1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 325 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 326 327 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 328 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 329 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 330 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 331 IOMMU initialization. 332 333 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 334 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 335 remapping modes: 336 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 337 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 338 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 339 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 340 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 341 342 amd_pstate= [X86] 343 disable 344 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 345 scaling driver for the supported processors 346 passive 347 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 348 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 349 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 350 tries to match the same performance level if it is 351 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 352 active 353 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 354 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 355 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 356 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 357 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 358 frequency. 359 guided 360 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 361 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 362 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 363 to the current workload. 364 365 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 366 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 367 Format: <a>,<b> 368 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 369 370 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 371 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 372 connected to one of 16 gameports 373 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 374 375 apc= [HW,SPARC] 376 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 377 Format: noidle 378 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 379 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 380 APC and your system crashes randomly. 381 382 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 383 Change the output verbosity while booting 384 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 385 Change the amount of debugging information output 386 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 387 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 388 driver name. 389 Format: apic=driver_name 390 Examples: apic=bigsmp 391 392 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 393 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 394 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 395 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 396 backup of CPU 0 397 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 398 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 399 shot down by NMI 400 401 autoconf= [IPV6] 402 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 403 404 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 405 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 406 407 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 408 Format: { "0" | "1" } 409 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 410 0 -- disable. 411 1 -- enable. 412 Default value is set via kernel config option. 413 414 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 415 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 416 417 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 418 Identification support 419 420 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 421 support 422 423 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 424 support 425 426 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 427 Extension support 428 429 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 430 Extension support 431 432 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 433 Set instructions support 434 435 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 436 437 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 438 439 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 440 EzKey and similar keyboards 441 442 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 443 444 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 445 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 446 447 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 448 keyboards 449 450 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 451 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 452 453 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 454 Use software keyboard repeat 455 456 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 457 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 458 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 459 enabled until the next reboot 460 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 461 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 462 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 463 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 464 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 465 userspace auditd. 466 Default: unset 467 468 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 469 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 470 Default: 64 471 472 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 473 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 474 Format: { "0" | "1" } 475 0 - Disable the BAU. 476 1 - Enable the BAU. 477 unset - Disable the BAU. 478 479 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 480 Format: <io>,<mode> 481 482 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 483 Format: <io>,<mode> 484 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 485 486 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 487 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 488 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 489 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 490 491 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 492 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 493 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 494 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 495 496 bert_disable [ACPI] 497 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 498 499 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 500 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 501 502 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 503 embedded devices based on command line input. 504 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 505 506 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 507 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 508 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 509 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 510 erroneous and ignored. 511 Format: integer 512 513 bootconfig [KNL] 514 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 515 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 516 517 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 518 519 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 520 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 521 kernel args too. 522 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 523 bttv.tuner= 524 525 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 526 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 527 at a time. 528 529 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 530 531 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 532 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 533 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 534 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 535 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 536 This option provides an override for these situations. 537 538 carrier_timeout= 539 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 540 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 541 it waits 120 seconds. 542 543 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 544 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 545 trust validation. 546 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 547 548 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 549 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 550 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 551 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 552 others). 553 554 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 555 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 556 557 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 558 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 559 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 560 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 561 a single hierarchy 562 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 563 subsystem 564 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 565 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 566 created 567 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 568 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 569 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 570 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 571 stall information accounting feature 572 573 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 574 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 575 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 576 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 577 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 578 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 579 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 580 all v1 hierarchies. 581 582 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 583 Format: <string> 584 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 585 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 586 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 587 588 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 589 Format: { "0" | "1" } 590 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 591 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 592 any implied execute protection). 593 1 -- check protection requested by application. 594 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 595 Value can be changed at runtime via 596 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 597 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 598 599 cio_ignore= [S390] 600 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 601 602 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 603 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 604 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 605 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 606 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 607 ones should be. 608 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 609 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 610 instability issue. However, not all features have names 611 in /proc/cpuinfo. 612 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 613 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 614 or using the feature without checking anything 615 will still see it. This just prevents it from 616 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 617 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 618 some critical bits. 619 620 clk_ignore_unused 621 [CLK] 622 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 623 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 624 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 625 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 626 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 627 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 628 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 629 platform with proper driver support. For more 630 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 631 632 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 633 [Deprecated] 634 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 635 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 636 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 637 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 638 639 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 640 Format: <string> 641 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 642 with the name specified. 