1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt | nospcr } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected 25 errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error 26 source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This 27 may result in duplicate corrected error reports. 28 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 29 default _serial_ console on ARM64 30 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 31 "acpi=nospcr" are available 32 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 33 are available 34 35 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 36 37 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 38 Format: <int> 39 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 40 1,0: use 1st APIC table 41 default: 0 42 43 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 44 { vendor | video | native | none } 45 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 46 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 47 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 48 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 49 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 50 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 51 52 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 53 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 54 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 55 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 56 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 57 58 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 59 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 60 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 61 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 62 This option is useful for developers to identify the 63 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 64 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 65 66 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 67 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 68 Format: <int> 69 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 70 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 71 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 72 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 73 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 74 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 75 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 76 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 77 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 78 debug layers and levels. 79 80 Enable processor driver info messages: 81 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 82 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 83 object while interpreting AML: 84 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 85 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 86 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 87 88 Some values produce so much output that the system is 89 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 90 if you need to capture more output. 91 92 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 93 { strict | lax | no } 94 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 95 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 96 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 97 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 98 can interfere with legacy drivers. 99 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 100 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 101 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 102 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 103 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 104 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 105 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 106 no further checks are performed. 107 108 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 109 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 110 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 111 size limitation. 112 113 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will balance active IRQs 115 default in APIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 118 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 119 default in PIC mode 120 121 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 125 use by PCI 126 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 127 128 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 129 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 130 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 131 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 132 the GPE dispatcher. 133 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 134 GPE floodings. 135 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 136 137 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 138 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 139 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 140 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 141 auto-serialization feature. 142 This feature is enabled by default. 143 This option allows to turn off the feature. 144 145 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 146 kernels. 147 148 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 149 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 150 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 151 installed automatically and they will appear under 152 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 153 This option turns off this feature. 154 Note that specifying this option does not affect 155 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 156 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 157 158 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 159 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 160 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 161 162 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 163 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 164 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 165 second kernel for kdump. 166 167 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 168 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 169 170 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 171 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 172 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 173 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 174 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 175 176 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 177 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 178 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 179 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 180 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 181 strings 182 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 183 strings 184 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 185 186 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 187 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 188 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 189 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 190 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 191 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 192 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 193 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 194 care about the state of the feature group strings which 195 should be controlled by the OSPM. 196 Examples: 197 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 198 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 199 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 200 201 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 202 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 203 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 204 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 205 multiple times through kernel command line is also 206 meaningless. 207 Examples: 208 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 209 FALSE. 210 211 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 212 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 213 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 214 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 215 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 216 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 217 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 218 there are quirks related to this string. This command 219 is useful when one want to control the state of the 220 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 221 the OSPM features. 222 Examples: 223 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 224 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 225 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 226 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 227 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 228 equivalent to 229 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 230 and 231 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 232 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 233 234 acpi_pm_good [X86] 235 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 236 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 237 and always returns good values. 238 239 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 240 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 241 242 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 243 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 244 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 245 246 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 247 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 248 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 249 sci_force_enable, nobl } 250 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 251 s3_bios and s3_mode. 252 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 253 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 254 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 255 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 256 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 257 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 258 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 259 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 260 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 261 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 262 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 263 used (or even warned about) during resume. 264 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 265 control method, with respect to putting devices into 266 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 267 of _PTS is used by default). 268 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 269 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 270 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 271 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 272 but some broken systems don't work without it). 273 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 274 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 275 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 276 277 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 278 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 279 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 280 281 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 282 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 283 284 agp= [AGP] 285 { off | try_unsupported } 286 off: disable AGP support 287 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 288 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 289 290 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 291 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 292 293 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 294 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 295 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 296 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 297 298 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 299 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 300 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 301 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 302 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 303 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 304 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 305 306 32: only for 32-bit processes 307 64: only for 64-bit processes 308 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 309 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 310 311 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 312 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 313 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 314 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 315 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 316 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 317 318 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 319 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 320 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 321 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 322 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 323 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 324 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 325 326 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 327 information. 328 329 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 330 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 331 Possible values are: 332 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 333 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 334 the system 335 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 336 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 337 allowed anymore to lift isolation 338 requirements as needed. This option 339 does not override iommu=pt 340 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 341 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 342 option with care. 343 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 344 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 345 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 346 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 347 to 4 KiB. 348 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 349 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB. 350 351 352 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 353 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 354 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 355 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 356 IOMMU initialization. 357 358 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 359 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 360 remapping modes: 361 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 362 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 363 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 364 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 365 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 366 367 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 368 disable 369 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 370 scaling driver for the supported processors 371 passive 372 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 373 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 374 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 375 tries to match the same performance level if it is 376 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 377 active 378 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 379 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 380 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 381 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 382 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 383 frequency. 384 guided 385 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 386 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 387 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 388 to the current workload. 389 390 amd_prefcore= 391 [X86] 392 disable 393 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 394 395 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 396 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 397 Format: <a>,<b> 398 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 399 400 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 401 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 402 connected to one of 16 gameports 403 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 404 405 apc= [HW,SPARC] 406 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 407 Format: noidle 408 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 409 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 410 APC and your system crashes randomly. 411 412 apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default. 413 414 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 415 Change the output verbosity while booting 416 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 417 Change the amount of debugging information output 418 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 419 420 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 421 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 422 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 423 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 424 backup of CPU 0 425 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 426 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 427 shot down by NMI 428 429 apicpmtimer Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies 430 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally 431 broken. 432 433 autoconf= [IPV6] 434 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 435 436 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 437 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 438 439 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 440 Format: { "0" | "1" } 441 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 442 0 -- disable. 443 1 -- enable. 444 Default value is set via kernel config option. 445 446 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 447 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 448 449 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 450 32 bit applications. 451 452 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 453 Identification support 454 455 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack 456 support 457 458 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 459 Set instructions support 460 461 arm64.nompam [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And 462 Monitoring support 463 464 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 465 support 466 467 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 468 support 469 470 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 471 Extension support 472 473 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 474 Extension support 475 476 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 477 478 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 479 480 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 481 EzKey and similar keyboards 482 483 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 484 485 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 486 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 487 488 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 489 keyboards 490 491 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 492 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 493 494 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 495 Use software keyboard repeat 496 497 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 498 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 499 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 500 enabled until the next reboot 501 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 502 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 503 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 504 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 505 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 506 userspace auditd. 507 Default: unset 508 509 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 510 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 511 Default: 64 512 513 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 514 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 515 Format: { "0" | "1" } 516 0 - Disable the BAU. 517 1 - Enable the BAU. 518 unset - Disable the BAU. 519 520 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 521 Format: <io>,<mode> 522 523 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 524 Format: <io>,<mode> 525 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 526 527 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 528 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 529 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 530 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 531 532 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 533 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 534 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 535 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 536 537 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 538 Format: <bool> 539 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 540 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 541 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 542 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 543 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 544 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 545 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 546 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 547 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 548 549 bert_disable [ACPI] 550 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 551 552 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 553 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 554 555 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 556 embedded devices based on command line input. 557 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 558 559 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 560 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 561 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 562 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 563 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 564 erroneous and ignored. 565 Format: integer 566 567 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 568 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 569 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 570 571 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 572 573 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 574 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 575 kernel args too. 576 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 577 bttv.tuner= 578 579 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 580 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 581 at a time. 582 583 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 584 585 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 586 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 587 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 588 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 589 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 590 This option provides an override for these situations. 591 592 carrier_timeout= 593 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 594 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 595 it waits 120 seconds. 596 597 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 598 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 599 trust validation. 600 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 601 602 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 603 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 604 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 605 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 606 others). 607 608 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 609 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 610 611 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 612 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 613 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 614 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 615 a single hierarchy 616 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 617 subsystem 618 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 619 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 620 created 621 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 622 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 623 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 624 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 625 stall information accounting feature 626 627 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 628 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 629 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 630 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 631 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 632 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 633 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 634 all v1 hierarchies. 635 636 cgroup_v1_proc= [KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups 637 Format: { "true" | "false" } 638 /proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default. 639 This compatibility option enables listing also v2 640 controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that 641 semi-legacy software can check this file to decide 642 about usage of v2 (sic) controllers. 643 644 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 645 Format: { "true" | "false" } 646 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 647 648 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 649 Format: <string> 650 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 651 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 652 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 653 654 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 655 Format: { "0" | "1" } 656 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 657 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 658 any implied execute protection). 659 1 -- check protection requested by application. 660 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 661 Value can be changed at runtime via 662 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 663 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 664 665 cio_ignore= [S390] 666 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 667 668 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 669 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 670 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 671 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 672 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 673 ones should be. 674 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 675 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 676 instability issue. However, not all features have names 677 in /proc/cpuinfo. 678 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 679 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 680 or using the feature without checking anything 681 will still see it. This just prevents it from 682 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 683 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 684 some critical bits. 685 686 clk_ignore_unused 687 [CLK] 688 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 689 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 690 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 691 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 692 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 693 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 694 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 695 platform with proper driver support. For more 696 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 697 698 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 699 [Deprecated] 700 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 701 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 702 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 703 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 704 705 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 706 Format: <string> 707 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 708 with the name specified. 709 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 710 the platform: 711 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 712 [ACPI] acpi_pm 713 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 714 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 715 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 716 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 717 [MIPS] MIPS 718 [PARISC] cr16 719 [S390] tod 720 [SH] SuperH 721 [SPARC64] tick 722 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 723 724 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 725 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 726 Format: <bool> 727 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 728 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 729 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 730 systems. 731 732 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 733 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 734 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 735 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 736 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 737 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 738 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 739 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 740 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 741 742 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 743 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 744 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 745 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 746 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 747 748 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 749 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 750 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 751 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 752 placement constraint by the physical address range of 753 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 754 altogether. For more information, see 755 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 756 757 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 758 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 759 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 760 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 761 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 762 specified, the default value is 0. 763 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 764 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 765 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 766 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 767 768 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 769 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 770 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 771 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 772 area for the specified node. 773 774 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 775 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 776 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 777 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 778 779 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 780 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 781 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 782 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 783 a hypervisor. 784 Default: yes 785 786 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 787 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 788 allocations, by default set to 256K. 789 790 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 791 Format: 792 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 793 794 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 795 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 796 797 com90xx= [HW,NET] 798 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 799 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 800 801 condev= [HW,S390] console device 802 conmode= 803 804 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 805 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 806 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 807 the console buffer is full. In this case the 808 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 809 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 810 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 811 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 812 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 813 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 814 815 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 816 817 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 818 819 ttyS<n>[,options] 820 ttyUSB0[,options] 821 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 822 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 823 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 824 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 825 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 826 827 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 828 information. See 829 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 830 alternative. 831 832 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 833 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 834 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 835 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 836 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 837 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 838 839 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 840 can be viewed with: 841 842 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 843 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 844 845 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 846 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 847 way will only get added when the related device driver 848 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 849 the console may be desired for console output early on. 850 851 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 852 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 853 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 854 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 855 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 856 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 857 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 858 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 859 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 860 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 861 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 862 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 863 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 864 the h/w is not re-initialized. 865 866 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 867 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 868 869 { null | "" } 870 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 871 console messages discarded. 872 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 873 kernel command line. 874 875 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 876 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 877 console=brl,ttyS0 878 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 879 880 console_msg_format= 881 [KNL] Change console messages format 882 default 883 By default we print messages on consoles in 884 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 885 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 886 `printk_time' param). 887 syslog 888 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 889 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 890 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 891 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 892 from /proc/kmsg. 893 894 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 895 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 896 Defaults to 0. 897 898 coredump_filter= 899 [KNL] Change the default value for 900 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 901 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 902 903 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 904 [ARM,ARM64] 905 Format: <bool> 906 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 907 0: default value, disable debugging 908 1: enable debugging at boot time 909 910 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 911 Format: 912 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 913 914 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 915 disable the cpuidle sub-system 916 917 cpuidle.governor= 918 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 919 920 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 921 disable the cpufreq sub-system 922 923 cpufreq.default_governor= 924 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 925 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 926 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 927 928 cpu_init_udelay=N 929 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 930 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 931 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 932 Default: 10000 933 934 cpuhp.parallel= 935 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 936 Format: <bool> 937 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 938 the parameter has no effect. 939 940 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 941 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic 942 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases 943 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic 944 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable. 945 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable, 946 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting 947 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS 948 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some 949 configurations enable this option unconditionally, 950 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP. 951 952 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 953 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 954 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 955 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 956 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 957 is selected automatically. 958 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 959 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 960 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 961 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 962 963 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 964 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 965 in the running system. The syntax of range is 966 start-[end] where start and end are both 967 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 968 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 969 970 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 971 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 972 above 4G. 973 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 974 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 975 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 976 below 4G, if available. 977 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 978 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 979 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 980 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 981 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 982 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 983 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 984 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 985 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 986 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 987 size is platform dependent. 988 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 989 --> arm64: 128MiB 990 --> riscv: 128MiB 991 --> loongarch: 128MiB 992 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 993 for second kernel instead. 994 0: to disable low allocation. 995 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 996 or memory reserved is below 4G. 997 998 cryptomgr.notests 999 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 1000 1001 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 1002 Format: <dma> 1003 1004 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 1005 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 1006 1007 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 1008 function call handling. When switched on, 1009 additional debug data is printed to the console 1010 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 1011 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 1012 the hang situation. The default value of this 1013 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 1014 Kconfig option. 1015 1016 dasd= [HW,NET] 1017 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 1018 1019 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 1020 (one device per port) 1021 Format: <port#>,<type> 1022 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1023 1024 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 1025 1026 debug_boot_weak_hash 1027 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 1028 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1029 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1030 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1031 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1032 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1033 1034 debug_locks_verbose= 1035 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1036 Format: <int> 1037 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1038 self-tests. 1039 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1040 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1041 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1042 useful to lockdep developers. 1043 1044 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1045 1046 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1047 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1048 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1049 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1050 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1051 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1052 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1053 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1054 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1055 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1056 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1057 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1058 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1059 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1060 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1061 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1062 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1063 help tracking down these problems. 