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 nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected 25 errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error 26 source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This 27 may result in duplicate corrected error reports. 28 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 29 default _serial_ console on ARM64 30 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 31 "acpi=nospcr" are available 32 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 33 are available 34 35 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 36 37 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 38 Format: <int> 39 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 40 1,0: use 1st APIC table 41 default: 0 42 43 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 44 { vendor | video | native | none } 45 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 46 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 47 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 48 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 49 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 50 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 51 52 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 53 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 54 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 55 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 56 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 57 58 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 59 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 60 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 61 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 62 This option is useful for developers to identify the 63 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 64 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 65 66 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 67 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 68 Format: <int> 69 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 70 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 71 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 72 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 73 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 74 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 75 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 76 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 77 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 78 debug layers and levels. 79 80 Enable processor driver info messages: 81 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 82 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 83 object while interpreting AML: 84 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 85 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 86 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 87 88 Some values produce so much output that the system is 89 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 90 if you need to capture more output. 91 92 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 93 { strict | lax | no } 94 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 95 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 96 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 97 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 98 can interfere with legacy drivers. 99 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 100 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 101 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 102 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 103 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 104 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 105 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 106 no further checks are performed. 107 108 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 109 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 110 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 111 size limitation. 112 113 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will balance active IRQs 115 default in APIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 118 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 119 default in PIC mode 120 121 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 125 use by PCI 126 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 127 128 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 129 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 130 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 131 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 132 the GPE dispatcher. 133 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 134 GPE floodings. 135 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 136 137 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 138 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 139 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 140 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 141 auto-serialization feature. 142 This feature is enabled by default. 143 This option allows to turn off the feature. 144 145 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 146 kernels. 147 148 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 149 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 150 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 151 installed automatically and they will appear under 152 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 153 This option turns off this feature. 154 Note that specifying this option does not affect 155 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 156 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 157 158 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 159 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 160 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 161 162 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 163 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 164 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 165 second kernel for kdump. 166 167 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 168 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 169 170 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 171 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 172 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 173 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 174 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 175 176 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 177 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 178 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 179 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 180 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 181 strings 182 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 183 strings 184 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 185 186 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 187 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 188 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 189 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 190 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 191 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 192 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 193 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 194 care about the state of the feature group strings which 195 should be controlled by the OSPM. 196 Examples: 197 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 198 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 199 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 200 201 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 202 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 203 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 204 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 205 multiple times through kernel command line is also 206 meaningless. 207 Examples: 208 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 209 FALSE. 210 211 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 212 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 213 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 214 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 215 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 216 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 217 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 218 there are quirks related to this string. This command 219 is useful when one want to control the state of the 220 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 221 the OSPM features. 222 Examples: 223 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 224 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 225 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 226 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 227 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 228 equivalent to 229 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 230 and 231 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 232 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 233 234 acpi_pm_good [X86] 235 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 236 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 237 and always returns good values. 238 239 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 240 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 241 242 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 243 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 244 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 245 246 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 247 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 248 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 249 sci_force_enable, nobl } 250 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 251 s3_bios and s3_mode. 252 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 253 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 254 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 255 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 256 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 257 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 258 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 259 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 260 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 261 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 262 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 263 used (or even warned about) during resume. 264 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 265 control method, with respect to putting devices into 266 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 267 of _PTS is used by default). 268 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 269 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 270 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 271 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 272 but some broken systems don't work without it). 273 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 274 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 275 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 276 277 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 278 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 279 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 280 281 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 282 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 283 284 agp= [AGP] 285 { off | try_unsupported } 286 off: disable AGP support 287 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 288 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 289 290 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 291 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 292 293 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 294 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 295 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 296 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 297 298 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 299 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 300 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 301 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 302 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 303 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 304 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 305 306 32: only for 32-bit processes 307 64: only for 64-bit processes 308 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 309 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 310 311 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 312 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 313 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 314 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 315 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 316 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 317 318 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 319 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 320 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 321 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 322 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 323 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 324 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 325 326 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 327 information. 328 329 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 330 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 331 Possible values are: 332 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 333 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 334 the system 335 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 336 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 337 allowed anymore to lift isolation 338 requirements as needed. This option 339 does not override iommu=pt 340 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 341 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 342 option with care. 343 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 344 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 345 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 346 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 347 to 4 KiB. 348 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 349 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB. 350 351 352 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 353 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 354 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 355 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 356 IOMMU initialization. 357 358 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 359 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 360 remapping modes: 361 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 362 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 363 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 364 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 365 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 366 367 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 368 disable 369 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 370 scaling driver for the supported processors 371 passive 372 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 373 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 374 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 375 tries to match the same performance level if it is 376 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 377 active 378 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 379 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 380 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 381 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 382 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 383 frequency. 384 guided 385 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 386 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 387 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 388 to the current workload. 389 390 amd_prefcore= 391 [X86] 392 disable 393 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 394 395 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 396 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 397 Format: <a>,<b> 398 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 399 400 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 401 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 402 connected to one of 16 gameports 403 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 404 405 apc= [HW,SPARC] 406 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 407 Format: noidle 408 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 409 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 410 APC and your system crashes randomly. 411 412 apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default. 413 414 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 415 Change the output verbosity while booting 416 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 417 Change the amount of debugging information output 418 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 419 420 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 421 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 422 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 423 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 424 backup of CPU 0 425 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 426 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 427 shot down by NMI 428 429 apicpmtimer Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies 430 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally 431 broken. 432 433 autoconf= [IPV6] 434 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 435 436 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 437 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 438 439 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 440 Format: { "0" | "1" } 441 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 442 0 -- disable. 443 1 -- enable. 444 Default value is set via kernel config option. 445 446 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 447 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 448 449 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 450 32 bit applications. 451 452 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 453 Identification support 454 455 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack 456 support 457 458 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 459 Set instructions support 460 461 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 462 support 463 464 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 465 support 466 467 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 468 Extension support 469 470 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 471 Extension support 472 473 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 474 475 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 476 477 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 478 EzKey and similar keyboards 479 480 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 481 482 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 483 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 484 485 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 486 keyboards 487 488 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 489 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 490 491 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 492 Use software keyboard repeat 493 494 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 495 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 496 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 497 enabled until the next reboot 498 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 499 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 500 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 501 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 502 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 503 userspace auditd. 504 Default: unset 505 506 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 507 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 508 Default: 64 509 510 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 511 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 512 Format: { "0" | "1" } 513 0 - Disable the BAU. 514 1 - Enable the BAU. 515 unset - Disable the BAU. 516 517 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 518 Format: <io>,<mode> 519 520 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 521 Format: <io>,<mode> 522 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 523 524 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 525 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 526 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 527 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 528 529 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 530 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 531 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 532 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 533 534 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 535 Format: <bool> 536 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 537 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 538 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 539 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 540 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 541 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 542 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 543 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 544 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 545 546 bert_disable [ACPI] 547 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 548 549 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 550 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 551 552 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 553 embedded devices based on command line input. 554 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 555 556 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 557 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 558 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 559 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 560 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 561 erroneous and ignored. 562 Format: integer 563 564 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 565 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 566 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 567 568 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 569 570 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 571 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 572 kernel args too. 573 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 574 bttv.tuner= 575 576 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 577 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 578 at a time. 579 580 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 581 582 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 583 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 584 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 585 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 586 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 587 This option provides an override for these situations. 588 589 carrier_timeout= 590 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 591 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 592 it waits 120 seconds. 593 594 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 595 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 596 trust validation. 597 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 598 599 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 600 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 601 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 602 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 603 others). 604 605 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 606 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 607 608 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 609 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 610 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 611 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 612 a single hierarchy 613 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 614 subsystem 615 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 616 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 617 created 618 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 619 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 620 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 621 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 622 stall information accounting feature 623 624 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 625 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 626 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 627 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 628 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 629 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 630 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 631 all v1 hierarchies. 632 633 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 634 Format: { "true" | "false" } 635 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 636 637 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 638 Format: <string> 639 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 640 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 641 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 642 643 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 644 Format: { "0" | "1" } 645 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 646 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 647 any implied execute protection). 648 1 -- check protection requested by application. 649 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 650 Value can be changed at runtime via 651 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 652 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 653 654 cio_ignore= [S390] 655 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 656 657 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 658 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 659 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 660 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 661 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 662 ones should be. 663 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 664 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 665 instability issue. However, not all features have names 666 in /proc/cpuinfo. 667 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 668 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 669 or using the feature without checking anything 670 will still see it. This just prevents it from 671 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 672 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 673 some critical bits. 674 675 clk_ignore_unused 676 [CLK] 677 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 678 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 679 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 680 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 681 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 682 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 683 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 684 platform with proper driver support. For more 685 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 686 687 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 688 [Deprecated] 689 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 690 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 691 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 692 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 693 694 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 695 Format: <string> 696 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 697 with the name specified. 698 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 699 the platform: 700 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 701 [ACPI] acpi_pm 702 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 703 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 704 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 705 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 706 [MIPS] MIPS 707 [PARISC] cr16 708 [S390] tod 709 [SH] SuperH 710 [SPARC64] tick 711 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 712 713 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 714 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 715 Format: <bool> 716 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 717 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 718 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 719 systems. 720 721 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 722 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 723 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 724 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 725 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 726 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 727 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 728 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 729 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 730 731 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 732 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 733 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 734 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 735 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 736 737 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 738 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 739 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 740 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 741 placement constraint by the physical address range of 742 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 743 altogether. For more information, see 744 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 745 746 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 747 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 748 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 749 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 750 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 751 specified, the default value is 0. 752 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 753 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 754 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 755 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 756 757 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 758 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 759 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 760 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 761 area for the specified node. 762 763 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 764 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 765 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 766 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 767 768 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 769 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 770 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 771 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 772 a hypervisor. 773 Default: yes 774 775 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 776 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 777 allocations, by default set to 256K. 778 779 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 780 Format: 781 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 782 783 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 784 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 785 786 com90xx= [HW,NET] 787 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 788 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 789 790 condev= [HW,S390] console device 791 conmode= 792 793 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 794 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 795 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 796 the console buffer is full. In this case the 797 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 798 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 799 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 800 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 801 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 802 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 803 804 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 805 806 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 807 808 ttyS<n>[,options] 809 ttyUSB0[,options] 810 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 811 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 812 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 813 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 814 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 815 816 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 817 information. See 818 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 819 alternative. 820 821 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 822 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 823 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 824 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 825 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 826 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 827 828 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 829 can be viewed with: 830 831 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 832 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 833 834 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 835 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 836 way will only get added when the related device driver 837 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 838 the console may be desired for console output early on. 839 840 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 841 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 842 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 843 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 844 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 845 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 846 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 847 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 848 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 849 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 850 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 851 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 852 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 853 the h/w is not re-initialized. 854 855 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 856 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 857 858 { null | "" } 859 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 860 console messages discarded. 861 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 862 kernel command line. 863 864 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 865 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 866 console=brl,ttyS0 867 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 868 869 console_msg_format= 870 [KNL] Change console messages format 871 default 872 By default we print messages on consoles in 873 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 874 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 875 `printk_time' param). 876 syslog 877 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 878 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 879 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 880 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 881 from /proc/kmsg. 882 883 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 884 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 885 Defaults to 0. 886 887 coredump_filter= 888 [KNL] Change the default value for 889 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 890 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 891 892 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 893 [ARM,ARM64] 894 Format: <bool> 895 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 896 0: default value, disable debugging 897 1: enable debugging at boot time 898 899 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 900 Format: 901 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 902 903 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 904 disable the cpuidle sub-system 905 906 cpuidle.governor= 907 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 908 909 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 910 disable the cpufreq sub-system 911 912 cpufreq.default_governor= 913 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 914 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 915 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 916 917 cpu_init_udelay=N 918 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 919 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 920 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 921 Default: 10000 922 923 cpuhp.parallel= 924 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 925 Format: <bool> 926 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 927 the parameter has no effect. 928 929 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 930 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic 931 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases 932 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic 933 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable. 934 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable, 935 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting 936 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS 937 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some 938 configurations enable this option unconditionally, 939 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP. 940 941 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 942 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 943 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 944 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 945 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 946 is selected automatically. 947 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 948 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 949 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 950 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 951 952 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 953 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 954 in the running system. The syntax of range is 955 start-[end] where start and end are both 956 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 957 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 958 959 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 960 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 961 above 4G. 962 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 963 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 964 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 965 below 4G, if available. 966 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 967 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 968 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 969 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 970 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 971 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 972 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 973 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 974 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 975 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 976 size is platform dependent. 977 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 978 --> arm64: 128MiB 979 --> riscv: 128MiB 980 --> loongarch: 128MiB 981 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 982 for second kernel instead. 983 0: to disable low allocation. 984 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 985 or memory reserved is below 4G. 986 987 cryptomgr.notests 988 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 989 990 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 991 Format: <dma> 992 993 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 994 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 995 996 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 997 function call handling. When switched on, 998 additional debug data is printed to the console 999 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 1000 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 1001 the hang situation. The default value of this 1002 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 1003 Kconfig option. 1004 1005 dasd= [HW,NET] 1006 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 1007 1008 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 1009 (one device per port) 1010 Format: <port#>,<type> 1011 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1012 1013 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 1014 1015 debug_boot_weak_hash 1016 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 1017 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1018 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1019 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1020 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1021 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1022 1023 debug_locks_verbose= 1024 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1025 Format: <int> 1026 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1027 self-tests. 1028 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1029 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1030 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1031 useful to lockdep developers. 