643 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 644 the platform: 645 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 646 [ACPI] acpi_pm 647 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 648 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 649 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 650 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 651 [MIPS] MIPS 652 [PARISC] cr16 653 [S390] tod 654 [SH] SuperH 655 [SPARC64] tick 656 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 657 658 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 659 [ARM,ARM64] 660 Format: <bool> 661 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 662 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 663 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 664 systems. 665 666 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 667 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 668 external delays before the clock will be marked 669 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 670 three attempts to read the clock under test. 671 672 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 673 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 674 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 675 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 676 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 677 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 678 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 679 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 680 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 681 682 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 683 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 684 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 685 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 686 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 687 688 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 689 [KNL,CMA] 690 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 691 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 692 placement constraint by the physical address range of 693 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 694 altogether. For more information, see 695 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 696 697 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 698 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 699 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 700 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 701 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 702 specified, the default value is 0. 703 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 704 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 705 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 706 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 707 708 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 709 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 710 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 711 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 712 a hypervisor. 713 Default: yes 714 715 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 716 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 717 allocations, by default set to 256K. 718 719 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 720 Format: 721 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 722 723 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 724 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 725 726 com90xx= [HW,NET] 727 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 728 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 729 730 condev= [HW,S390] console device 731 conmode= 732 733 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 734 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 735 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 736 the console buffer is full. In this case the 737 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 738 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 739 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 740 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 741 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 742 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 743 744 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 745 746 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 747 748 ttyS<n>[,options] 749 ttyUSB0[,options] 750 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 751 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 752 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 753 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 754 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 755 756 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 757 information. See 758 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 759 alternative. 760 761 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 762 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 763 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 764 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 765 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 766 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 767 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 768 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 769 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 770 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 771 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 772 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 773 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 774 the h/w is not re-initialized. 775 776 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 777 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 778 779 { null | "" } 780 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 781 console messages discarded. 782 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 783 kernel command line. 784 785 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 786 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 787 console=brl,ttyS0 788 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 789 790 console_msg_format= 791 [KNL] Change console messages format 792 default 793 By default we print messages on consoles in 794 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 795 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 796 `printk_time' param). 797 syslog 798 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 799 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 800 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 801 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 802 from /proc/kmsg. 803 804 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 805 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 806 Defaults to 0. 807 808 coredump_filter= 809 [KNL] Change the default value for 810 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 811 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 812 813 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 814 [ARM,ARM64] 815 Format: <bool> 816 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 817 0: default value, disable debugging 818 1: enable debugging at boot time 819 820 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 821 Format: 822 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 823 824 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 825 disable the cpuidle sub-system 826 827 cpuidle.governor= 828 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 829 830 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 831 disable the cpufreq sub-system 832 833 cpufreq.default_governor= 834 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 835 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 836 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 837 838 cpu_init_udelay=N 839 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 840 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 841 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 842 Default: 10000 843 844 cpuhp.parallel= 845 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 846 Format: <bool> 847 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 848 the parameter has no effect. 849 850 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 851 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 852 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 853 succeeds in any situation. 854 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 855 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 856 kernel more unstable. 857 858 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 859 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 860 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 861 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 862 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 863 is selected automatically. 864 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and 865 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 866 hasn't been specified. 867 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 868 869 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 870 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 871 in the running system. The syntax of range is 872 start-[end] where start and end are both 873 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 874 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 875 876 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 877 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 878 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 879 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 880 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 881 available. 882 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 883 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 884 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 885 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 886 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 887 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 888 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 889 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 890 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 891 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 892 size is platform dependent. 893 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 894 --> arm64: 128MiB 895 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 896 for second kernel instead. 897 0: to disable low allocation. 898 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 899 or memory reserved is below 4G. 900 901 cryptomgr.notests 902 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 903 904 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 905 Format: <dma> 906 907 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 908 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 909 910 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 911 function call handling. When switched on, 912 additional debug data is printed to the console 913 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 914 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 915 the hang situation. The default value of this 916 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 917 Kconfig option. 918 919 dasd= [HW,NET] 920 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 921 922 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 923 (one device per port) 924 Format: <port#>,<type> 925 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 926 927 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 928 929 debug_boot_weak_hash 930 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 931 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 932 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 933 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 934 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 935 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 936 937 debug_locks_verbose= 938 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 939 Format: <int> 940 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 941 self-tests. 942 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 943 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 944 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 945 useful to lockdep developers. 946 947 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 948 949 debug_guardpage_minorder= 950 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 951 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 952 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 953 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 954 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 955 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 956 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 957 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 958 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 959 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 960 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 961 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 962 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 963 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 964 bypassed) which are not detectable by 965 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 966 tracking down these problems. 