1064 1065 debug_pagealloc= 1066 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1067 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1068 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1069 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1070 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1071 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1072 on: enable the feature 1073 1074 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1075 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1076 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1077 on: All functions are enabled. 1078 no-mount: 1079 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1080 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1081 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1082 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1083 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1084 or directories within debugfs. 1085 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1086 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1087 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1088 1089 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1090 1091 default_hugepagesz= 1092 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1093 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1094 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1095 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1096 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1097 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1098 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1099 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1100 Format: size[KMG] 1101 1102 deferred_probe_timeout= 1103 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1104 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1105 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1106 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1107 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1108 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1109 successful driver registration. This option will also 1110 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1111 retrying. 1112 1113 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1114 1115 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1116 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1117 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1118 hardware. 1119 1120 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1121 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1122 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1123 blacklisted features. 1124 1125 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1126 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1127 (disabled by default). 1128 1129 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1130 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1131 capability is set. 1132 1133 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1134 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1135 1136 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1137 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1138 1139 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1140 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1141 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1142 level 1 and decompression (default) 1143 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1144 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1145 only (compression on level 1) 1146 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1147 only (decompression) 1148 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1149 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1150 1151 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1152 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1153 1154 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1155 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1156 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1157 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1158 miss to occur. 1159 1160 disable= [IPV6] 1161 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1162 1163 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1164 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1165 1166 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1167 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1168 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1169 1170 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1171 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1172 to workaround buggy firmware. 1173 1174 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1175 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1176 1177 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1178 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1179 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1180 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1181 1182 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1183 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1184 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1185 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1186 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1187 1188 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1189 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1190 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1191 1192 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1193 1194 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1195 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1196 1197 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1198 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1199 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1200 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1201 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1202 architectural default is too low. 1203 1204 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1205 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1206 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1207 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1208 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1209 driver later using sysfs. 1210 1211 reg_file_data_sampling= 1212 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1213 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1214 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1215 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1216 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1217 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1218 1219 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1220 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1221 1222 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1223 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1224 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1225 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1226 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1227 1228 For details see: 1229 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1230 1231 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1232 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1233 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1234 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1235 match the *. 1236 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1237 1238 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1239 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1240 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1241 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1242 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1243 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1244 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1245 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1246 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1247 data set with no connector name will be used for 1248 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1249 1250 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1251 1252 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1253 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1254 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1255 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1256 exists). 1257 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1258 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1259 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1260 1261 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1262 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1263 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1264 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1265 1266 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1267 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1268 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1269 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1270 for details. 1271 1272 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1273 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1274 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1275 which are not unmapped. 1276 1277 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1278 1279 When used with no options, the early console is 1280 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1281 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1282 the platform. 1283 1284 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1285 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1286 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1287 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1288 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1289 configured. 1290 1291 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1292 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1293 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1294 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1295 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1296 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1297 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1298 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1299 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1300 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1301 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1302 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1303 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1304 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1305 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1306 1307 pl011,<addr> 1308 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1309 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1310 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1311 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1312 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1313 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1314 the device registers. 1315 1316 liteuart,<addr> 1317 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1318 specified address. The serial port must already be 1319 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1320 1321 meson,<addr> 1322 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1323 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1324 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1325 supported. 1326 1327 msm_serial,<addr> 1328 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1329 port at the specified address. The serial port 1330 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1331 yet supported. 1332 1333 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1334 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1335 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1336 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1337 yet supported. 1338 1339 owl,<addr> 1340 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1341 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1342 specified address. The serial port must already be 1343 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1344 1345 rda,<addr> 1346 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1347 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1348 specified address. The serial port must already be 1349 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1350 1351 sbi 1352 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1353 console. 1354 1355 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1356 1357 s3c2410,<addr> 1358 s3c2412,<addr> 1359 s3c2440,<addr> 1360 s3c6400,<addr> 1361 s5pv210,<addr> 1362 exynos4210,<addr> 1363 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1364 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1365 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1366 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1367 Options are not yet supported. 1368 1369 lantiq,<addr> 1370 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1371 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1372 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1373 yet supported. 1374 1375 lpuart,<addr> 1376 lpuart32,<addr> 1377 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1378 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1379 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1380 port must already be setup and configured. 1381 1382 ec_imx21,<addr> 1383 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1384 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1385 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1386 must already be setup and configured. 1387 1388 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1389 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1390 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1391 address. The serial port must already be setup 1392 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1393 1394 qcom_geni,<addr> 1395 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1396 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1397 specified address. The serial port must already be 1398 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1399 1400 efifb,[options] 1401 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1402 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1403 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1404 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1405 mapped with the correct attributes. 1406 1407 linflex,<addr> 1408 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1409 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1410 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1411 already be setup and configured. 1412 1413 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1414 earlyprintk=vga 1415 earlyprintk=sclp 1416 earlyprintk=xen 1417 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1418 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1419 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1420 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1421 earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}] 1422 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}] 1423 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1424 earlyprintk=bios 1425 1426 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1427 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1428 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1429 1430 Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume 1431 BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly. 1432 1433 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1434 takes over. 1435 1436 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1437 be used at a time. 1438 1439 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1440 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1441 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1442 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1443 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1444 You can find the port for a given device in 1445 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1446 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1447 1448 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1449 very good. 1450 1451 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1452 the real console. 1453 1454 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1455 1456 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1457 1458 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1459 1460 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1461 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1462 UART class. 1463 1464 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1465 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1466 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1467 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1468 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1469 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1470 default: on. 1471 1472 edd= [EDD] 1473 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1474 1475 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1476 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1477 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1478 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1479 debug: enable misc debug output. 1480 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1481 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1482 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1483 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1484 firmware implementations. 1485 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1486 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1487 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1488 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1489 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1490 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1491 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1492 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1493 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1494 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1495 1496 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1497 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1498 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1499 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1500 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1501 1502 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1503 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1504 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1505 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1506 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1507 1508 1509 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1510 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1511 1512 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1513 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1514 1515 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1516 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1517 1518 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1519 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1520 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1521 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1522 1523 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1524 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1525 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1526 1527 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1528 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1529 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1530 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1531 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1532 1533 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1534 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1535 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1536 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1537 1538 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1539 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1540 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1541 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1542 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1543 1544 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1545 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1546 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1547 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1548 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1549 Default value is 0. 1550 Value can be changed at runtime via 1551 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1552 1553 erst_disable [ACPI] 1554 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1555 support. 1556 1557 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1558 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1559 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1560 1561 evm= [EVM] 1562 Format: { "fix" } 1563 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1564 current integrity status. 1565 1566 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1567 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1568 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1569 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1570 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1571 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1572 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1573 1574 failslab= 1575 fail_usercopy= 1576 fail_page_alloc= 1577 fail_skb_realloc= 1578 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1579 General fault injection mechanism. 1580 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1581 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1582 1583 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1584 Format: { initns | none } 1585 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1586 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1587 1588 floppy= [HW] 1589 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1590 1591 forcepae [X86-32] 1592 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1593 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1594 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1595 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1596 and may cause unknown problems. 1597 1598 fred= [X86-64] 1599 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1600 Format: { on | off } 1601 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1602 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1603 1604 ftrace=[tracer] 1605 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1606 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1607 boot debugging. 1608 1609 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1610 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1611 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1612 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1613 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1614 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1615 start up functionality. 1616 1617 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1618 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1619 line parameter. 1620 1621 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1622 1623 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1624 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1625 1626 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1627 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1628 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1629 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1630 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1631 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1632 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1633 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1634 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1635 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1636 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1637 1638 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1639 1640 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1641 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1642 1643 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1644 1645 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1646 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1647 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1648 1649 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1650 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1651 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1652 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1653 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1654 tracing directory. 1655 1656 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1657 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1658 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1659 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1660 tracing directory. 1661 1662 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1663 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1664 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1665 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1666 that can be changed at run time by the 1667 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1668 1669 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1670 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1671 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1672 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1673 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1674 1675 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1676 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1677 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1678 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1679 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1680 1681 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1682 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1683 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1684 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1685 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1686 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1687 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1688 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1689 suppliers). 1690 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1691 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1692 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1693 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1694 up (sync_state() calls). 1695 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1696 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1697 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1698 1699 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1700 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1701 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1702 Format: <bool> 1703 1704 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1705 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1706 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1707 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1708 calls. 1709 Format: { strict | timeout } 1710 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1711 probe successfully. 1712 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1713 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1714 received their sync_state() calls after 1715 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1716 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1717 1718 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1719 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1720 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1721 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1722 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1723 1724 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1725 1726 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1727 Format: off | on 1728 default: on 1729 1730 gather_data_sampling= 1731 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1732 mitigation. 1733 1734 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1735 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1736 previously stored in vector registers. 1737 1738 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1739 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1740 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1741 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1742 1743 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1744 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1745 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1746 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1747 1748 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1749 1750 gbpages [X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. 1751 1752 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1753 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1754 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1755 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1756 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1757 1758 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1759 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1760 android emulator 1761 1762 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1763 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1764 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1765 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1766 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1767 1768 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1769 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1770 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1771 GPT to be used instead. 1772 1773 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1774 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1775 Format: 0 | 1 1776 Default: 0 1777 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1778 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1779 Format: 0 | 1 1780 Default: 0 1781 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1782 Format: 0 | 1 1783 Default: 0 1784 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1785 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1786 Default: 1024 1787 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1788 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1789 Default: 1024 1790 1791 hardened_usercopy= 1792 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1793 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1794 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1795 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1796 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1797 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1798 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1799 The default is determined by 1800 CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON. 1801 on Perform hardened usercopy checks. 1802 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1803 1804 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1805 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1806 backtraces on all cpus. 1807 Format: 0 | 1 1808 1809 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1810 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1811 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1812 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1813 1814 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1815 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1816 1817 hest_disable [ACPI] 1818 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1819 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1820 logic will be disabled. 1821 1822 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1823 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1824 present during boot. 1825 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1826 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1827 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1828 (that will set all pages holding image data 1829 during restoration read-only). 1830 1831 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1832 used with hibernation. 1833 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1834 Default: lzo 1835 1836 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1837 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1838 1839 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1840 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1841 1842 hibernate.pm_test_delay= 1843 [HIBERNATION] 1844 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test 1845 mode before resuming the system (see 1846 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 1847 is set. Default value is 5. 1848 1849 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1850 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1851 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1852 size on bigger boxes. 1853 1854 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1855 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1856 Default: "on" 1857 1858 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1859 1860 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1861 Format: <string> 1862 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1863 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1864 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1865 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1866 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1867 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1868 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1869 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1870 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1871 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1872 1873 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1874 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1875 verbose } 1876 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1877 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1878 VIA, nVidia) 1879 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1880 1881 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1882 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1883 1884 hugepages= [HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1885 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1886 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1887 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1888 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1889 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1890 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1891 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1892 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1893 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1894 1895 hugepagesz= 1896 [HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is 1897 used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to 1898 allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The 1899 pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once 1900 for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes 1901 are architecture dependent. See also 1902 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1903 Format: size[KMG] 1904 1905 hugepage_alloc_threads= 1906 [HW] The number of threads that should be used to 1907 allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be 1908 used to improve system bootup time when allocating 1909 a large amount of huge pages. 1910 The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads. 1911 1912 Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages. 1913 1914 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1915 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1916 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1917 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1918 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1919 1920 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1921 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1922 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1923 1924 hugetlb_cma_only= 1925 [HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only 1926 try to allocate from the CMA areas. 1927 1928 This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also 1929 specified. 1930 1931 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1932 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1933 enabled. 1934 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1935 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1936 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1937 Format: { on | off (default) } 1938 1939 on: enable HVO 1940 off: disable HVO 1941 1942 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1943 the default is on. 1944 1945 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1946 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1947 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1948 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1949 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1950 1951 hung_task_panic= 1952 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1953 Format: 0 | 1 1954 1955 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1956 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1957 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1958 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1959 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1960 1961 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1962 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1963 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1964 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1965 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1966 1967 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1968 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1969 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1970 on lock contention. 1971 1972 hw_protection= [HW] 1973 Format: reboot | shutdown 1974 1975 Hardware protection action taken on critical events like 1976 overtemperature or imminent voltage loss. 1977 1978 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1979 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1980 registered from board initialization code. 1981 Format: 1982 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1983 1984 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1985 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1986 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1987 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1988 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1989 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1990 1991 Format: 1992 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1993 Where <val> is one of: 1994 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1995 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1996 Anything else Set a string device-property 1997 1998 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1999 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 2000 touchscreen-inverted-y 2001 2002 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 2003 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 2004 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 2005 2006 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 2007 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 2008 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 2009 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 2010 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 2011 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 2012 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 2013 keyboard and cannot control its state 2014 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 2015 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 2016 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 2017 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 2018 for the AUX port 2019 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 2020 controller 2021 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 2022 controllers 2023 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 2024 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 2025 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 2026 transitions, or never reset 2027 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 2028 1, Y, y: always reset controller 2029 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 2030 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 2031 architectures force reset to be always executed 2032 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 2033 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 2034 i8042.probe_defer 2035 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 2036 2037 i810= [HW,DRM] 2038 2039 i915.invert_brightness= 2040 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 2041 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 2042 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 2043 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 2044 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 2045 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 2046 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 2047 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 2048 value switches the backlight off. 2049 -1 -- never invert brightness 2050 0 -- machine default 2051 1 -- force brightness inversion 2052 2053 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 2054 Format: <bool> 2055 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 2056 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 2057 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 2058 2059 icn= [HW,ISDN] 2060 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 2061 2062 2063 idle= [X86,EARLY] 2064 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 2065 2066 idle=poll: Don't do power saving in the idle loop 2067 using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will 2068 make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful 2069 to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor 2070 benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using 2071 performance counters more accurate. Please note that 2072 on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel 2073 EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage 2074 over the normal idle loop. It may also interact badly 2075 with hyperthreading. 