1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 482 no delay (0). 483 Format: integer 484 485 bootconfig [KNL] 486 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 487 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 488 489 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 490 491 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 492 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 493 kernel args too. 494 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 495 bttv.tuner= 496 497 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 498 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 499 at a time. 500 501 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 502 503 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 504 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 505 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 506 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 507 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 508 This option provides an override for these situations. 509 510 carrier_timeout= 511 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 512 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 513 it waits 120 seconds. 514 515 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 516 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 517 trust validation. 518 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 519 520 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 521 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 522 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 523 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 524 others). 525 526 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 529 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 530 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 531 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 532 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 533 a single hierarchy 534 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 535 subsystem 536 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 537 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 538 created 539 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 540 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 541 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 542 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 543 stall information accounting feature 544 545 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 546 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 547 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 548 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 549 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 550 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 551 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 552 all v1 hierarchies. 553 554 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 555 Format: <string> 556 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 557 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 558 559 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 560 Format: { "0" | "1" } 561 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 562 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 563 any implied execute protection). 564 1 -- check protection requested by application. 565 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 566 Value can be changed at runtime via 567 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 568 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 569 570 cio_ignore= [S390] 571 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 572 573 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 574 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 575 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 576 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 577 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 578 ones should be. 579 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 580 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 581 instability issue. However, not all features have names 582 in /proc/cpuinfo. 583 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 584 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 585 or using the feature without checking anything 586 will still see it. This just prevents it from 587 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 588 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 589 some critical bits. 590 591 clk_ignore_unused 592 [CLK] 593 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 594 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 595 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 596 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 597 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 598 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 599 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 600 platform with proper driver support. For more 601 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 602 603 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 604 [Deprecated] 605 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 606 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 607 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 608 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 609 610 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 611 Format: <string> 612 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 613 with the name specified. 614 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 615 the platform: 616 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 617 [ACPI] acpi_pm 618 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 619 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 620 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 621 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 622 [MIPS] MIPS 623 [PARISC] cr16 624 [S390] tod 625 [SH] SuperH 626 [SPARC64] tick 627 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 628 629 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 630 [ARM,ARM64] 631 Format: <bool> 632 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 633 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 634 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 635 systems. 636 637 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 638 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 639 external delays before the clock will be marked 640 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 641 three attempts to read the clock under test. 642 643 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 644 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 645 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 646 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 647 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 648 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 649 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 650 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 651 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 652 653 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 654 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 655 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 656 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 657 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 658 659 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 660 [KNL,CMA] 661 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 662 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 663 placement constraint by the physical address range of 664 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 665 altogether. For more information, see 666 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 667 668 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 669 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 670 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 671 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 672 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 673 specificed, the default value is 0. 674 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 675 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 676 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 677 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 678 679 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 680 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 681 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 682 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 683 a hypervisor. 684 Default: yes 685 686 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 687 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 688 allocations, by default set to 256K. 689 690 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 691 Format: 692 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 693 694 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 695 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 696 697 com90xx= [HW,NET] 698 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 699 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 700 701 condev= [HW,S390] console device 702 conmode= 703 704 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 705 706 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 707 708 ttyS<n>[,options] 709 ttyUSB0[,options] 710 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 711 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 712 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 713 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 714 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 715 716 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 717 information. See 718 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 719 alternative. 720 721 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 722 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 723 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 724 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 725 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 726 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 727 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 728 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 729 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 730 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 731 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 732 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 733 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 734 the h/w is not re-initialized. 735 736 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 737 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 738 739 { null | "" } 740 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 741 console messages discarded. 742 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 743 kernel command line. 744 745 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 746 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 747 console=brl,ttyS0 748 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 749 750 console_msg_format= 751 [KNL] Change console messages format 752 default 753 By default we print messages on consoles in 754 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 755 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 756 `printk_time' param). 757 syslog 758 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 759 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 760 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 761 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 762 from /proc/kmsg. 763 764 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 765 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 766 Defaults to 0. 767 768 coredump_filter= 769 [KNL] Change the default value for 770 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 771 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 772 773 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 774 [ARM,ARM64] 775 Format: <bool> 776 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 777 0: default value, disable debugging 778 1: enable debugging at boot time 779 780 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 781 Format: 782 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 783 784 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 785 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 786 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 787 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 788 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 789 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 790 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 791 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 792 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 793 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 794 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 795 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 796 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 797 798 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 799 disable the cpuidle sub-system 800 801 cpuidle.governor= 802 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 803 804 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 805 disable the cpufreq sub-system 806 807 cpufreq.default_governor= 808 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 809 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 810 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 811 812 cpu_init_udelay=N 813 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 814 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 815 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 816 Default: 10000 817 818 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 819 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 820 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 821 succeeds in any situation. 822 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 823 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 824 kernel more unstable. 825 826 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 827 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 828 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 829 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 830 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 831 is selected automatically. 832 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 833 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 834 hasn't been specified. 835 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 836 837 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 838 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 839 in the running system. The syntax of range is 840 start-[end] where start and end are both 841 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 842 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 843 844 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 845 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 846 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 847 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 848 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 849 available. 850 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 851 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 852 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 853 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 854 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 855 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 856 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 857 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 858 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 859 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 860 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 861 for second kernel instead. 862 0: to disable low allocation. 863 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 864 or memory reserved is below 4G. 865 866 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 867 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 868 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 869 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 870 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 871 872 cryptomgr.notests 873 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 874 875 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 876 Format: <dma> 877 878 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 879 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 880 881 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 882 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 883 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 884 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 885 to resolve the hang situation. 886 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 887 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 888 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 889 but more data) 890 891 dasd= [HW,NET] 892 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 893 894 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 895 (one device per port) 896 Format: <port#>,<type> 897 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 898 899 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 900 901 debug_boot_weak_hash 902 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 903 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 904 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 905 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 906 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 907 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 908 909 debug_locks_verbose= 910 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 911 Format: <int> 912 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 913 self-tests. 914 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 915 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 916 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 917 useful to lockdep developers. 918 919 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 920 921 no_debug_objects 922 [KNL] Disable object debugging 923 924 debug_guardpage_minorder= 925 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 926 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 927 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 928 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 929 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 930 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 931 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 932 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 933 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 934 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 935 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 936 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 937 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 938 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 939 bypassed) which are not detectable by 940 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 941 tracking down these problems. 942 943 debug_pagealloc= 944 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 945 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 946 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 947 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 948 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 949 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 950 on: enable the feature 951 952 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 953 and debugfs internal clients. 954 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 955 on: All functions are enabled. 956 no-mount: 957 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 958 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 959 its content. There is nothing to mount. 960 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 961 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 962 or directories within debugfs. 963 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 964 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 965 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 966 967 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 968 969 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 970 Format: <area>[,<node>] 971 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 972 973 default_hugepagesz= 974 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 975 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 976 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 977 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 978 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 979 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 980 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 981 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 982 Format: size[KMG] 983 984 deferred_probe_timeout= 985 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 986 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 987 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 988 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 989 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 990 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 991 successful driver registration. This option will also 992 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 993 retrying. 994 995 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 996 997 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 998 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 999 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1000 hardware. 1001 1002 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1003 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1004 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1005 blacklisted features. 1006 1007 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1008 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1009 (disabled by default). 1010 1011 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1012 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1013 capability is set. 1014 1015 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1016 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1019 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1020 1021 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1022 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1023 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1024 level 1 and decompression (default) 1025 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1026 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1027 only (compression on level 1) 1028 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1029 only (decompression) 1030 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1031 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1032 1033 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1034 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1035 1036 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1037 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1038 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1039 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1040 miss to occur. 1041 1042 stress_slb [PPC] 1043 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1044 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1045 on kernel addresses. 1046 1047 disable= [IPV6] 1048 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1049 1050 disable_radix [PPC] 1051 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1052 1053 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1054 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1055 invalidate. 1056 1057 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1058 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1059 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1060 1061 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1062 Format: <int> 1063 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1064 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1065 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1066 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1067 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1068 INIT from AP to BSP. 1069 1070 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1071 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1072 to workaround buggy firmware. 1073 1074 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1075 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1076 1077 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1078 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1079 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1080 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1081 1082 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1083 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1084 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1085 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1086 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1087 1088 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1089 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1090 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1091 1092 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1093 1094 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1095 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1096 1097 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1098 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1099 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1100 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1101 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1102 architectural default is too low. 1103 1104 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1105 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1106 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1107 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1108 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1109 driver later using sysfs. 1110 1111 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1112 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1113 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1114 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1115 match the *. 1116 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1117 1118 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1119 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1120 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1121 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1122 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1123 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1124 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1125 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1126 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1127 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1128 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1129 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1130 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1131 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1132 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1133 data set with no connector name will be used for 1134 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1135 1136 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1137 1138 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1139 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1140 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1141 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1142 exists). 1143 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1144 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1145 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1146 1147 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1148 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1149 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1150 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1151 1152 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1153 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1154 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1155 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1156 for details. 1157 1158 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1159 in some Intel CPUs. 1160 1161 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1162 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1163 1164 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1165 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1166 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1167 which are not unmapped. 1168 1169 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1170 1171 When used with no options, the early console is 1172 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1173 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1174 the platform. 1175 1176 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1177 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1178 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1179 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1180 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1181 configured. 1182 1183 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1184 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1185 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1186 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1187 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1188 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1189 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1190 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1191 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1192 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1193 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1194 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1195 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1196 1197 pl011,<addr> 1198 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1199 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1200 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1201 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1202 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1203 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1204 the device registers. 1205 1206 liteuart,<addr> 1207 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1208 specified address. The serial port must already be 1209 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1210 1211 meson,<addr> 1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1213 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1214 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1215 supported. 1216 1217 msm_serial,<addr> 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1219 port at the specified address. The serial port 1220 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1221 yet supported. 1222 1223 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1225 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1226 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1227 yet supported. 1228 1229 owl,<addr> 1230 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1231 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1232 specified address. The serial port must already be 1233 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1234 1235 rda,<addr> 1236 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1237 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1238 specified address. The serial port must already be 1239 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1240 1241 sbi 1242 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1243 console. 1244 1245 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1246 1247 s3c2410,<addr> 1248 s3c2412,<addr> 1249 s3c2440,<addr> 1250 s3c6400,<addr> 1251 s5pv210,<addr> 1252 exynos4210,<addr> 1253 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1254 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1255 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1256 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1257 Options are not yet supported. 1258 1259 lantiq,<addr> 1260 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1261 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1262 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1263 yet supported. 1264 1265 lpuart,<addr> 1266 lpuart32,<addr> 1267 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1268 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1269 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1270 port must already be setup and configured. 1271 1272 ec_imx21,<addr> 1273 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1274 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1275 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1276 must already be setup and configured. 1277 1278 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1280 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1281 address. The serial port must already be setup 1282 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 qcom_geni,<addr> 1285 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1286 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1287 specified address. The serial port must already be 1288 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1289 1290 efifb,[options] 1291 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1292 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1293 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1294 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1295 mapped with the correct attributes. 