967 968 debug_pagealloc= 969 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 970 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 971 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 972 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 973 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 974 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 975 on: enable the feature 976 977 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 978 and debugfs internal clients. 979 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 980 on: All functions are enabled. 981 no-mount: 982 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 983 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 984 its content. There is nothing to mount. 985 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 986 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 987 or directories within debugfs. 988 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 989 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 990 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 991 992 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 993 994 default_hugepagesz= 995 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 996 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 997 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 998 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 999 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1000 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1001 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1002 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1003 Format: size[KMG] 1004 1005 deferred_probe_timeout= 1006 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1007 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1008 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1009 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1010 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1011 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1012 successful driver registration. This option will also 1013 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1014 retrying. 1015 1016 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1019 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1020 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1021 hardware. 1022 1023 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1024 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1025 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1026 blacklisted features. 1027 1028 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1029 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1030 (disabled by default). 1031 1032 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1033 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1034 capability is set. 1035 1036 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1037 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1038 1039 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1040 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1041 1042 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1043 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1044 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1045 level 1 and decompression (default) 1046 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1047 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1048 only (compression on level 1) 1049 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1050 only (decompression) 1051 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1052 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1053 1054 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1055 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1056 1057 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1058 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1059 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1060 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1061 miss to occur. 1062 1063 disable= [IPV6] 1064 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1065 1066 disable_radix [PPC] 1067 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1068 1069 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1070 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1071 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1072 1073 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1074 Format: <int> 1075 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1076 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1077 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1078 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1079 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1080 INIT from AP to BSP. 1081 1082 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1083 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1084 to workaround buggy firmware. 1085 1086 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1087 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1088 1089 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1090 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1091 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1092 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1093 1094 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1095 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1096 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1097 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1098 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1099 1100 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1101 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1102 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1103 1104 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1105 1106 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1107 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1108 1109 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1110 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1111 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1112 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1113 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1114 architectural default is too low. 1115 1116 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1117 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1118 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1119 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1120 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1121 driver later using sysfs. 1122 1123 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1124 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1125 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1126 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1127 match the *. 1128 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1129 1130 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1131 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1132 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1133 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1134 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1135 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1136 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1137 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1138 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1139 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1140 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1141 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1142 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1143 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1144 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1145 data set with no connector name will be used for 1146 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1147 1148 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1149 1150 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1151 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1152 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1153 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1154 exists). 1155 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1156 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1157 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1158 1159 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1160 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1161 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1162 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1163 1164 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1165 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1166 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1167 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1168 for details. 1169 1170 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1171 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1172 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1173 which are not unmapped. 1174 1175 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1176 1177 When used with no options, the early console is 1178 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1179 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1180 the platform. 1181 1182 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1183 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1184 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1185 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1186 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1187 configured. 1188 1189 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1190 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1191 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1192 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1193 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1194 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1195 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1196 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1197 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1198 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1199 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1200 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1201 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1202 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1203 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1204 1205 pl011,<addr> 1206 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1207 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1208 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1209 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1210 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1211 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1212 the device registers. 1213 1214 liteuart,<addr> 1215 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1216 specified address. The serial port must already be 1217 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1218 1219 meson,<addr> 1220 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1221 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1222 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1223 supported. 1224 1225 msm_serial,<addr> 1226 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1227 port at the specified address. The serial port 1228 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1229 yet supported. 1230 1231 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1232 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1233 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1234 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1235 yet supported. 1236 1237 owl,<addr> 1238 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1239 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1240 specified address. The serial port must already be 1241 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1242 1243 rda,<addr> 1244 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1245 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1246 specified address. The serial port must already be 1247 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1248 1249 sbi 1250 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1251 console. 1252 1253 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1254 1255 s3c2410,<addr> 1256 s3c2412,<addr> 1257 s3c2440,<addr> 1258 s3c6400,<addr> 1259 s5pv210,<addr> 1260 exynos4210,<addr> 1261 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1262 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1263 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1264 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1265 Options are not yet supported. 