1032 1033 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1034 1035 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1036 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1037 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1038 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1039 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1040 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1041 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1042 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1043 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1044 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1045 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1046 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1047 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1048 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1049 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1050 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1051 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1052 help tracking down these problems. 1053 1054 debug_pagealloc= 1055 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1056 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1057 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1058 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1059 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1060 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1061 on: enable the feature 1062 1063 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1064 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1065 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1066 on: All functions are enabled. 1067 no-mount: 1068 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1069 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1070 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1071 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1072 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1073 or directories within debugfs. 1074 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1075 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1076 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1077 1078 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1079 1080 default_hugepagesz= 1081 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1082 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1083 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1084 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1085 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1086 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1087 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1088 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1089 Format: size[KMG] 1090 1091 deferred_probe_timeout= 1092 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1093 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1094 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1095 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1096 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1097 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1098 successful driver registration. This option will also 1099 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1100 retrying. 1101 1102 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1103 1104 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1105 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1106 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1107 hardware. 1108 1109 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1110 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1111 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1112 blacklisted features. 1113 1114 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1115 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1116 (disabled by default). 1117 1118 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1119 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1120 capability is set. 1121 1122 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1123 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1124 1125 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1126 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1127 1128 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1129 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1130 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1131 level 1 and decompression (default) 1132 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1133 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1134 only (compression on level 1) 1135 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1136 only (decompression) 1137 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1138 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1139 1140 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1141 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1142 1143 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1144 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1145 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1146 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1147 miss to occur. 1148 1149 disable= [IPV6] 1150 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1151 1152 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1153 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1154 1155 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1156 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1157 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1158 1159 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1160 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1161 to workaround buggy firmware. 1162 1163 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1164 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1165 1166 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1167 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1168 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1169 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1170 1171 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1172 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1173 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1174 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1175 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1176 1177 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1178 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1179 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1180 1181 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1182 1183 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1184 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1185 1186 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1187 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1188 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1189 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1190 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1191 architectural default is too low. 1192 1193 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1194 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1195 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1196 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1197 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1198 driver later using sysfs. 1199 1200 reg_file_data_sampling= 1201 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1202 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1203 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1204 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1205 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1206 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1207 1208 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1209 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1210 1211 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1212 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1213 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1214 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1215 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1216 1217 For details see: 1218 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1219 1220 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1221 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1222 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1223 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1224 match the *. 1225 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1226 1227 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1228 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1229 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1230 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1231 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1232 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1233 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1234 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1235 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1236 data set with no connector name will be used for 1237 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1238 1239 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1240 1241 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1242 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1243 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1244 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1245 exists). 1246 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1247 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1248 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1249 1250 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1251 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1252 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1253 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1254 1255 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1256 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1257 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1258 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1259 for details. 1260 1261 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1262 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1263 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1264 which are not unmapped. 1265 1266 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1267 1268 When used with no options, the early console is 1269 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1270 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1271 the platform. 1272 1273 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1274 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1275 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1276 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1277 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1278 configured. 1279 1280 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1281 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1282 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1283 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1284 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1285 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1286 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1287 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1288 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1289 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1290 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1291 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1292 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1293 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1294 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1295 1296 pl011,<addr> 1297 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1298 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1299 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1300 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1301 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1302 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1303 the device registers. 1304 1305 liteuart,<addr> 1306 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1307 specified address. The serial port must already be 1308 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1309 1310 meson,<addr> 1311 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1312 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1313 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1314 supported. 1315 1316 msm_serial,<addr> 1317 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1318 port at the specified address. The serial port 1319 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1320 yet supported. 1321 1322 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1323 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1324 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1325 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1326 yet supported. 1327 1328 owl,<addr> 1329 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1330 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1331 specified address. The serial port must already be 1332 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1333 1334 rda,<addr> 1335 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1336 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1337 specified address. The serial port must already be 1338 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1339 1340 sbi 1341 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1342 console. 1343 1344 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1345 1346 s3c2410,<addr> 1347 s3c2412,<addr> 1348 s3c2440,<addr> 1349 s3c6400,<addr> 1350 s5pv210,<addr> 1351 exynos4210,<addr> 1352 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1353 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1354 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1355 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1356 Options are not yet supported. 1357 1358 lantiq,<addr> 1359 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1360 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1361 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1362 yet supported. 1363 1364 lpuart,<addr> 1365 lpuart32,<addr> 1366 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1367 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1368 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1369 port must already be setup and configured. 1370 1371 ec_imx21,<addr> 1372 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1373 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1374 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1375 must already be setup and configured. 1376 1377 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1378 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1379 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1380 address. The serial port must already be setup 1381 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1382 1383 qcom_geni,<addr> 1384 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1385 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1386 specified address. The serial port must already be 1387 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1388 1389 efifb,[options] 1390 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1391 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1392 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1393 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1394 mapped with the correct attributes. 1395 1396 linflex,<addr> 1397 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1398 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1399 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1400 already be setup and configured. 1401 1402 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1403 earlyprintk=vga 1404 earlyprintk=sclp 1405 earlyprintk=xen 1406 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1407 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1408 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1409 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1410 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1411 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1412 earlyprintk=bios 1413 1414 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1415 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1416 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1417 1418 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1419 takes over. 1420 1421 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1422 be used at a time. 1423 1424 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1425 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1426 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1427 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1428 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1429 You can find the port for a given device in 1430 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1431 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1432 1433 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1434 very good. 1435 1436 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1437 the real console. 1438 1439 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1440 1441 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1442 1443 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1444 1445 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1446 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1447 UART class. 1448 1449 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1450 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1451 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1452 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1453 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1454 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1455 default: on. 1456 1457 edd= [EDD] 1458 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1459 1460 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1461 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1462 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1463 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1464 debug: enable misc debug output. 1465 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1466 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1467 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1468 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1469 firmware implementations. 1470 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1471 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1472 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1473 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1474 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1475 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1476 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1477 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1478 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1479 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1480 1481 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1482 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1483 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1484 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1485 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1486 1487 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1488 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1489 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1490 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1491 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1492 1493 1494 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1495 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1496 1497 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1498 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1499 1500 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1501 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1502 1503 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1504 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1505 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1506 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1507 1508 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1509 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1510 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1511 1512 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1513 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1514 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1515 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1516 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1517 1518 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1519 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1520 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1521 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1522 1523 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1524 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1525 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1526 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1527 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1528 1529 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1530 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1531 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1532 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1533 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1534 Default value is 0. 1535 Value can be changed at runtime via 1536 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1537 1538 erst_disable [ACPI] 1539 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1540 support. 1541 1542 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1543 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1544 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1545 1546 evm= [EVM] 1547 Format: { "fix" } 1548 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1549 current integrity status. 1550 1551 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1552 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1553 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1554 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1555 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1556 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1557 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1558 1559 failslab= 1560 fail_usercopy= 1561 fail_page_alloc= 1562 fail_skb_realloc= 1563 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1564 General fault injection mechanism. 1565 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1566 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1567 1568 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1569 Format: { initns | none } 1570 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1571 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1572 1573 floppy= [HW] 1574 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1575 1576 forcepae [X86-32] 1577 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1578 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1579 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1580 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1581 and may cause unknown problems. 1582 1583 fred= [X86-64] 1584 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1585 Format: { on | off } 1586 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1587 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1588 1589 ftrace=[tracer] 1590 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1591 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1592 boot debugging. 1593 1594 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1595 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1596 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1597 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1598 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1599 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1600 start up functionality. 1601 1602 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1603 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1604 line parameter. 1605 1606 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1607 1608 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1609 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1610 1611 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1612 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1613 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1614 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1615 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1616 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1617 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1618 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1619 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1620 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1621 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1622 1623 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1624 1625 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1626 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1627 1628 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1629 1630 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1631 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1632 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1633 1634 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1635 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1636 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1637 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1638 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1639 tracing directory. 1640 1641 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1642 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1643 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1644 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1645 tracing directory. 1646 1647 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1648 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1649 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1650 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1651 that can be changed at run time by the 1652 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1653 1654 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1655 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1656 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1657 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1658 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1659 1660 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1661 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1662 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1663 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1664 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1665 1666 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1667 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1668 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1669 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1670 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1671 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1672 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1673 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1674 suppliers). 1675 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1676 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1677 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1678 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1679 up (sync_state() calls). 1680 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1681 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1682 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1683 1684 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1685 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1686 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1687 Format: <bool> 1688 1689 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1690 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1691 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1692 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1693 calls. 1694 Format: { strict | timeout } 1695 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1696 probe successfully. 1697 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1698 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1699 received their sync_state() calls after 1700 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1701 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1702 1703 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1704 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1705 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1706 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1707 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1708 1709 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1710 1711 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1712 Format: off | on 1713 default: on 1714 1715 gather_data_sampling= 1716 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1717 mitigation. 1718 1719 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1720 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1721 previously stored in vector registers. 1722 1723 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1724 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1725 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1726 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1727 1728 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1729 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1730 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1731 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1732 1733 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1734 1735 gbpages [X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. 1736 1737 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1738 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1739 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1740 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1741 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1742 1743 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1744 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1745 android emulator 1746 1747 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1748 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1749 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1750 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1751 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1752 1753 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1754 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1755 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1756 GPT to be used instead. 1757 1758 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1759 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1760 Format: 0 | 1 1761 Default: 0 1762 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1763 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1764 Format: 0 | 1 1765 Default: 0 1766 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1767 Format: 0 | 1 1768 Default: 0 1769 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1770 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1771 Default: 1024 1772 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1773 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1774 Default: 1024 1775 1776 hardened_usercopy= 1777 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1778 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1779 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1780 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1781 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1782 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1783 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1784 The default is determined by 1785 CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON. 1786 on Perform hardened usercopy checks. 1787 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1788 1789 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1790 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1791 backtraces on all cpus. 1792 Format: 0 | 1 1793 1794 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1795 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1796 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1797 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1798 1799 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1800 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1801 1802 hest_disable [ACPI] 1803 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1804 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1805 logic will be disabled. 1806 1807 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1808 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1809 present during boot. 1810 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1811 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1812 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1813 (that will set all pages holding image data 1814 during restoration read-only). 1815 1816 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1817 used with hibernation. 1818 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1819 Default: lzo 1820 1821 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1822 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1823 1824 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1825 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1826 1827 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1828 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1829 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1830 size on bigger boxes. 1831 1832 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1833 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1834 Default: "on" 1835 1836 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1837 1838 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1839 Format: <string> 1840 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1841 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1842 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1843 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1844 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1845 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1846 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1847 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1848 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1849 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1850 1851 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1852 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1853 verbose } 1854 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1855 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1856 VIA, nVidia) 1857 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1858 1859 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1860 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1861 1862 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1863 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1864 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1865 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1866 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1867 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1868 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1869 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1870 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1871 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1872 1873 hugepagesz= 1874 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1875 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1876 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1877 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1878 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1879 architecture dependent. See also 1880 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1881 Format: size[KMG] 1882 1883 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1884 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1885 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1886 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1887 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1888 1889 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1890 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1891 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1892 1893 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1894 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1895 enabled. 1896 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1897 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1898 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1899 Format: { on | off (default) } 1900 1901 on: enable HVO 1902 off: disable HVO 1903 1904 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1905 the default is on. 1906 1907 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1908 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1909 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1910 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1911 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1912 1913 hung_task_panic= 1914 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1915 Format: 0 | 1 1916 1917 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1918 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1919 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1920 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1921 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1922 1923 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1924 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1925 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1926 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1927 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1928 1929 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1930 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1931 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1932 on lock contention. 1933 1934 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1935 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1936 registered from board initialization code. 1937 Format: 1938 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1939 1940 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1941 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1942 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1943 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1944 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1945 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1946 1947 Format: 1948 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1949 Where <val> is one of: 1950 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1951 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1952 Anything else Set a string device-property 1953 1954 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1955 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1956 touchscreen-inverted-y 1957 1958 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1959 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1960 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1961 1962 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1963 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1964 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1965 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1966 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1967 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1968 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1969 keyboard and cannot control its state 1970 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1971 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1972 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1973 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1974 for the AUX port 1975 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1976 controller 1977 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1978 controllers 1979 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1980 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1981 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1982 transitions, or never reset 1983 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1984 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1985 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1986 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1987 architectures force reset to be always executed 1988 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1989 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1990 i8042.probe_defer 1991 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1992 1993 i810= [HW,DRM] 1994 1995 i915.invert_brightness= 1996 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1997 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1998 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1999 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 2000 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 2001 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 2002 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 2003 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 2004 value switches the backlight off. 2005 -1 -- never invert brightness 2006 0 -- machine default 2007 1 -- force brightness inversion 2008 2009 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 2010 Format: <bool> 2011 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 2012 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 2013 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 2014 2015 icn= [HW,ISDN] 2016 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 2017 2018 2019 idle= [X86,EARLY] 2020 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 2021 2022 idle=poll: Don't do power saving in the idle loop 2023 using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will 2024 make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful 2025 to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor 2026 benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using 2027 performance counters more accurate. Please note that 2028 on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel 2029 EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage 2030 over the normal idle loop. It may also interact badly 2031 with hyperthreading. 