1296 1297 linflex,<addr> 1298 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1299 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1300 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1301 already be setup and configured. 1302 1303 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1304 earlyprintk=vga 1305 earlyprintk=sclp 1306 earlyprintk=xen 1307 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1308 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1309 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1310 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1311 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1312 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1313 1314 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1315 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1316 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1317 1318 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1319 takes over. 1320 1321 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1322 be used at a time. 1323 1324 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1325 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1326 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1327 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1328 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1329 You can find the port for a given device in 1330 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1331 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1332 1333 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1334 very good. 1335 1336 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1337 the real console. 1338 1339 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1340 1341 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1342 1343 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1344 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1345 UART class. 1346 1347 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1348 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1349 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1350 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1351 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1352 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1353 default: on. 1354 1355 edd= [EDD] 1356 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1357 1358 efi= [EFI] 1359 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1360 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1361 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1362 debug: enable misc debug output. 1363 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1364 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1365 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1366 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1367 firmware implementations. 1368 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1369 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1370 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1371 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1372 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1373 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1374 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1375 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1376 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1377 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1378 1379 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1380 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1381 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1382 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1383 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1384 1385 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1386 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1387 updating original EFI memory map. 1388 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1389 from ss to ss+nn. 1390 1391 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1392 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1393 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1394 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1395 1396 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1397 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1398 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1399 1400 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1401 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1402 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1403 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1404 "soft reserved". 1405 1406 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1407 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1408 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1409 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1410 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1411 1412 1413 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1414 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1415 1416 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1417 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1418 1419 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1420 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1421 1422 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1423 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1424 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1425 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1426 1427 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1428 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1429 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1430 1431 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1432 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1433 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1434 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1435 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1436 1437 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1438 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1439 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1440 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1441 1442 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1443 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1444 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1445 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1446 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1447 1448 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1449 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1450 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1451 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1452 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1453 Default value is 0. 1454 Value can be changed at runtime via 1455 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1456 1457 erst_disable [ACPI] 1458 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1459 support. 1460 1461 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1462 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1463 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1464 1465 evm= [EVM] 1466 Format: { "fix" } 1467 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1468 current integrity status. 1469 1470 failslab= 1471 fail_usercopy= 1472 fail_page_alloc= 1473 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1474 General fault injection mechanism. 1475 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1476 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1477 1478 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1479 Format: { initns | none } 1480 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1481 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1482 1483 floppy= [HW] 1484 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1485 1486 force_pal_cache_flush 1487 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1488 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1489 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1490 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1491 1492 forcepae [X86-32] 1493 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1494 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1495 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1496 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1497 and may cause unknown problems. 1498 1499 ftrace=[tracer] 1500 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1501 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1502 boot debugging. 1503 1504 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1505 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1506 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1507 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1508 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1509 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1510 start up functionality. 1511 1512 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1513 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1514 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1515 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1516 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1517 oops. 1518 1519 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1520 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1521 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1522 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1523 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1524 tracing directory. 1525 1526 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1527 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1528 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1529 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1530 tracing directory. 1531 1532 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1533 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1534 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1535 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1536 that can be changed at run time by the 1537 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1538 1539 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1540 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1541 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1542 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1543 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1544 1545 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1546 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1547 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1548 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1549 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1550 1551 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1552 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1553 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1554 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1555 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1556 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1557 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1558 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1559 suppliers). 1560 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1561 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1562 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1563 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1564 up (sync_state() calls). 1565 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1566 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1567 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1568 1569 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1570 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1571 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1572 Format: <bool> 1573 1574 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1575 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1576 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1577 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1578 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1579 1580 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1581 1582 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1583 Format: off | on 1584 default: on 1585 1586 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1587 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1588 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1589 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1590 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1591 1592 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1593 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1594 android emulator 1595 1596 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1597 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1598 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1599 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1600 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1601 1602 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1603 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1604 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1605 GPT to be used instead. 1606 1607 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1608 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1609 Format: 0 | 1 1610 Default: 0 1611 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1612 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1613 Format: 0 | 1 1614 Default: 0 1615 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1616 Format: 0 | 1 1617 Default: 0 1618 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1619 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1620 Default: 1024 1621 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1622 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1623 Default: 1024 1624 1625 hardened_usercopy= 1626 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1627 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1628 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1629 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1630 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1631 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1632 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1633 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1634 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1635 1636 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1637 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1638 backtraces on all cpus. 1639 Format: 0 | 1 1640 1641 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1642 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1643 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1644 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1645 1646 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1647 1648 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1649 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1650 1651 hest_disable [ACPI] 1652 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1653 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1654 logic will be disabled. 1655 1656 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1657 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1658 present during boot. 1659 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1660 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1661 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1662 (that will set all pages holding image data 1663 during restoration read-only). 1664 1665 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1666 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1667 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1668 size on bigger boxes. 1669 1670 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1671 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1672 Default: "on" 1673 1674 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1675 1676 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1677 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1678 verbose } 1679 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1680 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1681 VIA, nVidia) 1682 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1683 1684 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1685 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1686 1687 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1688 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1689 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1690 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1691 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1692 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1693 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1694 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1695 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1696 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1697 1698 hugepagesz= 1699 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1700 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1701 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1702 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1703 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1704 architecture dependent. See also 1705 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1706 Format: size[KMG] 1707 1708 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1709 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1710 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1711 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1712 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1713 1714 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1715 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1716 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1717 1718 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1719 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1720 enabled. 1721 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1722 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1723 Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) } 1724 1725 [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature 1726 [oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature 1727 1728 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1729 the default is on. 1730 1731 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1732 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1733 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1734 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1735 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1736 1737 hung_task_panic= 1738 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1739 Format: 0 | 1 1740 1741 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1742 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1743 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1744 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1745 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1746 1747 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1748 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1749 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1750 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1751 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1752 1753 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1754 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1755 guest on lock contention. 1756 1757 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1758 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1759 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1760 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1761 the real console. 1762 1763 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1764 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1765 registered from board initialization code. 1766 Format: 1767 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1768 1769 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1770 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1771 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1772 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1773 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1774 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1775 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1776 keyboard and cannot control its state 1777 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1778 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1779 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1780 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1781 for the AUX port 1782 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1783 controller 1784 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1785 controllers 1786 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1787 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1788 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1789 transitions, or never reset 1790 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1791 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1792 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1793 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1794 architectures force reset to be always executed 1795 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1796 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1797 i8042.probe_defer 1798 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1799 1800 i810= [HW,DRM] 1801 1802 i915.invert_brightness= 1803 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1804 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1805 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1806 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1807 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1808 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1809 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1810 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1811 value switches the backlight off. 1812 -1 -- never invert brightness 1813 0 -- machine default 1814 1 -- force brightness inversion 1815 1816 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1817 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1818 1819 1820 idle= [X86] 1821 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1822 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1823 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1824 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1825 Not recommended. 1826 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1827 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1828 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1829 1830 idxd.sva= [HW] 1831 Format: <bool> 1832 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1833 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1834 true (1). 1835 1836 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1837 Format: <bool> 1838 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1839 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1840 1841 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1842 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1843 Default: strict 1844 1845 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1846 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1847 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1848 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1849 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1850 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1851 encoding mode. 1852 1853 Available settings are as follows: 1854 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1855 supported by the FPU 1856 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1857 by the FPU 1858 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1859 by the FPU 1860 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1861 supported by the FPU 1862 1863 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1864 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1865 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1866 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1867 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1868 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1869 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1870 MIPS64 CPUs. 1871 1872 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1873 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1874 except where unsupported by hardware. 1875 1876 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1877 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1878 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1879 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1880 could change it dynamically, usually by 1881 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1882 1883 ignore_rlimit_data 1884 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1885 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1886 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1887 1888 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1889 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1890 1891 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1892 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1893 default: "enforce" 1894 1895 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1896 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1897 owned by uid=0. 1898 1899 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1900 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1901 measurements, instead of host native format. 1902 1903 ima_hash= [IMA] 1904 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1905 | sha512 | ... } 1906 default: "sha1" 1907 1908 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1909 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1910 1911 ima_policy= [IMA] 1912 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1913 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1914 fail_securely | critical_data" 1915 1916 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1917 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1918 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1919 uid=0. 1920 1921 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1922 all files owned by root. 1923 1924 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1925 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1926 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1927 1928 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1929 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1930 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1931 flag. 1932 1933 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1934 critical data. 1935 1936 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1937 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1938 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1939 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1940 opened for read by uid=0. 1941 1942 ima_template= [IMA] 1943 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1944 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1945 "ima-sigv2" } 1946 Default: "ima-ng" 1947 1948 ima_template_fmt= 1949 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1950 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1951 1952 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1953 Format: <min_file_size> 1954 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1955 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1956 1957 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1958 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1959 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1960 1961 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1962 Format: <bufsize> 1963 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1964 1965 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1966 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1967 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1968 1969 init= [KNL] 1970 Format: <full_path> 1971 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1972 process. 1973 1974 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1975 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1976 startup. 1977 1978 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1979 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1980 modules and initcalls. 1981 1982 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1983 Format: <bool> 1984 Default: 1 1985 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1986 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1987 with devices being probed and 1988 initialized. This should normally just work, 1989 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1990 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1991 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1992 late_ initcalls. 1993 1994 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1995 1996 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1997 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1998 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1999 setting. 2000 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2001 Default is 0, 0 2002 2003 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2004 zeroes. 2005 Format: 0 | 1 2006 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2007 2008 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2009 Format: 0 | 1 2010 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2011 2012 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2013 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2014 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2015 override in debugfs after boot. 2016 2017 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2018 Format: <irq> 2019 2020 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2021 2022 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2023 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2024 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2025 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2026 2027 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2028 on 2029 Enable intel iommu driver. 2030 off 2031 Disable intel iommu driver. 2032 igfx_off [Default Off] 2033 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2034 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2035 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2036 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2037 DMA. 2038 strict [Default Off] 2039 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2040 sp_off [Default Off] 2041 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2042 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2043 not be supported. 2044 sm_on 2045 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2046 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2047 translation. 2048 sm_off 2049 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2050 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2051 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2052 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2053 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2054 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2055 mapping is enabled. 2056 Note that using this option lowers the security 2057 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2058 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2059 2060 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2061 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2062 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2063 2064 intel_pstate= [X86] 2065 disable 2066 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2067 scaling driver for the supported processors 2068 passive 2069 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2070 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2071 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2072 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2073 feature. 2074 force 2075 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2076 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2077 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2078 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2079 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2080 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2081 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2082 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2083 no_hwp 2084 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2085 if available. 2086 hwp_only 2087 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2088 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2089 support_acpi_ppc 2090 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2091 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2092 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2093 then this feature is turned on by default. 