1266 1267 lantiq,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1269 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1270 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1271 yet supported. 1272 1273 lpuart,<addr> 1274 lpuart32,<addr> 1275 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1276 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1277 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1278 port must already be setup and configured. 1279 1280 ec_imx21,<addr> 1281 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1282 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1283 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1284 must already be setup and configured. 1285 1286 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1287 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1288 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1289 address. The serial port must already be setup 1290 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1291 1292 qcom_geni,<addr> 1293 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1294 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1295 specified address. The serial port must already be 1296 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1297 1298 efifb,[options] 1299 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1300 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1301 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1302 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1303 mapped with the correct attributes. 1304 1305 linflex,<addr> 1306 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1307 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1308 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1309 already be setup and configured. 1310 1311 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1312 earlyprintk=vga 1313 earlyprintk=sclp 1314 earlyprintk=xen 1315 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1316 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1317 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1318 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1319 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1320 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1321 1322 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1323 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1324 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1325 1326 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1327 takes over. 1328 1329 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1330 be used at a time. 1331 1332 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1333 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1334 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1335 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1336 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1337 You can find the port for a given device in 1338 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1339 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1340 1341 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1342 very good. 1343 1344 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1345 the real console. 1346 1347 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1348 1349 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1350 1351 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1352 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1353 UART class. 1354 1355 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1356 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1357 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1358 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1359 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1360 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1361 default: on. 1362 1363 edd= [EDD] 1364 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1365 1366 efi= [EFI] 1367 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1368 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1369 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1370 debug: enable misc debug output. 1371 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1372 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1373 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1374 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1375 firmware implementations. 1376 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1377 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1378 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1379 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1380 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1381 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1382 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1383 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1384 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1385 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1386 1387 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1388 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1389 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1390 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1391 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1392 1393 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1394 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1395 updating original EFI memory map. 1396 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1397 from ss to ss+nn. 1398 1399 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1400 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1401 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1402 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1403 1404 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1405 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1406 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1407 1408 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1409 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1410 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1411 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1412 "soft reserved". 1413 1414 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1415 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1416 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1417 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1418 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1419 1420 1421 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1422 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1423 1424 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1425 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1426 1427 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1428 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1429 1430 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1431 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1432 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1433 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1434 1435 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1436 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1437 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1438 1439 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1440 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1441 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1442 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1443 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1444 1445 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1446 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1447 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1448 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1449 1450 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1451 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1452 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1453 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1454 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1455 1456 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1457 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1458 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1459 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1460 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1461 Default value is 0. 1462 Value can be changed at runtime via 1463 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1464 1465 erst_disable [ACPI] 1466 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1467 support. 1468 1469 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1470 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1471 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1472 1473 evm= [EVM] 1474 Format: { "fix" } 1475 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1476 current integrity status. 1477 1478 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1479 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1480 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1481 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1482 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1483 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1484 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1485 1486 failslab= 1487 fail_usercopy= 1488 fail_page_alloc= 1489 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1490 General fault injection mechanism. 1491 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1492 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1493 1494 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1495 Format: { initns | none } 1496 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1497 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1498 1499 floppy= [HW] 1500 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1501 1502 force_pal_cache_flush 1503 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1504 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1505 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1506 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1507 1508 forcepae [X86-32] 1509 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1510 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1511 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1512 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1513 and may cause unknown problems. 1514 1515 ftrace=[tracer] 1516 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1517 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1518 boot debugging. 1519 1520 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1521 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1522 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1523 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1524 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1525 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1526 start up functionality. 1527 1528 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1529 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1530 line parameter. 1531 1532 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1533 1534 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1535 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1536 1537 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1538 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1539 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1540 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1541 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1542 oops. 1543 1544 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1545 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1546 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1547 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1548 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1549 tracing directory. 1550 1551 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1552 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1553 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1554 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1555 tracing directory. 