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