2094 per_cpu_perf_limits 2095 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2096 cpufreq sysfs interface 2097 2098 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2099 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2100 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2101 nosid disable Source ID checking 2102 no_x2apic_optout 2103 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2104 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2105 2106 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2107 strict regions from userspace. 2108 relaxed 2109 2110 iommu= [X86] 2111 off 2112 force 2113 noforce 2114 biomerge 2115 panic 2116 nopanic 2117 merge 2118 nomerge 2119 soft 2120 pt [X86] 2121 nopt [X86] 2122 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2123 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2124 2125 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2126 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2127 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2128 falling back to the full range if needed. 2129 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2130 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2131 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2132 2133 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2134 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2135 0 - Lazy mode. 2136 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2137 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2138 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2139 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2140 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2141 1 - Strict mode. 2142 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2143 synchronously. 2144 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2145 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2146 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2147 2148 iommu.passthrough= 2149 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2150 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2151 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2152 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2153 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2154 2155 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2156 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2157 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2158 2159 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2160 0x80 2161 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2162 0xed 2163 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2164 udelay 2165 Simple two microseconds delay 2166 none 2167 No delay 2168 2169 ip= [IP_PNP] 2170 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2171 2172 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2173 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2174 2175 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2176 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2177 2178 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2179 [ARM, ARM64] 2180 Format: <bool> 2181 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2182 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2183 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2184 2185 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2186 [ARM, ARM64] 2187 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2188 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2189 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2190 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2191 LPIs. 2192 2193 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2194 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2195 requires the kernel to be built with 2196 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2197 2198 irqfixup [HW] 2199 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2200 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2201 firmware running. 2202 2203 irqpoll [HW] 2204 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2205 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2206 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2207 firmware running. 2208 2209 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2210 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2211 2212 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2213 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2214 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2215 2216 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2217 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2218 2219 nohz 2220 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2221 2222 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2223 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2224 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2225 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2226 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2227 2228 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2229 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2230 be configured manually after bootup. 2231 2232 domain 2233 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2234 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2235 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2236 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2237 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2238 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2239 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2240 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2241 2242 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2243 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2244 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2245 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2246 2247 managed_irq 2248 2249 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2250 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2251 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2252 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2253 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2254 2255 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2256 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2257 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2258 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2259 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2260 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2261 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2262 2263 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2264 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2265 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2266 only delivered when tasks running on those 2267 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2268 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2269 queues. 2270 2271 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2272 2273 iucv= [HW,NET] 2274 2275 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2276 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2277 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2278 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2279 For example: 2280 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2281 write the parameter as: 2282 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2283 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2284 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2285 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2286 2287 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2288 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2289 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2290 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2291 For example: 2292 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2293 write the parameter as: 2294 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2295 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2296 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2297 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2298 2299 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2300 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2301 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2302 2303 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2304 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2305 write the parameter as: 2306 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2307 2308 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2309 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2310 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2311 2312 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2313 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2314 2315 nokaslr [KNL] 2316 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2317 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2318 Layout Randomization). 2319 2320 kasan_multi_shot 2321 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2322 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2323 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2324 invalid access. 2325 2326 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2327 2328 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2329 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2330 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2331 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2332 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2333 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2334 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2335 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2336 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2337 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2338 2339 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2340 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2341 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2342 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2343 zone if it does not. 2344 2345 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2346 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2347 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2348 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2349 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2350 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2351 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2352 2353 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2354 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2355 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2356 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2357 optional and is the number seconds in between 2358 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2359 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2360 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2361 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2362 the kernel debugger. 2363 2364 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2365 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2366 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2367 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2368 keyboard only format: kbd 2369 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2370 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2371 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2372 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2373 2374 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2375 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2376 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2377 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2378 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2379 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2380 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2381 2382 The name of the early console should be specified 2383 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2384 the early console might be different than the tty 2385 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2386 blank and the first boot console that implements 2387 read() will be picked. 2388 2389 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2390 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2391 2392 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2393 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2394 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2395 2396 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2397 Valid arguments: on, off 2398 Default: on 2399 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2400 the default is off. 2401 2402 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2403 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2404 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2405 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2406 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2407 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2408 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2409 2410 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2411 2412 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2413 Boot Parameter" section. 2414 2415 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2416 and kernel address spaces. 2417 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2418 0: force disabled 2419 1: force enabled 2420 2421 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2422 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2423 2424 kvm.eager_page_split= 2425 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2426 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2427 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2428 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2429 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2430 required to split huge pages lazily. 2431 2432 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2433 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2434 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2435 still be used for reads. 2436 2437 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2438 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2439 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2440 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2441 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2442 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2443 cleared. 2444 2445 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2446 2447 Default is Y (on). 2448 2449 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2450 Default is false (don't support). 2451 2452 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2453 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2454 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2455 force : Always deploy workaround. 2456 off : Never deploy workaround. 2457 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2458 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2459 2460 Default is 'auto'. 2461 2462 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2463 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2464 2465 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2466 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2467 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2468 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2469 period (see below). The default is 60. 2470 2471 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2472 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2473 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2474 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2475 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2476 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2477 2478 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2479 Default is 1 (enabled) 2480 2481 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2482 for all guests. 2483 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2484 2485 kvm-arm.mode= 2486 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2487 2488 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2489 2490 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2491 protected guests. 2492 2493 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2494 state is kept private from the host. 2495 2496 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2497 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2498 for the host. 2499 2500 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2501 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2502 system registers 2503 2504 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2505 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2506 system registers 2507 2508 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2509 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2510 system registers 2511 2512 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2513 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2514 LPIs. 2515 2516 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2517 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2518 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2519 allocation. 2520 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2521 Format: <integer> 2522 Default: 5 2523 2524 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2525 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2526 Default is 1 (enabled) 2527 2528 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2529 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2530 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2531 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2532 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2533 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2534 Default is 1 (enabled) 2535 2536 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2537 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2538 Default is 1 (enabled) 2539 2540 kvm-intel.nested= 2541 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2542 Default is 0 (disabled) 2543 2544 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2545 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2546 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2547 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2548 2549 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2550 CVE-2018-3620. 2551 2552 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2553 2554 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2555 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2556 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2557 never: Disables the mitigation 2558 2559 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2560 2561 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2562 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2563 Default is 1 (enabled) 2564 2565 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2566 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2567 2568 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2569 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2570 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2571 2572 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2573 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2574 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2575 not have direct access. 2576 2577 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2578 options are: 2579 2580 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2581 2582 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2583 affected CPUs 2584 2585 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2586 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2587 2588 full 2589 Provides all available mitigations for the 2590 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2591 enables all mitigations in the 2592 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2593 2594 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2595 sysfs interface is still possible after 2596 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2597 when the first VM is started in a 2598 potentially insecure configuration, 2599 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2600 2601 full,force 2602 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2603 flush runtime control. Implies the 2604 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2605 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2606 2607 flush 2608 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2609 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2610 L1D flush. 2611 2612 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2613 sysfs interface is still possible after 2614 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2615 when the first VM is started in a 2616 potentially insecure configuration, 2617 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2618 2619 flush,nosmt 2620 2621 Disables SMT and enables the default 2622 hypervisor mitigation. 2623 2624 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2625 sysfs interface is still possible after 2626 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2627 when the first VM is started in a 2628 potentially insecure configuration, 2629 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2630 2631 flush,nowarn 2632 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2633 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2634 insecure configuration. 2635 2636 off 2637 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2638 emit any warnings. 2639 It also drops the swap size and available 2640 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2641 bare metal. 2642 2643 Default is 'flush'. 2644 2645 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2646 2647 l2cr= [PPC] 2648 2649 l3cr= [PPC] 2650 2651 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2652 disabled it. 2653 2654 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2655 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2656 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2657 Format: notscdeadline 2658 2659 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2660 in C2 power state. 2661 2662 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2663 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2664 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2665 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2666 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2667 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2668 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2669 2670 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2671 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2672 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2673 2674 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2675 when set. 2676 Format: <int> 2677 2678 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2679 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2680 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2681 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2682 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2683 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2684 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2685 to all ports, links and devices. 2686 2687 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2688 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2689 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2690 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2691 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2692 host link and device attached to it. 2693 2694 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2695 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2696 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2697 The following configurations can be forced. 2698 2699 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2700 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2701 2702 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2703 2704 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2705 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2706 allowed. 2707 2708 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2709 resets. 2710 2711 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2712 link recovery. 2713 2714 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2715 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2716 detection. 2717 2718 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2719 2720 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2721 2722 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2723 2724 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2725 2726 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2727 2728 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2729 2730 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2731 2732 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2733 2734 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2735 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2736 2737 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2738 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2739 2740 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2741 identify device data log. 2742 2743 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2744 purpose log directory. 2745 2746 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2747 2748 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2749 1024 sectors. 2750 2751 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2752 65535 sectors. 2753 2754 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2755 2756 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2757 should be skipped. 2758 2759 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2760 2761 * disable: Disable this device. 2762 2763 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2764 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2765 2766 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2767 2768 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2769 Format: <integer> 2770 2771 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2772 Format: <integer> 2773 2774 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2775 Format: <integer> 2776 2777 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2778 Format: <integer> 2779 2780 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2781 { integrity | confidentiality } 2782 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2783 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2784 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2785 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2786 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2787 are also disabled. 2788 2789 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2790 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2791 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2792 number of online CPUs. 2793 2794 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2795 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2796 2797 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2798 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2799 2800 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2801 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2802 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2803 2804 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2805 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2806 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2807 mode during the locktorture test. 2808 2809 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2810 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2811 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2812 2813 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2814 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2815 2816 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2817 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2818 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2819 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2820 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2821 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2822 2823 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2824 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2825 2826 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2827 Enable additional printk() statements. 2828 2829 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2830 Format: <irq> 2831 2832 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2833 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2834 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2835 loglevels are defined as follows: 2836 2837 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2838 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2839 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2840 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2841 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2842 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2843 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2844 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2845 2846 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2847 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2848 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2849 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2850 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2851 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2852 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2853 2854 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2855 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2856 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2857 kernel boot problems. 2858 2859 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2860 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2861 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2862 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2863 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2864 attached printers to be reset. Using 2865 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2866 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2867 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2868 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2869 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2870 port specification list means that device IDs 2871 from each port should be examined, to see if 2872 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2873 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2874 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2875 2876 lpj=n [KNL] 2877 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2878 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2879 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2880 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2881 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2882 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2883 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2884 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2885 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2886 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2887 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2888 hardware. 2889 2890 ltpc= [NET] 2891 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2892 2893 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2894 2895 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2896 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2897 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2898 2899 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2900 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2901 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2902 2903 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2904 different yeeloong laptops. 2905 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2906 2907 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2908 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2909 2910 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2911 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2912 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2913 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2914 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2915 only takes effect during system bootup. 2916 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2917 which also disables the IO APIC. 2918 2919 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2920 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2921 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2922 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2923 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2924 /dev/loop-control interface. 2925 2926 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2927 2928 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2929 2930 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2931 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2932 2933 mdacon= [MDA] 2934 Format: <first>,<last> 2935 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2936 2937 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2938 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2939 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2940 2941 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2942 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2943 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2944 2945 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2946 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2947 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2948 not have direct access. 