1556 1557 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1558 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1559 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1560 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1561 that can be changed at run time by the 1562 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1563 1564 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1565 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1566 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1567 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1568 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1569 1570 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1571 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1572 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1573 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1574 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1575 1576 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1577 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1578 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1579 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1580 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1581 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1582 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1583 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1584 suppliers). 1585 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1586 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1587 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1588 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1589 up (sync_state() calls). 1590 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1591 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1592 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1593 1594 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1595 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1596 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1597 Format: <bool> 1598 1599 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1600 [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished 1601 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1602 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1603 calls. 1604 Format: { strict | timeout } 1605 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1606 probe successfully. 1607 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1608 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1609 received their sync_state() calls after 1610 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1611 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1612 1613 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1614 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1615 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1616 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1617 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1618 1619 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1620 1621 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1622 Format: off | on 1623 default: on 1624 1625 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1626 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1627 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1628 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1629 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1630 1631 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1632 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1633 android emulator 1634 1635 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1636 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1637 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1638 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1639 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1640 1641 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1642 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1643 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1644 GPT to be used instead. 1645 1646 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1647 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1648 Format: 0 | 1 1649 Default: 0 1650 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1651 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1652 Format: 0 | 1 1653 Default: 0 1654 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1655 Format: 0 | 1 1656 Default: 0 1657 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1658 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1659 Default: 1024 1660 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1661 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1662 Default: 1024 1663 1664 hardened_usercopy= 1665 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1666 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1667 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1668 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1669 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1670 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1671 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1672 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1673 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1674 1675 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1676 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1677 backtraces on all cpus. 1678 Format: 0 | 1 1679 1680 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1681 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1682 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1683 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1684 1685 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1686 1687 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1688 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1689 1690 hest_disable [ACPI] 1691 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1692 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1693 logic will be disabled. 1694 1695 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1696 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1697 present during boot. 1698 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1699 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1700 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1701 (that will set all pages holding image data 1702 during restoration read-only). 1703 1704 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1705 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1706 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1707 size on bigger boxes. 1708 1709 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1710 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1711 Default: "on" 1712 1713 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1714 1715 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1716 Format: <string> 1717 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1718 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1719 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1720 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1721 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1722 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1723 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1724 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1725 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1726 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1727 1728 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1729 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1730 verbose } 1731 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1732 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1733 VIA, nVidia) 1734 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1735 1736 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1737 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1738 1739 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1740 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1741 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1742 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1743 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1744 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1745 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1746 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1747 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1748 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1749 1750 hugepagesz= 1751 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1752 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1753 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1754 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1755 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1756 architecture dependent. See also 1757 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1758 Format: size[KMG] 1759 1760 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1761 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1762 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1763 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1764 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1765 1766 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1767 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1768 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1769 1770 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1771 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1772 enabled. 1773 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1774 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1775 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1776 Format: { on | off (default) } 1777 1778 on: enable HVO 1779 off: disable HVO 1780 1781 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1782 the default is on. 1783 1784 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1785 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1786 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1787 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1788 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1789 1790 hung_task_panic= 1791 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1792 Format: 0 | 1 1793 1794 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1795 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1796 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1797 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1798 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1799 1800 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1801 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1802 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1803 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1804 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1805 1806 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1807 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1808 guest on lock contention. 1809 1810 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1811 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1812 registered from board initialization code. 1813 Format: 1814 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1815 1816 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1817 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1818 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1819 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1820 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1821 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1822 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1823 keyboard and cannot control its state 1824 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1825 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1826 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1827 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1828 for the AUX port 1829 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1830 controller 1831 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1832 controllers 1833 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1834 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1835 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1836 transitions, or never reset 1837 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1838 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1839 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1840 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1841 architectures force reset to be always executed 1842 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1843 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1844 i8042.probe_defer 1845 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1846 1847 i810= [HW,DRM] 1848 1849 i915.invert_brightness= 1850 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1851 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1852 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1853 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1854 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1855 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1856 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1857 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1858 value switches the backlight off. 1859 -1 -- never invert brightness 1860 0 -- machine default 1861 1 -- force brightness inversion 1862 1863 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1864 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1865 1866 1867 idle= [X86] 1868 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1869 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1870 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1871 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1872 Not recommended. 