2032 2033 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2034 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2035 2036 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2037 2038 idxd.sva= [HW] 2039 Format: <bool> 2040 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2041 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2042 true (1). 2043 2044 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2045 Format: <bool> 2046 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2047 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2048 2049 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2050 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2051 Default: strict 2052 2053 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2054 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2055 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2056 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2057 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2058 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2059 encoding mode. 2060 2061 Available settings are as follows: 2062 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2063 supported by the FPU 2064 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2065 by the FPU 2066 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2067 by the FPU 2068 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2069 supported by the FPU 2070 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2071 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2072 2073 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2074 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2075 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2076 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2077 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2078 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2079 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2080 MIPS64 CPUs. 2081 2082 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2083 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2084 except where unsupported by hardware. 2085 2086 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2087 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2088 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2089 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2090 could change it dynamically, usually by 2091 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2092 2093 ignore_rlimit_data 2094 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2095 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2096 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2097 2098 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2099 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2100 2101 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2102 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2103 default: "enforce" 2104 2105 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2106 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2107 owned by uid=0. 2108 2109 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2110 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2111 measurements, instead of host native format. 2112 2113 ima_hash= [IMA] 2114 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2115 | sha512 | ... } 2116 default: "sha1" 2117 2118 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2119 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2120 2121 ima_policy= [IMA] 2122 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2123 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2124 fail_securely | critical_data" 2125 2126 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2127 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2128 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2129 uid=0. 2130 2131 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2132 all files owned by root. 2133 2134 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2135 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2136 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2137 2138 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2139 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2140 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2141 flag. 2142 2143 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2144 critical data. 2145 2146 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2147 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2148 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2149 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2150 opened for read by uid=0. 2151 2152 ima_template= [IMA] 2153 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2154 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2155 "ima-sigv2" } 2156 Default: "ima-ng" 2157 2158 ima_template_fmt= 2159 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2160 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2161 2162 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2163 Format: <min_file_size> 2164 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2165 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2166 2167 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2168 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2169 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2170 2171 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2172 Format: <bufsize> 2173 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2174 2175 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2176 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2177 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2178 2179 init= [KNL] 2180 Format: <full_path> 2181 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2182 process. 2183 2184 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2185 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2186 startup. 2187 2188 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2189 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2190 modules and initcalls. 2191 2192 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2193 Format: <bool> 2194 Default: 1 2195 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2196 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2197 with devices being probed and 2198 initialized. This should normally just work, 2199 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2200 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2201 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2202 late_ initcalls. 2203 2204 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2205 2206 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2207 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2208 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2209 setting. 2210 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2211 Default is 0, 0 2212 2213 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2214 zeroes. 2215 Format: 0 | 1 2216 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2217 2218 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2219 Format: 0 | 1 2220 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2221 2222 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2223 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2224 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2225 override in debugfs after boot. 2226 2227 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2228 Format: <irq> 2229 2230 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2231 2232 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2233 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2234 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2235 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2236 2237 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2238 on 2239 Enable intel iommu driver. 2240 off 2241 Disable intel iommu driver. 2242 igfx_off [Default Off] 2243 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2244 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2245 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2246 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2247 DMA. 2248 strict [Default Off] 2249 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2250 sp_off [Default Off] 2251 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2252 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2253 not be supported. 2254 sm_on 2255 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2256 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2257 translation. 2258 sm_off 2259 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2260 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2261 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2262 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2263 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2264 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2265 mapping is enabled. 2266 Note that using this option lowers the security 2267 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2268 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2269 2270 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2271 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2272 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2273 2274 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2275 disable 2276 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2277 scaling driver for the supported processors 2278 active 2279 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2280 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2281 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2282 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2283 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2284 performance. The way they both operate depends 2285 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2286 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2287 and possibly on the processor model. 2288 passive 2289 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2290 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2291 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2292 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2293 feature. 2294 force 2295 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2296 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2297 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2298 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2299 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2300 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2301 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2302 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2303 no_hwp 2304 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2305 if available. 2306 hwp_only 2307 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2308 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2309 support_acpi_ppc 2310 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2311 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2312 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2313 then this feature is turned on by default. 2314 per_cpu_perf_limits 2315 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2316 cpufreq sysfs interface 2317 2318 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2319 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2320 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2321 nosid disable Source ID checking 2322 no_x2apic_optout 2323 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2324 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2325 posted_msi 2326 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2327 2328 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2329 strict regions from userspace. 2330 relaxed 2331 2332 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2333 2334 off 2335 Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU. 2336 2337 force 2338 Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when 2339 it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB 2340 memory). 2341 2342 noforce 2343 Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not 2344 needed. (default). 2345 2346 biomerge 2347 panic 2348 nopanic 2349 merge 2350 nomerge 2351 2352 soft 2353 Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for 2354 Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage 2355 of an available hardware IOMMU. 2356 2357 [X86] 2358 pt 2359 [X86] 2360 nopt 2361 [PPC/POWERNV] 2362 nobypass 2363 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2364 2365 [X86] 2366 AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options: 2367 2368 <size> 2369 Set the size of the remapping area in bytes. 2370 2371 allowed 2372 Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets 2373 2374 fullflush 2375 Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default). 2376 2377 nofullflush 2378 Don't use IOMMU fullflush. 2379 2380 memaper[=<order>] 2381 Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 2382 32MB<<order. (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB) 2383 2384 merge 2385 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force" 2386 (experimental). 2387 2388 nomerge 2389 Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging. 2390 2391 noaperture 2392 Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP. 2393 2394 noagp 2395 Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture. 2396 2397 panic 2398 Always panic when IOMMU overflows. 2399 2400 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2401 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2402 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2403 falling back to the full range if needed. 2404 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2405 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2406 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2407 2408 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2410 0 - Lazy mode. 2411 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2412 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2413 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2414 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2415 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2416 1 - Strict mode. 2417 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2418 synchronously. 2419 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2420 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2421 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2422 2423 iommu.passthrough= 2424 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2425 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2426 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2427 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2428 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2429 2430 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2431 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2432 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2433 2434 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2435 0x80 2436 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2437 0xed 2438 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2439 udelay 2440 Simple two microseconds delay 2441 none 2442 No delay 2443 2444 ip= [IP_PNP] 2445 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2446 2447 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2448 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2449 2450 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2451 Format: <bool> 2452 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2453 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2454 2455 ipe.success_audit= 2456 [IPE] 2457 Format: <bool> 2458 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2459 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2460 is 0. 2461 2462 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2463 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2464 2465 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2466 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2467 Format: <bool> 2468 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2469 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2470 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2471 2472 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2473 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2474 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2475 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2476 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2477 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2478 LPIs. 2479 2480 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2481 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2482 requires the kernel to be built with 2483 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2484 2485 irqfixup [HW] 2486 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2487 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2488 firmware running. 2489 2490 irqpoll [HW] 2491 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2492 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2493 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2494 firmware running. 2495 2496 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2497 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2498 2499 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2500 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2501 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2502 2503 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2504 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2505 2506 nohz 2507 Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as 2508 disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks 2509 offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter. 2510 2511 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2512 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2513 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2514 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2515 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2516 2517 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2518 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2519 be configured manually after bootup. 2520 2521 domain 2522 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2523 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2524 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2525 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2526 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2527 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2528 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2529 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2530 2531 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2532 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2533 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2534 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2535 2536 managed_irq 2537 2538 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2539 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2540 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2541 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2542 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2543 2544 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2545 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2546 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2547 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2548 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2549 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2550 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2551 2552 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2553 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2554 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2555 only delivered when tasks running on those 2556 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2557 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2558 queues. 2559 2560 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2561 2562 iucv= [HW,NET] 2563 2564 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2565 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2566 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2567 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2568 2569 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2570 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2571 write the parameter as: 2572 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2573 2574 Deprecated formats: 2575 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2576 write the parameter as: 2577 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2578 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2579 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2580 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2581 2582 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2583 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2584 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2585 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2586 2587 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2588 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2589 write the parameter as: 2590 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2591 2592 Deprecated formats: 2593 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2594 write the parameter as: 2595 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2596 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2597 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2598 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2599 2600 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2601 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2602 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2603 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2604 2605 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2606 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2607 write the parameter as: 2608 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2609 2610 Deprecated formats: 2611 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2612 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2613 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2614 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2615 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2616 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2617 2618 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2619 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2620 2621 kasan_multi_shot 2622 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2623 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2624 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2625 invalid access. 2626 2627 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2628 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2629 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2630 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2631 the real console. 2632 2633 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2634 2635 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2636 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2637 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2638 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2639 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2640 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2641 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2642 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2643 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2644 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2645 2646 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2647 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2648 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2649 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2650 zone if it does not. 2651 2652 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2653 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2654 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2655 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2656 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2657 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2658 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2659 2660 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2661 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2662 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2663 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2664 optional and is the number seconds in between 2665 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2666 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2667 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2668 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2669 the kernel debugger. 2670 2671 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2672 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2673 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2674 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2675 keyboard only format: kbd 2676 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2677 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2678 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2679 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2680 2681 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2682 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2683 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2684 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2685 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2686 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2687 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2688 2689 The name of the early console should be specified 2690 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2691 the early console might be different than the tty 2692 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2693 blank and the first boot console that implements 2694 read() will be picked. 2695 2696 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2697 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2698 2699 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2700 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2701 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2702 2703 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2704 Valid arguments: on, off 2705 Default: on 2706 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2707 the default is off. 2708 2709 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2710 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2711 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2712 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2713 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2714 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2715 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2716 2717 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2718 2719 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2720 Boot Parameter" section. 2721 2722 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2723 user and kernel address spaces. 2724 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2725 0: force disabled 2726 1: force enabled 2727 2728 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2729 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2730 default value can be overridden via 2731 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2732 Default is 1 (enabled) 2733 2734 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2735 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2736 2737 kvm.eager_page_split= 2738 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2739 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2740 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2741 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2742 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2743 required to split huge pages lazily. 2744 2745 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2746 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2747 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2748 still be used for reads. 2749 2750 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2751 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2752 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2753 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2754 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2755 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2756 cleared. 2757 2758 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2759 2760 Default is Y (on). 2761 2762 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86] 2763 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware 2764 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM 2765 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module). 2766 2767 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable 2768 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying 2769 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the 2770 number of VMs. 2771 2772 Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential 2773 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes 2774 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The 2775 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded, 2776 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree 2777 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware. 2778 2779 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2780 Default is false (don't support). 2781 2782 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2783 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2784 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2785 force : Always deploy workaround. 2786 off : Never deploy workaround. 2787 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2788 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2789 2790 Default is 'auto'. 2791 2792 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2793 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2794 2795 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2796 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2797 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2798 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2799 period (see below). The default is 60. 2800 2801 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2802 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2803 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2804 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2805 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2806 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2807 2808 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2809 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2810 2811 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2812 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2813 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2814 for NPT. 2815 2816 kvm-arm.mode= 2817 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2818 operation. 2819 2820 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2821 2822 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2823 protected guests. 2824 2825 protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is 2826 kept private from the host, using VHE or 2827 nVHE depending on HW support. 2828 2829 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2830 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4 2831 hardware (with FEAT_NV2). 2832 2833 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2834 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2835 for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add 2836 "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the 2837 command-line. 2838 "nested" is experimental and should be used with 2839 extreme caution. 2840 2841 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2842 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2843 system registers 2844 2845 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2846 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2847 system registers 2848 2849 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2850 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2851 system registers 2852 2853 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2854 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2855 injection of LPIs. 2856 2857 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2858 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2859 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2860 CPU architecture. 2861 2862 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2863 2864 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2865 2866 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2867 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2868 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2869 CPU architecture. 2870 2871 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2872 2873 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2874 2875 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2876 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2877 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2878 allocation. 2879 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2880 Format: <integer> 2881 Default: 5 2882 2883 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2884 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2885 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2886 for EPT. 2887 2888 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2889 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2890 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2891 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2892 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2893 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2894 Default is 1 (enabled). 2895 2896 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2897 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2898 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2899 hardware lacks support for it. 2900 2901 kvm-intel.nested= 2902 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2903 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2904 2905 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2906 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2907 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2908 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2909 hardware lacks support for it. 2910 2911 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2912 CVE-2018-3620. 2913 2914 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2915 2916 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2917 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2918 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2919 never: Disables the mitigation 2920 2921 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2922 2923 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2924 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2925 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2926 for it. 2927 2928 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2929 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2930 2931 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2932 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2933 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2934 2935 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2936 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2937 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2938 not have direct access. 2939 2940 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2941 options are: 2942 2943 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2944 2945 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2946 affected CPUs 2947 2948 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2949 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2950 2951 full 2952 Provides all available mitigations for the 2953 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2954 enables all mitigations in the 2955 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2956 2957 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2958 sysfs interface is still possible after 2959 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2960 when the first VM is started in a 2961 potentially insecure configuration, 2962 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2963 2964 full,force 2965 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2966 flush runtime control. Implies the 2967 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2968 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2969 2970 flush 2971 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2972 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2973 L1D flush. 2974 2975 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2976 sysfs interface is still possible after 2977 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2978 when the first VM is started in a 2979 potentially insecure configuration, 2980 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2981 2982 flush,nosmt 2983 2984 Disables SMT and enables the default 2985 hypervisor mitigation. 2986 2987 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2988 sysfs interface is still possible after 2989 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2990 when the first VM is started in a 2991 potentially insecure configuration, 2992 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2993 2994 flush,nowarn 2995 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2996 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2997 insecure configuration. 2998 2999 off 3000 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 3001 emit any warnings. 3002 It also drops the swap size and available 3003 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 3004 bare metal. 3005 3006 Default is 'flush'. 3007 3008 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 3009 3010 l2cr= [PPC] 3011 3012 l3cr= [PPC] 3013 3014 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 3015 disabled it. 3016 3017 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 3018 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 3019 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 3020 Format: notscdeadline 3021 3022 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 3023 in C2 power state. 3024 3025 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 3026 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 3027 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 3028 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 3029 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 3030 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 3031 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 3032 3033 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 3034 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 3035 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 3036 3037 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 3038 when set. 3039 Format: <int> 3040 3041 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 3042 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 3043 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 3044 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 3045 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 3046 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 3047 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 3048 to all ports, links and devices. 3049 3050 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 3051 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 3052 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 3053 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 3054 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 3055 host link and device attached to it. 3056 3057 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 3058 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 3059 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 3060 The following configurations can be forced. 3061 3062 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 3063 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 3064 3065 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 3066 3067 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 3068 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 3069 allowed. 3070 3071 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 3072 resets. 3073 3074 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 3075 link recovery. 3076 3077 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 3078 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 3079 detection. 3080 3081 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 3082 3083 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 3084 3085 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 3086 3087 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 3088 3089 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 3090 3091 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 3092 3093 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 3094 3095 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 3096 3097 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 3098 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 3099 3100 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 3101 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 3102 3103 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 3104 identify device data log. 3105 3106 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 3107 purpose log directory. 