2949 2950 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2951 options are: 2952 2953 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2954 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2955 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2956 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2957 2958 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2959 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2960 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2961 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2962 too. 2963 2964 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2965 mds=full. 2966 2967 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2968 2969 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2970 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2971 2972 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2973 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2974 2975 1 for test; 2976 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2977 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2978 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2979 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2980 2981 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 2982 high memory is not affected. 2983 2984 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 2985 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 2986 2987 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2988 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2989 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2990 belonging to unused RAM. 2991 2992 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2993 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2994 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2995 2996 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2997 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 2998 firmware. 2999 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3000 ss[KMG]. 3001 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3002 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3003 3004 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3005 memory. 3006 3007 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3008 3009 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3010 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3011 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3012 3013 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3014 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3015 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3016 set according to the 3017 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3018 option. 3019 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3020 3021 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3022 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3023 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3024 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3025 option description. 3026 3027 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3028 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3029 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3030 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3031 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3032 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3033 comma delimited. 3034 Example: 3035 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3036 3037 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3038 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3039 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3040 3041 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3042 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3043 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3044 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3045 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3046 or 3047 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3048 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3049 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3050 will be eaten. 3051 3052 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3053 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3054 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3055 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3056 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3057 3058 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3059 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3060 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3061 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3062 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3063 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3064 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3065 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3066 3067 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3068 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3069 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3070 Setting this option will scan the memory 3071 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3072 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3073 from using the memory being corrupted. 3074 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3075 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3076 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3077 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3078 3079 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3080 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3081 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3082 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3083 corruption in more or less memory. 3084 3085 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3086 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3087 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3088 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3089 3090 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3091 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3092 Format: {on | off (default)} 3093 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3094 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3095 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3096 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3097 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3098 lot of memory without requiring additional 3099 memory to do so. 3100 This feature is disabled by default because it 3101 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3102 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3103 memory blocks). 3104 The state of the flag can be read in 3105 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3106 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3107 the feature is not effective. 3108 3109 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3110 Format: <integer> 3111 default : 0 <disable> 3112 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3113 performed. Each pass selects another test 3114 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3115 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3116 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3117 regions that are detected. 3118 3119 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3120 Valid arguments: on, off 3121 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3122 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3123 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3124 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3125 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3126 3127 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3128 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3129 3130 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3131 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3132 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3133 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3134 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3135 3136 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3137 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3138 3139 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3140 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3141 platforms. 3142 3143 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3144 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3145 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3146 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3147 3148 mga= [HW,DRM] 3149 3150 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3151 physical address is ignored. 3152 3153 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3154 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3155 Default: "0tb" 3156 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3157 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3158 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3159 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3160 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3161 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3162 unconfigured. 3163 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3164 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3165 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3166 VGA shield. 3167 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3168 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3169 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3170 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3171 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3172 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3173 3174 mitigations= 3175 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3176 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3177 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3178 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3179 3180 off 3181 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3182 improves system performance, but it may also 3183 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3184 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3185 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3186 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3187 nobp=0 [S390] 3188 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3189 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3190 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3191 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3192 l1tf=off [X86] 3193 mds=off [X86] 3194 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3195 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3196 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3197 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3198 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3199 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3200 retbleed=off [X86] 3201 3202 Exceptions: 3203 This does not have any effect on 3204 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3205 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3206 3207 auto (default) 3208 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3209 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3210 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3211 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3212 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3213 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3214 3215 auto,nosmt 3216 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3217 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3218 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3219 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3220 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3221 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3222 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3223 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3224 3225 mminit_loglevel= 3226 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3227 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3228 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3229 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3230 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3231 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3232 3233 mmio_stale_data= 3234 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3235 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3236 3237 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3238 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3239 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3240 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3241 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3242 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3243 3244 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3245 options are: 3246 3247 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3248 3249 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3250 vulnerable CPUs. 3251 3252 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3253 3254 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3255 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3256 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3257 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3258 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3259 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3260 3261 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3262 mmio_stale_data=full. 3263 3264 For details see: 3265 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3266 3267 module.sig_enforce 3268 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3269 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3270 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3271 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3272 3273 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3274 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3275 3276 mousedev.tap_time= 3277 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3278 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3279 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3280 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3281 Format: <msecs> 3282 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3283 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3284 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3285 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3286 3287 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3288 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3289 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3290 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3291 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3292 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3293 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3294 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3295 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3296 is not too small. 3297 3298 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3299 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3300 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3301 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3302 allocations. Use with caution! 3303 3304 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3305 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3306 3307 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3308 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3309 3310 mtdparts= [MTD] 3311 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3312 3313 mtdset= [ARM] 3314 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3315 3316 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3317 3318 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3319 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3320 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3321 3322 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3323 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3324 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3325 3326 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3327 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3328 Default is 1. 3329 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3330 using up MTRRs. 3331 3332 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3333 Format: <integer> 3334 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3335 Default : 1 3336 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3337 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3338 3339 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3340 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3341 at a time. 3342 3343 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3344 3345 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3346 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3347 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3348 something different and driver-specific. 3349 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3350 file if at all. 3351 3352 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3353 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3354 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3355 waits 4 seconds. 3356 3357 nf_conntrack.acct= 3358 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3359 0 to disable accounting 3360 1 to enable accounting 3361 Default value is 0. 3362 3363 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3364 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3365 3366 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3367 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3368 3369 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3370 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3371 3372 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3373 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3374 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3375 requests. 3376 3377 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3378 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3379 channel should listen. 3380 3381 nfs.cache_getent= 3382 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3383 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3384 3385 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3386 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3387 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3388 3389 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3390 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3391 entries. 3392 3393 nfs.enable_ino64= 3394 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3395 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3396 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3397 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3398 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3399 3400 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3401 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3402 slots the client will assign to the callback 3403 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3404 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3405 a particular server. 3406 3407 nfs.max_session_slots= 3408 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3409 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3410 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3411 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3412 Note that there is little point in setting this 3413 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3414 3415 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3416 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3417 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3418 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3419 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3420 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3421 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3422 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3423 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3424 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3425 back to using the idmapper. 3426 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3427 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3428 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3429 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3430 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3431 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3432 3433 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3434 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3435 information in exchange_id requests. 3436 If zero, no implementation identification information 3437 will be sent. 3438 The default is to send the implementation identification 3439 information. 3440 3441 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3442 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3443 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3444 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3445 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3446 after the locks are lost. 3447 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3448 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3449 parameter to '1'. 3450 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3451 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3452 3453 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3454 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3455 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3456 3457 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3458 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3459 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3460 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3461 3462 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3463 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3464 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3465 the destination of the copy. 3466 3467 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3468 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3469 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3470 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3471 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3472 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3473 this parameter. 3474 3475 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3476 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3477 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3478 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3479 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3480 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3481 3482 3483 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3484 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3485 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3486 3487 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3488 when a NMI is triggered. 3489 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3490 3491 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3492 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3493 Valid num: 0 or 1 3494 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3495 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3496 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3497 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3498 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3499 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3500 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3501 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3502 need the box quickly up again. 3503 3504 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3505 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3506 3507 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3508 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3509 is present. 3510 3511 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3512 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3513 3514 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3515 3516 no_console_suspend 3517 [HW] Never suspend the console 3518 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3519 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3520 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3521 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3522 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3523 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3524 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3525 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3526 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3527 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3528 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3529 turn on/off it dynamically. 3530 3531 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3532 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3533 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3534 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3535 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3536 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3537 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3538 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3539 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3540 is set. 3541 3542 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3543 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3544 but will impact performance. 3545 3546 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3547 3548 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3549 (CPU alternatives feature). 3550 3551 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3552 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3553 3554 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3555 3556 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3557 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3558 3559 nocache [ARM] 3560 3561 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3562 3563 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3564 3565 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3566 3567 noexec [IA-64] 3568 3569 nosmap [PPC] 3570 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3571 even if it is supported by processor. 3572 3573 nosmep [PPC64s] 3574 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3575 even if it is supported by processor. 3576 3577 noexec32 [X86-64] 3578 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3579 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3580 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3581 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3582 read implies executable mappings 3583 3584 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3585 3586 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3587 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3588 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3589 3590 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3591 3592 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3593 3594 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3595 Equivalent to smt=1. 3596 3597 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3598 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3599 via the sysfs control file. 3600 3601 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3602 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3603 possible in the system. 3604 3605 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3606 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3607 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3608 option. 3609 3610 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3611 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3612 3613 no_uaccess_flush 3614 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3615 3616 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3617 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3618 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3619 3620 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3621 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3622 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3623 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3624 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3625 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3626 3627 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3628 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3629 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3630 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3631 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3632 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3633 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3634 3635 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3636 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3637 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3638 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3639 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3640 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3641 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3642 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3643 3644 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3645 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3646 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3647 3648 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3649 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3650 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3651 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3652 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3653 real-time systems. 3654 3655 no_hash_pointers 3656 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3657 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3658 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3659 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3660 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3661 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3662 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3663 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3664 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3665 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3666 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3667 kernels. 3668 3669 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3670 3671 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3672 Valid arguments: on, off 3673 Default: on 3674 3675 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3676 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3677 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3678 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3679 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3680 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3681 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3682 just as if they had also been called out in the 3683 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3684 3685 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3686 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3687 3688 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3689 3690 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3691 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3692 3693 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3694 broken timer IRQ sources. 3695 3696 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3697 3698 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3699 initial RAM disk. 3700 3701 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3702 remapping. 3703 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3704 3705 nointroute [IA-64] 3706 3707 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3708 3709 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3710 3711 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3712 3713 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3714 fault handling. 3715 3716 no-vmw-sched-clock 3717 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3718 clock and use the default one. 3719 3720 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3721 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3722 influence scheduler behaviour 3723 3724 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3725 3726 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3727 3728 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3729 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3730 3731 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3732 3733 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3734 3735 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3736 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3737 3738 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3739 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3740 irq. 3741 3742 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3743 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3744 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3745 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3746 3747 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3748 3749 nomodule Disable module load 3750 3751 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3752 pagetables) support. 