942 on the system. 4943 4944 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 4945 The probability weighting to use for the 4946 smp_call_function_many() function with a 4947 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4948 and weight_many. 4949 4950 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 4951 The probability weighting to use for the 4952 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 4953 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 4954 weight_many. 4955 4956 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 4957 The probability weighting to use for the 4958 smp_call_function_all() function with a 4959 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4960 and weight_many. 4961 4962 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4963 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4964 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4965 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4966 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4967 1 -- enable. 4968 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4969 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4970 4971 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4972 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4973 "lsm=" parameter. 4974 4975 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4976 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4977 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4978 0 -- disable. 4979 1 -- enable. 4980 Default value is 1. 4981 4982 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4983 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4984 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4985 0 -- disable. 4986 1 -- enable. 4987 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4988 4989 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4990 4991 shapers= [NET] 4992 Maximal number of shapers. 4993 4994 simeth= [IA-64] 4995 simscsi= 4996 4997 slram= [HW,MTD] 4998 4999 slab_merge [MM] 5000 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5001 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5002 5003 slab_nomerge [MM] 5004 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5005 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5006 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5007 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5008 layout control by attackers can usually be 5009 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5010 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5011 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5012 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5013 own. 5014 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5015 5016 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5017 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5018 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5019 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5020 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5021 5022 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5023 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5024 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5025 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5026 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5027 last alloc / free. For more information see 5028 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5029 5030 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5031 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5032 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5033 fragmentation. For more information see 5034 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5035 5036 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5037 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5038 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5039 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5040 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5041 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5042 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5043 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5044 5045 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5046 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5047 lower than slub_max_order. 5048 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5049 5050 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5051 Same with slab_merge. 5052 5053 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5054 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5055 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5056 5057 smart2= [HW] 5058 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5059 5060 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5061 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5062 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5063 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5064 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5065 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5066 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5067 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5068 1: Fast pin select (default) 5069 2: ATC IRMode 5070 5071 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5072 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5073 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5074 actual hardware limit. 5075 Format: <integer> 5076 Default: -1 (no limit) 5077 5078 softlockup_panic= 5079 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5080 Format: 0 | 1 5081 5082 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5083 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5084 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5085 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5086 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5087 5088 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5089 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5090 backtraces on all cpus. 5091 Format: 0 | 1 5092 5093 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5094 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5095 5096 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5097 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5098 The default operation protects the kernel from 5099 user space attacks. 5100 5101 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5102 spectre_v2_user=on 5103 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5104 spectre_v2_user=off 5105 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5106 vulnerable 5107 5108 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5109 mitigation method at run time according to the 5110 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5111 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5112 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5113 5114 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5115 against user space to user space task attacks. 5116 5117 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5118 the user space protections. 5119 5120 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5121 5122 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5123 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 5124 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 5125 5126 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5127 spectre_v2=auto. 5128 5129 spectre_v2_user= 5130 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5131 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5132 user space tasks 5133 5134 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5135 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5136 5137 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5138 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5139 5140 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5141 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5142 per thread. The mitigation control state 5143 is inherited on fork. 5144 5145 prctl,ibpb 5146 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5147 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5148 always when switching between different user 5149 space processes. 5150 5151 seccomp 5152 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5153 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5154 they explicitly opt out. 5155 5156 seccomp,ibpb 5157 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5158 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5159 always when switching between different 5160 user space processes. 5161 5162 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5163 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5164 5165 Default mitigation: 5166 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5167 5168 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5169 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5170 5171 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5172 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5173 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5174 5175 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5176 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5177 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5178 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5179 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5180 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5181 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5182 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5183 5184 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5185 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5186 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5187 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5188 5189 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5190 Bypass optimization is used. 5191 5192 On x86 the options are: 5193 5194 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5195 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5196 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5197 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5198 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5199 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5200 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5201 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5202 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5203 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5204 for a process by default. The state of the control 5205 is inherited on fork. 5206 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5207 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5208 5209 Default mitigations: 5210 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5211 5212 On powerpc the options are: 5213 5214 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5215 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5216 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5217 exit. 5218 off - No action. 5219 5220 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5221 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5222 5223 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5224 spia_fio_base= 5225 spia_pedr= 5226 spia_peddr= 5227 5228 split_lock_detect= 5229 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5230 5231 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5232 instructions that access data across cache line 5233 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5234 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5235 bus lock detection. 5236 5237 off - not enabled 5238 5239 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5240 about applications triggering the #AC 5241 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5242 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5243 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5244 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5245 enabled in hardware. 5246 5247 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5248 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5249 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5250 both features are enabled in hardware. 5251 5252 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5253 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5254 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5255 mode. 5256 5257 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5258 CPL > 0. 5259 5260 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5261 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5262 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5263 5264 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5265 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5266 number generator. 5267 5268 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5269 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5270 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5271 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5272 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5273 5274 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5275 the following option: 5276 5277 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5278 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5279 5280 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5281 Specifies how frequently to check for 5282 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5283 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5284 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5285 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5286 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5287 are ignored. 