3108 3109 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3110 3111 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3112 1024 sectors. 3113 3114 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3115 65535 sectors. 3116 3117 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3118 3119 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3120 should be skipped. 3121 3122 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3123 support for devices supporting this feature. 3124 3125 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3126 3127 * disable: Disable this device. 3128 3129 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3130 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3131 3132 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3133 3134 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3135 Format: <integer> 3136 3137 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3138 Format: <integer> 3139 3140 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3141 Format: <integer> 3142 3143 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3144 Format: <integer> 3145 3146 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3147 { integrity | confidentiality } 3148 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3149 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3150 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3151 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3152 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3153 are also disabled. 3154 3155 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3156 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3157 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3158 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3159 3160 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3161 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3162 to be bound. 3163 3164 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3165 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3166 to be bound. 3167 3168 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3169 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3170 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3171 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3172 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3173 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3174 3175 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3176 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3177 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3178 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3179 3180 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3181 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3182 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3183 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3184 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3185 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3186 3187 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3188 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3189 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3190 number of online CPUs. 3191 3192 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3193 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3194 3195 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3196 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3197 3198 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3199 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3200 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3201 3202 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3203 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3204 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3205 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3206 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3207 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3208 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3209 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3210 disable boosting. 3211 3212 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3213 Number that determines how often and for how 3214 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3215 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3216 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3217 constant as the number of writers increases. 3218 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3219 increases with the number of writers. 3220 3221 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3222 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3223 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3224 mode during the locktorture test. 3225 3226 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3227 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3228 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3229 3230 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3231 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3232 3233 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3234 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3235 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3236 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3237 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3238 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3239 3240 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3241 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3242 3243 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3244 Enable additional printk() statements. 3245 3246 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3247 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3248 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3249 3250 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3251 Format: <irq> 3252 3253 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3254 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3255 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3256 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3257 loglevels are defined as follows: 3258 3259 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3260 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3261 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3262 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3263 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3264 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3265 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3266 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3267 3268 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3269 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3270 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3271 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3272 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3273 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3274 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3275 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3276 for more details. 3277 3278 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3279 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3280 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3281 kernel boot problems. 3282 3283 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3284 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3285 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3286 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3287 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3288 attached printers to be reset. Using 3289 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3290 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3291 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3292 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3293 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3294 port specification list means that device IDs 3295 from each port should be examined, to see if 3296 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3297 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3298 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3299 3300 lpj=n [KNL] 3301 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3302 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3303 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3304 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3305 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3306 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3307 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3308 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3309 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3310 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3311 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3312 hardware. 3313 3314 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3315 3316 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3317 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3318 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3319 3320 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3321 different yeeloong laptops. 3322 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3323 3324 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3325 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3326 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3327 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3328 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3329 only takes effect during system bootup. 3330 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3331 which also disables the IO APIC. 3332 3333 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3334 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3335 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3336 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3337 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3338 /dev/loop-control interface. 3339 3340 mce= [X86-{32,64}] 3341 3342 Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables. 3343 3344 off 3345 disable machine check 3346 3347 no_cmci 3348 disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that 3349 Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is 3350 not recommended, but it might be handy if your 3351 hardware is misbehaving. 3352 3353 Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than 3354 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get 3355 duplicated error logs. 3356 3357 dont_log_ce 3358 don't make logs for corrected errors. All events 3359 reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This 3360 option will be useful if you have no interest in any 3361 of corrected errors. 3362 3363 ignore_ce 3364 disable features for corrected errors, e.g. 3365 polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as 3366 corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its 3367 error banks. 3368 3369 Usually this disablement is not recommended, however 3370 if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected 3371 errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring 3372 applications), conflicting with OS's error handling, 3373 and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option 3374 will be a help. 3375 3376 no_lmce 3377 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method 3378 to broadcast MCEs. 3379 3380 bootlog 3381 enable logging of machine checks left over from 3382 booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older 3383 because some BIOS leave bogus ones. 3384 3385 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to 3386 enable though to make sure you log even machine check 3387 events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is 3388 enabled by default. 3389 3390 nobootlog 3391 disable boot machine check logging. 3392 3393 monarchtimeout (number) 3394 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine 3395 checks. 0 to disable. 3396 3397 bios_cmci_threshold 3398 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot 3399 option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI 3400 threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux 3401 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may 3402 make memory predictive failure analysis less effective 3403 if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we 3404 will not see details for all errors. 3405 3406 recovery 3407 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths 3408 3409 Everything else is in sysfs now. 3410 3411 3412 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3413 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3414 3415 mdacon= [MDA] 3416 Format: <first>,<last> 3417 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3418 3419 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3420 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3421 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3422 3423 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3424 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3425 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3426 3427 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3428 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3429 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3430 not have direct access. 3431 3432 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3433 options are: 3434 3435 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3436 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3437 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3438 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3439 3440 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3441 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3442 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3443 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3444 too. 3445 3446 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3447 mds=full. 3448 3449 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3450 3451 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3452 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3453 3454 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3455 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3456 as follows: 3457 3458 1 for test; 3459 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3460 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3461 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3462 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3463 3464 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3465 high memory is not affected. 3466 3467 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3468 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3469 3470 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3471 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3472 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3473 belonging to unused RAM. 3474 3475 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3476 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3477 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3478 3479 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3480 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3481 reported by firmware. 3482 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3483 ss[KMG]. 3484 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3485 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3486 3487 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3488 memory. 3489 3490 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3491 3492 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3493 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3494 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3495 3496 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3497 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3498 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3499 set according to the 3500 CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config 3501 options. 3502 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3503 3504 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3505 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3506 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3507 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3508 option description. 3509 3510 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3511 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3512 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3513 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3514 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3515 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3516 comma delimited. 3517 Example: 3518 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3519 3520 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3521 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3522 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3523 3524 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3525 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3526 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3527 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3528 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3529 or 3530 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3531 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3532 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3533 will be eaten. 3534 3535 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3536 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3537 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3538 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3539 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3540 3541 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3542 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3543 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3544 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3545 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3546 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3547 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3548 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3549 3550 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3551 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3552 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3553 Setting this option will scan the memory 3554 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3555 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3556 from using the memory being corrupted. 3557 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3558 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3559 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3560 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3561 3562 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3563 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3564 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3565 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3566 corruption in more or less memory. 3567 3568 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3569 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3570 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3571 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3572 3573 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3574 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3575 Format: {on | off (default)} 3576 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3577 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3578 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3579 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3580 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3581 lot of memory without requiring additional 3582 memory to do so. 3583 This feature is disabled by default because it 3584 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3585 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3586 memory blocks). 3587 The state of the flag can be read in 3588 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3589 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3590 the feature is not effective. 3591 3592 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3593 Format: <integer> 3594 default : 0 <disable> 3595 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3596 performed. Each pass selects another test 3597 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3598 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3599 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3600 regions that are detected. 3601 3602 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3603 Valid arguments: on, off 3604 Default: off 3605 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3606 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3607 3608 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3609 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3610 3611 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3612 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3613 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3614 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3615 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3616 3617 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3618 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3619 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3620 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3621 3622 mga= [HW,DRM] 3623 3624 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3625 Format: <bool> 3626 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3627 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3628 3629 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3630 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3631 Default: "0tb" 3632 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3633 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3634 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3635 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3636 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3637 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3638 unconfigured. 3639 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3640 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3641 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3642 VGA shield. 3643 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3644 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3645 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3646 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3647 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3648 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3649 3650 mitigations= 3651 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3652 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3653 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3654 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3655 3656 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3657 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3658 3659 off 3660 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3661 improves system performance, but it may also 3662 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3663 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3664 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3665 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3666 l1tf=off [X86] 3667 mds=off [X86] 3668 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3669 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3670 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3671 nobp=0 [S390] 3672 nopti [X86,PPC] 3673 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3674 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3675 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3676 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3677 retbleed=off [X86] 3678 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3679 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3680 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3681 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3682 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3683 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3684 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3685 3686 Exceptions: 3687 This does not have any effect on 3688 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3689 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3690 3691 auto (default) 3692 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3693 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3694 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3695 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3696 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3697 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3698 3699 auto,nosmt 3700 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3701 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3702 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3703 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3704 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3705 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3706 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3707 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3708 3709 mminit_loglevel= 3710 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3711 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3712 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3713 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3714 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3715 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3716 3717 mmio_stale_data= 3718 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3719 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3720 3721 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3722 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3723 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3724 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3725 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3726 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3727 3728 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3729 options are: 3730 3731 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3732 3733 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3734 vulnerable CPUs. 3735 3736 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3737 3738 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3739 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3740 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3741 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3742 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3743 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3744 3745 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3746 mmio_stale_data=full. 3747 3748 For details see: 3749 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3750 3751 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3752 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3753 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3754 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3755 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3756 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3757 3758 module.async_probe=<bool> 3759 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3760 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3761 specific module, use the module specific control that 3762 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3763 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3764 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3765 the specific module. 3766 3767 module.enable_dups_trace 3768 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3769 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3770 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3771 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3772 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3773 module.sig_enforce 3774 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3775 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3776 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3777 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3778 3779 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3780 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3781 3782 mousedev.tap_time= 3783 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3784 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3785 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3786 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3787 Format: <msecs> 3788 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3789 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3790 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3791 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3792 3793 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3794 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3795 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3796 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3797 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3798 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3799 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3800 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3801 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3802 is not too small. 3803 3804 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3805 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3806 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3807 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3808 allocations. Use with caution! 3809 3810 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3811 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3812 3813 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3814 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3815 3816 mtdparts= [MTD] 3817 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3818 3819 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3820 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3821 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3822 3823 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3824 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3825 registers at boot time. 3826 3827 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3828 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3829 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3830 3831 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3832 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3833 Default is 1. 3834 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3835 using up MTRRs. 3836 3837 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3838 Format: <integer> 3839 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3840 Default : 1 3841 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3842 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3843 3844 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3845 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3846 at a time. 3847 3848 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3849 3850 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3851 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3852 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3853 something different and driver-specific. 3854 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3855 file if at all. 3856 3857 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3858 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3859 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3860 waits 4 seconds. 3861 3862 nf_conntrack.acct= 3863 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3864 0 to disable accounting 3865 1 to enable accounting 3866 Default value is 0. 3867 3868 nfs.cache_getent= 3869 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3870 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3871 3872 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3873 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3874 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3875 3876 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3877 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3878 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3879 requests. 3880 3881 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3882 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3883 channel should listen. 3884 3885 nfs.delay_retrans= 3886 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3887 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3888 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3889 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3890 and the specified value is >= 0. 3891 3892 nfs.enable_ino64= 3893 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3894 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3895 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3896 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3897 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3898 3899 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3900 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3901 entries. 3902 3903 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3904 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3905 slots the client will assign to the callback 3906 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3907 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3908 a particular server. 3909 3910 nfs.max_session_slots= 3911 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3912 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3913 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3914 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3915 Note that there is little point in setting this 3916 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3917 3918 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3919 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3920 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3921 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3922 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3923 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3924 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3925 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3926 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3927 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3928 back to using the idmapper. 3929 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3930 3931 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3932 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3933 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3934 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3935 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3936 3937 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3938 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3939 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3940 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3941 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3942 after the locks are lost. 3943 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3944 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3945 parameter to '1'. 3946 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3947 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3948 3949 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3950 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3951 information in exchange_id requests. 3952 If zero, no implementation identification information 3953 will be sent. 3954 The default is to send the implementation identification 3955 information. 3956 3957 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3958 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3959 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3960 3961 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3962 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3963 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3964 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3965 3966 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3967 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3968 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3969 the destination of the copy. 3970 3971 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3972 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3973 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3974 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3975 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3976 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3977 3978 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3979 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3980 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3981 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3982 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3983 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3984 this parameter. 3985 3986 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3987 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3988 3989 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3990 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3991 3992 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3993 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3994 3995 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3996 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3997 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3998 3999 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 4000 when a NMI is triggered. 4001 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 4002 4003 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 4004 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 4005 Valid num: 0 or 1 4006 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 4007 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 4008 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 4009 4010 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 4011 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 4012 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 4013 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 4014 please see 'nowatchdog'. 4015 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 4016 need the box quickly up again. 4017 4018 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 4019 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 4020 4021 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 4022 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 4023 is present. 4024 4025 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 4026 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 4027 4028 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 4029 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 4030 4031 noalign [KNL,ARM] 4032 4033 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 4034 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 4035 4036 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer 4037 4038 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 4039 4040 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 4041 4042 no_console_suspend 4043 [HW] Never suspend the console 4044 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 4045 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 4046 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 4047 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 4048 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 4049 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 4050 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 4051 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 4052 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 4053 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 4054 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 4055 turn on/off it dynamically. 4056 4057 no_debug_objects 4058 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 4059 4060 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 4061 4062 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 4063 4064 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 4065 4066 noexec32 [X86-64] 4067 This affects only 32-bit executables. 4068 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 4069 read doesn't imply executable mappings 4070 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 4071 read implies executable mappings 4072 4073 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 4074 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 4075 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 4076 4077 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 4078 4079 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 4080 4081 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 4082 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 4083 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 4084 4085 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. 4086 4087 no_hash_pointers 4088 [KNL,EARLY] 4089 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 4090 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 4091 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 4092 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 4093 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 4094 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 4095 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 4096 compared. However, if this command-line option is 4097 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 4098 value printed. This option should only be specified when 4099 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 4100 kernels. 4101 4102 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 4103 4104 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 4105 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 4106 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 4107 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 4108 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 4109 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 4110 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 4111 useful when using JTAG debugger. 