3753 3754 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3755 3756 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3757 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3758 3759 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3760 with UP alternatives 3761 3762 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3763 space. 3764 3765 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3766 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3767 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3768 3769 nosbagart [IA-64] 3770 3771 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3772 3773 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3774 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3775 3776 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3777 3778 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3779 3780 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3781 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3782 3783 nowb [ARM] 3784 3785 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3786 3787 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3788 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3789 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3790 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3791 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3792 parameter's value. 3793 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3794 Default: 255 3795 3796 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3797 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3798 SAL PALO. 3799 3800 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3801 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3802 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3803 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3804 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3805 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3806 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3807 hot plugging. 3808 3809 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3810 3811 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3812 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3813 3814 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3815 NUMA balancing. 3816 Allowed values are enable and disable 3817 3818 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3819 'node', 'default' can be specified 3820 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3821 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3822 3823 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3824 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3825 info. 3826 3827 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3828 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3829 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3830 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3831 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3832 interrupts *may* be lost! 3833 3834 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3835 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3836 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3837 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3838 3839 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3840 3841 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3842 3843 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3844 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3845 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3846 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3847 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3848 3849 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3850 process, but there is a small probability of 3851 deadlocking the machine. 3852 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3853 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3854 3855 page_alloc.shuffle= 3856 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3857 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3858 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3859 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3860 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3861 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3862 can be read from sysfs at: 3863 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3864 3865 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3866 Storage of the information about who allocated 3867 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3868 we can turn it on. 3869 on: enable the feature 3870 3871 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3872 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3873 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3874 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3875 on: turn on poisoning 3876 3877 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3878 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3879 Format: <integer> 3880 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3881 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3882 3883 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3884 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3885 timeout = 0: wait forever 3886 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3887 Format: <timeout> 3888 3889 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3890 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3891 bit 0: print all tasks info 3892 bit 1: print system memory info 3893 bit 2: print timer info 3894 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3895 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3896 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3897 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3898 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3899 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3900 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3901 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3902 3903 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3904 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3905 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3906 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3907 called with any of the flags in this set. 3908 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3909 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3910 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3911 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3912 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3913 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3914 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3915 3916 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3917 on a WARN(). 3918 3919 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3920 connected to, default is 0. 3921 Format: <parport#> 3922 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3923 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3924 Format: <mode> 3925 3926 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3927 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3928 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3929 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3930 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3931 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3932 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3933 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3934 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3935 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3936 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3937 are specified on the command line, starting 3938 with parport0. 3939 3940 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3941 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3942 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3943 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3944 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3945 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3946 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3947 3948 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3949 Format: <int> 3950 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3951 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3952 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3953 3954 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3955 Format: <int> 3956 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3957 changes. Disabled by default. 3958 3959 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3960 Format: <int> 3961 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3962 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3963 Disabled by default. 3964 3965 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3966 Format: <int> 3967 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3968 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3969 Disabled by default. 3970 3971 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3972 Format: <int> 3973 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3974 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3975 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3976 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3977 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3978 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3979 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3980 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3981 all channels. 3982 3983 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3984 Format: <int> 3985 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3986 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3987 respectively. Disabled by default. 3988 3989 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3990 Format: <int> 3991 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3992 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3993 respectively. Disabled by default. 3994 3995 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3996 Format: <int> 3997 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3998 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3999 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4000 All modes allowed by default. 4001 4002 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4003 Format: <int> 4004 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4005 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4006 4007 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4008 Format: <int> 4009 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4010 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4011 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4012 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4013 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4014 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4015 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4016 By default all supported ports are probed. 4017 4018 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4019 Format: <int> 4020 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4021 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4022 4023 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4024 Format: <int> 4025 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4026 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4027 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4028 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4029 0 otherwise. 4030 4031 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4032 Format: <int> 4033 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4034 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4035 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4036 allowed by default. 4037 4038 pause_on_oops= 4039 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4040 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4041 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4042 4043 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4044 4045 pcd. [PARIDE] 4046 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4047 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4048 4049 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4050 4051 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4052 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4053 specified in one of the following formats: 4054 4055 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4056 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4057 4058 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4059 bus/device/function address which may change 4060 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4061 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4062 by other kernel parameters. If the 4063 domain is left unspecified, it is 4064 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4065 to a device through multiple device/function 4066 addresses can be specified after the base 4067 address (this is more robust against 4068 renumbering issues). The second format 4069 selects devices using IDs from the 4070 configuration space which may match multiple 4071 devices in the system. 4072 4073 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4074 changes anything 4075 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4076 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4077 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4078 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4079 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4080 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4081 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4082 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4083 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4084 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4085 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4086 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4087 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4088 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4089 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4090 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4091 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4092 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4093 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4094 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4095 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4096 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4097 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4098 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4099 Configuration 4100 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4101 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4102 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4103 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4104 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4105 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4106 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4107 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4108 should never be necessary. 4109 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4110 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4111 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4112 when the system masks IRQs. 4113 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4114 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4115 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4116 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4117 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4118 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4119 on several machines and they hang the machine 4120 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4121 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4122 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4123 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4124 motherboard. 4125 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4126 Use with caution as certain devices share 4127 address decoders between ROMs and other 4128 resources. 4129 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4130 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4131 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4132 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4133 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4134 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4135 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4136 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4137 this way. 4138 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4139 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4140 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4141 F0000h-100000h range. 4142 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4143 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4144 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4145 explicitly which ones they are. 4146 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4147 numbers ourselves, overriding 4148 whatever the firmware may have done. 4149 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4150 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4151 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4152 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4153 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4154 IRQ routing is enabled. 4155 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4156 or for PCI scanning. 4157 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4158 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4159 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4160 please report a bug. 4161 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4162 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4163 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4164 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4165 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4166 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4167 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4168 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4169 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4170 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4171 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4172 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4173 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4174 so this option is a temporary workaround 4175 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4176 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4177 handle more pci cards 4178 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4179 This might help on some broken boards which 4180 machine check when some devices' config space 4181 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4182 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4183 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4184 This sorting is done to get a device 4185 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4186 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4187 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4188 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4189 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4190 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4191 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4192 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4193 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4194 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4195 or bus can support) for best performance. 4196 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4197 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4198 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4199 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4200 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4201 that hot-added devices will work. 4202 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4203 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4204 The default value is 256 bytes. 4205 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4206 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4207 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4208 resource_alignment= 4209 Format: 4210 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4211 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4212 aligned memory resources. How to 4213 specify the device is described above. 4214 If <order of align> is not specified, 4215 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4216 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4217 windows need to be expanded. 4218 To specify the alignment for several 4219 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4220 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4221 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4222 for 4096-byte alignment. 4223 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4224 end-to-end CRC checking). 4225 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4226 the default. 4227 off: Turn ECRC off 4228 on: Turn ECRC on. 4229 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4230 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4231 Default size is 256 bytes. 4232 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4233 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4234 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4235 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4236 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4237 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4238 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4239 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4240 MMIO_PREF window. 4241 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4242 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4243 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4244 Default is 1. 4245 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4246 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4247 accommodate resources required by all child 4248 devices. 4249 off: Turn realloc off 4250 on: Turn realloc on 4251 realloc same as realloc=on 4252 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4253 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4254 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4255 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4256 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4257 port. 4258 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4259 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4260 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4261 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4262 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4263 taints the kernel. 4264 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4265 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4266 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4267 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4268 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4269 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4270 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4271 this removes isolation between devices and 4272 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4273 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4274 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4275 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4276 one PCI domain per PCI function 4277 4278 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4279 Management. 4280 off Disable ASPM. 4281 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4282 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4283 4284 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4285 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4286 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4287 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4288 also tries to use these services. 4289 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4290 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4291 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4292 hotplug). 4293 4294 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4295 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4296 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4297 4298 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4299 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4300 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4301 4302 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4303 4304 pd_ignore_unused 4305 [PM] 4306 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4307 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4308 for debug and development, but should not be 4309 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4310 4311 pd. [PARIDE] 4312 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4313 4314 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4315 boot time. 4316 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4317 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4318 4319 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4320 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4321 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4322 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4323 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4324 and performance comparison. 4325 4326 pf. [PARIDE] 4327 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4328 4329 pg. [PARIDE] 4330 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4331 4332 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4333 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4334 4335 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4336 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4337 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4338 4339 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4340 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4341 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4342 4343 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4344 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4345 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4346 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4347 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4348 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4349 remains 0. 4350 4351 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4352 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4353 4354 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4355 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4356 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4357 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4358 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4359 possible settings and some assignment information. 4360 4361 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4362 { off } 4363 4364 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4365 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4366 4367 pnp_reserve_irq= 4368 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4369 4370 pnp_reserve_dma= 4371 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4372 4373 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4374 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4375 4376 pnp_reserve_mem= 4377 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4378 autoconfiguration. 4379 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4380 4381 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4382 Default is 21. 4383 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4384 may be specified. 4385 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4386 4387 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4388 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4389 platform machine description specific power_save 4390 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4391 execution priority. 4392 4393 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4394 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4395 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4396 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4397 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4398 4399 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4400 Format: {"off"} 4401 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4402 4403 preempt= [KNL] 4404 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4405 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4406 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4407 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4408 can be preempted anytime. 4409 4410 print-fatal-signals= 4411 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4412 4413 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4414 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4415 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4416 coredump - etc. 4417 4418 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4419 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4420 4421 default: off. 4422 4423 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4424 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4425 panics 4426 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4427 default: disabled 4428 4429 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4430 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4431 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4432 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4433 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4434 in order to provide more debug information. 4435 Format: <bool> 4436 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4437 4438 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4439 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4440 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4441 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4442 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4443 Default: ratelimit 4444 4445 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4446 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4447 4448 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4449 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4450 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4451 4452 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4453 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4454 instead using the legacy FADT method 4455 4456 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4457 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4458 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4459 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4460 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4461 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4462 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4463 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4464 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4465 statistical time based profiling. 4466 4467 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4468 4469 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4470 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4471 that). 4472 Format: <bool> 4473 4474 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4475 tracking. 4476 Format: <bool> 4477 4478 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4479 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4480 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4481 per second. 4482 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4483 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4484 (0 = never). 4485 psmouse.resolution= 4486 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4487 psmouse.smartscroll= 4488 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4489 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4490 4491 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4492 4493 pt. [PARIDE] 4494 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4495 4496 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4497 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4498 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4499 system calls and interrupts. 4500 4501 on - unconditionally enable 4502 off - unconditionally disable 4503 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4504 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4505 4506 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4507 4508 nopti [X86-64] 4509 Equivalent to pti=off 4510 4511 pty.legacy_count= 4512 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4513 default number. 