1873 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1874 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1875 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1876 1877 idxd.sva= [HW] 1878 Format: <bool> 1879 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1880 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1881 true (1). 1882 1883 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1884 Format: <bool> 1885 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1886 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1887 1888 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1889 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1890 Default: strict 1891 1892 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1893 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1894 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1895 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1896 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1897 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1898 encoding mode. 1899 1900 Available settings are as follows: 1901 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1902 supported by the FPU 1903 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1904 by the FPU 1905 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1906 by the FPU 1907 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1908 supported by the FPU 1909 1910 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1911 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1912 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1913 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1914 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1915 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1916 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1917 MIPS64 CPUs. 1918 1919 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1920 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1921 except where unsupported by hardware. 1922 1923 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1924 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1925 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1926 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1927 could change it dynamically, usually by 1928 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1929 1930 ignore_rlimit_data 1931 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1932 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1933 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1934 1935 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1936 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1937 1938 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1939 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1940 default: "enforce" 1941 1942 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1943 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1944 owned by uid=0. 1945 1946 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1947 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1948 measurements, instead of host native format. 1949 1950 ima_hash= [IMA] 1951 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1952 | sha512 | ... } 1953 default: "sha1" 1954 1955 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1956 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1957 1958 ima_policy= [IMA] 1959 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1960 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1961 fail_securely | critical_data" 1962 1963 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1964 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1965 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1966 uid=0. 1967 1968 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1969 all files owned by root. 1970 1971 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1972 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1973 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1974 1975 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1976 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1977 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1978 flag. 1979 1980 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1981 critical data. 1982 1983 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1984 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1985 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1986 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1987 opened for read by uid=0. 1988 1989 ima_template= [IMA] 1990 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1991 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1992 "ima-sigv2" } 1993 Default: "ima-ng" 1994 1995 ima_template_fmt= 1996 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1997 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1998 1999 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2000 Format: <min_file_size> 2001 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2002 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2003 2004 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2005 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2006 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2007 2008 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2009 Format: <bufsize> 2010 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2011 2012 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2013 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2014 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2015 2016 init= [KNL] 2017 Format: <full_path> 2018 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2019 process. 2020 2021 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2022 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2023 startup. 2024 2025 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2026 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2027 modules and initcalls. 2028 2029 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2030 Format: <bool> 2031 Default: 1 2032 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2033 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2034 with devices being probed and 2035 initialized. This should normally just work, 2036 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2037 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2038 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2039 late_ initcalls. 2040 2041 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2042 2043 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2044 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2045 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2046 setting. 2047 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2048 Default is 0, 0 2049 2050 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2051 zeroes. 2052 Format: 0 | 1 2053 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2054 2055 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2056 Format: 0 | 1 2057 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2058 2059 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2060 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2061 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2062 override in debugfs after boot. 2063 2064 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2065 Format: <irq> 2066 2067 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2068 2069 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2070 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2071 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2072 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2073 2074 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2075 on 2076 Enable intel iommu driver. 2077 off 2078 Disable intel iommu driver. 2079 igfx_off [Default Off] 2080 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2081 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2082 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2083 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2084 DMA. 2085 strict [Default Off] 2086 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2087 sp_off [Default Off] 2088 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2089 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2090 not be supported. 2091 sm_on 2092 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2093 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2094 translation. 2095 sm_off 2096 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2097 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2098 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2099 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2100 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2101 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2102 mapping is enabled. 2103 Note that using this option lowers the security 2104 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2105 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2106 2107 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2108 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2109 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2110 2111 intel_pstate= [X86] 2112 disable 2113 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2114 scaling driver for the supported processors 2115 passive 2116 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2117 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2118 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2119 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2120 feature. 2121 force 2122 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2123 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2124 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2125 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2126 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2127 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2128 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2129 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2130 no_hwp 2131 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2132 if available. 2133 hwp_only 2134 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2135 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2136 support_acpi_ppc 2137 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2138 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2139 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2140 then this feature is turned on by default. 2141 per_cpu_perf_limits 2142 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2143 cpufreq sysfs interface 2144 2145 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2146 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2147 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2148 nosid disable Source ID checking 2149 no_x2apic_optout 2150 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2151 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2152 2153 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2154 strict regions from userspace. 2155 relaxed 2156 2157 iommu= [X86] 2158 off 2159 force 2160 noforce 2161 biomerge 2162 panic 2163 nopanic 2164 merge 2165 nomerge 2166 soft 2167 pt [X86] 2168 nopt [X86] 2169 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2170 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2171 2172 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2173 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2174 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2175 falling back to the full range if needed. 2176 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2177 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2178 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2179 2180 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2181 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2182 0 - Lazy mode. 2183 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2184 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2185 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2186 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2187 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2188 1 - Strict mode. 2189 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2190 synchronously. 