5288 5289 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5290 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5291 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5292 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5293 grace period will be considered for automatic 5294 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5295 expediting. 5296 5297 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5298 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5299 5300 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5301 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5302 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5303 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5304 5305 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5306 for both kernel and userspace 5307 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5308 for both kernel and userspace 5309 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5310 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5311 to allow userspace to register its 5312 interest in being mitigated too. 5313 5314 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5315 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5316 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5317 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5318 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5319 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5320 5321 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5322 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5323 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5324 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5325 to false. 5326 5327 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5328 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5329 5330 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5331 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5332 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5333 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5334 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5335 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5336 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5337 5338 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5339 Format: <num> 5340 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5341 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5342 as the initial boot-console. 5343 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5344 5345 sti_font= [HW] 5346 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5347 5348 stifb= [HW] 5349 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5350 5351 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5352 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5353 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5354 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5355 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5356 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5357 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5358 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5359 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5360 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5361 maximum port values. 5362 5363 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5364 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5365 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5366 process in parallel from a single connection. 5367 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5368 5369 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5370 [NFS] 5371 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5372 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5373 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5374 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5375 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5376 NFS server is running. 5377 5378 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5379 automatically using heuristics 5380 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5381 percpu one pool for each CPU 5382 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5383 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5384 5385 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5386 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5387 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5388 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5389 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5390 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5391 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5392 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5393 5394 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5395 [SUSPEND] 5396 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5397 mode before resuming the system (see 5398 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5399 is set. Default value is 5. 5400 5401 svm= [PPC] 5402 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5403 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5404 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5405 5406 swapaccount=[0|1] 5407 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5408 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5409 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5410 5411 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5412 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5413 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5414 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5415 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5416 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5417 5418 switches= [HW,M68k] 5419 5420 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5421 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5422 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5423 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5424 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5425 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5426 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5427 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5428 5429 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5430 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5431 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5432 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5433 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5434 in older udev will not work anymore. 5435 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5436 the kernel configuration. 5437 5438 sysrq_always_enabled 5439 [KNL] 5440 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5441 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5442 Useful for debugging. 5443 5444 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5445 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5446 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5447 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5448 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5449 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5450 5451 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5452 5453 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5454 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5455 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5456 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5457 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5458 The system is woken from this state using a 5459 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5460 5461 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5462 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5463 5464 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5465 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5466 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5467 5468 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5469 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5470 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5471 5472 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5473 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5474 critical and hot trip points. 5475 5476 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5477 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5478 5479 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5480 -1: disable all passive trip points 5481 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5482 value 5483 5484 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5485 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5486 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5487 0: no polling (default) 5488 5489 threadirqs [KNL] 5490 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5491 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5492 5493 topology= [S390] 5494 Format: {off | on} 5495 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5496 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5497 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5498 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5499 Default is on. 5500 5501 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5502 Format: {off} 5503 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5504 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5505 LPAR. 5506 5507 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5508 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5509 until after init has spawned. 5510 5511 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5512 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5513 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5514 very costly operation when many torture tests 5515 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5516 with rotating-rust storage. 5517 5518 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5519 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5520 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5521 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5522 5523 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5524 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5525 5526 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5527 5528 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5529 Format: integer pcr id 5530 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5531 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5532 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5533 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5534 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5535 are saved. 5536 5537 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5538 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5539 5540 trace_event=[event-list] 5541 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5542 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5543 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5544 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5545 5546 trace_options=[option-list] 5547 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5548 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5549 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5550 to echo the option name into 5551 5552 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5553 5554 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5555 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5556 5557 trace_options=stacktrace 5558 5559 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5560 section. 5561 5562 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5563 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5564 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5565 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5566 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5567 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5568 5569 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5570 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5571 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5572 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5573 5574 ** CAUTION ** 5575 5576 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5577 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5578 the system to live lock. 5579 5580 traceoff_on_warning 5581 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5582 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5583 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5584 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5585 5586 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5587 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5588 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5589 5590 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5591 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5592 5593 transparent_hugepage= 5594 [KNL] 5595 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5596 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5597 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5598 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5599 for more details. 5600 5601 trusted.source= [KEYS] 5602 Format: <string> 5603 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 5604 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 5605 sources: 5606 - "tpm" 5607 - "tee" 5608 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 5609 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 5610 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 5611 successfully during iteration. 