4514 4515 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4516 4517 r128= [HW,DRM] 4518 4519 raid= [HW,RAID] 4520 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4521 4522 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4523 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4524 4525 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4526 4527 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4528 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4529 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4530 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4531 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4532 4533 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4534 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4535 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4536 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4537 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4538 4539 randomize_kstack_offset= 4540 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4541 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4542 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4543 that depend on stack address determinism or 4544 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4545 available on architectures that have defined 4546 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4547 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4548 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4549 4550 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4551 4552 cec_disable [X86] 4553 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4554 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4555 4556 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4557 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4558 as described above. 4559 4560 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4561 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4562 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4563 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4564 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4565 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4566 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4567 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4568 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4569 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4570 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4571 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4572 4573 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4574 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4575 4576 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4577 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4578 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4579 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4580 4581 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4582 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4583 4584 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4585 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4586 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4587 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4588 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4589 This improves the real-time response for the 4590 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4591 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4592 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4593 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4594 4595 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4596 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4597 process in one batch. 4598 4599 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4600 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4601 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4602 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4603 4604 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4605 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4606 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4607 4608 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4609 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4610 RCU grace-period initialization. 4611 4612 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4613 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4614 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4615 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4616 the rcu_node combining tree. 4617 4618 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4619 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4620 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4621 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4622 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4623 4624 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4625 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4626 to zero. 4627 4628 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4629 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4630 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4631 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4632 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4633 4634 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4635 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4636 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4637 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4638 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4639 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4640 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4641 4642 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4643 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4644 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4645 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4646 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4647 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4648 condition. 4649 4650 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4651 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4652 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4653 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4654 4655 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4656 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4657 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4658 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4659 and maximum value is HZ. 4660 4661 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4662 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4663 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4664 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4665 4666 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4667 Set required age in jiffies for a 4668 given grace period before RCU starts 4669 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4670 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4671 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4672 a value based on the most recent settings 4673 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4674 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4675 This calculated value may be viewed in 4676 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4677 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4678 overwritten. 4679 4680 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4681 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4682 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4683 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4684 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4685 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4686 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4687 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4688 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4689 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4690 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4691 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4692 4693 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4694 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4695 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4696 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4697 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4698 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4699 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4700 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4701 4702 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4703 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4704 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4705 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4706 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4707 4708 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4709 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4710 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4711 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4712 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4713 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4714 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4715 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4716 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4717 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4718 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4719 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4720 4721 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4722 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4723 each group, which defaults to the square root 4724 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4725 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4726 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4727 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4728 4729 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4730 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4731 batch limiting is disabled. 4732 4733 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4734 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4735 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4736 4737 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4738 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4739 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4740 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4741 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4742 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4743 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4744 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4745 4746 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4747 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4748 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4749 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4750 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4751 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4752 4753 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4754 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4755 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4756 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4757 Larger delays increase the probability of 4758 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4759 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4760 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4761 4762 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4763 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4764 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4765 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4766 4767 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4768 Measure performance of asynchronous 4769 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4770 4771 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4772 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4773 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4774 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4775 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4776 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4777 4778 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4779 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4780 grace-period primitives. 4781 4782 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4783 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4784 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4785 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4786 interference. 4787 4788 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4789 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4790 4791 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4792 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4793 If this parameter has the same value as 4794 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4795 and double-argument variants are tested. 4796 4797 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4798 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4799 If this parameter has the same value as 4800 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4801 and double-argument variants are tested. 4802 4803 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4804 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4805 4806 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4807 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4808 4809 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4810 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4811 of allocations and frees. 4812 4813 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4814 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4815 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4816 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4817 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4818 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4819 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4820 a single reader. 4821 4822 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4823 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4824 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4825 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4826 4827 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4828 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4829 4830 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4831 Shut the system down after performance tests 4832 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4833 testing. 4834 4835 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4836 Enable additional printk() statements. 4837 4838 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4839 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4840 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4841 no holdoff. 4842 4843 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4844 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4845 in microseconds. 4846 4847 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4848 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4849 in microseconds. 4850 4851 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4852 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4853 in seconds. 4854 4855 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4856 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4857 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4858 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4859 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4860 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4861 of CPUs to be used. 4862 4863 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4864 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4865 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4866 4867 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4868 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4869 forward-progress tests. 4870 4871 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4872 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4873 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4874 testing. 4875 4876 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4877 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4878 primitives, if available. 4879 4880 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4881 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4882 4883 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4884 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4885 update-side primitives, if available. 4886 4887 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4888 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4889 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4890 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4891 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4892 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4893 they are all non-zero. 4894 4895 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4896 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4897 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4898 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4899 4900 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4901 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4902 This can of course result in splats, and is 4903 intended to test the ability of things like 4904 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4905 such leaks. 4906 4907 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4908 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4909 4910 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4911 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4912 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4913 test, hence the "fake". 4914 4915 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4916 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4917 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4918 4919 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4920 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4921 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4922 4923 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4924 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4925 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4926 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4927 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4928 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4929 4930 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4931 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4932 4933 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4934 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4935 4936 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4937 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4938 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4939 4940 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4941 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4942 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4943 task-exit processing. 4944 4945 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4946 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4947 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4948 is spawned. 4949 4950 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4951 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4952 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4953 4954 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4955 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4956 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4957 during the rcutorture test. 4958 4959 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4960 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4961 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4962 4963 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4964 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4965 warnings, zero to disable. 4966 4967 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4968 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4969 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4970 to any other stall-related activity. 4971 4972 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4973 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4974 4975 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4976 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4977 4978 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4979 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4980 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4981 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4982 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4983 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4984 4985 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4986 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4987 4988 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4989 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4990 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4991 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4992 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4993 4994 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4995 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4996 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4997 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4998 4999 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5000 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5001 5002 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5003 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5004 5005 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5006 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5007 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5008 5009 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5010 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5011 5012 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5013 Enable additional printk() statements. 5014 5015 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5016 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5017 stall warning. 5018 5019 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5020 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5021 5022 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5023 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5024 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5025 during early boot, that is, during the time 5026 before the init task is spawned. 5027 5028 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5029 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5030 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5031 value is 300 seconds. 5032 5033 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5034 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5035 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5036 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5037 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5038 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5039 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5040 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5041 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5042 5043 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5044 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5045 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5046 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5047 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5048 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5049 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5050 5051 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5052 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5053 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5054 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5055 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5056 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5057 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5058 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5059 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5060 5061 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5062 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5063 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5064 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5065 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5066 5067 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5068 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5069 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5070 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5071 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5072 grace-period processing. 5073 5074 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5075 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5076 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5077 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5078 a single callback queue. This switching only 5079 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5080 set to the default value of -1. 5081 5082 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5083 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5084 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5085 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5086 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5087 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5088 the default value of -1. 5089 5090 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5091 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5092 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5093 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5094 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5095 for use in testing. 5096 5097 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5098 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5099 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5100 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5101 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5102 but lengthens grace periods. 5103 5104 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5105 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5106 informational messages, which give some indication 5107 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5108 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5109 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5110 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5111 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5112 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5113 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5114 5115 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5116 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5117 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5118 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5119 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5120 the value three, so that the first informational 5121 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5122 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5123 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5124 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5125 5126 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5127 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5128 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5129 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5130 A change in value does not take effect until 5131 the beginning of the next grace period. 5132 5133 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5134 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5135 5136 rdinit= [KNL] 5137 Format: <full_path> 5138 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5139 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5140 5141 rdrand= [X86] 5142 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5143 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5144 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5145 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5146 path). 5147 5148 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5149 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5150 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5151 mba. 5152 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5153 rdt=cmt,!mba 5154 5155 reboot= [KNL] 5156 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5157 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5158 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5159 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5160 [[,]f[orce] 5161 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5162 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5163 reboot only), 5164 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5165 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5166 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5167 to be used for rebooting. 5168 5169 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5170 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5171 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5172 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5173 interference. 5174 5175 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5176 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5177 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5178 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5179 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5180 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5181 x86 laptops. 5182 5183 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5184 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5185 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5186 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5187 5188 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5189 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5190 the console log. 5191 5192 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5193 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5194 measured in microseconds. 5195 5196 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5197 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5198 5199 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5200 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5201 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5202 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5203 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5204 5205 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5206 Enable additional printk() statements. 5207 5208 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5209 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5210 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5211 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5212 specified. 5213 5214 relax_domain_level= 5215 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5216 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5217 5218 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5219 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5220 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5221 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5222 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5223 5224 reservetop= [X86-32] 5225 Format: nn[KMG] 5226 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5227 address space. 5228 5229 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5230 during initialization. 5231 5232 resume= [SWSUSP] 5233 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5234 Format: 5235 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5236 5237 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5238 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5239 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5240 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5241 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5242 5243 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5244 read the resume files 5245 5246 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5247 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5248 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5249 5250 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5251 5252 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5253 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5254 vulnerability. 5255 5256 off - no mitigation 5257 auto - automatically select a migitation 5258 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5259 disabling SMT if necessary for 5260 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5261 and older without STIBP). 5262 ibpb - mitigate short speculation windows on 5263 basic block boundaries too. Safe, highest 5264 perf impact. 5265 unret - force enable untrained return thunks, 5266 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h 5267 based systems. 5268 unret,nosmt - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP 5269 is not available. 5270 5271 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5272 time according to the CPU. 5273 5274 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5275 5276 rfkill.default_state= 5277 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5278 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5279 1 Unblocked. 5280 5281 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5282 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5283 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5284 blocked and the previous configuration. 5285 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5286 blocked and everything unblocked. 