2191 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2192 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2193 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2194 2195 iommu.passthrough= 2196 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2197 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2198 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2199 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2200 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2201 2202 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2203 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2204 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2205 2206 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2207 0x80 2208 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2209 0xed 2210 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2211 udelay 2212 Simple two microseconds delay 2213 none 2214 No delay 2215 2216 ip= [IP_PNP] 2217 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2218 2219 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2220 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2221 2222 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2223 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2224 2225 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2226 [ARM, ARM64] 2227 Format: <bool> 2228 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2229 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2230 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2231 2232 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2233 [ARM, ARM64] 2234 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2235 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2236 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2237 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2238 LPIs. 2239 2240 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2241 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2242 requires the kernel to be built with 2243 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2244 2245 irqfixup [HW] 2246 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2247 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2248 firmware running. 2249 2250 irqpoll [HW] 2251 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2252 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2253 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2254 firmware running. 2255 2256 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2257 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2258 2259 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2260 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2261 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2262 2263 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2264 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2265 2266 nohz 2267 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2268 2269 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2270 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2271 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2272 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2273 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2274 2275 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2276 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2277 be configured manually after bootup. 2278 2279 domain 2280 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2281 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2282 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2283 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2284 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2285 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2286 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2287 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2288 2289 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2290 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2291 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2292 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2293 2294 managed_irq 2295 2296 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2297 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2298 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2299 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2300 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2301 2302 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2303 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2304 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2305 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2306 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2307 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2308 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2309 2310 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2311 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2312 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2313 only delivered when tasks running on those 2314 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2315 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2316 queues. 2317 2318 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2319 2320 iucv= [HW,NET] 2321 2322 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2323 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2324 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2325 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2326 2327 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2328 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2329 write the parameter as: 2330 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2331 2332 Deprecated formats: 2333 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2334 write the parameter as: 2335 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2336 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2337 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2338 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2339 2340 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2341 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2342 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2343 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2344 2345 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2346 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2347 write the parameter as: 2348 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2349 2350 Deprecated formats: 2351 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2352 write the parameter as: 2353 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2354 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2355 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2356 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2357 2358 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2359 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2360 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2361 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2362 2363 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2364 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2365 write the parameter as: 2366 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2367 2368 Deprecated formats: 2369 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2370 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2371 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2372 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2373 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2374 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2375 2376 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2377 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2378 2379 kasan_multi_shot 2380 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2381 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2382 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2383 invalid access. 2384 2385 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2386 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2387 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2388 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2389 the real console. 2390 2391 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2392 2393 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2394 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2395 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2396 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2397 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2398 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2399 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2400 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2401 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2402 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2403 2404 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2405 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2406 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2407 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2408 zone if it does not. 2409 2410 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2411 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2412 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2413 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2414 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2415 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2416 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2417 2418 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2419 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2420 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2421 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2422 optional and is the number seconds in between 2423 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2424 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2425 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2426 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2427 the kernel debugger. 2428 2429 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2430 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2431 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2432 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2433 keyboard only format: kbd 2434 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2435 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2436 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2437 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2438 2439 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2440 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2441 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2442 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2443 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2444 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2445 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2446 2447 The name of the early console should be specified 2448 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2449 the early console might be different than the tty 2450 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2451 blank and the first boot console that implements 2452 read() will be picked. 2453 2454 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2455 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2456 2457 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2458 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2459 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2460 2461 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2462 Valid arguments: on, off 2463 Default: on 2464 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2465 the default is off. 2466 2467 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2468 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2469 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2470 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2471 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2472 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2473 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2474 2475 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2476 2477 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2478 Boot Parameter" section. 2479 2480 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2481 and kernel address spaces. 2482 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2483 0: force disabled 2484 1: force enabled 2485 2486 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2487 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2488 default value can be overridden via 2489 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2490 Default is 1 (enabled) 2491 2492 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2493 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2494 2495 kvm.eager_page_split= 2496 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2497 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2498 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2499 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2500 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2501 required to split huge pages lazily. 