5612 5613 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5614 Format: <string> 5615 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5616 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5617 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5618 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5619 virtualized environment. 5620 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5621 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5622 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5623 can add overhead. 5624 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5625 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5626 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5627 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5628 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5629 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5630 acceptable). 5631 5632 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5633 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5634 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5635 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5636 Format: <unsigned int> 5637 5638 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5639 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5640 support TSX control. 5641 5642 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5643 5644 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5645 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5646 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5647 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5648 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5649 with leaving it enabled. 5650 5651 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5652 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5653 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5654 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5655 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5656 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5657 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5658 5659 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5660 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5661 5662 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5663 5664 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5665 for more details. 5666 5667 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5668 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5669 5670 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5671 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5672 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5673 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5674 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5675 conditions. 5676 5677 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5678 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5679 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5680 access. 5681 5682 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5683 options are: 5684 5685 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5686 if TSX is enabled. 5687 5688 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5689 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5690 is not disabled because CPU is not 5691 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5692 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5693 5694 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5695 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5696 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5697 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5698 5699 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5700 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5701 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5702 required and doesn't provide any additional 5703 mitigation. 5704 5705 For details see: 5706 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5707 5708 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5709 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5710 Format: 5711 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5712 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5713 5714 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5715 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5716 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5717 help "seeing" what's going on. 5718 5719 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5720 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5721 5722 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5723 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5724 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5725 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5726 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5727 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5728 reported either. 5729 5730 unknown_nmi_panic 5731 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5732 5733 usbcore.authorized_default= 5734 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5735 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5736 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5737 if device connected to internal port) 5738 5739 usbcore.autosuspend= 5740 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5741 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5742 is the time required before an idle device will be 5743 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5744 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5745 5746 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5747 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5748 5749 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5750 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5751 (default = 65536). 5752 5753 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5754 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5755 5756 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5757 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5758 scheme (default 0 = off). 5759 5760 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5761 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5762 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5763 5764 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5765 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5766 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5767 5768 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5769 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5770 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5771 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5772 5773 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5774 5775 usbcore.quirks= 5776 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5777 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5778 commas. Each entry has the form 5779 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5780 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5781 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5782 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5783 the following meanings: 5784 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5785 descriptors must not be fetched using 5786 a 255-byte read); 5787 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5788 correctly so reset it instead); 5789 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5790 Set-Interface requests); 5791 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5792 handle its Configuration or Interface 5793 strings); 5794 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5795 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5796 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5797 more interface descriptions than the 5798 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5799 talking to these interfaces); 5800 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5801 during initialization, after we read 5802 the device descriptor); 5803 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5804 high speed and super speed interrupt 5805 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5806 require the interval in microframes (1 5807 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5808 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5809 (bInterval-1). 5810 Devices with this quirk report their 5811 bInterval as the result of this 5812 calculation instead of the exponent 5813 variable used in the calculation); 5814 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5815 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5816 requests); 5817 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5818 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5819 remote wakeup capability); 5820 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5821 Power Management); 5822 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5823 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5824 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5825 calculation); 5826 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5827 to be disconnected before suspend to 5828 prevent spurious wakeup); 5829 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5830 pause after every control message); 5831 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5832 delay after resetting its port); 5833 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5834 5835 usbhid.mousepoll= 5836 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5837 5838 usbhid.jspoll= 5839 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5840 5841 usbhid.kbpoll= 5842 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5843 5844 usb-storage.delay_use= 5845 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5846 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5847 5848 usb-storage.quirks= 5849 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5850 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5851 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5852 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5853 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5854 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5855 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5856 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5857 of sense data, not on uas); 5858 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5859 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5860 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5861 device capacity by one sector); 5862 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5863 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5864 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5865 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5866 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5867 command, uas only); 5868 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5869 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5870 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5871 reported device capacity by one 5872 sector if the number is odd); 5873 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5874 device); 5875 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5876 command, uas only); 5877 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 5878 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5879 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5880 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5881 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5882 not on uas); 5883 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5884 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5885 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5886 reported by the device, not on uas); 5887 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5888 by default, not on uas); 5889 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5890 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5891 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5892 Logical Unit); 5893 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5894 commands, uas only); 5895 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5896 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5897 medium is write-protected). 5898 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5899 even if the device claims no cache, 5900 not on uas) 5901 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5902 5903 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5904 Format: <int> 5905 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5906 1 - undefined instruction events 5907 2 - system calls 5908 4 - invalid data aborts 5909 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5910 16 - SIGBUS faults 5911 Example: user_debug=31 5912 5913 userpte= 5914 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5915 5916 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5917 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5918 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5919 5920 vdso= [X86,SH] 5921 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5922 5923 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5924 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5925 5926 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5927 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5928 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5929 5930 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5931 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5932 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5933 5934 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5935 alias for vdso32=0. 