2076 2077 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2078 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2079 2080 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2081 2082 idxd.sva= [HW] 2083 Format: <bool> 2084 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2085 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2086 true (1). 2087 2088 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2089 Format: <bool> 2090 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2091 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2092 2093 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2094 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2095 Default: strict 2096 2097 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2098 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2099 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2100 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2101 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2102 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2103 encoding mode. 2104 2105 Available settings are as follows: 2106 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2107 supported by the FPU 2108 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2109 by the FPU 2110 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2111 by the FPU 2112 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2113 supported by the FPU 2114 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2115 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2116 2117 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2118 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2119 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2120 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2121 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2122 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2123 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2124 MIPS64 CPUs. 2125 2126 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2127 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2128 except where unsupported by hardware. 2129 2130 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2131 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2132 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2133 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2134 could change it dynamically, usually by 2135 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2136 2137 ignore_rlimit_data 2138 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2139 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2140 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2141 2142 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2143 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2144 2145 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2146 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2147 default: "enforce" 2148 2149 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2150 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2151 owned by uid=0. 2152 2153 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2154 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2155 measurements, instead of host native format. 2156 2157 ima_hash= [IMA] 2158 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2159 | sha512 | ... } 2160 default: "sha1" 2161 2162 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2163 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2164 2165 ima_policy= [IMA] 2166 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2167 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2168 fail_securely | critical_data" 2169 2170 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2171 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2172 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2173 uid=0. 2174 2175 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2176 all files owned by root. 2177 2178 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2179 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2180 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2181 2182 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2183 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2184 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2185 flag. 2186 2187 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2188 critical data. 2189 2190 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2191 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2192 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2193 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2194 opened for read by uid=0. 2195 2196 ima_template= [IMA] 2197 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2198 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2199 "ima-sigv2" } 2200 Default: "ima-ng" 2201 2202 ima_template_fmt= 2203 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2204 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2205 2206 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2207 Format: <min_file_size> 2208 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2209 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2210 2211 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2212 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2213 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2214 2215 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2216 Format: <bufsize> 2217 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2218 2219 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2220 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2221 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2222 2223 ima= [IMA] Enable or disable IMA 2224 Format: { "off" | "on" } 2225 Default: "on" 2226 Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel. 2227 2228 indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect 2229 Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated 2230 microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB. 2231 2232 on: Enable mitigation (default). 2233 off: Disable mitigation. 2234 force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default 2235 mitigation. 2236 vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by 2237 guest/host isolation part of ITS. 2238 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is 2239 also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default 2240 mitigation. 2241 2242 For details see: 2243 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst 2244 2245 init= [KNL] 2246 Format: <full_path> 2247 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2248 process. 2249 2250 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2251 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2252 startup. 2253 2254 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2255 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2256 modules and initcalls. 2257 2258 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2259 Format: <bool> 2260 Default: 1 2261 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2262 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2263 with devices being probed and 2264 initialized. This should normally just work, 2265 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2266 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2267 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2268 late_ initcalls. 2269 2270 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2271 2272 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2273 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2274 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2275 setting. 2276 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2277 Default is 0, 0 2278 2279 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2280 zeroes. 2281 Format: 0 | 1 2282 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2283 2284 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2285 Format: 0 | 1 2286 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2287 2288 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2289 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2290 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2291 override in debugfs after boot. 2292 2293 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2294 Format: <irq> 2295 2296 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2297 2298 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2299 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2300 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2301 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2302 2303 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2304 on 2305 Enable intel iommu driver. 2306 off 2307 Disable intel iommu driver. 2308 igfx_off [Default Off] 2309 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2310 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2311 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2312 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2313 DMA. 2314 strict [Default Off] 2315 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2316 sp_off [Default Off] 2317 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2318 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2319 not be supported. 2320 sm_on 2321 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2322 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2323 translation. 2324 sm_off 2325 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2326 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2327 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2328 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2329 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2330 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2331 mapping is enabled. 2332 Note that using this option lowers the security 2333 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2334 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2335 2336 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2337 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2338 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2339 2340 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2341 disable 2342 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2343 scaling driver for the supported processors 2344 active 2345 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2346 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2347 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2348 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2349 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2350 performance. The way they both operate depends 2351 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2352 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2353 and possibly on the processor model. 2354 passive 2355 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2356 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2357 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2358 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2359 feature. 2360 force 2361 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2362 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2363 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2364 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2365 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2366 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2367 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2368 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2369 no_hwp 2370 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2371 if available. 2372 hwp_only 2373 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2374 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2375 support_acpi_ppc 2376 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2377 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2378 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2379 then this feature is turned on by default. 2380 per_cpu_perf_limits 2381 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2382 cpufreq sysfs interface 2383 no_cas 2384 Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on 2385 hybrid systems 2386 2387 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2388 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2389 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2390 nosid disable Source ID checking 2391 no_x2apic_optout 2392 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2393 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2394 posted_msi 2395 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2396 2397 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2398 strict regions from userspace. 2399 relaxed 2400 2401 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2402 2403 off 2404 Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU. 2405 2406 force 2407 Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when 2408 it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB 2409 memory). 2410 2411 noforce 2412 Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not 2413 needed. (default). 2414 2415 biomerge 2416 panic 2417 nopanic 2418 merge 2419 nomerge 2420 2421 soft 2422 Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for 2423 Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage 2424 of an available hardware IOMMU. 2425 2426 [X86] 2427 pt 2428 [X86] 2429 nopt 2430 [PPC/POWERNV] 2431 nobypass 2432 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2433 2434 [X86] 2435 AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options: 2436 2437 <size> 2438 Set the size of the remapping area in bytes. 2439 2440 allowed 2441 Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets 2442 2443 fullflush 2444 Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default). 2445 2446 nofullflush 2447 Don't use IOMMU fullflush. 2448 2449 memaper[=<order>] 2450 Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 2451 32MB<<order. (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB) 2452 2453 merge 2454 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force" 2455 (experimental). 2456 2457 nomerge 2458 Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging. 2459 2460 noaperture 2461 Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP. 2462 2463 noagp 2464 Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture. 2465 2466 panic 2467 Always panic when IOMMU overflows. 2468 2469 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2470 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2471 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2472 falling back to the full range if needed. 2473 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2474 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2475 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2476 2477 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2478 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2479 0 - Lazy mode. 2480 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2481 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2482 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2483 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2484 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2485 1 - Strict mode. 2486 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2487 synchronously. 2488 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2489 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2490 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2491 2492 iommu.passthrough= 2493 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2494 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2495 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2496 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2497 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2498 2499 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2500 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2501 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2502 2503 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2504 0x80 2505 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2506 0xed 2507 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2508 udelay 2509 Simple two microseconds delay 2510 none 2511 No delay 2512 2513 ip= [IP_PNP] 2514 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2515 2516 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2517 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2518 2519 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2520 Format: <bool> 2521 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2522 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2523 2524 ipe.success_audit= 2525 [IPE] 2526 Format: <bool> 2527 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2528 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2529 is 0. 2530 2531 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2532 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2533 2534 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2535 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2536 Format: <bool> 2537 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2538 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2539 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2540 2541 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2542 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2543 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2544 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2545 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2546 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2547 LPIs. 2548 2549 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2550 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2551 requires the kernel to be built with 2552 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2553 2554 irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi 2555 [RISC-V,EARLY] 2556 Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs 2557 as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated, 2558 and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs 2559 to multiple harts. 2560 2561 irqfixup [HW] 2562 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2563 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2564 firmware running. 2565 2566 irqpoll [HW] 2567 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2568 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2569 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2570 firmware running. 2571 2572 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2573 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2574 2575 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2576 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2577 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2578 2579 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2580 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2581 2582 nohz 2583 Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as 2584 disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks 2585 offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter. 2586 2587 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2588 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2589 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2590 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2591 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2592 2593 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2594 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2595 be configured manually after bootup. 2596 2597 domain 2598 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2599 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2600 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2601 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2602 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2603 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2604 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2605 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2606 2607 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2608 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2609 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2610 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2611 2612 managed_irq 2613 2614 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2615 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2616 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2617 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2618 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2619 2620 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2621 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2622 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2623 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2624 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2625 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2626 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2627 2628 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2629 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2630 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2631 only delivered when tasks running on those 2632 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2633 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2634 queues. 2635 2636 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2637 2638 iucv= [HW,NET] 2639 2640 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2641 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2642 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2643 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2644 2645 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2646 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2647 write the parameter as: 2648 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2649 2650 Deprecated formats: 2651 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2652 write the parameter as: 2653 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2654 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2655 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2656 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2657 2658 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2659 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2660 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2661 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2662 2663 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2664 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2665 write the parameter as: 2666 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2667 2668 Deprecated formats: 2669 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2670 write the parameter as: 2671 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2672 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2673 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2674 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2675 2676 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2677 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2678 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2679 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2680 2681 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2682 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2683 write the parameter as: 2684 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2685 2686 Deprecated formats: 2687 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2688 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2689 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2690 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2691 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2692 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2693 2694 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2695 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2696 2697 kasan_multi_shot 2698 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2699 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2700 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2701 invalid access. 2702 2703 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2704 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2705 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2706 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2707 the real console. 2708 2709 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2710 2711 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2712 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2713 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2714 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2715 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2716 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2717 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2718 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2719 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2720 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2721 2722 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2723 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2724 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2725 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2726 zone if it does not. 2727 2728 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2729 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2730 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2731 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2732 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2733 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2734 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2735 2736 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2737 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2738 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2739 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2740 optional and is the number seconds in between 2741 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2742 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2743 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2744 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2745 the kernel debugger. 2746 2747 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2748 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2749 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2750 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2751 keyboard only format: kbd 2752 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2753 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2754 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2755 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2756 2757 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2758 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2759 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2760 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2761 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2762 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2763 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2764 2765 The name of the early console should be specified 2766 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2767 the early console might be different than the tty 2768 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2769 blank and the first boot console that implements 2770 read() will be picked. 2771 2772 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2773 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2774 2775 kho= [KEXEC,EARLY] 2776 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" } 2777 Enables or disables Kexec HandOver. 2778 "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled 2779 "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled 2780 2781 kho_scratch= [KEXEC,EARLY] 2782 Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn% 2783 Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO 2784 scratch regions are physically contiguous memory 2785 ranges that can only be used for non-kernel 2786 allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily 2787 fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced 2788 kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to 2789 bootstrap itself. 2790 2791 It is possible to specify the exact amount of 2792 memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]" 2793 where the first parameter defines the size of a low 2794 memory scratch area, the second parameter defines 2795 the size of a global scratch area and the third 2796 parameter defines the size of additional per-node 2797 scratch areas. The form "nn%" defines scale factor 2798 (in percents) of memory that was used during boot. 2799 2800 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2801 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2802 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2803 2804 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2805 Valid arguments: on, off 2806 Default: on 2807 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2808 the default is off. 2809 2810 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2811 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2812 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2813 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2814 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2815 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2816 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2817 2818 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2819 2820 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2821 Boot Parameter" section. 2822 2823 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2824 user and kernel address spaces. 2825 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2826 0: force disabled 2827 1: force enabled 2828 2829 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2830 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2831 default value can be overridden via 2832 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2833 Default is 1 (enabled) 2834 2835 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2836 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2837 2838 kvm.eager_page_split= 2839 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2840 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2841 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2842 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2843 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2844 required to split huge pages lazily. 2845 2846 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2847 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2848 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2849 still be used for reads. 2850 2851 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2852 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2853 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2854 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2855 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2856 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2857 cleared. 2858 2859 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2860 2861 Default is Y (on). 2862 2863 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86] 2864 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware 2865 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM 2866 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module). 2867 2868 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable 2869 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying 2870 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the 2871 number of VMs. 2872 2873 Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential 2874 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes 2875 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The 2876 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded, 2877 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree 2878 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware. 2879 2880 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2881 Default is false (don't support). 2882 2883 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2884 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2885 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2886 force : Always deploy workaround. 2887 off : Never deploy workaround. 2888 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2889 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2890 2891 Default is 'auto'. 2892 2893 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2894 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2895 2896 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2897 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2898 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2899 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2900 period (see below). The default is 60. 2901 2902 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2903 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2904 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2905 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2906 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2907 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2908 2909 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2910 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2911 2912 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2913 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2914 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2915 for NPT. 2916 2917 kvm-arm.mode= 2918 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2919 operation. 2920 2921 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2922 2923 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2924 protected guests. 2925 2926 protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is 2927 kept private from the host, using VHE or 2928 nVHE depending on HW support. 2929 2930 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2931 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4 2932 hardware (with FEAT_NV2). 2933 2934 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2935 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2936 for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add 2937 "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the 2938 command-line. 2939 "nested" is experimental and should be used with 2940 extreme caution. 2941 2942 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2943 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2944 system registers 2945 2946 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2947 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2948 system registers 2949 2950 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2951 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2952 system registers 2953 2954 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2955 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2956 injection of LPIs. 2957 2958 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2959 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2960 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2961 CPU architecture. 2962 2963 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2964 2965 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2966 2967 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2968 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2969 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2970 CPU architecture. 2971 2972 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2973 2974 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2975 2976 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2977 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2978 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2979 allocation. 2980 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2981 Format: <integer> 2982 Default: 5 2983 2984 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2985 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2986 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2987 for EPT. 2988 2989 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2990 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2991 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2992 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2993 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2994 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2995 Default is 1 (enabled). 2996 2997 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2998 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2999 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 3000 hardware lacks support for it. 3001 3002 kvm-intel.nested= 3003 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 3004 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 3005 3006 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 3007 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 3008 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 3009 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 3010 hardware lacks support for it. 3011 3012 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 3013 CVE-2018-3620. 3014 3015 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 3016 3017 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 3018 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 3019 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 3020 never: Disables the mitigation 3021 3022 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 3023 3024 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 3025 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 3026 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 3027 for it. 3028 3029 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3030 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 3031 3032 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3033 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3034 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3035 3036 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3037 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3038 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3039 not have direct access. 3040 3041 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3042 options are: 3043 3044 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 3045 3046 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 3047 affected CPUs 3048 3049 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 3050 enabled and cannot be disabled. 3051 3052 full 3053 Provides all available mitigations for the 3054 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 3055 enables all mitigations in the 3056 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 3057 3058 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 3059 sysfs interface is still possible after 3060 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 3061 when the first VM is started in a 3062 potentially insecure configuration, 3063 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 3064 3065 full,force 3066 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 3067 flush runtime control. Implies the 3068 'nosmt=force' command line option. 3069 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 3070 3071 flush 3072 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 3073 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 3074 L1D flush. 3075 3076 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 3077 sysfs interface is still possible after 3078 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 3079 when the first VM is started in a 3080 potentially insecure configuration, 3081 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 3082 3083 flush,nosmt 3084 3085 Disables SMT and enables the default 3086 hypervisor mitigation. 3087 3088 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 3089 sysfs interface is still possible after 3090 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 3091 when the first VM is started in a 3092 potentially insecure configuration, 3093 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 3094 3095 flush,nowarn 3096 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 3097 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 3098 insecure configuration. 3099 3100 off 3101 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 3102 emit any warnings. 3103 It also drops the swap size and available 3104 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 3105 bare metal. 3106 3107 Default is 'flush'. 3108 3109 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 3110 3111 l2cr= [PPC] 3112 3113 l3cr= [PPC] 3114 3115 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 3116 disabled it. 3117 3118 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 3119 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 3120 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 3121 Format: notscdeadline 3122 3123 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 3124 in C2 power state. 3125 3126 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 3127 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 3128 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 3129 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 3130 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 3131 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 3132 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 3133 3134 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 3135 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 3136 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 3137 3138 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 3139 when set. 3140 Format: <int> 3141 3142 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 3143 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 3144 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 3145 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 3146 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 3147 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 3148 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 3149 to all ports, links and devices. 3150 3151 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 3152 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 3153 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 3154 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 3155 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 3156 host link and device attached to it. 3157 3158 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 3159 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 3160 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 3161 The following configurations can be forced. 3162 3163 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 3164 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 3165 3166 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 3167 3168 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 3169 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 3170 allowed. 3171 3172 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 3173 resets. 3174 3175 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 3176 link recovery. 3177 3178 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 3179 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 3180 detection. 