4112 4113 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer. 4114 4115 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 4116 4117 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 4118 4119 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 4120 Valid arguments: on, off 4121 Default: on 4122 4123 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 4124 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4125 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 4126 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 4127 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 4128 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 4129 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 4130 just as if they had also been called out in the 4131 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 4132 4133 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4134 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4135 4136 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 4137 initial RAM disk. 4138 4139 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 4140 remapping. 4141 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 4142 4143 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 4144 4145 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 4146 4147 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 4148 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 4149 4150 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 4151 4152 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 4153 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 4154 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 4155 Layout Randomization). 4156 4157 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 4158 fault handling. 4159 4160 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 4161 4162 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 4163 4164 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 4165 4166 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 4167 4168 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4169 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4170 4171 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4172 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4173 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4174 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4175 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4176 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4177 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4178 4179 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4180 4181 nomodule Disable module load 4182 4183 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4184 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4185 irq. 4186 4187 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4188 pagetables) support. 4189 4190 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4191 4192 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4193 in some Intel CPUs. 4194 4195 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4196 Equivalent to pti=off 4197 4198 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4199 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4200 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4201 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4202 4203 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4204 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4205 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4206 contention. 4207 4208 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4209 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4210 4211 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4212 with UP alternatives 4213 4214 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4215 space. 4216 4217 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4218 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4219 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4220 4221 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4222 4223 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4224 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4225 even if it is supported by processor. 4226 4227 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4228 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4229 even if it is supported by processor. 4230 4231 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4232 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4233 4234 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4235 Equivalent to smt=1. 4236 4237 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4238 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4239 via the sysfs control file. 4240 4241 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4242 4243 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4244 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4245 Store Bypass vulnerability 4246 4247 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4248 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4249 with this option. 4250 4251 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4252 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4253 possible in the system. 4254 4255 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4256 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4257 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4258 leaks with this option. 4259 4260 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4261 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4262 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4263 4264 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4265 4266 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken 4267 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can 4268 work around problems with incorrect timer 4269 initialization on some boards. 4270 4271 no_uaccess_flush 4272 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4273 4274 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4275 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4276 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4277 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4278 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4279 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4280 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4281 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4282 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4283 is set. 4284 4285 no-vmw-sched-clock 4286 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4287 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4288 4289 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4290 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4291 4292 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4293 4294 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4295 4296 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4297 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4298 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4299 4300 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4301 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4302 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4303 4304 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4305 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4306 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4307 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4308 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4309 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4310 4311 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4312 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4313 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4314 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4315 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4316 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4317 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4318 4319 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4320 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4321 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4322 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4323 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4324 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4325 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4326 hot plugging. 4327 4328 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4329 4330 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4331 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4332 spanning all memory. 4333 4334 numa=fake=<size>[MG] 4335 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4336 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with 4337 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes. 4338 4339 numa=fake=<N> 4340 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4341 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N 4342 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. 4343 4344 numa=fake=<N>U 4345 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4346 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will 4347 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. 4348 4349 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup 4350 4351 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or 4352 soft-reserved memory partitioning. 4353 4354 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4355 NUMA balancing. 4356 Allowed values are enable and disable 4357 4358 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4359 'node', 'default' can be specified 4360 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4361 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4362 4363 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4364 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4365 info. 4366 4367 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4368 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4369 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4370 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4371 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4372 interrupts *may* be lost! 4373 4374 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4375 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4376 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4377 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4378 4379 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4380 4381 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4382 4383 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4384 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4385 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4386 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4387 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4388 4389 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4390 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4391 process, but there is a small probability of 4392 deadlocking the machine. 4393 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4394 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4395 4396 page_alloc.shuffle= 4397 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4398 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4399 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4400 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4401 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4402 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4403 4404 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4405 Storage of the information about who allocated 4406 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4407 we can turn it on. 4408 on: enable the feature 4409 4410 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4411 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4412 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4413 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4414 on: turn on poisoning 4415 4416 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4417 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4418 Format: <integer> 4419 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4420 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4421 4422 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4423 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4424 timeout = 0: wait forever 4425 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4426 Format: <timeout> 4427 4428 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4429 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4430 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4431 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4432 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4433 called with any of the flags in this set. 4434 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4435 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4436 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4437 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4438 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4439 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4440 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4441 4442 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4443 on a WARN(). 4444 4445 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4446 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4447 bit 0: print all tasks info 4448 bit 1: print system memory info 4449 bit 2: print timer info 4450 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4451 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4452 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4453 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4454 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4455 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4456 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4457 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4458 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4459 4460 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4461 connected to, default is 0. 4462 Format: <parport#> 4463 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4464 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4465 Format: <mode> 4466 4467 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4468 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4469 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4470 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4471 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4472 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4473 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4474 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4475 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4476 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4477 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4478 are specified on the command line, starting 4479 with parport0. 4480 4481 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4482 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4483 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4484 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4485 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4486 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4487 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4488 4489 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4490 Format: <int> 4491 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4492 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4493 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4494 4495 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4496 Format: <int> 4497 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4498 changes. Disabled by default. 4499 4500 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4501 Format: <int> 4502 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4503 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4504 Disabled by default. 4505 4506 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4507 Format: <int> 4508 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4509 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4510 Disabled by default. 4511 4512 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4513 Format: <int> 4514 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4515 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4516 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4517 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4518 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4519 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4520 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4521 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4522 all channels. 4523 4524 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4525 Format: <int> 4526 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4527 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4528 respectively. Disabled by default. 4529 4530 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4531 Format: <int> 4532 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4533 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4534 respectively. Disabled by default. 4535 4536 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4537 Format: <int> 4538 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4539 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4540 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4541 All modes allowed by default. 4542 4543 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4544 Format: <int> 4545 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4546 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4547 4548 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4549 Format: <int> 4550 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4551 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4552 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4553 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4554 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4555 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4556 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4557 By default all supported ports are probed. 4558 4559 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4560 Format: <int> 4561 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4562 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4563 4564 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4565 Format: <int> 4566 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4567 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4568 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4569 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4570 0 otherwise. 4571 4572 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4573 Format: <int> 4574 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4575 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4576 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4577 allowed by default. 4578 4579 pause_on_oops=<int> 4580 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4581 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4582 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4583 4584 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4585 4586 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4587 4588 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4589 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4590 specified in one of the following formats: 4591 4592 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4593 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4594 4595 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4596 bus/device/function address which may change 4597 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4598 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4599 by other kernel parameters. If the 4600 domain is left unspecified, it is 4601 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4602 to a device through multiple device/function 4603 addresses can be specified after the base 4604 address (this is more robust against 4605 renumbering issues). The second format 4606 selects devices using IDs from the 4607 configuration space which may match multiple 4608 devices in the system. 4609 4610 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4611 changes anything 4612 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4613 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4614 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4615 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4616 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4617 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4618 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4619 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4620 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4621 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4622 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4623 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4624 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4625 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4626 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4627 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4628 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4629 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4630 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4631 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4632 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4633 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4634 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4635 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4636 Configuration 4637 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4638 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4639 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4640 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4641 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4642 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4643 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4644 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4645 should never be necessary. 4646 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4647 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4648 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4649 when the system masks IRQs. 4650 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4651 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4652 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4653 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4654 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4655 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4656 on several machines and they hang the machine 4657 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4658 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4659 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4660 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4661 motherboard. 4662 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4663 Use with caution as certain devices share 4664 address decoders between ROMs and other 4665 resources. 4666 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4667 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4668 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4669 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4670 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4671 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4672 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4673 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4674 this way. 4675 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4676 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4677 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4678 F0000h-100000h range. 4679 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4680 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4681 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4682 explicitly which ones they are. 4683 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4684 numbers ourselves, overriding 4685 whatever the firmware may have done. 4686 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4687 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4688 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4689 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4690 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4691 IRQ routing is enabled. 4692 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4693 or for PCI scanning. 4694 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4695 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4696 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4697 please report a bug. 4698 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4699 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4700 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4701 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4702 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4703 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4704 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4705 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4706 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4707 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4708 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4709 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4710 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4711 so this option is a temporary workaround 4712 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4713 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4714 handle more pci cards 4715 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4716 This might help on some broken boards which 4717 machine check when some devices' config space 4718 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4719 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4720 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4721 This sorting is done to get a device 4722 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4723 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4724 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4725 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4726 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4727 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4728 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4729 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4730 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4731 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4732 or bus can support) for best performance. 4733 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4734 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4735 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4736 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4737 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4738 that hot-added devices will work. 4739 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4740 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4741 The default value is 256 bytes. 4742 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4743 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4744 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4745 resource_alignment= 4746 Format: 4747 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4748 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4749 aligned memory resources. How to 4750 specify the device is described above. 4751 If <order of align> is not specified, 4752 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4753 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4754 windows need to be expanded. 4755 To specify the alignment for several 4756 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4757 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4758 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4759 for 4096-byte alignment. 4760 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4761 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4762 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4763 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4764 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4765 the default. 4766 off: Turn ECRC off 4767 on: Turn ECRC on. 4768 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4769 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4770 Default size is 256 bytes. 4771 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4772 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4773 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4774 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4775 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4776 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4777 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4778 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4779 MMIO_PREF window. 4780 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4781 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4782 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4783 Default is 1. 4784 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4785 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4786 accommodate resources required by all child 4787 devices. 4788 off: Turn realloc off 4789 on: Turn realloc on 4790 realloc same as realloc=on 4791 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4792 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4793 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4794 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4795 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4796 port. 4797 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4798 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4799 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4800 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4801 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4802 taints the kernel. 4803 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4804 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4805 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4806 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4807 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4808 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4809 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4810 this removes isolation between devices and 4811 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4812 config_acs= 4813 Format: 4814 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4815 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4816 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4817 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4818 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4819 unchanged based on what is specified in 4820 flags. 4821 4822 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4823 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4824 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4825 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4826 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4827 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4828 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4829 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4830 Each bit can be marked as: 4831 '0' – force disabled 4832 '1' – force enabled 4833 'x' – unchanged 4834 For example, 4835 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0 4836 would configure all devices that support 4837 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4838 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4839 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4840 or firmware set it to. 4841 4842 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4843 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4844 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4845 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4846 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4847 one PCI domain per PCI function 4848 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter 4849 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used 4850 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support 4851 system-wide. 4852 4853 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4854 Management. 4855 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4856 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4857 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4858 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4859 4860 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4861 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4862 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4863 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4864 also tries to use these services. 4865 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4866 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4867 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4868 hotplug). 4869 4870 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4871 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4872 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4873 4874 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4875 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4876 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4877 4878 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4879 4880 pd_ignore_unused 4881 [PM] 4882 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4883 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4884 for debug and development, but should not be 4885 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4886 4887 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4888 boot time. 4889 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4890 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4891 4892 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4893 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4894 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4895 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4896 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4897 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4898 and performance comparison. 4899 4900 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4901 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4902 4903 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4904 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4905 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4906 4907 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4908 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4909 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4910 4911 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4912 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4913 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4914 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4915 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4916 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4917 remains 0. 4918 4919 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4920 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4921 4922 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4923 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4924 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4925 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4926 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4927 possible settings and some assignment information. 4928 4929 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4930 { off } 4931 4932 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4933 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4934 4935 pnp_reserve_irq= 4936 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4937 4938 pnp_reserve_dma= 4939 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4940 4941 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4942 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4943 4944 pnp_reserve_mem= 4945 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4946 autoconfiguration. 4947 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4948 4949 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4950 Default is 21. 4951 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4952 may be specified. 4953 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4954 4955 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4956 Format: <unsigned int> 4957 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4958 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4959 4960 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4961 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4962 platform machine description specific power_save 4963 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4964 execution priority. 4965 4966 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4967 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4968 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4969 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4970 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4971 4972 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4973 Format: {"off"} 4974 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4975 4976 preempt= [KNL] 4977 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4978 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4979 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4980 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4981 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 4982 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 4983 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 4984 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead 4985 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets 4986 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the 4987 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the 4988 task returns to user space. 4989 4990 print-fatal-signals= 4991 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4992 4993 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4994 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4995 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4996 coredump - etc. 4997 4998 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4999 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 5000 5001 default: off. 5002 5003 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 5004 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 5005 panics 5006 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5007 default: disabled 5008 5009 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 5010 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 5011 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 5012 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 5013 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 5014 in order to provide more debug information. 5015 Format: <bool> 5016 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 5017 5018 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 5019 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 5020 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 5021 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 5022 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 5023 Default: ratelimit 5024 5025 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 5026 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5027 5028 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 5029 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 5030 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 5031 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 5032 restrict that. Can be one of: 5033 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 5034 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 5035 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 5036 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 5037 5038 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 5039 Limit processor to maximum C-state 5040 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 5041 5042 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 5043 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 5044 instead using the legacy FADT method 5045 5046 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 5047 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 5048 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 5049 [defaults to kernel profiling] 5050 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 5051 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 5052 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 5053 statistical time based profiling. 5054 5055 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 5056 5057 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 5058 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 5059 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 5060 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 5061 Layout Randomization is disabled. 5062 Format: <bool> 5063 5064 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 5065 tracking. 5066 Format: <bool> 5067 5068 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 5069 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 5070 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 5071 per second. 5072 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 5073 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 5074 (0 = never). 5075 psmouse.resolution= 5076 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 5077 psmouse.smartscroll= 5078 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 5079 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 5080 5081 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 5082 5083 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 5084 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 5085 removes hardening, but improves performance of 5086 system calls and interrupts. 