5936 5937 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5938 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5939 5940 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5941 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5942 5943 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5944 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5945 5946 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5947 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5948 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5949 level and then send out the event to user space through 5950 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5951 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5952 brightness level. 5953 default: 1 5954 5955 virtio_mmio.device= 5956 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5957 5958 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5959 where: 5960 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5961 like K, M and G) 5962 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5963 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5964 request_irq()) 5965 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5966 example: 5967 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5968 5969 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5970 5971 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5972 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5973 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5974 Use vga=ask for menu. 5975 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5976 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5977 5978 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5979 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5980 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5981 All options are enabled by default, and this 5982 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5983 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5984 debugging features. 5985 5986 Available options are: 5987 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5988 - Disable all of the above options 5989 5990 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5991 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5992 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5993 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5994 mapped kernel RAM. 5995 5996 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5997 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5998 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5999 6000 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6001 Format: <command> 6002 6003 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6004 Format: <command> 6005 6006 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6007 Format: <command> 6008 6009 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6010 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6011 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6012 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6013 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6014 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6015 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6016 6017 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6018 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6019 page is readable. 6020 6021 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6022 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6023 page is not readable. 6024 6025 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6026 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6027 might break your system. 6028 6029 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6030 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6031 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6032 6033 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6034 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6035 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6036 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6037 6038 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6039 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6040 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6041 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6042 ranging from 0-255. 6043 6044 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6045 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6046 Change the default green palette of the console. 6047 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6048 ranging from 0-255. 6049 6050 vt.default_red= [VT] 6051 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6052 Change the default red palette of the console. 6053 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6054 ranging from 0-255. 6055 6056 vt.default_utf8= 6057 [VT] 6058 Format=<0|1> 6059 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6060 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6061 newly opened terminals. 6062 6063 vt.global_cursor_default= 6064 [VT] 6065 Format=<-1|0|1> 6066 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6067 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6068 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6069 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6070 cursors, 1 will display them. 6071 6072 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6073 Default: 2 = green. 6074 6075 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6076 Default: 3 = cyan. 6077 6078 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6079 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6080 or other driver-specific files in the 6081 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6082 6083 watchdog_thresh= 6084 [KNL] 6085 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6086 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6087 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6088 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6089 seconds. 6090 6091 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6092 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6093 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6094 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6095 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6096 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6097 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6098 corresponding sysfs file. 6099 6100 workqueue.disable_numa 6101 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6102 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6103 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6104 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6105 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6106 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6107 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6108 6109 workqueue.power_efficient 6110 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6111 they show better performance thanks to cache 6112 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6113 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6114 6115 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6116 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6117 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6118 power usage at the cost of small performance 6119 overhead. 6120 6121 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6122 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6123 6124 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6125 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6126 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6127 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6128 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6129 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6130 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6131 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6132 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6133 impacted. 6134 6135 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6136 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6137 supporting x2apic. 6138 6139 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6140 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6141 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6142 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6143 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6144 domains. 6145 6146 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6147 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6148 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6149 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6150 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6151 nics -- unplug network devices 6152 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6153 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6154 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6155 the unplug protocol 6156 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6157 6158 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6159 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6160 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6161 6162 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6163 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6164 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6165 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6166 6167 xen_nopv [X86] 6168 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6169 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6170 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6171 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6172 6173 xen_no_vector_callback 6174 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6175 event channel interrupts. 6176 6177 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6178 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6179 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6180 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6181 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6182 6183 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6184 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6185 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6186 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6187 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6188 more timer interrupts. 6189 6190 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6191 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6192 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6193 6194 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6195 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6196 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6197 6198 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6199 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6200 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6201 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6202 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6203 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6204 6205 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6206 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6207 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6208 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6209 6210 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6211 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6212 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6213 contention. 6214 6215 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6216 Format: 6217 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6218 6219 xive= [PPC] 6220 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6221 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6222 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6223 6224 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6225 controller on both pseries and powernv 6226 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6227 6228 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6229 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6230 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6231 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6232 6233 xmon [PPC] 6234 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6235 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6236 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6237 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6238 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6239 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6240 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6241 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6242 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6243 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6244 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6245 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6246 can be written using xmon commands. 6247 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6248 memory, and other data can't be written using 6249 xmon commands. 6250 off xmon is disabled. 6251