5287 5288 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5289 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5290 5291 ring3mwait=disable 5292 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5293 CPUs. 5294 5295 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5296 5297 rodata= [KNL] 5298 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5299 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5300 5301 rockchip.usb_uart 5302 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5303 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5304 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5305 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5306 5307 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5308 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5309 5310 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5311 mount the root filesystem 5312 5313 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5314 5315 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5316 5317 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5318 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5319 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5320 5321 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5322 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5323 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5324 managed by CMA. 5325 5326 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5327 5328 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5329 5330 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5331 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5332 strict 5333 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5334 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5335 which is faster. 5336 5337 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5338 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5339 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5340 factor of the size of main memory. 5341 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5342 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5343 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5344 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5345 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5346 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5347 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5348 5349 sa1100ir [NET] 5350 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5351 5352 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5353 5354 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5355 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5356 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5357 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5358 5359 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5360 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5361 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5362 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5363 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5364 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5365 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5366 value. 5367 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5368 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5369 1 64 ms 5370 2 128 ms 5371 and so on. 5372 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5373 Default is 0. 5374 5375 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5376 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5377 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5378 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5379 tests. 5380 5381 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5382 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5383 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5384 default) disables this feature. Please note 5385 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5386 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5387 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5388 5389 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5390 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5391 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5392 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5393 equal to the number of CPUs. 5394 5395 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5396 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5397 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5398 5399 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5400 Number seconds to wait between successive 5401 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5402 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5403 5404 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5405 The number of seconds following the start of the 5406 test after which to shut down the system. The 5407 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5408 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5409 5410 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5411 The number of seconds between outputting the 5412 current test statistics to the console. A value 5413 of zero disables statistics output. 5414 5415 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5416 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5417 to the set of CPUs under test. 5418 5419 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5420 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5421 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5422 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5423 functions. 5424 5425 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5426 Enable additional printk() statements. 5427 5428 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5429 The probability weighting to use for the 5430 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5431 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5432 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5433 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5434 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5435 5436 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5437 The probability weighting to use for the 5438 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5439 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5440 5441 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5442 The probability weighting to use for the 5443 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5444 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5445 Note well that setting a high probability for 5446 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5447 on the system. 5448 5449 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5450 The probability weighting to use for the 5451 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5452 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5453 and weight_many. 5454 5455 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5456 The probability weighting to use for the 5457 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5458 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5459 weight_many. 5460 5461 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5462 The probability weighting to use for the 5463 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5464 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5465 and weight_many. 5466 5467 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5468 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5469 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5470 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5471 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5472 1 -- enable. 5473 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5474 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5475 5476 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5477 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5478 "lsm=" parameter. 5479 5480 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5481 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5482 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5483 0 -- disable. 5484 1 -- enable. 5485 Default value is 1. 5486 5487 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5488 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5489 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5490 0 -- disable. 5491 1 -- enable. 5492 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5493 5494 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5495 5496 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5497 5498 shapers= [NET] 5499 Maximal number of shapers. 5500 5501 simeth= [IA-64] 5502 simscsi= 5503 5504 slram= [HW,MTD] 5505 5506 slab_merge [MM] 5507 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5508 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5509 5510 slab_nomerge [MM] 5511 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5512 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5513 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5514 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5515 layout control by attackers can usually be 5516 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5517 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5518 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5519 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5520 own. 5521 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5522 5523 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5524 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5525 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5526 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5527 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5528 5529 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5530 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5531 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5532 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5533 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5534 last alloc / free. For more information see 5535 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5536 5537 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5538 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5539 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5540 fragmentation. For more information see 5541 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5542 5543 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5544 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5545 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5546 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5547 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5548 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5549 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5550 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5551 5552 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5553 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5554 lower than slub_max_order. 5555 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5556 5557 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5558 Same with slab_merge. 5559 5560 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5561 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5562 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5563 5564 smart2= [HW] 5565 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5566 5567 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5568 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5569 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5570 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5571 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5572 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5573 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5574 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5575 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5576 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5577 5578 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5579 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5580 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5581 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5582 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5583 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5584 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5585 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5586 1: Fast pin select (default) 5587 2: ATC IRMode 5588 5589 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5590 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5591 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5592 actual hardware limit. 5593 Format: <integer> 5594 Default: -1 (no limit) 5595 5596 softlockup_panic= 5597 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5598 Format: 0 | 1 5599 5600 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5601 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5602 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5603 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5604 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5605 5606 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5607 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5608 backtraces on all cpus. 5609 Format: 0 | 1 5610 5611 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5612 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5613 5614 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5615 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5616 The default operation protects the kernel from 5617 user space attacks. 5618 5619 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5620 spectre_v2_user=on 5621 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5622 spectre_v2_user=off 5623 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5624 vulnerable 5625 5626 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5627 mitigation method at run time according to the 5628 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5629 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5630 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5631 5632 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5633 against user space to user space task attacks. 5634 5635 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5636 the user space protections. 5637 5638 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5639 5640 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5641 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5642 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5643 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5644 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5645 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5646 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5647 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5648 5649 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5650 spectre_v2=auto. 5651 5652 spectre_v2_user= 5653 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5654 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5655 user space tasks 5656 5657 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5658 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5659 5660 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5661 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5662 5663 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5664 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5665 per thread. The mitigation control state 5666 is inherited on fork. 5667 5668 prctl,ibpb 5669 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5670 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5671 always when switching between different user 5672 space processes. 5673 5674 seccomp 5675 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5676 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5677 they explicitly opt out. 5678 5679 seccomp,ibpb 5680 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5681 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5682 always when switching between different 5683 user space processes. 5684 5685 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5686 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5687 5688 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5689 5690 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5691 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5692 5693 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5694 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5695 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5696 5697 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5698 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5699 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5700 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5701 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5702 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5703 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5704 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5705 5706 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5707 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5708 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5709 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5710 5711 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5712 Bypass optimization is used. 5713 5714 On x86 the options are: 5715 5716 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5717 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5718 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5719 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5720 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5721 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5722 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5723 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5724 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5725 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5726 for a process by default. The state of the control 5727 is inherited on fork. 5728 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5729 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5730 5731 Default mitigations: 5732 X86: "prctl" 5733 5734 On powerpc the options are: 5735 5736 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5737 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5738 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5739 exit. 5740 off - No action. 5741 5742 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5743 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5744 5745 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5746 spia_fio_base= 5747 spia_pedr= 5748 spia_peddr= 5749 5750 split_lock_detect= 5751 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5752 5753 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5754 instructions that access data across cache line 5755 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5756 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5757 bus lock detection. 5758 5759 off - not enabled 5760 5761 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5762 about applications triggering the #AC 5763 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5764 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5765 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5766 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5767 enabled in hardware. 5768 5769 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5770 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5771 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5772 both features are enabled in hardware. 5773 5774 ratelimit:N - 5775 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5776 per second for bus lock detection. 5777 0 < N <= 1000. 5778 5779 N/A for split lock detection. 5780 5781 5782 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5783 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5784 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5785 mode. 5786 5787 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5788 CPL > 0. 5789 5790 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5791 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5792 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5793 5794 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5795 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5796 number generator. 5797 5798 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5799 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5800 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5801 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5802 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5803 5804 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5805 the following option: 5806 5807 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5808 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5809 5810 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5811 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5812 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5813 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5814 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5815 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5816 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5817 (decide at boot). 5818 5819 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5820 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5821 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5822 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5823 5824 0: Never. 5825 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5826 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5827 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5828 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5829 5830 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5831 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5832 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5833 5834 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5835 Specifies how frequently to check for 5836 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5837 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5838 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5839 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5840 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5841 are ignored. 5842 5843 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5844 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5845 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5846 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5847 grace period will be considered for automatic 5848 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5849 expediting. 5850 5851 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5852 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5853 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5854 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5855 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5856 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5857 5858 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5859 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5860 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5861 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5862 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5863 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5864 5865 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5866 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5867 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5868 5869 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5870 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5871 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5872 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5873 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5874 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5875 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5876 5877 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5878 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5879 5880 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5881 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5882 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5883 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5884 5885 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5886 for both kernel and userspace 5887 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5888 for both kernel and userspace 5889 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5890 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5891 to allow userspace to register its 5892 interest in being mitigated too. 5893 5894 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5895 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5896 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5897 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5898 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5899 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5900 5901 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5902 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5903 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5904 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5905 to false. 5906 5907 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5908 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5909 5910 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5911 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5912 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5913 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5914 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5915 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5916 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5917 5918 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5919 Format: <num> 5920 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5921 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5922 as the initial boot-console. 5923 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5924 5925 sti_font= [HW] 5926 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5927 5928 stifb= [HW] 5929 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5930 5931 strict_sas_size= 5932 [X86] 5933 Format: <bool> 5934 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5935 against the required signal frame size which 5936 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5937 be used to filter out binaries which have 5938 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5939 5940 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5941 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5942 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5943 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5944 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5945 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5946 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5947 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5948 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5949 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5950 maximum port values. 5951 5952 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5953 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5954 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5955 process in parallel from a single connection. 5956 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5957 5958 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5959 [NFS] 5960 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5961 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5962 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5963 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5964 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5965 NFS server is running. 5966 5967 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5968 automatically using heuristics 5969 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5970 percpu one pool for each CPU 5971 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5972 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5973 5974 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5975 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5976 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5977 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5978 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5979 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5980 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5981 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5982 5983 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5984 [SUSPEND] 5985 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5986 mode before resuming the system (see 5987 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5988 is set. Default value is 5. 5989 5990 svm= [PPC] 5991 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5992 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5993 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5994 5995 swapaccount= [KNL] 5996 Format: [0|1] 5997 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5998 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5999 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 6000 6001 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6002 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6003 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6004 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6005 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6006 to a power of 2. 6007 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6008 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6009 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6010 6011 switches= [HW,M68k] 6012 6013 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6014 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6015 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6016 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6017 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6018 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6019 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6020 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6021 6022 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6023 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6024 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6025 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6026 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6027 in older udev will not work anymore. 6028 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6029 the kernel configuration. 6030 6031 sysrq_always_enabled 6032 [KNL] 6033 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6034 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6035 Useful for debugging. 6036 6037 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6038 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6039 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6040 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6041 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6042 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6043 6044 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6045 6046 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6047 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6048 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6049 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6050 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6051 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6052 The system is woken from this state using a 6053 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6054 6055 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6056 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6057 6058 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6059 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6060 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6061 6062 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6063 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6064 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6065 6066 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6067 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6068 critical and hot trip points. 6069 6070 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6071 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6072 6073 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6074 -1: disable all passive trip points 6075 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6076 value 6077 6078 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6079 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6080 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6081 0: no polling (default) 6082 6083 threadirqs [KNL] 6084 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6085 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6086 6087 topology= [S390] 6088 Format: {off | on} 6089 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6090 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6091 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6092 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6093 Default is on. 6094 6095 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6096 Format: {off} 6097 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6098 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6099 LPAR. 6100 6101 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6102 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6103 until after init has spawned. 