3181 3182 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 3183 3184 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 3185 3186 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 3187 3188 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 3189 3190 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 3191 3192 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 3193 3194 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 3195 3196 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 3197 3198 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 3199 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 3200 3201 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 3202 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 3203 3204 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 3205 identify device data log. 3206 3207 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 3208 purpose log directory. 3209 3210 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3211 3212 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3213 1024 sectors. 3214 3215 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3216 65535 sectors. 3217 3218 * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable). 3219 3220 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3221 3222 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3223 should be skipped. 3224 3225 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3226 support for devices supporting this feature. 3227 3228 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3229 3230 * disable: Disable this device. 3231 3232 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3233 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3234 3235 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3236 3237 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3238 Format: <integer> 3239 3240 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3241 Format: <integer> 3242 3243 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3244 Format: <integer> 3245 3246 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3247 Format: <integer> 3248 3249 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3250 { integrity | confidentiality } 3251 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3252 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3253 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3254 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3255 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3256 are also disabled. 3257 3258 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3259 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3260 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3261 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3262 3263 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3264 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3265 to be bound. 3266 3267 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3268 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3269 to be bound. 3270 3271 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3272 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3273 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3274 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3275 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3276 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3277 3278 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3279 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3280 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3281 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3282 3283 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3284 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3285 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3286 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3287 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3288 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3289 3290 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3291 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3292 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3293 number of online CPUs. 3294 3295 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3296 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3297 3298 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3299 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3300 3301 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3302 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3303 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3304 3305 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3306 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3307 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3308 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3309 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3310 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3311 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3312 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3313 disable boosting. 3314 3315 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3316 Number that determines how often and for how 3317 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3318 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3319 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3320 constant as the number of writers increases. 3321 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3322 increases with the number of writers. 3323 3324 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3325 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3326 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3327 mode during the locktorture test. 3328 3329 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3330 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3331 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3332 3333 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3334 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3335 3336 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3337 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3338 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3339 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3340 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3341 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3342 3343 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3344 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3345 3346 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3347 Enable additional printk() statements. 3348 3349 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3350 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3351 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3352 3353 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3354 Format: <irq> 3355 3356 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3357 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3358 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3359 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3360 loglevels are defined as follows: 3361 3362 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3363 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3364 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3365 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3366 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3367 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3368 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3369 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3370 3371 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3372 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3373 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3374 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3375 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3376 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3377 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3378 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3379 for more details. 3380 3381 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3382 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3383 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3384 kernel boot problems. 3385 3386 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3387 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3388 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3389 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3390 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3391 attached printers to be reset. Using 3392 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3393 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3394 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3395 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3396 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3397 port specification list means that device IDs 3398 from each port should be examined, to see if 3399 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3400 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3401 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3402 3403 lpj=n [KNL] 3404 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3405 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3406 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3407 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3408 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3409 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3410 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3411 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3412 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3413 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3414 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3415 hardware. 3416 3417 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3418 3419 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3420 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3421 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3422 3423 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3424 different yeeloong laptops. 3425 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3426 3427 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3428 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3429 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3430 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3431 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3432 only takes effect during system bootup. 3433 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3434 which also disables the IO APIC. 3435 3436 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3437 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3438 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3439 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3440 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3441 /dev/loop-control interface. 3442 3443 mce= [X86-{32,64}] 3444 3445 Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables. 3446 3447 off 3448 disable machine check 3449 3450 no_cmci 3451 disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that 3452 Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is 3453 not recommended, but it might be handy if your 3454 hardware is misbehaving. 3455 3456 Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than 3457 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get 3458 duplicated error logs. 3459 3460 dont_log_ce 3461 don't make logs for corrected errors. All events 3462 reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This 3463 option will be useful if you have no interest in any 3464 of corrected errors. 3465 3466 ignore_ce 3467 disable features for corrected errors, e.g. 3468 polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as 3469 corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its 3470 error banks. 3471 3472 Usually this disablement is not recommended, however 3473 if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected 3474 errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring 3475 applications), conflicting with OS's error handling, 3476 and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option 3477 will be a help. 3478 3479 no_lmce 3480 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method 3481 to broadcast MCEs. 3482 3483 bootlog 3484 enable logging of machine checks left over from 3485 booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older 3486 because some BIOS leave bogus ones. 3487 3488 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to 3489 enable though to make sure you log even machine check 3490 events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is 3491 enabled by default. 3492 3493 nobootlog 3494 disable boot machine check logging. 3495 3496 monarchtimeout (number) 3497 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine 3498 checks. 0 to disable. 3499 3500 bios_cmci_threshold 3501 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot 3502 option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI 3503 threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux 3504 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may 3505 make memory predictive failure analysis less effective 3506 if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we 3507 will not see details for all errors. 3508 3509 recovery 3510 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths 3511 3512 Everything else is in sysfs now. 3513 3514 3515 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3516 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3517 3518 mdacon= [MDA] 3519 Format: <first>,<last> 3520 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3521 3522 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3523 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3524 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3525 3526 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3527 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3528 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3529 3530 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3531 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3532 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3533 not have direct access. 3534 3535 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3536 options are: 3537 3538 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3539 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3540 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3541 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3542 3543 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3544 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3545 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3546 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3547 too. 3548 3549 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3550 mds=full. 3551 3552 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3553 3554 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3555 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3556 3557 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3558 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3559 as follows: 3560 3561 1 for test; 3562 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3563 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3564 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3565 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3566 3567 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3568 high memory is not affected. 3569 3570 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3571 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3572 3573 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3574 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3575 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3576 belonging to unused RAM. 3577 3578 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3579 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3580 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3581 3582 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3583 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3584 reported by firmware. 3585 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3586 ss[KMG]. 3587 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3588 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3589 3590 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3591 memory. 3592 3593 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3594 3595 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3596 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3597 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3598 3599 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3600 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3601 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3602 set according to the 3603 CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config 3604 options. 3605 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3606 3607 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3608 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3609 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3610 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3611 option description. 3612 3613 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3614 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3615 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3616 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3617 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3618 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3619 comma delimited. 3620 Example: 3621 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3622 3623 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3624 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3625 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3626 3627 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3628 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3629 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3630 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3631 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3632 or 3633 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3634 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3635 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3636 will be eaten. 3637 3638 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3639 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3640 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3641 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3642 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3643 3644 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3645 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3646 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3647 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3648 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3649 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3650 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3651 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3652 3653 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3654 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3655 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3656 Setting this option will scan the memory 3657 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3658 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3659 from using the memory being corrupted. 3660 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3661 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3662 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3663 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3664 3665 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3666 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3667 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3668 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3669 corruption in more or less memory. 3670 3671 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3672 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3673 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3674 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3675 3676 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3677 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3678 Format: {on | off (default)} 3679 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3680 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3681 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3682 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3683 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3684 lot of memory without requiring additional 3685 memory to do so. 3686 This feature is disabled by default because it 3687 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3688 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3689 memory blocks). 3690 The state of the flag can be read in 3691 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3692 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3693 the feature is not effective. 3694 3695 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3696 Format: <integer> 3697 default : 0 <disable> 3698 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3699 performed. Each pass selects another test 3700 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3701 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3702 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3703 regions that are detected. 3704 3705 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3706 Valid arguments: on, off 3707 Default: off 3708 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3709 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3710 3711 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3712 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3713 3714 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3715 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3716 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3717 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3718 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3719 3720 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3721 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3722 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3723 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3724 3725 mga= [HW,DRM] 3726 3727 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3728 Format: <bool> 3729 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3730 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3731 3732 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3733 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3734 Default: "0tb" 3735 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3736 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3737 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3738 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3739 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3740 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3741 unconfigured. 3742 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3743 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3744 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3745 VGA shield. 3746 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3747 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3748 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3749 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3750 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3751 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3752 3753 mitigations= 3754 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3755 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3756 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3757 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3758 3759 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3760 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3761 3762 off 3763 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3764 improves system performance, but it may also 3765 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3766 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3767 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3768 indirect_target_selection=off [X86] 3769 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3770 l1tf=off [X86] 3771 mds=off [X86] 3772 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3773 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3774 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3775 nobp=0 [S390] 3776 nopti [X86,PPC] 3777 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3778 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3779 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3780 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3781 retbleed=off [X86] 3782 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3783 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3784 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3785 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3786 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3787 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3788 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3789 3790 Exceptions: 3791 This does not have any effect on 3792 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3793 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3794 3795 auto (default) 3796 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3797 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3798 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3799 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3800 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3801 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3802 3803 auto,nosmt 3804 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3805 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3806 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3807 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3808 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3809 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3810 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3811 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3812 3813 [X86] After one of the above options, additionally 3814 supports attack-vector based controls as documented in 3815 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst 3816 3817 mminit_loglevel= 3818 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3819 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3820 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3821 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3822 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3823 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3824 3825 mmio_stale_data= 3826 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3827 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3828 3829 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3830 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3831 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3832 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3833 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3834 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3835 3836 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3837 options are: 3838 3839 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3840 3841 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3842 vulnerable CPUs. 3843 3844 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3845 3846 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3847 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3848 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3849 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3850 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3851 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3852 3853 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3854 mmio_stale_data=full. 3855 3856 For details see: 3857 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3858 3859 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3860 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3861 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3862 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3863 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3864 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3865 3866 module.async_probe=<bool> 3867 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3868 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3869 specific module, use the module specific control that 3870 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3871 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3872 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3873 the specific module. 3874 3875 module.enable_dups_trace 3876 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3877 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3878 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3879 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3880 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3881 module.sig_enforce 3882 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3883 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3884 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3885 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3886 3887 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3888 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3889 3890 mousedev.tap_time= 3891 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3892 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3893 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3894 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3895 Format: <msecs> 3896 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3897 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3898 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3899 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3900 3901 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3902 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3903 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3904 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3905 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3906 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3907 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3908 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3909 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3910 is not too small. 3911 3912 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3913 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3914 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3915 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3916 allocations. Use with caution! 3917 3918 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3919 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3920 3921 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3922 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3923 3924 mtdparts= [MTD] 3925 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3926 3927 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3928 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3929 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3930 3931 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3932 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3933 registers at boot time. 3934 3935 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3936 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3937 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3938 3939 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3940 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3941 Default is 1. 3942 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3943 using up MTRRs. 3944 3945 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3946 Format: <integer> 3947 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3948 Default : 1 3949 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3950 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3951 3952 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3953 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3954 at a time. 3955 3956 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3957 3958 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3959 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3960 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3961 something different and driver-specific. 3962 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3963 file if at all. 3964 3965 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3966 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3967 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3968 waits 4 seconds. 3969 3970 nf_conntrack.acct= 3971 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3972 0 to disable accounting 3973 1 to enable accounting 3974 Default value is 0. 3975 3976 nfs.cache_getent= 3977 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3978 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3979 3980 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3981 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3982 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3983 3984 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3985 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3986 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3987 requests. 3988 3989 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3990 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3991 channel should listen. 3992 3993 nfs.delay_retrans= 3994 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3995 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3996 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3997 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3998 and the specified value is >= 0. 3999 4000 nfs.enable_ino64= 4001 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 4002 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 4003 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 4004 of returning the full 64-bit number. 4005 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 4006 4007 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 4008 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 4009 entries. 4010 4011 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 4012 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 4013 slots the client will assign to the callback 4014 channel. This determines the maximum number of 4015 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 4016 a particular server. 4017 4018 nfs.max_session_slots= 4019 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 4020 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 4021 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 4022 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 4023 Note that there is little point in setting this 4024 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 4025 4026 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 4027 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 4028 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 4029 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 4030 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 4031 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 4032 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 4033 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 4034 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 4035 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 4036 back to using the idmapper. 4037 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 4038 4039 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 4040 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 4041 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 4042 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 4043 UUID that is generated at system install time. 4044 4045 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 4046 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 4047 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 4048 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 4049 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 4050 after the locks are lost. 4051 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 4052 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 4053 parameter to '1'. 4054 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 4055 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 4056 4057 nfs.send_implementation_id= 4058 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 4059 information in exchange_id requests. 4060 If zero, no implementation identification information 4061 will be sent. 4062 The default is to send the implementation identification 4063 information. 4064 4065 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 4066 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 4067 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 4068 4069 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 4070 whatever value is the default set by the layout 4071 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 4072 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 4073 4074 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 4075 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 4076 server-to-server copies for which this server is 4077 the destination of the copy. 4078 4079 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 4080 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 4081 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 4082 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 4083 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 4084 migration from NFSv2/v3. 4085 4086 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 4087 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 4088 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 4089 the source server. It caches the mount in case 4090 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 4091 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 4092 this parameter. 4093 4094 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 4095 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4096 4097 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 4098 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4099 4100 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 4101 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4102 4103 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 4104 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 4105 NMI stack-backtrace request. 4106 4107 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 4108 when a NMI is triggered. 4109 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 4110 4111 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 4112 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 4113 Valid num: 0 or 1 4114 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 4115 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 4116 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 4117 4118 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 4119 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 4120 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 4121 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 4122 please see 'nowatchdog'. 4123 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 4124 need the box quickly up again. 4125 4126 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 4127 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 4128 4129 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 4130 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 4131 is present. 4132 4133 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 4134 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 4135 4136 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 4137 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 4138 4139 noalign [KNL,ARM] 4140 4141 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 4142 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 4143 4144 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer 4145 4146 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 4147 4148 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 4149 4150 no_console_suspend 4151 [HW] Never suspend the console 4152 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 4153 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 4154 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 4155 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 4156 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 4157 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 4158 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 4159 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 4160 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 4161 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 4162 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 4163 turn on/off it dynamically. 4164 4165 no_debug_objects 4166 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 4167 4168 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 4169 4170 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 4171 4172 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 4173 4174 noexec32 [X86-64] 4175 This affects only 32-bit executables. 4176 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 4177 read doesn't imply executable mappings 4178 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 4179 read implies executable mappings 4180 4181 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 4182 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 4183 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 4184 4185 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 4186 4187 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 4188 4189 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 4190 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 4191 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 4192 4193 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. 4194 4195 no_hash_pointers 4196 [KNL,EARLY] 4197 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 4198 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 4199 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 4200 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 4201 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 4202 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 4203 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 4204 compared. However, if this command-line option is 4205 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 4206 value printed. This option should only be specified when 4207 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 4208 kernels. 4209 4210 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 4211 4212 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 4213 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 4214 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 4215 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 4216 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 4217 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 4218 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 4219 useful when using JTAG debugger. 