5087 5088 on - unconditionally enable 5089 off - unconditionally disable 5090 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5091 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 5092 5093 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 5094 5095 pty.legacy_count= 5096 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 5097 default number. 5098 5099 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 5100 5101 r128= [HW,DRM] 5102 5103 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 5104 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 5105 invalidate. 5106 5107 raid= [HW,RAID] 5108 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 5109 5110 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 5111 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 5112 5113 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 5114 5115 random.trust_cpu=off 5116 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 5117 random number generator (if available) to 5118 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5119 5120 random.trust_bootloader=off 5121 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 5122 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 5123 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5124 5125 randomize_kstack_offset= 5126 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 5127 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 5128 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 5129 that depend on stack address determinism or 5130 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 5131 available on architectures that have defined 5132 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 5133 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5134 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 5135 5136 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 5137 5138 cec_disable [X86] 5139 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 5140 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 5141 5142 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 5143 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 5144 as described above. 5145 5146 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 5147 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 5148 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 5149 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 5150 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 5151 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 5152 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 5153 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 5154 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 5155 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 5156 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 5157 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 5158 5159 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 5160 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 5161 5162 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 5163 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 5164 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 5165 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 5166 5167 Note that this argument takes precedence over 5168 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 5169 5170 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 5171 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 5172 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 5173 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 5174 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 5175 This improves the real-time response for the 5176 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 5177 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 5178 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 5179 periodically wake up to do the polling. 5180 5181 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 5182 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 5183 process in one batch. 5184 5185 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 5186 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 5187 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 5188 5189 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 5190 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 5191 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 5192 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 5193 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 5194 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 5195 5196 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 5197 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 5198 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 5199 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 5200 5201 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 5202 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5203 RCU grace-period cleanup. 5204 5205 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 5206 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5207 RCU grace-period initialization. 5208 5209 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5210 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5211 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5212 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5213 the rcu_node combining tree. 5214 5215 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5216 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5217 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5218 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5219 and maximum value is HZ. 5220 5221 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5222 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5223 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5224 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5225 5226 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5227 Set required age in jiffies for a 5228 given grace period before RCU starts 5229 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5230 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5231 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5232 a value based on the most recent settings 5233 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5234 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5235 This calculated value may be viewed in 5236 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5237 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5238 overwritten. 5239 5240 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5241 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5242 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5243 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5244 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5245 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5246 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5247 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5248 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5249 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5250 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5251 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5252 5253 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5254 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5255 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5256 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5257 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5258 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5259 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5260 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5261 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5262 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5263 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5264 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5265 5266 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5267 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5268 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5269 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5270 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5271 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5272 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5273 5274 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5275 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5276 batch limiting is disabled. 5277 5278 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5279 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5280 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5281 5282 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5283 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5284 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5285 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5286 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5287 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5288 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5289 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5290 5291 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5292 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5293 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5294 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5295 5296 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5297 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5298 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5299 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5300 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5301 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5302 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5303 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5304 5305 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5306 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5307 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5308 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5309 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5310 5311 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5312 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5313 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5314 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5315 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5316 5317 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5318 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5319 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5320 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5321 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5322 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5323 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5324 5325 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5326 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5327 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5328 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5329 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5330 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5331 condition. 5332 5333 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5334 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5335 each group, which defaults to the square root 5336 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5337 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5338 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5339 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5340 5341 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5342 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5343 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5344 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5345 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5346 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5347 5348 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5349 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5350 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5351 By default, this limit is checked only once 5352 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5353 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5354 5355 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5356 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5357 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5358 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5359 Larger delays increase the probability of 5360 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5361 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5362 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5363 5364 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5365 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5366 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5367 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5368 5369 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5370 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5371 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5372 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5373 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5374 5375 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5376 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5377 to zero. 5378 5379 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5380 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5381 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5382 big. 5383 5384 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5385 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5386 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5387 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5388 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5389 normal grace period. 5390 5391 How to enable it: 5392 5393 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5394 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5395 5396 Default is 0. 5397 5398 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5399 Measure performance of asynchronous 5400 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5401 5402 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5403 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5404 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5405 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5406 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5407 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5408 5409 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5410 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5411 grace-period primitives. 5412 5413 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5414 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5415 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5416 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5417 interference. 5418 5419 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5420 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5421 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5422 5423 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5424 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5425 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5426 Defaults to 1. 5427 5428 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5429 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5430 5431 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5432 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5433 If this parameter has the same value as 5434 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5435 and double-argument variants are tested. 5436 5437 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5438 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5439 If this parameter has the same value as 5440 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5441 and double-argument variants are tested. 5442 5443 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5444 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5445 5446 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5447 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5448 5449 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5450 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5451 of allocations and frees. 5452 5453 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5454 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5455 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5456 but instead allows better measurement of things 5457 like CPU consumption. 5458 5459 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5460 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5461 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5462 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5463 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5464 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5465 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5466 a single reader. 5467 5468 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5469 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5470 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5471 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5472 5473 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5474 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5475 5476 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5477 Shut the system down after performance tests 5478 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5479 testing. 5480 5481 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5482 Enable additional printk() statements. 5483 5484 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5485 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5486 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5487 no holdoff. 5488 5489 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5490 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5491 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5492 says no holdoff. 5493 5494 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5495 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5496 in microseconds. 5497 5498 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5499 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5500 in microseconds. 5501 5502 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5503 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5504 in seconds. 5505 5506 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5507 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5508 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5509 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5510 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5511 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5512 of CPUs to be used. 5513 5514 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5515 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5516 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5517 5518 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5519 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5520 forward-progress tests. 5521 5522 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5523 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5524 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5525 testing. 5526 5527 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5528 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5529 normal-grace-period primitives, if available. 5530 5531 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL] 5532 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5533 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available. 5534 5535 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL] 5536 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5537 normal-grace-period primitives that also take 5538 concurrent expedited grace periods into account, 5539 if available. 5540 5541 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL] 5542 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5543 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take 5544 concurrent normal grace periods into account, 5545 if available. 5546 5547 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL] 5548 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5549 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5550 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters), 5551 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5552 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5553 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5554 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5555 with HZ=1000. 5556 5557 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL] 5558 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5559 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5560 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module 5561 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5562 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5563 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5564 128 microseconds. 5565 5566 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5567 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5568 5569 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5570 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5571 update-side primitives, if available. 5572 5573 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL] 5574 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5575 primitives, if available. 5576 5577 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL] 5578 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5579 primitives, if available. 5580 5581 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL] 5582 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5583 primitives that also take concurrent expedited 5584 grace periods into account, if available. 5585 5586 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL] 5587 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5588 primitives that also take concurrent normal 5589 grace periods into account, if available. 5590 5591 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL] 5592 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5593 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5594 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters), 5595 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5596 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5597 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5598 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5599 with HZ=1000. 5600 5601 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL] 5602 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5603 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5604 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module 5605 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5606 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5607 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5608 128 microseconds. 5609 5610 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5611 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5612 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5613 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5614 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5615 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5616 they are all non-zero. 5617 5618 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5619 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5620 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5621 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5622 5623 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5624 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5625 This can of course result in splats, and is 5626 intended to test the ability of things like 5627 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5628 such leaks. 5629 5630 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5631 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5632 5633 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5634 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5635 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5636 test, hence the "fake". 5637 5638 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5639 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5640 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5641 5642 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5643 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5644 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5645 5646 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5647 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5648 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5649 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5650 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5651 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5652 5653 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5654 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5655 5656 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5657 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5658 5659 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5660 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5661 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5662 5663 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL] 5664 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions 5665 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to 5666 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to 5667 preempt are selected randomly from the set that 5668 are online at a given point in time. Races with 5669 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt 5670 at preemption skipped. 5671 5672 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL] 5673 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one 5674 second) between preemptions by a high-priority 5675 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated 5676 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid 5677 inadvertent synchronizations. 5678 5679 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5680 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5681 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5682 is spawned. 5683 5684 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5685 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5686 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5687 5688 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL] 5689 A bit mask indicating which readers to use. 5690 If there is more than one bit set, the readers 5691 are entered from low-order bit up, and are 5692 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the 5693 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers, 5694 and 0x4 light-weight readers. 5695 5696 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5697 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5698 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5699 during the rcutorture test. 5700 5701 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5702 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5703 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5704 5705 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5706 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5707 warnings, zero to disable. 5708 5709 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5710 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5711 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5712 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5713 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5714 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5715 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5716 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5717 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5718 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5719 5720 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5721 5722 5723 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5724 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5725 5726 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5727 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5728 on the first stall in the set. 5729 5730 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5731 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5732 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5733 in four stall sequences. 5734 5735 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5736 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5737 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5738 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5739 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5740 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5741 5742 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5743 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5744 5745 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5746 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5747 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5748 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5749 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5750 5751 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5752 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5753 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5754 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5755 5756 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5757 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5758 5759 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL] 5760 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start 5761 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero, 5762 that is, no holdoff. 5763 5764 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5765 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5766 5767 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5768 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5769 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5770 5771 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5772 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5773 5774 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5775 Enable additional printk() statements. 5776 5777 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5778 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5779 stall warning. 5780 5781 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5782 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5783 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5784 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5785 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5786 5787 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5788 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5789 5790 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5791 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5792 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5793 during early boot, that is, during the time 5794 before the init task is spawned. 5795 5796 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5797 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5798 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5799 value is 300 seconds. 5800 5801 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5802 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5803 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5804 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5805 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5806 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5807 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5808 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5809 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5810 5811 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5812 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5813 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5814 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5815 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5816 5817 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5818 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5819 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5820 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5821 5822 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5823 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5824 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5825 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5826 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5827 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5828 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5829 5830 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5831 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5832 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5833 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5834 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5835 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5836 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5837 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5838 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5839 5840 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5841 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5842 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5843 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5844 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5845 5846 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5847 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5848 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5849 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5850 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5851 grace-period processing. 5852 5853 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5854 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5855 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5856 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5857 a single callback queue. This switching only 5858 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5859 set to the default value of -1. 5860 5861 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5862 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5863 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5864 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5865 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5866 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5867 the default value of -1. 5868 5869 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5870 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5871 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5872 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5873 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5874 for use in testing. 5875 5876 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5877 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5878 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5879 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5880 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5881 but lengthens grace periods. 5882 5883 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5884 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5885 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5886 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5887 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5888 callback flooding. 5889 5890 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5891 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5892 informational messages, which give some indication 5893 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5894 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5895 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5896 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5897 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5898 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5899 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5900 5901 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5902 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5903 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5904 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5905 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5906 the value three, so that the first informational 5907 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5908 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5909 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5910 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5911 5912 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5913 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5914 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5915 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5916 A change in value does not take effect until 5917 the beginning of the next grace period. 5918 5919 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5920 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5921 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5922 A negative value will take the default. A value 5923 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5924 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5925 5926 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5927 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5928 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5929 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5930 will take the default. A value of zero will 5931 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5932 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5933 5934 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5935 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5936 5937 rdinit= [KNL] 5938 Format: <full_path> 5939 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5940 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5941 5942 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5943 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5944 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5945 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5946 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5947 path). 5948 5949 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5950 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5951 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5952 mba, smba, bmec. 5953 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5954 rdt=cmt,!mba 5955 5956 reboot= [KNL] 5957 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5958 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5959 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5960 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5961 [[,]f[orce] 5962 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5963 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5964 reboot only), 5965 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5966 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5967 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5968 to be used for rebooting. 5969 5970 acpi 5971 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not 5972 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot 5973 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 5974 5975 bios 5976 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset 5977 5978 cold 5979 Set the cold reboot flag 5980 5981 default 5982 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks" 5983 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected. 5984 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you 5985 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS, 5986 or newer board) using this option will ignore the 5987 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default 5988 reboot actions. 5989 5990 efi 5991 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not 5992 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot 5993 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 5994 5995 force 5996 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot 5997 more reliable in some cases. 5998 5999 kbd 6000 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) 6001 6002 pci 6003 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to 6004 trigger reboot. 6005 6006 triple 6007 Force a triple fault (init) 6008 6009 warm 6010 Don't set the cold reboot flag 6011 6012 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big 6013 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through 6014 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all 6015 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so 6016 there may be boot problems on some systems. 6017 6018 6019 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 6020 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 6021 this parameter is to delay the start of the 6022 test until boot completes in order to avoid 6023 interference. 6024 6025 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 6026 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 6027 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 6028 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 6029 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 6030 6031 refscale.loops= [KNL] 6032 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 6033 primitive under test. Increasing this number 6034 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 6035 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 6036 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 6037 x86 laptops. 6038 6039 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 6040 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 6041 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 6042 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 6043 6044 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 6045 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 6046 the console log. 6047 6048 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 6049 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 6050 measured in microseconds. 