6104 6105 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6106 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6107 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6108 very costly operation when many torture tests 6109 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6110 with rotating-rust storage. 6111 6112 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6113 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6114 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6115 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6116 6117 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6118 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6119 6120 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6121 6122 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6123 Format: integer pcr id 6124 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6125 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6126 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6127 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6128 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6129 are saved. 6130 6131 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6132 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6133 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6134 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6135 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6136 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6137 6138 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6139 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6140 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6141 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6142 6143 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6144 to stop the printing of events to console at 6145 late_initcall_sync. 6146 6147 ** CAUTION ** 6148 6149 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6150 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6151 the system to live lock. 6152 6153 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6154 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6155 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6156 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6157 make the system inoperable. 6158 6159 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6160 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6161 6162 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6163 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6164 6165 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6166 at boot up. 6167 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6168 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6169 depending on the architecture, may not be 6170 in sync between CPUs. 6171 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6172 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6173 but better for some race conditions. 6174 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6175 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6176 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6177 once per event. 6178 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6179 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6180 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6181 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6182 stamps. 6183 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6184 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6185 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6186 6187 trace_event=[event-list] 6188 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6189 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6190 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6191 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6192 6193 trace_options=[option-list] 6194 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6195 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6196 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6197 to echo the option name into 6198 6199 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6200 6201 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6202 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6203 6204 trace_options=stacktrace 6205 6206 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6207 section. 6208 6209 traceoff_on_warning 6210 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6211 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6212 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6213 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6214 6215 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6216 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6217 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6218 6219 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6220 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6221 6222 transparent_hugepage= 6223 [KNL] 6224 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6225 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6226 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6227 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6228 for more details. 6229 6230 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6231 Format: <string> 6232 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6233 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6234 sources: 6235 - "tpm" 6236 - "tee" 6237 - "caam" 6238 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6239 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6240 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6241 successfully during iteration. 6242 6243 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6244 Format: <string> 6245 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6246 Can be one of: 6247 - "kernel" 6248 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6249 - "default" 6250 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6251 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6252 6253 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6254 Format: <string> 6255 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6256 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6257 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6258 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6259 virtualized environment. 6260 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6261 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6262 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6263 can add overhead. 6264 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6265 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6266 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6267 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6268 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6269 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6270 acceptable). 6271 6272 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6273 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6274 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6275 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6276 Format: <unsigned int> 6277 6278 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6279 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6280 support TSX control. 6281 6282 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6283 6284 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6285 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6286 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6287 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6288 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6289 with leaving it enabled. 6290 6291 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6292 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6293 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6294 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6295 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6296 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6297 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6298 6299 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6300 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6301 6302 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6303 6304 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6305 for more details. 6306 6307 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6308 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6309 6310 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6311 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6312 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6313 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6314 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6315 conditions. 6316 6317 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6318 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6319 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6320 access. 6321 6322 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6323 options are: 6324 6325 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6326 if TSX is enabled. 6327 6328 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6329 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6330 is not disabled because CPU is not 6331 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6332 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6333 6334 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6335 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6336 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6337 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6338 6339 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6340 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6341 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6342 required and doesn't provide any additional 6343 mitigation. 6344 6345 For details see: 6346 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6347 6348 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6349 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6350 Format: 6351 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6352 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6353 6354 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6355 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6356 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6357 help "seeing" what's going on. 6358 6359 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6360 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6361 6362 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6363 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6364 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6365 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6366 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6367 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6368 reported either. 6369 6370 unknown_nmi_panic 6371 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6372 6373 usbcore.authorized_default= 6374 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6375 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6376 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6377 if device connected to internal port) 6378 6379 usbcore.autosuspend= 6380 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6381 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6382 is the time required before an idle device will be 6383 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6384 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6385 6386 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6387 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6388 6389 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6390 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6391 (default = 65536). 6392 6393 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6394 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6395 6396 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6397 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6398 scheme (default 0 = off). 6399 6400 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6401 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6402 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6403 6404 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6405 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6406 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6407 6408 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6409 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6410 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6411 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6412 6413 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6414 6415 usbcore.quirks= 6416 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6417 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6418 commas. Each entry has the form 6419 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6420 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6421 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6422 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6423 the following meanings: 6424 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6425 descriptors must not be fetched using 6426 a 255-byte read); 6427 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6428 correctly so reset it instead); 6429 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6430 Set-Interface requests); 6431 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6432 handle its Configuration or Interface 6433 strings); 6434 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6435 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6436 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6437 more interface descriptions than the 6438 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6439 talking to these interfaces); 6440 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6441 during initialization, after we read 6442 the device descriptor); 6443 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6444 high speed and super speed interrupt 6445 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6446 require the interval in microframes (1 6447 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6448 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6449 (bInterval-1). 6450 Devices with this quirk report their 6451 bInterval as the result of this 6452 calculation instead of the exponent 6453 variable used in the calculation); 6454 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6455 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6456 requests); 6457 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6458 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6459 remote wakeup capability); 6460 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6461 Power Management); 6462 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6463 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6464 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6465 calculation); 6466 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6467 to be disconnected before suspend to 6468 prevent spurious wakeup); 6469 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6470 pause after every control message); 6471 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6472 delay after resetting its port); 6473 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6474 6475 usbhid.mousepoll= 6476 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6477 6478 usbhid.jspoll= 6479 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6480 6481 usbhid.kbpoll= 6482 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6483 6484 usb-storage.delay_use= 6485 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6486 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6487 6488 usb-storage.quirks= 6489 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6490 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6491 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6492 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6493 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6494 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6495 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6496 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6497 of sense data, not on uas); 6498 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6499 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6500 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6501 device capacity by one sector); 6502 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6503 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6504 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6505 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6506 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6507 command, uas only); 6508 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6509 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6510 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6511 reported device capacity by one 6512 sector if the number is odd); 6513 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6514 device); 6515 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6516 command, uas only); 6517 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6518 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6519 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6520 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6521 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6522 not on uas); 6523 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6524 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6525 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6526 reported by the device, not on uas); 6527 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6528 by default, not on uas); 6529 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6530 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6531 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6532 Logical Unit); 6533 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6534 commands, uas only); 6535 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6536 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6537 medium is write-protected). 6538 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6539 even if the device claims no cache, 6540 not on uas) 6541 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6542 6543 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6544 Format: <int> 6545 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6546 1 - undefined instruction events 6547 2 - system calls 6548 4 - invalid data aborts 6549 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6550 16 - SIGBUS faults 6551 Example: user_debug=31 6552 6553 userpte= 6554 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6555 6556 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6557 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6558 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6559 6560 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6561 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6562 6563 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6564 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6565 6566 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6567 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6568 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6569 6570 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6571 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6572 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6573 6574 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6575 alias for vdso32=0. 6576 6577 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6578 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6579 6580 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6581 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6582 6583 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6584 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6585 6586 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6587 Format: [0|1] 6588 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6589 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6590 level and then send out the event to user space through 6591 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6592 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6593 brightness level. 6594 default: 1 6595 6596 virtio_mmio.device= 6597 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6598 6599 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6600 where: 6601 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6602 like K, M and G) 6603 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6604 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6605 request_irq()) 6606 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6607 example: 6608 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6609 6610 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6611 6612 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6613 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6614 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6615 Use vga=ask for menu. 6616 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6617 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6618 6619 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6620 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6621 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6622 All options are enabled by default, and this 6623 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6624 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6625 debugging features. 6626 6627 Available options are: 6628 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6629 - Disable all of the above options 6630 6631 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6632 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6633 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6634 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6635 mapped kernel RAM. 6636 6637 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6638 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6639 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6640 6641 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6642 Format: <command> 6643 6644 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6645 Format: <command> 6646 6647 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6648 Format: <command> 6649 6650 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6651 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6652 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6653 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6654 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6655 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6656 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6657 6658 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6659 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6660 page is readable. 6661 6662 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6663 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6664 page is not readable. 6665 6666 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6667 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6668 might break your system. 6669 6670 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6671 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6672 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6673 6674 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6675 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6676 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6677 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6678 6679 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6680 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6681 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6682 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6683 ranging from 0-255. 6684 6685 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6686 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6687 Change the default green palette of the console. 6688 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6689 ranging from 0-255. 6690 6691 vt.default_red= [VT] 6692 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6693 Change the default red palette of the console. 6694 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6695 ranging from 0-255. 6696 6697 vt.default_utf8= 6698 [VT] 6699 Format=<0|1> 6700 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6701 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6702 newly opened terminals. 6703 6704 vt.global_cursor_default= 6705 [VT] 6706 Format=<-1|0|1> 6707 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6708 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6709 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6710 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6711 cursors, 1 will display them. 6712 6713 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6714 Default: 2 = green. 6715 6716 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6717 Default: 3 = cyan. 6718 6719 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6720 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6721 or other driver-specific files in the 6722 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6723 6724 watchdog_thresh= 6725 [KNL] 6726 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6727 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6728 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6729 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6730 seconds. 6731 6732 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6733 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6734 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6735 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6736 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6737 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6738 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6739 corresponding sysfs file. 6740 6741 workqueue.disable_numa 6742 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6743 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6744 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6745 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6746 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6747 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6748 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6749 6750 workqueue.power_efficient 6751 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6752 they show better performance thanks to cache 6753 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6754 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6755 6756 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6757 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6758 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6759 power usage at the cost of small performance 6760 overhead. 6761 6762 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6763 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6764 6765 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6766 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6767 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6768 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6769 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6770 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6771 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6772 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6773 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6774 impacted. 6775 6776 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6777 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6778 supporting x2apic. 6779 6780 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6781 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6782 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6783 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6784 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6785 domains. 6786 6787 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6788 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6789 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6790 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6791 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6792 nics -- unplug network devices 6793 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6794 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6795 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6796 the unplug protocol 6797 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6798 6799 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6800 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6801 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6802 6803 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6804 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6805 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6806 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6807 6808 xen_nopv [X86] 6809 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6810 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6811 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6812 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6813 6814 xen_no_vector_callback 6815 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6816 event channel interrupts. 6817 6818 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6819 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6820 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6821 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6822 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6823 6824 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6825 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6826 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6827 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6828 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6829 more timer interrupts. 6830 6831 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6832 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6833 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6834 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6835 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6836 max. Default is 180. 6837 6838 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6839 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6840 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6841 6842 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6843 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6844 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6845 6846 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6847 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6848 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6849 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6850 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6851 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6852 6853 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6854 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6855 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6856 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6857 6858 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6859 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6860 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6861 contention. 6862 6863 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6864 Format: 6865 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6866 6867 xive= [PPC] 6868 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6869 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6870 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6871 6872 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6873 controller on both pseries and powernv 6874 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6875 6876 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6877 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6878 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6879 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6880 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6881 6882 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6883 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6884 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6885 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6886 6887 xmon [PPC] 6888 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6889 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6890 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6891 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6892 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6893 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6894 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6895 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6896 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6897 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6898 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6899 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6900 can be written using xmon commands. 6901 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6902 memory, and other data can't be written using 6903 xmon commands. 6904 off xmon is disabled. 6905