4220 4221 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer. 4222 4223 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 4224 4225 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 4226 4227 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 4228 Valid arguments: on, off 4229 Default: on 4230 4231 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 4232 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4233 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 4234 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 4235 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 4236 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 4237 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 4238 just as if they had also been called out in the 4239 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 4240 4241 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4242 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4243 4244 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 4245 initial RAM disk. 4246 4247 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 4248 remapping. 4249 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 4250 4251 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 4252 4253 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 4254 4255 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 4256 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 4257 4258 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 4259 4260 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 4261 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 4262 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 4263 Layout Randomization). 4264 4265 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 4266 fault handling. 4267 4268 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 4269 4270 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 4271 4272 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 4273 4274 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 4275 4276 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4277 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4278 4279 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4280 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4281 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4282 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4283 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4284 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4285 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4286 4287 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4288 4289 nomodule Disable module load 4290 4291 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4292 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4293 irq. 4294 4295 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4296 pagetables) support. 4297 4298 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4299 4300 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4301 in some Intel CPUs. 4302 4303 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4304 Equivalent to pti=off 4305 4306 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4307 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4308 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4309 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4310 4311 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4312 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4313 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4314 contention. 4315 4316 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4317 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4318 4319 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4320 with UP alternatives 4321 4322 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4323 space. 4324 4325 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4326 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4327 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4328 4329 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4330 4331 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4332 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4333 even if it is supported by processor. 4334 4335 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4336 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4337 even if it is supported by processor. 4338 4339 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4340 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4341 4342 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4343 Equivalent to smt=1. 4344 4345 [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4346 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4347 via the sysfs control file. 4348 4349 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4350 4351 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4352 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4353 Store Bypass vulnerability 4354 4355 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4356 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4357 with this option. 4358 4359 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4360 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4361 possible in the system. 4362 4363 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4364 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4365 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4366 leaks with this option. 4367 4368 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4369 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4370 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4371 4372 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4373 4374 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken 4375 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can 4376 work around problems with incorrect timer 4377 initialization on some boards. 4378 4379 no_uaccess_flush 4380 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4381 4382 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4383 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4384 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4385 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4386 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4387 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4388 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4389 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4390 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4391 is set. 4392 4393 no-vmw-sched-clock 4394 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4395 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4396 4397 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4398 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4399 4400 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4401 4402 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4403 4404 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4405 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4406 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4407 4408 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4409 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4410 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4411 4412 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4413 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4414 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4415 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4416 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4417 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4418 4419 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4420 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4421 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4422 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4423 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4424 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4425 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4426 4427 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4428 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4429 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4430 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4431 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4432 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4433 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4434 hot plugging. 4435 4436 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4437 4438 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4439 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4440 spanning all memory. 4441 4442 numa=fake=<size>[MG] 4443 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4444 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with 4445 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes. 4446 4447 numa=fake=<N> 4448 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4449 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N 4450 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. 4451 4452 numa=fake=<N>U 4453 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4454 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will 4455 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. 4456 4457 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup 4458 4459 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or 4460 soft-reserved memory partitioning. 4461 4462 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4463 NUMA balancing. 4464 Allowed values are enable and disable 4465 4466 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4467 'node', 'default' can be specified 4468 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4469 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4470 4471 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4472 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4473 info. 4474 4475 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4476 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4477 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4478 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4479 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4480 interrupts *may* be lost! 4481 4482 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4483 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4484 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4485 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4486 4487 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4488 4489 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4490 4491 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4492 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4493 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4494 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4495 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4496 4497 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4498 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4499 process, but there is a small probability of 4500 deadlocking the machine. 4501 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4502 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4503 4504 page_alloc.shuffle= 4505 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4506 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4507 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4508 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4509 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4510 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4511 4512 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4513 Storage of the information about who allocated 4514 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4515 we can turn it on. 4516 on: enable the feature 4517 4518 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4519 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4520 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4521 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4522 on: turn on poisoning 4523 4524 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4525 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4526 Format: <integer> 4527 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4528 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4529 4530 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4531 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4532 timeout = 0: wait forever 4533 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4534 Format: <timeout> 4535 4536 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4537 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4538 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4539 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4540 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4541 called with any of the flags in this set. 4542 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4543 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4544 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4545 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4546 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4547 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4548 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4549 4550 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4551 on a WARN(). 4552 4553 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4554 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4555 bit 0: print all tasks info 4556 bit 1: print system memory info 4557 bit 2: print timer info 4558 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4559 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4560 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4561 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4562 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4563 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4564 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4565 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4566 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4567 4568 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4569 connected to, default is 0. 4570 Format: <parport#> 4571 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4572 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4573 Format: <mode> 4574 4575 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4576 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4577 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4578 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4579 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4580 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4581 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4582 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4583 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4584 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4585 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4586 are specified on the command line, starting 4587 with parport0. 4588 4589 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4590 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4591 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4592 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4593 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4594 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4595 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4596 4597 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4598 Format: <int> 4599 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4600 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4601 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4602 4603 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4604 Format: <int> 4605 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4606 changes. Disabled by default. 4607 4608 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4609 Format: <int> 4610 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4611 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4612 Disabled by default. 4613 4614 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4615 Format: <int> 4616 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4617 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4618 Disabled by default. 4619 4620 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4621 Format: <int> 4622 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4623 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4624 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4625 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4626 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4627 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4628 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4629 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4630 all channels. 4631 4632 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4633 Format: <int> 4634 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4635 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4636 respectively. Disabled by default. 4637 4638 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4639 Format: <int> 4640 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4641 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4642 respectively. Disabled by default. 4643 4644 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4645 Format: <int> 4646 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4647 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4648 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4649 All modes allowed by default. 4650 4651 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4652 Format: <int> 4653 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4654 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4655 4656 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4657 Format: <int> 4658 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4659 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4660 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4661 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4662 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4663 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4664 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4665 By default all supported ports are probed. 4666 4667 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4668 Format: <int> 4669 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4670 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4671 4672 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4673 Format: <int> 4674 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4675 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4676 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4677 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4678 0 otherwise. 4679 4680 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4681 Format: <int> 4682 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4683 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4684 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4685 allowed by default. 4686 4687 pause_on_oops=<int> 4688 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4689 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4690 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4691 4692 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4693 4694 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4695 4696 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4697 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4698 specified in one of the following formats: 4699 4700 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4701 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4702 4703 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4704 bus/device/function address which may change 4705 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4706 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4707 by other kernel parameters. If the 4708 domain is left unspecified, it is 4709 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4710 to a device through multiple device/function 4711 addresses can be specified after the base 4712 address (this is more robust against 4713 renumbering issues). The second format 4714 selects devices using IDs from the 4715 configuration space which may match multiple 4716 devices in the system. 4717 4718 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4719 changes anything 4720 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4721 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4722 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4723 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4724 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4725 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4726 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4727 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4728 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4729 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4730 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4731 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4732 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4733 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4734 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4735 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4736 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4737 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4738 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4739 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4740 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4741 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4742 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4743 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4744 Configuration 4745 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4746 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4747 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4748 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4749 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4750 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4751 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4752 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4753 should never be necessary. 4754 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4755 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4756 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4757 when the system masks IRQs. 4758 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4759 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4760 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4761 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4762 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4763 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4764 on several machines and they hang the machine 4765 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4766 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4767 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4768 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4769 motherboard. 4770 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4771 Use with caution as certain devices share 4772 address decoders between ROMs and other 4773 resources. 4774 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4775 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4776 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4777 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4778 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4779 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4780 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4781 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4782 this way. 4783 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4784 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4785 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4786 F0000h-100000h range. 4787 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4788 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4789 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4790 explicitly which ones they are. 4791 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4792 numbers ourselves, overriding 4793 whatever the firmware may have done. 4794 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4795 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4796 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4797 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4798 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4799 IRQ routing is enabled. 4800 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4801 or for PCI scanning. 4802 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4803 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4804 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4805 please report a bug. 4806 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4807 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4808 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4809 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4810 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4811 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4812 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4813 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4814 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4815 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4816 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4817 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4818 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4819 so this option is a temporary workaround 4820 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4821 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4822 handle more pci cards 4823 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4824 This might help on some broken boards which 4825 machine check when some devices' config space 4826 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4827 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4828 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4829 This sorting is done to get a device 4830 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4831 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4832 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4833 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4834 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4835 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4836 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4837 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4838 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4839 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4840 or bus can support) for best performance. 4841 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4842 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4843 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4844 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4845 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4846 that hot-added devices will work. 4847 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4848 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4849 The default value is 256 bytes. 4850 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4851 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4852 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4853 resource_alignment= 4854 Format: 4855 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4856 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4857 aligned memory resources. How to 4858 specify the device is described above. 4859 If <order of align> is not specified, 4860 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4861 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4862 windows need to be expanded. 4863 To specify the alignment for several 4864 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4865 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4866 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4867 for 4096-byte alignment. 4868 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4869 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4870 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4871 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4872 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4873 the default. 4874 off: Turn ECRC off 4875 on: Turn ECRC on. 4876 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4877 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4878 Default size is 256 bytes. 4879 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4880 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4881 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4882 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4883 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4884 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4885 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4886 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4887 MMIO_PREF window. 4888 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4889 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4890 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4891 Default is 1. 4892 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4893 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4894 accommodate resources required by all child 4895 devices. 4896 off: Turn realloc off 4897 on: Turn realloc on 4898 realloc same as realloc=on 4899 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4900 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4901 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4902 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4903 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4904 port. 4905 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4906 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4907 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4908 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4909 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4910 taints the kernel. 4911 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4912 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4913 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4914 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4915 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4916 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4917 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4918 this removes isolation between devices and 4919 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4920 config_acs= 4921 Format: 4922 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4923 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4924 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4925 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4926 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4927 unchanged based on what is specified in 4928 flags. 4929 4930 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4931 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4932 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4933 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4934 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4935 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4936 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4937 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4938 Each bit can be marked as: 4939 '0' – force disabled 4940 '1' – force enabled 4941 'x' – unchanged 4942 For example, 4943 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0 4944 would configure all devices that support 4945 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4946 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4947 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4948 or firmware set it to. 4949 4950 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4951 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4952 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4953 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4954 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4955 one PCI domain per PCI function 4956 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter 4957 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used 4958 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support 4959 system-wide. 4960 4961 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4962 Management. 4963 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4964 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4965 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4966 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4967 4968 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4969 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4970 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4971 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4972 also tries to use these services. 4973 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4974 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4975 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4976 hotplug). 4977 4978 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4979 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4980 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4981 4982 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4983 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4984 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4985 4986 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4987 4988 pd_ignore_unused 4989 [PM] 4990 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4991 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4992 for debug and development, but should not be 4993 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4994 4995 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4996 boot time. 4997 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4998 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4999 5000 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 5001 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 5002 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 5003 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 5004 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 5005 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 5006 and performance comparison. 5007 5008 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 5009 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 5010 5011 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 5012 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 5013 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 5014 5015 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 5016 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 5017 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 5018 5019 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 5020 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 5021 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 5022 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 5023 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 5024 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 5025 remains 0. 5026 5027 pm_async= [PM] 5028 Format: off 5029 This parameter sets the initial value of the 5030 /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time. 5031 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and 5032 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions. 5033 This can be useful on platforms where device 5034 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging 5035 power management issues. Asynchronous operations are 5036 enabled by default. 5037 5038 5039 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 5040 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 5041 5042 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 5043 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 5044 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 5045 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 5046 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 5047 possible settings and some assignment information. 5048 5049 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 5050 { off } 5051 5052 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 5053 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 5054 5055 pnp_reserve_irq= 5056 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 5057 5058 pnp_reserve_dma= 5059 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 5060 5061 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 5062 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 5063 5064 pnp_reserve_mem= 5065 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 5066 autoconfiguration. 5067 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 5068 5069 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 5070 Default is 21. 5071 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 5072 may be specified. 5073 Format: <port>,<port>.... 5074 5075 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 5076 Format: <unsigned int> 5077 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 5078 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 5079 5080 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 5081 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 5082 platform machine description specific power_save 5083 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 5084 execution priority. 5085 5086 ppc_strict_facility_enable 5087 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 5088 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 5089 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 5090 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 5091 5092 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 5093 Format: {"off"} 5094 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 5095 5096 preempt= [KNL] 5097 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 5098 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 5099 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 5100 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 5101 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 5102 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 5103 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 5104 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead 5105 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets 5106 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the 5107 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the 5108 task returns to user space. 5109 5110 print-fatal-signals= 5111 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 5112 5113 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 5114 related application anomalies: too many signals, 5115 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 5116 coredump - etc. 5117 5118 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 5119 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 5120 5121 default: off. 5122 5123 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 5124 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 5125 panics 5126 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5127 default: disabled 5128 5129 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 5130 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 5131 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 5132 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 5133 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 5134 in order to provide more debug information. 5135 Format: <bool> 5136 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 5137 5138 printk.debug_non_panic_cpus= 5139 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into 5140 the printk log buffer during panic(). They are 5141 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on 5142 a best-effort basis. 5143 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5144 Default: disabled 5145 5146 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 5147 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 5148 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 5149 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 5150 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 5151 Default: ratelimit 5152 5153 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 5154 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5155 5156 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 5157 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 5158 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 5159 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 5160 restrict that. Can be one of: 5161 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 5162 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 5163 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 5164 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 5165 5166 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 5167 Limit processor to maximum C-state 5168 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 5169 5170 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 5171 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 5172 instead using the legacy FADT method 5173 5174 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 5175 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 5176 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 5177 [defaults to kernel profiling] 5178 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 5179 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 5180 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 5181 statistical time based profiling. 5182 5183 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 5184 5185 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 5186 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 5187 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 5188 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 5189 Layout Randomization is disabled. 5190 Format: <bool> 5191 5192 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 5193 tracking. 5194 Format: <bool> 5195 5196 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 5197 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 5198 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 5199 per second. 5200 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 5201 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 5202 (0 = never). 5203 psmouse.resolution= 5204 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 5205 psmouse.smartscroll= 5206 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 5207 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 5208 5209 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 5210 5211 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 5212 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 5213 removes hardening, but improves performance of 5214 system calls and interrupts. 