6051 6052 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 6053 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 6054 6055 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 6056 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 6057 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 6058 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 6059 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 6060 6061 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 6062 Enable additional printk() statements. 6063 6064 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 6065 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 6066 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 6067 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 6068 specified. 6069 6070 regulator_ignore_unused 6071 [REGULATOR] 6072 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 6073 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 6074 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 6075 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 6076 6077 relax_domain_level= 6078 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 6079 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 6080 6081 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 6082 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 6083 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 6084 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 6085 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 6086 6087 reserve_mem= [RAM] 6088 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label> 6089 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 6090 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 6091 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 6092 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 6093 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 6094 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 6095 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 6096 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 6097 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 6098 different location. 6099 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 6100 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 6101 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 6102 located at the same location. 6103 6104 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 6105 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 6106 6107 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 6108 6109 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 6110 Format: nn[KMG] 6111 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 6112 address space. 6113 6114 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 6115 during initialization. 6116 6117 resume= [SWSUSP] 6118 Specify the partition device for software suspend 6119 Format: 6120 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 6121 6122 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 6123 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 6124 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 6125 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 6126 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 6127 6128 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6129 read the resume files 6130 6131 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 6132 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6133 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6134 6135 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 6136 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 6137 6138 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 6139 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 6140 vulnerability. 6141 6142 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 6143 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 6144 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 6145 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 6146 that don't. 6147 6148 off - no mitigation 6149 auto - automatically select a migitation 6150 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 6151 disabling SMT if necessary for 6152 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 6153 and older without STIBP). 6154 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 6155 windows on basic block boundaries too. 6156 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 6157 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 6158 on Intel. 6159 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 6160 when STIBP is not available. This is 6161 the alternative for systems which do not 6162 have STIBP. 6163 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 6164 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 6165 systems. 6166 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 6167 is not available. This is the alternative for 6168 systems which do not have STIBP. 6169 6170 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 6171 time according to the CPU. 6172 6173 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 6174 6175 rfkill.default_state= 6176 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 6177 etc. communication is blocked by default. 6178 1 Unblocked. 6179 6180 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 6181 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 6182 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6183 blocked and the previous configuration. 6184 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6185 blocked and everything unblocked. 6186 6187 ring3mwait=disable 6188 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 6189 CPUs. 6190 6191 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 6192 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 6193 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 6194 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 6195 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 6196 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 6197 6198 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 6199 6200 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 6201 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 6202 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 6203 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 6204 [arm64] 6205 6206 rockchip.usb_uart 6207 [EARLY] 6208 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 6209 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 6210 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 6211 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 6212 6213 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 6214 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 6215 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 6216 block/early-lookup.c for details. 6217 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 6218 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 6219 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 6220 6221 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6222 mount the root filesystem 6223 6224 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 6225 6226 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 6227 6228 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 6229 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6230 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6231 6232 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 6233 to show up before attempting to mount the root 6234 filesystem. 6235 6236 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 6237 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 6238 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 6239 managed by CMA. 6240 6241 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 6242 6243 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 6244 6245 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 6246 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 6247 strict 6248 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 6249 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 6250 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 6251 iommu.strict=1. 6252 6253 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 6254 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 6255 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 6256 factor of the size of main memory. 6257 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 6258 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 6259 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 6260 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 6261 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 6262 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 6263 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 6264 6265 sa1100ir [NET] 6266 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 6267 6268 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 6269 6270 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 6271 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 6272 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 6273 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 6274 6275 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 6276 [Deprecated] 6277 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 6278 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 6279 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 6280 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 6281 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 6282 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 6283 value. 6284 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 6285 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 6286 1 64 ms 6287 2 128 ms 6288 and so on. 6289 Format: integer between 0 and 10 6290 Default is 0. 6291 6292 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 6293 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 6294 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 6295 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 6296 tests. 6297 6298 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 6299 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 6300 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 6301 default) disables this feature. Please note 6302 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 6303 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 6304 softlockup complaints, and so on. 6305 6306 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 6307 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 6308 smp_call_function() family of functions. 6309 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 6310 equal to the number of CPUs. 6311 6312 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 6313 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 6314 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 6315 6316 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 6317 Number seconds to wait between successive 6318 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 6319 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 6320 6321 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 6322 The number of seconds following the start of the 6323 test after which to shut down the system. The 6324 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 6325 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 6326 6327 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 6328 The number of seconds between outputting the 6329 current test statistics to the console. A value 6330 of zero disables statistics output. 6331 6332 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 6333 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 6334 to the set of CPUs under test. 6335 6336 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 6337 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 6338 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 6339 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 6340 functions. 6341 6342 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 6343 Enable additional printk() statements. 6344 6345 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 6346 The probability weighting to use for the 6347 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 6348 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 6349 default if all other weights are -1. However, 6350 if at least one weight has some other value, a 6351 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 6352 6353 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6354 The probability weighting to use for the 6355 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6356 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6357 6358 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6359 The probability weighting to use for the 6360 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6361 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6362 Note well that setting a high probability for 6363 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6364 on the system. 6365 6366 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6367 The probability weighting to use for the 6368 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6369 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6370 and weight_many. 6371 6372 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6373 The probability weighting to use for the 6374 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6375 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6376 weight_many. 6377 6378 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6379 The probability weighting to use for the 6380 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6381 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6382 and weight_many. 6383 6384 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW] 6385 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in 6386 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly. 6387 6388 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6389 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6390 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6391 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6392 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6393 1 -- enable. 6394 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6395 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6396 6397 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6398 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6399 "lsm=" parameter. 6400 6401 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6402 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6403 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6404 0 -- disable. 6405 1 -- enable. 6406 Default value is 1. 6407 6408 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6409 6410 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] 6411 6412 debug 6413 Enable debug messages. 6414 6415 nosnp 6416 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor 6417 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead 6418 in memory accesses when users do not want to run 6419 SEV-SNP guests. 6420 6421 shapers= [NET] 6422 Maximal number of shapers. 6423 6424 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6425 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6426 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6427 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6428 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6429 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6430 apic=verbose is specified. 6431 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6432 6433 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6434 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6435 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6436 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6437 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6438 last alloc / free. For more information see 6439 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6440 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6441 6442 slab_max_order= [MM] 6443 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6444 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6445 fragmentation. For more information see 6446 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6447 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6448 6449 slab_merge [MM] 6450 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6451 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6452 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6453 6454 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6455 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6456 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6457 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6458 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6459 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6460 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6461 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6462 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6463 6464 slab_min_order= [MM] 6465 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6466 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6467 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6468 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6469 6470 slab_nomerge [MM] 6471 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6472 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6473 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6474 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6475 layout control by attackers can usually be 6476 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6477 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6478 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6479 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6480 own. 6481 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6482 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6483 6484 slab_strict_numa [MM] 6485 Support memory policies on a per object level 6486 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory 6487 policies to be applied at the folio level when 6488 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is 6489 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead 6490 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate 6491 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow 6492 interconnects in NUMA systems. 6493 6494 slram= [HW,MTD] 6495 6496 smart2= [HW] 6497 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6498 6499 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6500 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6501 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6502 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6503 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6504 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6505 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6506 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6507 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6508 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6509 6510 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6511 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6512 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6513 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6514 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6515 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6516 6517 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6518 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6519 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6520 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6521 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6522 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6523 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6524 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6525 1: Fast pin select (default) 6526 2: ATC IRMode 6527 6528 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6529 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6530 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6531 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6532 Format: <integer> 6533 Default: -1 (no limit) 6534 6535 softlockup_panic= 6536 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6537 Format: 0 | 1 6538 6539 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6540 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6541 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6542 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6543 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6544 6545 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6546 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6547 backtraces on all cpus. 6548 Format: 0 | 1 6549 6550 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6551 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6552 6553 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6554 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6555 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6556 clearing sequence. 6557 6558 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6559 needed. This protects the kernel from 6560 both syscalls and VMs. 6561 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6562 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6563 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6564 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6565 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6566 off - Disable the mitigation. 6567 6568 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6569 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6570 The default operation protects the kernel from 6571 user space attacks. 6572 6573 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6574 spectre_v2_user=on 6575 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6576 spectre_v2_user=off 6577 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6578 vulnerable 6579 6580 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6581 mitigation method at run time according to the 6582 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6583 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6584 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6585 6586 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6587 against user space to user space task attacks. 6588 6589 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6590 the user space protections. 6591 6592 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6593 6594 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6595 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6596 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6597 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6598 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6599 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6600 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6601 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6602 6603 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6604 spectre_v2=auto. 6605 6606 spectre_v2_user= 6607 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6608 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6609 user space tasks 6610 6611 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6612 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6613 6614 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6615 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6616 6617 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6618 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6619 per thread. The mitigation control state 6620 is inherited on fork. 6621 6622 prctl,ibpb 6623 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6624 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6625 always when switching between different user 6626 space processes. 6627 6628 seccomp 6629 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6630 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6631 they explicitly opt out. 6632 6633 seccomp,ibpb 6634 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6635 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6636 always when switching between different 6637 user space processes. 6638 6639 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6640 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6641 6642 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6643 6644 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6645 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6646 6647 spec_rstack_overflow= 6648 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6649 6650 off - Disable mitigation 6651 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6652 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6653 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6654 kernel entry 6655 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6656 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6657 6658 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6659 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6660 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6661 6662 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6663 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6664 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6665 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6666 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6667 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6668 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6669 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6670 6671 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6672 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6673 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6674 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6675 6676 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6677 Bypass optimization is used. 6678 6679 On x86 the options are: 6680 6681 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6682 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6683 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6684 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6685 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6686 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6687 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6688 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6689 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6690 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6691 for a process by default. The state of the control 6692 is inherited on fork. 6693 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6694 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6695 6696 Default mitigations: 6697 X86: "prctl" 6698 6699 On powerpc the options are: 6700 6701 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6702 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6703 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6704 exit. 6705 off - No action. 6706 6707 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6708 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6709 6710 split_lock_detect= 6711 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6712 6713 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6714 instructions that access data across cache line 6715 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6716 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6717 bus lock detection. 6718 6719 off - not enabled 6720 6721 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6722 about applications triggering the #AC 6723 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6724 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6725 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6726 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6727 enabled in hardware. 6728 6729 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6730 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6731 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6732 both features are enabled in hardware. 6733 6734 ratelimit:N - 6735 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6736 per second for bus lock detection. 6737 0 < N <= 1000. 6738 6739 N/A for split lock detection. 6740 6741 6742 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6743 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6744 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6745 mode. 6746 6747 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6748 CPL > 0. 6749 6750 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6751 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6752 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6753 6754 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6755 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6756 number generator. 6757 6758 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6759 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6760 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6761 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6762 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6763 6764 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6765 the following option: 6766 6767 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6768 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6769 6770 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6771 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6772 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6773 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6774 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6775 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6776 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6777 (decide at boot). 6778 6779 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6780 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6781 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6782 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6783 6784 0: Never. 6785 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6786 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6787 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6788 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6789 6790 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6791 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6792 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6793 6794 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6795 Specifies how frequently to check for 6796 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6797 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6798 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6799 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6800 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6801 are ignored. 6802 6803 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6804 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6805 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6806 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6807 grace period will be considered for automatic 6808 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6809 expediting. 6810 6811 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6812 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6813 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6814 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6815 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6816 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6817 6818 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6819 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6820 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6821 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6822 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6823 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6824 6825 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6826 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6827 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6828 6829 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6830 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6831 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6832 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6833 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6834 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6835 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6836 6837 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6838 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6839 6840 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6841 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6842 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6843 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6844 6845 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6846 for both kernel and userspace 6847 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6848 for both kernel and userspace 6849 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6850 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6851 to allow userspace to register its 6852 interest in being mitigated too. 6853 6854 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6855 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6856 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6857 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6858 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6859 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6860 6861 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6862 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6863 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6864 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6865 to false. 6866 6867 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6868 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6869 6870 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6871 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6872 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6873 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6874 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6875 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6876 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6877 6878 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6879 Format: <num> 6880 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6881 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6882 as the initial boot-console. 6883 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6884 6885 sti_font= [HW] 6886 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6887 6888 stifb= [HW] 6889 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6890 6891 strict_sas_size= 6892 [X86] 6893 Format: <bool> 6894 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6895 against the required signal frame size which 6896 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6897 be used to filter out binaries which have 6898 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6899 6900 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6901 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6902 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6903 faults on kernel addresses. 6904 6905 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6906 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6907 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6908 on kernel addresses. 6909 6910 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6911 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6912 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6913 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6914 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6915 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6916 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6917 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6918 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6919 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6920 maximum port values. 6921 6922 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6923 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6924 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6925 process in parallel from a single connection. 6926 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6927 6928 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6929 [NFS] 6930 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6931 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6932 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6933 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6934 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6935 NFS server is running. 6936 6937 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6938 automatically using heuristics 6939 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6940 percpu one pool for each CPU 6941 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6942 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6943 6944 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6945 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6946 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6947 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6948 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6949 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6950 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6951 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6952 6953 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6954 [SUSPEND] 6955 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6956 mode before resuming the system (see 6957 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6958 is set. Default value is 5. 6959 6960 svm= [PPC] 6961 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6962 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6963 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6964 6965 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 6966 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6967 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6968 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6969 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6970 to a power of 2. 6971 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6972 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6973 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6974 6975 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6976 6977 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6978 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6979 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6980 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6981 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6982 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6983 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6984 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6985 6986 sysrq_always_enabled 6987 [KNL] 6988 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6989 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6990 Useful for debugging. 6991 6992 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6993 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6994 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6995 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6996 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6997 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6998 6999 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 7000 7001 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 7002 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 7003 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 7004 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 7005 as the system sleep state during system startup with 7006 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 7007 The system is woken from this state using a 7008 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 7009 7010 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7011 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 7012 7013 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 7014 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 7015 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 7016 7017 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 7018 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 7019 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 7020 7021 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 7022 1: disable ACPI thermal control 7023 7024 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 7025 -1: disable all passive trip points 7026 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 7027 value 7028 7029 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 7030 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 7031 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 7032 0: no polling (default) 7033 7034 thp_anon= [KNL] 7035 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state> 7036 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit". 7037 Control the default behavior of the system with respect 7038 to anonymous transparent hugepages. 7039 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes. 7040 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7041 details. 7042 7043 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 7044 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 7045 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 7046 7047 thp_shmem= [KNL] 7048 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy> 7049 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the 7050 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available 7051 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size", 7052 and "advise"). 7053 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes. 7054 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7055 details. 