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