5215 5216 on - unconditionally enable 5217 off - unconditionally disable 5218 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5219 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 5220 5221 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 5222 5223 pty.legacy_count= 5224 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 5225 default number. 5226 5227 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 5228 5229 r128= [HW,DRM] 5230 5231 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 5232 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 5233 invalidate. 5234 5235 raid= [HW,RAID] 5236 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 5237 5238 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 5239 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 5240 5241 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 5242 5243 random.trust_cpu=off 5244 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 5245 random number generator (if available) to 5246 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5247 5248 random.trust_bootloader=off 5249 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 5250 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 5251 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5252 5253 randomize_kstack_offset= 5254 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 5255 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 5256 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 5257 that depend on stack address determinism or 5258 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 5259 available on architectures that have defined 5260 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 5261 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5262 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 5263 5264 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 5265 5266 cec_disable [X86] 5267 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 5268 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 5269 5270 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 5271 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 5272 as described above. 5273 5274 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 5275 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 5276 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 5277 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 5278 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 5279 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 5280 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 5281 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 5282 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 5283 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 5284 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 5285 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 5286 5287 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 5288 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 5289 5290 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 5291 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 5292 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 5293 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 5294 5295 Note that this argument takes precedence over 5296 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 5297 5298 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 5299 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 5300 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 5301 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 5302 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 5303 This improves the real-time response for the 5304 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 5305 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 5306 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 5307 periodically wake up to do the polling. 5308 5309 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 5310 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 5311 process in one batch. 5312 5313 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 5314 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 5315 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 5316 5317 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 5318 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 5319 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 5320 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 5321 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 5322 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 5323 5324 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 5325 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 5326 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 5327 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 5328 5329 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 5330 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5331 RCU grace-period cleanup. 5332 5333 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 5334 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5335 RCU grace-period initialization. 5336 5337 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5338 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5339 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5340 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5341 the rcu_node combining tree. 5342 5343 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5344 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5345 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5346 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5347 and maximum value is HZ. 5348 5349 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5350 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5351 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5352 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5353 5354 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5355 Set required age in jiffies for a 5356 given grace period before RCU starts 5357 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5358 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5359 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5360 a value based on the most recent settings 5361 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5362 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5363 This calculated value may be viewed in 5364 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5365 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5366 overwritten. 5367 5368 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5369 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5370 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5371 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5372 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5373 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5374 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5375 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5376 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5377 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5378 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5379 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5380 5381 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5382 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5383 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5384 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5385 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5386 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5387 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5388 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5389 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5390 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5391 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5392 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5393 5394 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5395 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5396 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5397 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5398 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5399 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5400 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5401 5402 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5403 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5404 batch limiting is disabled. 5405 5406 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5407 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5408 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5409 5410 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5411 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5412 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5413 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5414 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5415 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5416 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5417 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5418 5419 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5420 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5421 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5422 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5423 5424 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5425 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5426 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5427 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5428 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5429 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5430 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5431 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5432 5433 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5434 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5435 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5436 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5437 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5438 5439 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5440 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5441 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5442 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5443 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5444 5445 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5446 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5447 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5448 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5449 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5450 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5451 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5452 5453 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5454 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5455 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5456 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5457 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5458 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5459 condition. 5460 5461 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5462 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5463 each group, which defaults to the square root 5464 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5465 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5466 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5467 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5468 5469 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5470 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5471 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5472 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5473 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5474 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5475 5476 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5477 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5478 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5479 By default, this limit is checked only once 5480 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5481 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5482 5483 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5484 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5485 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5486 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5487 Larger delays increase the probability of 5488 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5489 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5490 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5491 5492 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5493 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5494 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5495 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5496 5497 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5498 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5499 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5500 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5501 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5502 5503 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5504 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5505 to zero. 5506 5507 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5508 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5509 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5510 big. 5511 5512 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5513 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5514 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5515 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5516 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5517 normal grace period. 5518 5519 How to enable it: 5520 5521 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5522 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5523 5524 Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly 5525 disabled by the boot parameter passing 0. 5526 5527 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5528 Measure performance of asynchronous 5529 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5530 5531 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5532 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5533 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5534 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5535 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5536 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5537 5538 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5539 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5540 grace-period primitives. 5541 5542 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5543 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5544 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5545 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5546 interference. 5547 5548 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5549 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5550 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5551 5552 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5553 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5554 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5555 Defaults to 1. 5556 5557 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5558 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5559 5560 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5561 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5562 If this parameter has the same value as 5563 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5564 and double-argument variants are tested. 5565 5566 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5567 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5568 If this parameter has the same value as 5569 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5570 and double-argument variants are tested. 5571 5572 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5573 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5574 5575 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5576 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5577 5578 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5579 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5580 of allocations and frees. 5581 5582 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5583 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5584 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5585 but instead allows better measurement of things 5586 like CPU consumption. 5587 5588 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5589 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5590 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5591 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5592 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5593 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5594 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5595 a single reader. 5596 5597 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5598 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5599 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5600 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5601 5602 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5603 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5604 5605 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5606 Shut the system down after performance tests 5607 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5608 testing. 5609 5610 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5611 Enable additional printk() statements. 5612 5613 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5614 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5615 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5616 no holdoff. 5617 5618 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5619 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5620 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5621 says no holdoff. 5622 5623 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5624 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5625 in microseconds. 5626 5627 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5628 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5629 in microseconds. 5630 5631 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5632 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5633 in seconds. 5634 5635 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5636 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5637 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5638 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5639 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5640 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5641 of CPUs to be used. 5642 5643 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5644 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5645 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5646 5647 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5648 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5649 forward-progress tests. 5650 5651 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5652 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5653 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5654 testing. 5655 5656 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5657 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5658 normal-grace-period primitives, if available. 5659 5660 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL] 5661 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5662 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available. 5663 5664 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL] 5665 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5666 normal-grace-period primitives that also take 5667 concurrent expedited grace periods into account, 5668 if available. 5669 5670 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL] 5671 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5672 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take 5673 concurrent normal grace periods into account, 5674 if available. 5675 5676 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL] 5677 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5678 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5679 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters), 5680 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5681 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5682 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5683 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5684 with HZ=1000. 5685 5686 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL] 5687 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5688 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5689 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module 5690 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5691 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5692 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5693 128 microseconds. 5694 5695 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5696 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5697 5698 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5699 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5700 update-side primitives, if available. 5701 5702 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL] 5703 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5704 primitives, if available. 5705 5706 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL] 5707 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5708 primitives, if available. 5709 5710 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL] 5711 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5712 primitives that also take concurrent expedited 5713 grace periods into account, if available. 5714 5715 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL] 5716 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5717 primitives that also take concurrent normal 5718 grace periods into account, if available. 5719 5720 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL] 5721 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5722 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5723 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters), 5724 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5725 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5726 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5727 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5728 with HZ=1000. 5729 5730 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL] 5731 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5732 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5733 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module 5734 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5735 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5736 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5737 128 microseconds. 5738 5739 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5740 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5741 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5742 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5743 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5744 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5745 they are all non-zero. 5746 5747 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL] 5748 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting 5749 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from 5750 running. Default is true. 5751 5752 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL] 5753 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during 5754 active lag testing periods. This controls how many 5755 grace periods differences we tolerate between 5756 rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag. 5757 The default is always set to 8. 5758 5759 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL] 5760 Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag 5761 testing in minutes. This is the total time for 5762 one complete cycle of active and inactive 5763 testing periods. Default is 30 minutes. 5764 5765 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL] 5766 Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active 5767 within each cycle, in minutes. During this time, 5768 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the 5769 value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is 5770 5 minutes. 5771 5772 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5773 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5774 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5775 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5776 5777 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5778 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5779 This can of course result in splats, and is 5780 intended to test the ability of things like 5781 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5782 such leaks. 5783 5784 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5785 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5786 5787 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5788 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5789 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5790 test, hence the "fake". 5791 5792 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5793 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5794 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5795 5796 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5797 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5798 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5799 5800 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5801 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5802 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5803 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5804 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5805 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5806 5807 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5808 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5809 5810 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5811 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5812 5813 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5814 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5815 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5816 5817 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL] 5818 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions 5819 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to 5820 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to 5821 preempt are selected randomly from the set that 5822 are online at a given point in time. Races with 5823 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt 5824 at preemption skipped. 5825 5826 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL] 5827 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one 5828 second) between preemptions by a high-priority 5829 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated 5830 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid 5831 inadvertent synchronizations. 5832 5833 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5834 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5835 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5836 is spawned. 5837 5838 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5839 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5840 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5841 5842 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL] 5843 A bit mask indicating which readers to use. 5844 If there is more than one bit set, the readers 5845 are entered from low-order bit up, and are 5846 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the 5847 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers, 5848 and 0x4 light-weight readers. 5849 5850 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5851 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5852 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5853 during the rcutorture test. 5854 5855 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5856 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5857 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5858 5859 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5860 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5861 warnings, zero to disable. 5862 5863 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5864 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5865 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5866 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5867 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5868 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5869 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5870 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5871 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5872 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5873 5874 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5875 5876 5877 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5878 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5879 5880 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5881 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5882 on the first stall in the set. 5883 5884 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5885 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5886 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5887 in four stall sequences. 5888 5889 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5890 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5891 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5892 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5893 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5894 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5895 5896 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5897 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5898 5899 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5900 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5901 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5902 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5903 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5904 5905 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5906 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5907 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5908 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5909 5910 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5911 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5912 5913 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL] 5914 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start 5915 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero, 5916 that is, no holdoff. 5917 5918 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5919 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5920 5921 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5922 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5923 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5924 5925 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5926 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5927 5928 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5929 Enable additional printk() statements. 5930 5931 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5932 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5933 stall warning. 5934 5935 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5936 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5937 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5938 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5939 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5940 5941 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5942 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5943 5944 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5945 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5946 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5947 during early boot, that is, during the time 5948 before the init task is spawned. 5949 5950 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5951 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5952 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5953 value is 300 seconds. 5954 5955 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5956 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5957 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5958 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5959 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5960 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5961 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5962 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5963 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5964 5965 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5966 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5967 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5968 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5969 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5970 5971 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5972 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5973 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5974 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5975 5976 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5977 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5978 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5979 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5980 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5981 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5982 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5983 5984 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5985 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5986 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5987 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5988 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5989 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5990 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5991 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5992 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5993 5994 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5995 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5996 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5997 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5998 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5999 6000 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 6001 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 6002 it to the value one, that is, converting any 6003 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 6004 period to instead use normal non-expedited 6005 grace-period processing. 6006 6007 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 6008 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 6009 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 6010 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 6011 a single callback queue. This switching only 6012 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 6013 set to the default value of -1. 6014 6015 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 6016 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 6017 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 6018 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 6019 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 6020 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 6021 the default value of -1. 6022 6023 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 6024 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 6025 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 6026 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 6027 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 6028 for use in testing. 6029 6030 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 6031 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 6032 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 6033 of a given grace period. Setting a large 6034 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 6035 but lengthens grace periods. 6036 6037 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 6038 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 6039 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 6040 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 6041 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 6042 callback flooding. 6043 6044 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 6045 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 6046 informational messages, which give some indication 6047 of the problem for those not patient enough to 6048 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 6049 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 6050 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 6051 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 6052 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 6053 until the beginning of the next grace period. 6054 6055 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 6056 Multiplier for time interval between successive 6057 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 6058 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 6059 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 6060 the value three, so that the first informational 6061 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 6062 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 6063 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 6064 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 6065 6066 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 6067 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 6068 warning messages. Disable with a value less 6069 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 6070 A change in value does not take effect until 6071 the beginning of the next grace period. 6072 6073 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 6074 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 6075 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 6076 A negative value will take the default. A value 6077 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 6078 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 6079 6080 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 6081 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 6082 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 6083 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 6084 will take the default. A value of zero will 6085 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 6086 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 6087 6088 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 6089 Run the RCU early boot self tests 6090 6091 rdinit= [KNL] 6092 Format: <full_path> 6093 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 6094 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 6095 6096 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 6097 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 6098 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 6099 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 6100 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 6101 path). 6102 6103 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 6104 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 6105 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 6106 mba, smba, bmec. 6107 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 6108 rdt=cmt,!mba 6109 6110 reboot= [KNL] 6111 Format (x86 or x86_64): 6112 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 6113 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 6114 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 6115 [[,]f[orce] 6116 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 6117 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 6118 reboot only), 6119 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 6120 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 6121 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 6122 to be used for rebooting. 6123 6124 acpi 6125 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not 6126 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot 6127 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 6128 6129 bios 6130 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset 6131 6132 cold 6133 Set the cold reboot flag 6134 6135 default 6136 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks" 6137 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected. 6138 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you 6139 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS, 6140 or newer board) using this option will ignore the 6141 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default 6142 reboot actions. 6143 6144 efi 6145 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not 6146 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot 6147 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 6148 6149 force 6150 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot 6151 more reliable in some cases. 6152 6153 kbd 6154 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) 6155 6156 pci 6157 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to 6158 trigger reboot. 6159 6160 triple 6161 Force a triple fault (init) 6162 6163 warm 6164 Don't set the cold reboot flag 6165 6166 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big 6167 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through 6168 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all 6169 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so 6170 there may be boot problems on some systems. 6171 6172 6173 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 6174 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 6175 this parameter is to delay the start of the 6176 test until boot completes in order to avoid 6177 interference. 6178 6179 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 6180 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 6181 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 6182 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 6183 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 6184 6185 refscale.loops= [KNL] 6186 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 6187 primitive under test. Increasing this number 6188 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 6189 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 6190 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 6191 x86 laptops. 6192 6193 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 6194 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 6195 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 6196 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 6197 6198 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 6199 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 6200 the console log. 6201 6202 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 6203 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 6204 measured in microseconds. 