7056 7057 topology= [S390,EARLY] 7058 Format: {off | on} 7059 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 7060 topology information if the hardware supports this. 7061 The scheduler will make use of this information and 7062 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 7063 Default is on. 7064 7065 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 7066 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 7067 until after init has spawned. 7068 7069 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 7070 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 7071 even if there were no errors. This can be a 7072 very costly operation when many torture tests 7073 are running concurrently, especially on systems 7074 with rotating-rust storage. 7075 7076 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 7077 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 7078 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 7079 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 7080 7081 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 7082 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 7083 7084 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM] 7085 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical 7086 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of 7087 having an integrity protected session wrapped around 7088 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation 7089 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection 7090 causing a major performance hit, and the space where 7091 machines are deployed is by other means guarded. 7092 7093 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 7094 Format: integer pcr id 7095 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 7096 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 7097 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 7098 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 7099 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 7100 are saved. 7101 7102 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 7103 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 7104 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 7105 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 7106 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 7107 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 7108 7109 tp_printk [FTRACE] 7110 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 7111 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 7112 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 7113 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 7114 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 7115 7116 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 7117 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 7118 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 7119 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 7120 7121 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 7122 to stop the printing of events to console at 7123 late_initcall_sync. 7124 7125 ** CAUTION ** 7126 7127 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 7128 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 7129 the system to live lock. 7130 7131 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 7132 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 7133 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 7134 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 7135 make the system inoperable. 7136 7137 This command line option will stop the printing of events 7138 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 7139 7140 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 7141 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 7142 7143 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 7144 at boot up. 7145 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 7146 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 7147 depending on the architecture, may not be 7148 in sync between CPUs. 7149 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 7150 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 7151 but better for some race conditions. 7152 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 7153 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 7154 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 7155 once per event. 7156 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 7157 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 7158 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7159 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 7160 stamps. 7161 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7162 Architectures may add more clocks. See 7163 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 7164 7165 trace_event=[event-list] 7166 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 7167 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 7168 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 7169 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 7170 7171 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword: 7172 7173 trace_event=:mod:<module> 7174 7175 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events 7176 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned 7177 document for more information. 7178 7179 trace_instance=[instance-info] 7180 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 7181 This will be listed in: 7182 7183 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 7184 7185 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 7186 via: 7187 7188 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 7189 7190 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 7191 unique. 7192 7193 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 7194 7195 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 7196 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 7197 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 7198 7199 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is 7200 created. The flags are separated by '^'. 7201 7202 The available flags are: 7203 7204 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created. 7205 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance 7206 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used) 7207 7208 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq 7209 7210 The flags must come before the defined events. 7211 7212 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance 7213 can use that memory: 7214 7215 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M 7216 7217 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical 7218 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that 7219 instance will be split up accordingly. 7220 7221 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option: 7222 7223 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace 7224 7225 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment 7226 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the 7227 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve 7228 the buffer content. 7229 7230 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between 7231 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer 7232 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel. 7233 7234 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled, 7235 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not 7236 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash 7237 at boot up). 7238 7239 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq 7240 7241 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system 7242 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION 7243 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored. 7244 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system 7245 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. 7246 7247 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst 7248 7249 7250 trace_options=[option-list] 7251 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 7252 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 7253 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 7254 to echo the option name into 7255 7256 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 7257 7258 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 7259 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 7260 7261 trace_options=stacktrace 7262 7263 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 7264 section. 7265 7266 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 7267 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 7268 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 7269 filter. 7270 7271 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 7272 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 7273 7274 For example: 7275 7276 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 7277 7278 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 7279 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 7280 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 7281 7282 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 7283 7284 7285 traceoff_on_warning 7286 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 7287 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 7288 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 7289 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 7290 7291 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 7292 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 7293 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 7294 7295 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 7296 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 7297 7298 transparent_hugepage= 7299 [KNL] 7300 Format: [always|madvise|never] 7301 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 7302 with respect to transparent hugepages. 7303 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7304 for more details. 7305 7306 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL] 7307 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force] 7308 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for 7309 the internal shmem mount. 7310 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7311 for more details. 7312 7313 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL] 7314 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never] 7315 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy 7316 for the tmpfs mount. 7317 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7318 for more details. 7319 7320 trusted.source= [KEYS] 7321 Format: <string> 7322 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 7323 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 7324 sources: 7325 - "tpm" 7326 - "tee" 7327 - "caam" 7328 - "dcp" 7329 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 7330 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 7331 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 7332 successfully during iteration. 7333 7334 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 7335 Format: <string> 7336 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 7337 Can be one of: 7338 - "kernel" 7339 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 7340 - "default" 7341 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 7342 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 7343 7344 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 7345 This is intended to be used in combination with 7346 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 7347 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 7348 7349 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 7350 This is intended to be used in combination with 7351 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 7352 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 7353 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 7354 scenarios. 7355 7356 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 7357 Format: <string> 7358 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 7359 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 7360 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 7361 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 7362 virtualized environment. 7363 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 7364 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 7365 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 7366 can add overhead. 7367 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 7368 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 7369 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 7370 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 7371 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 7372 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 7373 acceptable). 7374 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 7375 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 7376 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 7377 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 7378 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 7379 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 7380 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 7381 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 7382 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 7383 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 7384 7385 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 7386 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 7387 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 7388 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 7389 Format: <unsigned int> 7390 7391 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 7392 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 7393 support TSX control. 7394 7395 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 7396 7397 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 7398 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 7399 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 7400 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 7401 so there may be unknown security risks associated 7402 with leaving it enabled. 7403 7404 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 7405 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 7406 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 7407 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 7408 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 7409 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 7410 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 7411 7412 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 7413 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 7414 7415 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 7416 7417 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7418 for more details. 7419 7420 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 7421 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 7422 7423 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 7424 certain CPUs that support Transactional 7425 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 7426 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 7427 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 7428 conditions. 7429 7430 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 7431 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 7432 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 7433 access. 7434 7435 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 7436 options are: 7437 7438 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 7439 if TSX is enabled. 7440 7441 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 7442 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 7443 is not disabled because CPU is not 7444 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 7445 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 7446 7447 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 7448 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 7449 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 7450 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 7451 7452 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 7453 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 7454 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 7455 required and doesn't provide any additional 7456 mitigation. 7457 7458 For details see: 7459 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7460 7461 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 7462 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 7463 Format: 7464 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 7465 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 7466 7467 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 7468 happen after console_init() and before a proper 7469 console driver takes over, this boot options might 7470 help "seeing" what's going on. 7471 7472 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7473 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 7474 7475 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 7476 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7477 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7478 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7479 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7480 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7481 reported either. 7482 7483 unknown_nmi_panic 7484 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7485 7486 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7487 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7488 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7489 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7490 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7491 7492 usbcore.authorized_default= 7493 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7494 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7495 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7496 if device connected to internal port) 7497 7498 usbcore.autosuspend= 7499 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7500 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7501 is the time required before an idle device will be 7502 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7503 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7504 7505 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7506 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7507 7508 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7509 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7510 (default = 65536). 7511 7512 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7513 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7514 7515 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7516 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7517 scheme (default 0 = off). 7518 7519 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7520 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7521 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7522 7523 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7524 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7525 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7526 7527 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7528 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7529 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7530 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7531 7532 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7533 7534 usbcore.quirks= 7535 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7536 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7537 commas. Each entry has the form 7538 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7539 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7540 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7541 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7542 the following meanings: 7543 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7544 descriptors must not be fetched using 7545 a 255-byte read); 7546 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7547 correctly so reset it instead); 7548 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7549 Set-Interface requests); 7550 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7551 handle its Configuration or Interface 7552 strings); 7553 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7554 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7555 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7556 more interface descriptions than the 7557 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7558 talking to these interfaces); 7559 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7560 during initialization, after we read 7561 the device descriptor); 7562 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7563 high speed and super speed interrupt 7564 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7565 require the interval in microframes (1 7566 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7567 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7568 (bInterval-1). 7569 Devices with this quirk report their 7570 bInterval as the result of this 7571 calculation instead of the exponent 7572 variable used in the calculation); 7573 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7574 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7575 requests); 7576 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7577 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7578 remote wakeup capability); 7579 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7580 Power Management); 7581 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7582 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7583 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7584 calculation); 7585 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7586 to be disconnected before suspend to 7587 prevent spurious wakeup); 7588 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7589 pause after every control message); 7590 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7591 delay after resetting its port); 7592 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7593 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7594 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7595 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7596 7597 usbhid.mousepoll= 7598 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7599 7600 usbhid.jspoll= 7601 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7602 7603 usbhid.kbpoll= 7604 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7605 7606 usb-storage.delay_use= 7607 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7608 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7609 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7610 suffix with "ms". 7611 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7612 7613 usb-storage.quirks= 7614 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7615 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7616 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7617 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7618 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7619 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7620 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7621 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7622 of sense data, not on uas); 7623 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7624 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7625 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7626 device capacity by one sector); 7627 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7628 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7629 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7630 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7631 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7632 command, uas only); 7633 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7634 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7635 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7636 reported device capacity by one 7637 sector if the number is odd); 7638 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7639 device); 7640 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7641 command, uas only); 7642 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7643 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7644 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7645 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7646 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7647 not on uas); 7648 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7649 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7650 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7651 reported by the device, not on uas); 7652 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7653 by default, not on uas); 7654 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7655 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7656 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7657 Logical Unit); 7658 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7659 commands, uas only); 7660 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7661 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7662 medium is write-protected). 7663 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7664 even if the device claims no cache, 7665 not on uas) 7666 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7667 7668 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7669 Format: <int> 7670 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7671 1 - undefined instruction events 7672 2 - system calls 7673 4 - invalid data aborts 7674 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7675 16 - SIGBUS faults 7676 Example: user_debug=31 7677 7678 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7679 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7680 7681 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7682 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7683 7684 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7685 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7686 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7687 7688 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7689 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7690 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7691 7692 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7693 alias for vdso32=0. 7694 7695 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7696 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7697 7698 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7699 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7700 7701 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7702 Format: [0|1] 7703 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7704 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7705 level and then send out the event to user space through 7706 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7707 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7708 brightness level. 7709 default: 1 7710 7711 virtio_mmio.device= 7712 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7713 7714 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7715 where: 7716 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7717 like K, M and G) 7718 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7719 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7720 request_irq()) 7721 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7722 example: 7723 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7724 7725 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7726 7727 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7728 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7729 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7730 Use vga=ask for menu. 7731 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7732 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7733 7734 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7735 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7736 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7737 All options are enabled by default, and this 7738 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7739 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7740 debugging features. 7741 7742 Available options are: 7743 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7744 - Disable all of the above options 7745 7746 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7747 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7748 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7749 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7750 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7751 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7752 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7753 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7754 7755 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7756 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7757 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7758 7759 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7760 Format: <command> 7761 7762 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7763 Format: <command> 7764 7765 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7766 Format: <command> 7767 7768 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7769 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7770 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7771 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7772 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7773 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7774 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7775 7776 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7777 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7778 readable. 7779 7780 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7781 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7782 page is not readable. 7783 7784 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7785 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7786 might break your system. 7787 7788 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7789 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7790 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7791 7792 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7793 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7794 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7795 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline. 7796 7797 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7798 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7799 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7800 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7801 ranging from 0-255. 7802 7803 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7804 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7805 Change the default green palette of the console. 7806 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7807 ranging from 0-255. 7808 7809 vt.default_red= [VT] 7810 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7811 Change the default red palette of the console. 7812 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7813 ranging from 0-255. 7814 7815 vt.default_utf8= 7816 [VT] 7817 Format=<0|1> 7818 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7819 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7820 newly opened terminals. 7821 7822 vt.global_cursor_default= 7823 [VT] 7824 Format=<-1|0|1> 7825 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7826 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7827 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7828 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7829 cursors, 1 will display them. 7830 7831 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7832 Default: 2 = green. 7833 7834 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7835 Default: 3 = cyan. 7836 7837 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7838 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7839 or other driver-specific files in the 7840 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7841 7842 watchdog_thresh= 7843 [KNL] 7844 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7845 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7846 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7847 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7848 seconds. 7849 7850 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7851 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7852 to use in unbound workqueues. 7853 Format: <cpu-list> 7854 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7855 unbound workqueues. 7856 7857 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7858 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7859 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7860 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7861 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7862 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7863 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7864 corresponding sysfs file. 7865 7866 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 7867 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 7868 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 7869 stall to trigger panic. 7870 7871 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 7872 7873 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7874 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7875 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7876 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7877 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7878 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7879 7880 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7881 will report the work functions which violate this 7882 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7883 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7884 7885 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7886 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7887 will report the work functions which violate the 7888 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7889 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7890 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7891 7892 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7893 7894 workqueue.power_efficient 7895 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7896 they show better performance thanks to cache 7897 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7898 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7899 7900 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7901 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7902 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7903 power usage at the cost of small performance 7904 overhead. 7905 7906 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7907 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7908 7909 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7910 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7911 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7912 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7913 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7914 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7915 7916 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7917 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7918 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7919 updated accordingly. 7920 7921 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7922 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7923 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7924 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7925 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7926 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7927 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7928 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7929 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7930 impacted. 7931 7932 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7933 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7934 7935 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7936 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7937 7938 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7939 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7940 supporting x2apic. 7941 7942 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7943 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7944 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7945 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7946 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7947 domains. 7948 7949 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7950 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7951 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7952 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7953 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7954 nics -- unplug network devices 7955 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7956 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7957 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7958 the unplug protocol 7959 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7960 7961 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7962 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7963 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7964 7965 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7966 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 7967 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 7968 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 7969 debug data in case of multicall errors. 7970 7971 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7972 Format: <bool> 7973 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7974 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7975 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7976 7977 xen_nopv [X86] 7978 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7979 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7980 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7981 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7982 7983 xen_no_vector_callback 7984 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7985 event channel interrupts. 7986 7987 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7988 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7989 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7990 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7991 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7992 7993 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7994 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7995 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7996 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7997 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7998 more timer interrupts. 7999 8000 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 8001 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 8002 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 8003 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 8004 started with less memory configured than allowed at 8005 max. Default is 180. 8006 8007 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 8008 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 8009 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 8010 8011 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 8012 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 8013 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 8014 8015 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 8016 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 8017 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 8018 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 8019 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 8020 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 8021 8022 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 8023 Format: 8024 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 8025 8026 xive= [PPC] 8027 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 8028 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 8029 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 8030 8031 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 8032 controller on both pseries and powernv 8033 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 8034 8035 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 8036 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 8037 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 8038 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 8039 loads instead, as on POWER9. 8040 8041 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 8042 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 8043 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 8044 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 8045 8046 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 8047 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 8048 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 8049 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 8050 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 8051 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 8052 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8053 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 8054 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 8055 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 8056 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8057 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 8058 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 8059 can be written using xmon commands. 8060 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 8061 memory, and other data can't be written using 8062 xmon commands. 8063 off xmon is disabled. 8064