6205 6206 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 6207 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 6208 6209 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 6210 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 6211 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 6212 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 6213 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 6214 6215 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 6216 Enable additional printk() statements. 6217 6218 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 6219 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 6220 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 6221 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 6222 specified. 6223 6224 regulator_ignore_unused 6225 [REGULATOR] 6226 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 6227 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 6228 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 6229 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 6230 6231 relax_domain_level= 6232 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 6233 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 6234 6235 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 6236 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 6237 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 6238 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 6239 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 6240 6241 reserve_mem= [RAM] 6242 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label> 6243 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 6244 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 6245 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 6246 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 6247 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 6248 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 6249 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 6250 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 6251 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 6252 different location. 6253 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 6254 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 6255 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 6256 located at the same location. 6257 6258 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 6259 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 6260 6261 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 6262 6263 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 6264 Format: nn[KMG] 6265 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 6266 address space. 6267 6268 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 6269 during initialization. 6270 6271 resume= [SWSUSP] 6272 Specify the partition device for software suspend 6273 Format: 6274 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 6275 6276 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 6277 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 6278 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 6279 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 6280 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 6281 6282 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6283 read the resume files 6284 6285 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 6286 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6287 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6288 6289 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 6290 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 6291 6292 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 6293 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 6294 vulnerability. 6295 6296 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 6297 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 6298 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 6299 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 6300 that don't. 6301 6302 off - no mitigation 6303 auto - automatically select a migitation 6304 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 6305 disabling SMT if necessary for 6306 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 6307 and older without STIBP). 6308 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 6309 windows on basic block boundaries too. 6310 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 6311 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 6312 on Intel. 6313 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 6314 when STIBP is not available. This is 6315 the alternative for systems which do not 6316 have STIBP. 6317 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 6318 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 6319 systems. 6320 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 6321 is not available. This is the alternative for 6322 systems which do not have STIBP. 6323 6324 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 6325 time according to the CPU. 6326 6327 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 6328 6329 rfkill.default_state= 6330 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 6331 etc. communication is blocked by default. 6332 1 Unblocked. 6333 6334 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 6335 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 6336 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6337 blocked and the previous configuration. 6338 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6339 blocked and everything unblocked. 6340 6341 ring3mwait=disable 6342 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 6343 CPUs. 6344 6345 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 6346 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 6347 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 6348 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 6349 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 6350 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 6351 6352 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 6353 6354 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 6355 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 6356 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 6357 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 6358 [arm64] 6359 6360 rockchip.usb_uart 6361 [EARLY] 6362 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 6363 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 6364 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 6365 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 6366 6367 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 6368 Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind, 6369 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 6370 block/early-lookup.c for details. 6371 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 6372 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 6373 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 6374 6375 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6376 mount the root filesystem 6377 6378 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 6379 6380 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 6381 6382 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 6383 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6384 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6385 6386 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 6387 to show up before attempting to mount the root 6388 filesystem. 6389 6390 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 6391 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 6392 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 6393 managed by CMA. 6394 6395 rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling 6396 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to 6397 !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED. 6398 Format: <bool> 6399 6400 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 6401 6402 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 6403 6404 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 6405 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 6406 strict 6407 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 6408 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 6409 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 6410 iommu.strict=1. 6411 6412 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 6413 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 6414 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 6415 factor of the size of main memory. 6416 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 6417 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 6418 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 6419 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 6420 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 6421 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 6422 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 6423 6424 sa1100ir [NET] 6425 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 6426 6427 sched_proxy_exec= [KNL] 6428 Enables or disables "proxy execution" style 6429 solution to mutex-based priority inversion. 6430 Format: <bool> 6431 6432 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 6433 6434 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 6435 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 6436 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 6437 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 6438 6439 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 6440 [Deprecated] 6441 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 6442 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 6443 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 6444 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 6445 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 6446 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 6447 value. 6448 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 6449 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 6450 1 64 ms 6451 2 128 ms 6452 and so on. 6453 Format: integer between 0 and 10 6454 Default is 0. 6455 6456 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 6457 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 6458 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 6459 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 6460 tests. 6461 6462 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 6463 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 6464 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 6465 default) disables this feature. Please note 6466 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 6467 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 6468 softlockup complaints, and so on. 6469 6470 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 6471 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 6472 smp_call_function() family of functions. 6473 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 6474 equal to the number of CPUs. 6475 6476 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 6477 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 6478 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 6479 6480 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 6481 Number seconds to wait between successive 6482 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 6483 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 6484 6485 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 6486 The number of seconds following the start of the 6487 test after which to shut down the system. The 6488 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 6489 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 6490 6491 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 6492 The number of seconds between outputting the 6493 current test statistics to the console. A value 6494 of zero disables statistics output. 6495 6496 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 6497 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 6498 to the set of CPUs under test. 6499 6500 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 6501 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 6502 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 6503 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 6504 functions. 6505 6506 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 6507 Enable additional printk() statements. 6508 6509 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 6510 The probability weighting to use for the 6511 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 6512 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 6513 default if all other weights are -1. However, 6514 if at least one weight has some other value, a 6515 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 6516 6517 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6518 The probability weighting to use for the 6519 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6520 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6521 6522 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6523 The probability weighting to use for the 6524 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6525 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6526 Note well that setting a high probability for 6527 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6528 on the system. 6529 6530 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6531 The probability weighting to use for the 6532 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6533 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6534 and weight_many. 6535 6536 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6537 The probability weighting to use for the 6538 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6539 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6540 weight_many. 6541 6542 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6543 The probability weighting to use for the 6544 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6545 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6546 and weight_many. 6547 6548 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW] 6549 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in 6550 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly. 6551 6552 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6553 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6554 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6555 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6556 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6557 1 -- enable. 6558 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6559 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6560 6561 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6562 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6563 "lsm=" parameter. 6564 6565 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6566 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6567 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6568 0 -- disable. 6569 1 -- enable. 6570 Default value is 1. 6571 6572 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6573 6574 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] 6575 6576 debug 6577 Enable debug messages. 6578 6579 nosnp 6580 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor 6581 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead 6582 in memory accesses when users do not want to run 6583 SEV-SNP guests. 6584 6585 shapers= [NET] 6586 Maximal number of shapers. 6587 6588 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6589 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6590 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6591 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6592 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6593 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6594 apic=verbose is specified. 6595 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6596 6597 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6598 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6599 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6600 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6601 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6602 last alloc / free. For more information see 6603 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6604 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6605 6606 slab_max_order= [MM] 6607 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6608 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6609 fragmentation. For more information see 6610 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6611 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6612 6613 slab_merge [MM] 6614 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6615 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6616 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6617 6618 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6619 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6620 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6621 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6622 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6623 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6624 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6625 For more information see 6626 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6627 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6628 6629 slab_min_order= [MM] 6630 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6631 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6632 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6633 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6634 6635 slab_nomerge [MM] 6636 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6637 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6638 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6639 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6640 layout control by attackers can usually be 6641 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6642 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6643 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6644 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6645 own. 6646 For more information see 6647 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6648 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6649 6650 slab_strict_numa [MM] 6651 Support memory policies on a per object level 6652 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory 6653 policies to be applied at the folio level when 6654 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is 6655 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead 6656 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate 6657 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow 6658 interconnects in NUMA systems. 6659 6660 slram= [HW,MTD] 6661 6662 smart2= [HW] 6663 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6664 6665 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6666 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6667 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6668 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6669 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6670 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6671 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6672 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6673 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6674 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6675 6676 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6677 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6678 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6679 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6680 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6681 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6682 6683 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6684 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6685 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6686 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6687 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6688 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6689 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6690 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6691 1: Fast pin select (default) 6692 2: ATC IRMode 6693 6694 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6695 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6696 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6697 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6698 Format: <integer> 6699 Default: -1 (no limit) 6700 6701 softlockup_panic= 6702 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6703 Format: 0 | 1 6704 6705 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6706 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6707 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6708 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6709 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6710 6711 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6712 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6713 backtraces on all cpus. 6714 Format: 0 | 1 6715 6716 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6717 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6718 6719 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6720 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6721 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6722 clearing sequence. 6723 6724 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6725 needed. This protects the kernel from 6726 both syscalls and VMs. 6727 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6728 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6729 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6730 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6731 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6732 off - Disable the mitigation. 6733 6734 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6735 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6736 The default operation protects the kernel from 6737 user space attacks. 6738 6739 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6740 spectre_v2_user=on 6741 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6742 spectre_v2_user=off 6743 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6744 vulnerable 6745 6746 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6747 mitigation method at run time according to the 6748 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6749 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6750 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6751 6752 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6753 against user space to user space task attacks. 6754 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable 6755 user mitigations. 6756 6757 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6758 the user space protections. 6759 6760 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6761 6762 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6763 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6764 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6765 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6766 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6767 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6768 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6769 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6770 6771 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6772 spectre_v2=auto. 6773 6774 spectre_v2_user= 6775 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6776 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6777 user space tasks 6778 6779 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6780 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6781 6782 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6783 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6784 6785 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6786 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6787 per thread. The mitigation control state 6788 is inherited on fork. 6789 6790 prctl,ibpb 6791 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6792 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6793 always when switching between different user 6794 space processes. 6795 6796 seccomp 6797 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6798 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6799 they explicitly opt out. 6800 6801 seccomp,ibpb 6802 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6803 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6804 always when switching between different 6805 user space processes. 6806 6807 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6808 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6809 6810 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6811 6812 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6813 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6814 6815 spec_rstack_overflow= 6816 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6817 6818 off - Disable mitigation 6819 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6820 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6821 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6822 kernel entry 6823 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6824 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6825 6826 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6827 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6828 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6829 6830 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6831 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6832 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6833 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6834 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6835 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6836 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6837 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6838 6839 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6840 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6841 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6842 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6843 6844 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6845 Bypass optimization is used. 6846 6847 On x86 the options are: 6848 6849 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6850 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6851 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6852 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6853 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6854 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6855 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6856 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6857 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6858 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6859 for a process by default. The state of the control 6860 is inherited on fork. 6861 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6862 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6863 6864 Default mitigations: 6865 X86: "prctl" 6866 6867 On powerpc the options are: 6868 6869 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6870 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6871 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6872 exit. 6873 off - No action. 6874 6875 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6876 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6877 6878 split_lock_detect= 6879 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6880 6881 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6882 instructions that access data across cache line 6883 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6884 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6885 bus lock detection. 6886 6887 off - not enabled 6888 6889 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6890 about applications triggering the #AC 6891 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6892 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6893 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6894 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6895 enabled in hardware. 6896 6897 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6898 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6899 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6900 both features are enabled in hardware. 6901 6902 ratelimit:N - 6903 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6904 per second for bus lock detection. 6905 0 < N <= 1000. 6906 6907 N/A for split lock detection. 6908 6909 6910 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6911 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6912 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6913 mode. 6914 6915 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6916 CPL > 0. 6917 6918 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6919 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6920 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6921 6922 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6923 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6924 number generator. 6925 6926 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6927 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6928 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6929 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6930 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6931 6932 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6933 the following option: 6934 6935 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6936 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6937 6938 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6939 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6940 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6941 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6942 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6943 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6944 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6945 (decide at boot). 6946 6947 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6948 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6949 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6950 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6951 6952 0: Never. 6953 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6954 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6955 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6956 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6957 6958 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6959 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6960 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6961 6962 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6963 Specifies how frequently to check for 6964 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6965 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6966 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6967 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6968 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6969 are ignored. 6970 6971 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6972 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6973 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6974 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6975 grace period will be considered for automatic 6976 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6977 expediting. 6978 6979 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6980 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6981 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6982 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6983 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6984 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6985 6986 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6987 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6988 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6989 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6990 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6991 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6992 6993 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6994 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6995 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6996 6997 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6998 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6999 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 7000 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 7001 structure to big form. Note that the value of 7002 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 7003 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 7004 7005 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 7006 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 7007 7008 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 7009 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 7010 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 7011 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 7012 7013 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 7014 for both kernel and userspace 7015 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 7016 for both kernel and userspace 7017 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 7018 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 7019 to allow userspace to register its 7020 interest in being mitigated too. 7021 7022 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 7023 override the default stack gap protection. The value 7024 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 7025 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 7026 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 7027 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 7028 7029 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 7030 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 7031 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 7032 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 7033 to false. 7034 7035 stacktrace [FTRACE] 7036 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 7037 7038 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 7039 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 7040 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 7041 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 7042 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 7043 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 7044 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 7045 7046 sti= [PARISC,HW] 7047 Format: <num> 7048 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 7049 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 7050 as the initial boot-console. 7051 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 7052 7053 sti_font= [HW] 7054 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 7055 7056 stifb= [HW] 7057 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 7058 7059 strict_sas_size= 7060 [X86] 7061 Format: <bool> 7062 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 7063 against the required signal frame size which 7064 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 7065 be used to filter out binaries which have 7066 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 7067 7068 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 7069 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 7070 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 7071 faults on kernel addresses. 7072 7073 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 7074 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 7075 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 7076 on kernel addresses. 7077 7078 sunrpc.min_resvport= 7079 sunrpc.max_resvport= 7080 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7081 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 7082 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 7083 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 7084 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 7085 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 7086 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 7087 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 7088 maximum port values. 7089 7090 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 7091 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7092 Limit the number of requests that the server will 7093 process in parallel from a single connection. 7094 The default value is 0 (no limit). 7095 7096 sunrpc.pool_mode= 7097 [NFS] 7098 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 7099 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 7100 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 7101 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 7102 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 7103 NFS server is running. 7104 7105 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 7106 automatically using heuristics 7107 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 7108 percpu one pool for each CPU 7109 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 7110 to global on non-NUMA machines) 7111 7112 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 7113 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 7114 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7115 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 7116 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 7117 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 7118 improve throughput, but will also increase the 7119 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 7120 7121 suspend.pm_test_delay= 7122 [SUSPEND] 7123 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 7124 mode before resuming the system (see 7125 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 7126 is set. Default value is 5. 7127 7128 svm= [PPC] 7129 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 7130 This parameter controls use of the Protected 7131 Execution Facility on pSeries. 7132 7133 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 7134 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 7135 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 7136 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 7137 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 7138 to a power of 2. 7139 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 7140 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 7141 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 7142 7143 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 7144 7145 sysctl.*= [KNL] 7146 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 7147 process, as if the value was written to the respective 7148 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 7149 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 7150 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 7151 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 7152 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 7153 7154 sysrq_always_enabled 7155 [KNL] 7156 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 7157 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 7158 Useful for debugging. 7159 7160 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7161 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 7162 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 7163 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 7164 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 7165 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 7166 7167 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 7168 7169 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 7170 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 7171 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 7172 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 7173 as the system sleep state during system startup with 7174 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 7175 The system is woken from this state using a 7176 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 7177 7178 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7179 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 7180 7181 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 7182 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 7183 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 7184 7185 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 7186 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 7187 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 7188 7189 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 7190 1: disable ACPI thermal control 7191 7192 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 7193 -1: disable all passive trip points 7194 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 7195 value 7196 7197 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 7198 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 7199 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 7200 0: no polling (default) 7201 7202 thp_anon= [KNL] 7203 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state> 7204 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit". 7205 Control the default behavior of the system with respect 7206 to anonymous transparent hugepages. 7207 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes. 7208 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7209 details. 7210 7211 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 7212 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 7213 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 7214 7215 thp_shmem= [KNL] 7216 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy> 7217 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the 7218 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available 7219 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size", 7220 and "advise"). 7221 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes. 7222 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7223 details. 7224 7225 topology= [S390,EARLY] 7226 Format: {off | on} 7227 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 7228 topology information if the hardware supports this. 7229 The scheduler will make use of this information and 7230 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 7231 Default is on. 7232 7233 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 7234 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 7235 until after init has spawned. 7236 7237 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 7238 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 7239 even if there were no errors. This can be a 7240 very costly operation when many torture tests 7241 are running concurrently, especially on systems 7242 with rotating-rust storage. 7243 7244 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 7245 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 7246 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 7247 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 7248 7249 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 7250 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 7251 7252 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM] 7253 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical 7254 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of 7255 having an integrity protected session wrapped around 7256 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation 7257 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection 7258 causing a major performance hit, and the space where 7259 machines are deployed is by other means guarded. 7260 7261 tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM] 7262 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message 7263 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls 7264 how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM 7265 service is busy. 7266 Format: <unsigned int> 7267 Default: 2000 (2 seconds) 7268 7269 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 7270 Format: integer pcr id 7271 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 7272 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 7273 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 7274 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 7275 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 7276 are saved. 7277 7278 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 7279 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 7280 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 7281 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 7282 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 7283 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 7284 7285 tp_printk [FTRACE] 7286 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 7287 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 7288 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 7289 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 7290 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 7291 7292 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 7293 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 7294 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 7295 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 7296 7297 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 7298 to stop the printing of events to console at 7299 late_initcall_sync. 7300 7301 ** CAUTION ** 7302 7303 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 7304 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 7305 the system to live lock. 7306 7307 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 7308 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 7309 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 7310 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 7311 make the system inoperable. 7312 7313 This command line option will stop the printing of events 7314 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 7315 7316 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 7317 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 7318 7319 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 7320 at boot up. 7321 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 7322 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 7323 depending on the architecture, may not be 7324 in sync between CPUs. 7325 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 7326 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 7327 but better for some race conditions. 7328 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 7329 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 7330 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 7331 once per event. 7332 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 7333 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 7334 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7335 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 7336 stamps. 7337 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7338 Architectures may add more clocks. See 7339 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 7340 7341 trace_event=[event-list] 7342 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 7343 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 7344 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 7345 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 7346 7347 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword: 7348 7349 trace_event=:mod:<module> 7350 7351 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events 7352 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned 7353 document for more information. 7354 7355 trace_instance=[instance-info] 7356 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 7357 This will be listed in: 7358 7359 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 7360 7361 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 7362 via: 7363 7364 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 7365 7366 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 7367 unique. 7368 7369 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 7370 7371 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 7372 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 7373 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 7374 7375 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is 7376 created. The flags are separated by '^'. 7377 7378 The available flags are: 7379 7380 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created. 7381 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance 7382 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used) 7383 7384 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq 7385 7386 The flags must come before the defined events. 7387 7388 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance 7389 can use that memory: 7390 7391 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M 7392 7393 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical 7394 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that 7395 instance will be split up accordingly. 7396 7397 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option: 7398 7399 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace 7400 7401 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment 7402 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the 7403 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve 7404 the buffer content. 7405 7406 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between 7407 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer 7408 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel. 7409 7410 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled, 7411 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not 7412 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash 7413 at boot up). 7414 7415 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq 7416 7417 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system 7418 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION 7419 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored. 7420 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system 7421 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. 7422 7423 NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. 7424 7425 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst 7426 7427 7428 trace_options=[option-list] 7429 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 7430 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 7431 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 7432 to echo the option name into 7433 7434 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 7435 7436 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 7437 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 7438 7439 trace_options=stacktrace 7440 7441 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 7442 section. 7443 7444 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 7445 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 7446 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 7447 filter. 7448 7449 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 7450 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 7451 7452 For example: 7453 7454 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 7455 7456 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 7457 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 7458 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 7459 7460 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 7461 7462 7463 traceoff_after_boot 7464 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues 7465 during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a 7466 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to 7467 disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise 7468 the critical information may be overwritten. With this 7469 option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at 7470 the end of the boot process. 7471 7472 traceoff_on_warning 7473 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 7474 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 7475 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 7476 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 7477 7478 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 7479 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 7480 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 7481 7482 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 7483 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 7484 7485 transparent_hugepage= 7486 [KNL] 7487 Format: [always|madvise|never] 7488 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 7489 with respect to transparent hugepages. 7490 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7491 for more details. 7492 7493 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL] 7494 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force] 7495 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for 7496 the internal shmem mount. 7497 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7498 for more details. 7499 7500 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL] 7501 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never] 7502 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy 7503 for the tmpfs mount. 7504 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7505 for more details. 7506 7507 trusted.source= [KEYS] 7508 Format: <string> 7509 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 7510 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 7511 sources: 7512 - "tpm" 7513 - "tee" 7514 - "caam" 7515 - "dcp" 7516 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 7517 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 7518 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 7519 successfully during iteration. 7520 7521 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 7522 Format: <string> 7523 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 7524 Can be one of: 7525 - "kernel" 7526 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 7527 - "default" 7528 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 7529 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 7530 7531 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 7532 This is intended to be used in combination with 7533 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 7534 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 7535 7536 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 7537 This is intended to be used in combination with 7538 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 7539 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 7540 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 7541 scenarios. 7542 7543 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler 7544 Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your 7545 favourite search engine for more details: 7546 7547 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler 7548 attacks". 7549 7550 off - disable the mitigation 7551 on - enable the mitigation (default) 7552 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions 7553 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions 7554 7555 7556 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 7557 Format: <string> 7558 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 7559 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 7560 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 7561 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 7562 virtualized environment. 7563 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 7564 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 7565 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 7566 can add overhead. 7567 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 7568 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 7569 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 7570 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 7571 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 7572 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 7573 acceptable). 7574 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 7575 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 7576 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 7577 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 7578 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 7579 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 7580 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 7581 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 7582 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 7583 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 7584 7585 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 7586 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 7587 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 7588 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 7589 Format: <unsigned int> 7590 7591 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 7592 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 7593 support TSX control. 7594 7595 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 7596 7597 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 7598 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 7599 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 7600 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 7601 so there may be unknown security risks associated 7602 with leaving it enabled. 7603 7604 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 7605 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 7606 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 7607 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 7608 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 7609 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 7610 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 7611 7612 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 7613 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 7614 7615 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 7616 7617 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7618 for more details. 7619 7620 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 7621 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 7622 7623 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 7624 certain CPUs that support Transactional 7625 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 7626 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 7627 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 7628 conditions. 7629 7630 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 7631 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 7632 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 7633 access. 7634 7635 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 7636 options are: 7637 7638 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 7639 if TSX is enabled. 7640 7641 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 7642 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 7643 is not disabled because CPU is not 7644 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 7645 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 7646 7647 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 7648 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 7649 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 7650 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 7651 7652 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 7653 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 7654 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 7655 required and doesn't provide any additional 7656 mitigation. 7657 7658 For details see: 7659 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7660 7661 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 7662 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 7663 Format: 7664 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 7665 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 7666 7667 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 7668 happen after console_init() and before a proper 7669 console driver takes over, this boot options might 7670 help "seeing" what's going on. 7671 7672 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7673 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 7674 7675 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 7676 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7677 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7678 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7679 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7680 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7681 reported either. 7682 7683 unaligned_scalar_speed= 7684 [RISCV] 7685 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} 7686 Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This 7687 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip 7688 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All 7689 CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed. 7690 7691 unaligned_vector_speed= 7692 [RISCV] 7693 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} 7694 Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This 7695 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip 7696 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All 7697 CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed. 7698 7699 unknown_nmi_panic 7700 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7701 7702 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7703 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7704 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7705 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7706 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7707 7708 usbcore.authorized_default= 7709 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7710 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7711 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7712 if device connected to internal port) 7713 7714 usbcore.autosuspend= 7715 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7716 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7717 is the time required before an idle device will be 7718 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7719 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7720 7721 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7722 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7723 7724 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7725 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7726 (default = 65536). 7727 7728 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7729 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7730 7731 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7732 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7733 scheme (default 0 = off). 7734 7735 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7736 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7737 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7738 7739 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7740 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7741 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7742 7743 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7744 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7745 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7746 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7747 7748 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7749 7750 usbcore.quirks= 7751 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7752 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7753 commas. Each entry has the form 7754 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7755 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7756 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7757 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7758 the following meanings: 7759 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7760 descriptors must not be fetched using 7761 a 255-byte read); 7762 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7763 correctly so reset it instead); 7764 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7765 Set-Interface requests); 7766 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7767 handle its Configuration or Interface 7768 strings); 7769 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7770 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7771 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7772 more interface descriptions than the 7773 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7774 talking to these interfaces); 7775 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7776 during initialization, after we read 7777 the device descriptor); 7778 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7779 high speed and super speed interrupt 7780 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7781 require the interval in microframes (1 7782 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7783 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7784 (bInterval-1). 7785 Devices with this quirk report their 7786 bInterval as the result of this 7787 calculation instead of the exponent 7788 variable used in the calculation); 7789 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7790 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7791 requests); 7792 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7793 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7794 remote wakeup capability); 7795 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7796 Power Management); 7797 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7798 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7799 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7800 calculation); 7801 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7802 to be disconnected before suspend to 7803 prevent spurious wakeup); 7804 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7805 pause after every control message); 7806 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7807 delay after resetting its port); 7808 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7809 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7810 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7811 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7812 7813 usbhid.mousepoll= 7814 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7815 7816 usbhid.jspoll= 7817 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7818 7819 usbhid.kbpoll= 7820 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7821 7822 usb-storage.delay_use= 7823 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7824 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7825 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7826 suffix with "ms". 7827 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7828 7829 usb-storage.quirks= 7830 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7831 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7832 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7833 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7834 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7835 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7836 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7837 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7838 of sense data, not on uas); 7839 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7840 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7841 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7842 device capacity by one sector); 7843 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7844 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7845 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7846 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7847 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7848 command, uas only); 7849 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7850 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7851 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7852 reported device capacity by one 7853 sector if the number is odd); 7854 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7855 device); 7856 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7857 command, uas only); 7858 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7859 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7860 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7861 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7862 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7863 not on uas); 7864 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7865 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7866 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7867 reported by the device, not on uas); 7868 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7869 by default, not on uas); 7870 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7871 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7872 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7873 Logical Unit); 7874 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7875 commands, uas only); 7876 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7877 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7878 medium is write-protected). 7879 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7880 even if the device claims no cache, 7881 not on uas) 7882 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7883 7884 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7885 Format: <int> 7886 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7887 1 - undefined instruction events 7888 2 - system calls 7889 4 - invalid data aborts 7890 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7891 16 - SIGBUS faults 7892 Example: user_debug=31 7893 7894 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7895 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7896 7897 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7898 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7899 7900 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7901 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7902 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7903 7904 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7905 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7906 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7907 7908 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7909 alias for vdso32=0. 7910 7911 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7912 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7913 7914 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7915 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7916 7917 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7918 Format: [0|1] 7919 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7920 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7921 level and then send out the event to user space through 7922 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7923 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7924 brightness level. 7925 default: 1 7926 7927 virtio_mmio.device= 7928 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7929 7930 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7931 where: 7932 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7933 like K, M and G) 7934 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7935 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7936 request_irq()) 7937 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7938 example: 7939 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7940 7941 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7942 7943 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7944 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7945 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7946 Use vga=ask for menu. 7947 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7948 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7949 7950 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7951 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7952 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7953 All options are enabled by default, and this 7954 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7955 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7956 debugging features. 7957 7958 Available options are: 7959 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7960 - Disable all of the above options 7961 7962 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7963 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7964 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7965 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7966 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7967 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7968 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7969 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7970 7971 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7972 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7973 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7974 7975 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7976 Format: <command> 7977 7978 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7979 Format: <command> 7980 7981 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7982 Format: <command> 7983 7984 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7985 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7986 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7987 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7988 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7989 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7990 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7991 7992 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7993 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7994 readable. 7995 7996 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7997 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7998 page is not readable. 7999 8000 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 8001 them quite hard to use for exploits but 8002 might break your system. 8003 8004 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 8005 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 8006 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 8007 8008 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 8009 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 8010 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 8011 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline. 8012 8013 vt.default_blu= [VT] 8014 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 8015 Change the default blue palette of the console. 8016 This is a 16-member array composed of values 8017 ranging from 0-255. 8018 8019 vt.default_grn= [VT] 8020 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 8021 Change the default green palette of the console. 8022 This is a 16-member array composed of values 8023 ranging from 0-255. 8024 8025 vt.default_red= [VT] 8026 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 8027 Change the default red palette of the console. 8028 This is a 16-member array composed of values 8029 ranging from 0-255. 8030 8031 vt.default_utf8= 8032 [VT] 8033 Format=<0|1> 8034 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 8035 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 8036 newly opened terminals. 8037 8038 vt.global_cursor_default= 8039 [VT] 8040 Format=<-1|0|1> 8041 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 8042 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 8043 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 8044 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 8045 cursors, 1 will display them. 8046 8047 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 8048 Default: 2 = green. 8049 8050 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 8051 Default: 3 = cyan. 8052 8053 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 8054 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 8055 or other driver-specific files in the 8056 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 8057 8058 watchdog_thresh= 8059 [KNL] 8060 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 8061 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 8062 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 8063 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 8064 seconds. 8065 8066 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 8067 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 8068 to use in unbound workqueues. 8069 Format: <cpu-list> 8070 By default, all online CPUs are available for 8071 unbound workqueues. 8072 8073 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 8074 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 8075 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 8076 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 8077 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 8078 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 8079 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 8080 corresponding sysfs file. 8081 8082 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 8083 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 8084 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 8085 stall to trigger panic. 8086 8087 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 8088 8089 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 8090 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 8091 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 8092 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 8093 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 8094 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 8095 8096 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 8097 will report the work functions which violate this 8098 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 8099 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 8100 8101 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 8102 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 8103 will report the work functions which violate the 8104 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 8105 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 8106 function has violated this threshold number of times. 8107 8108 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 8109 8110 workqueue.power_efficient 8111 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 8112 they show better performance thanks to cache 8113 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 8114 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 8115 8116 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 8117 were observed to contribute significantly to power 8118 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 8119 power usage at the cost of small performance 8120 overhead. 8121 8122 The default value of this parameter is determined by 8123 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 8124 8125 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 8126 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 8127 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 8128 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 8129 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 8130 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 8131 8132 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 8133 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 8134 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 8135 updated accordingly. 8136 8137 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 8138 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 8139 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 8140 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 8141 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 8142 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 8143 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 8144 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 8145 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 8146 impacted. 8147 8148 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 8149 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 8150 8151 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 8152 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 8153 8154 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 8155 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 8156 supporting x2apic. 8157 8158 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 8159 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 8160 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 8161 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 8162 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 8163 domains. 8164 8165 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 8166 Unplug Xen emulated devices 8167 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 8168 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 8169 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 8170 nics -- unplug network devices 8171 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 8172 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 8173 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 8174 the unplug protocol 8175 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 8176 8177 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8178 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 8179 panic() code such as dumping handler. 8180 8181 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8182 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 8183 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 8184 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 8185 debug data in case of multicall errors. 8186 8187 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8188 Format: <bool> 8189 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 8190 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 8191 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 8192 8193 xen_nopv [X86] 8194 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 8195 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 8196 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 8197 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 8198 8199 xen_no_vector_callback 8200 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 8201 event channel interrupts. 8202 8203 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 8204 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 8205 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 8206 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 8207 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 8208 8209 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 8210 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 8211 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 8212 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 8213 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 8214 more timer interrupts. 8215 8216 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 8217 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 8218 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 8219 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 8220 started with less memory configured than allowed at 8221 max. Default is 180. 8222 8223 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 8224 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 8225 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 8226 8227 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 8228 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 8229 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 8230 8231 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 8232 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 8233 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 8234 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 8235 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 8236 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 8237 8238 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 8239 Format: 8240 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 8241 8242 xive= [PPC] 8243 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 8244 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 8245 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 8246 8247 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 8248 controller on both pseries and powernv 8249 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 8250 8251 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 8252 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 8253 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 8254 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 8255 loads instead, as on POWER9. 8256 8257 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 8258 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 8259 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 8260 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 8261 8262 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 8263 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 8264 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 8265 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 8266 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 8267 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 8268 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8269 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 8270 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 8271 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 8272 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8273 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 8274 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 8275 can be written using xmon commands. 8276 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 8277 memory, and other data can't be written using 8278 xmon commands. 8279 off xmon is disabled. 8280