2502 2503 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2504 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2505 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2506 still be used for reads. 2507 2508 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2509 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2510 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2511 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2512 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2513 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2514 cleared. 2515 2516 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2517 2518 Default is Y (on). 2519 2520 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2521 Default is false (don't support). 2522 2523 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2524 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2525 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2526 force : Always deploy workaround. 2527 off : Never deploy workaround. 2528 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2529 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2530 2531 Default is 'auto'. 2532 2533 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2534 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2535 2536 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2537 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2538 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2539 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2540 period (see below). The default is 60. 2541 2542 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2543 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2544 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2545 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2546 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2547 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2548 2549 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2550 Default is 1 (enabled) 2551 2552 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2553 for all guests. 2554 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2555 2556 kvm-arm.mode= 2557 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2558 2559 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2560 2561 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2562 protected guests. 2563 2564 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2565 state is kept private from the host. 2566 2567 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2568 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2569 hardware. 2570 2571 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2572 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2573 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2574 used with extreme caution. 2575 2576 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2577 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2578 system registers 2579 2580 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2581 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2582 system registers 2583 2584 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2585 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2586 system registers 2587 2588 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2589 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2590 LPIs. 2591 2592 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2593 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2594 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2595 allocation. 2596 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2597 Format: <integer> 2598 Default: 5 2599 2600 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2601 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2602 Default is 1 (enabled) 2603 2604 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2605 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2606 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2607 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2608 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2609 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2610 Default is 1 (enabled) 2611 2612 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2613 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2614 Default is 1 (enabled) 2615 2616 kvm-intel.nested= 2617 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2618 Default is 0 (disabled) 2619 2620 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2621 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2622 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2623 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2624 2625 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2626 CVE-2018-3620. 2627 2628 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2629 2630 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2631 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2632 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2633 never: Disables the mitigation 2634 2635 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2636 2637 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2638 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2639 Default is 1 (enabled) 2640 2641 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2642 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2643 2644 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2645 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2646 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2647 2648 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2649 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2650 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2651 not have direct access. 2652 2653 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2654 options are: 2655 2656 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2657 2658 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2659 affected CPUs 2660 2661 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2662 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2663 2664 full 2665 Provides all available mitigations for the 2666 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2667 enables all mitigations in the 2668 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2669 2670 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2671 sysfs interface is still possible after 2672 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2673 when the first VM is started in a 2674 potentially insecure configuration, 2675 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2676 2677 full,force 2678 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2679 flush runtime control. Implies the 2680 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2681 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2682 2683 flush 2684 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2685 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2686 L1D flush. 2687 2688 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2689 sysfs interface is still possible after 2690 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2691 when the first VM is started in a 2692 potentially insecure configuration, 2693 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2694 2695 flush,nosmt 2696 2697 Disables SMT and enables the default 2698 hypervisor mitigation. 2699 2700 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2701 sysfs interface is still possible after 2702 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2703 when the first VM is started in a 2704 potentially insecure configuration, 2705 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2706 2707 flush,nowarn 2708 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2709 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2710 insecure configuration. 2711 2712 off 2713 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2714 emit any warnings. 2715 It also drops the swap size and available 2716 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2717 bare metal. 2718 2719 Default is 'flush'. 2720 2721 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2722 2723 l2cr= [PPC] 2724 2725 l3cr= [PPC] 2726 2727 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2728 disabled it. 2729 2730 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2731 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2732 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2733 Format: notscdeadline 2734 2735 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2736 in C2 power state. 2737 2738 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2739 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2740 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2741 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2742 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2743 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2744 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2745 2746 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2747 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2748 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2749 2750 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2751 when set. 2752 Format: <int> 2753 2754 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2755 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2756 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2757 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2758 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2759 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2760 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2761 to all ports, links and devices. 2762 2763 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2764 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2765 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2766 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2767 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2768 host link and device attached to it. 2769 2770 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2771 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2772 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2773 The following configurations can be forced. 2774 2775 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2776 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2777 2778 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2779 2780 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2781 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2782 allowed. 2783 2784 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2785 resets. 2786 2787 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2788 link recovery. 2789 2790 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2791 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2792 detection. 2793 2794 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2795 2796 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2797 2798 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2799 2800 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2801 2802 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2803 2804 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2805 2806 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2807 2808 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2809 2810 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2811 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2812 2813 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2814 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2815 2816 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2817 identify device data log. 2818 2819 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2820 purpose log directory. 2821 2822 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2823 2824 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2825 1024 sectors. 2826 2827 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2828 65535 sectors. 2829 2830 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2831 2832 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2833 should be skipped. 2834 2835 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2836 support for devices supporting this feature. 2837 2838 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2839 2840 * disable: Disable this device. 2841 2842 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2843 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2844 2845 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2846 2847 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2848 Format: <integer> 2849 2850 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2851 Format: <integer> 2852 2853 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2854 Format: <integer> 2855 2856 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2857 Format: <integer> 2858 2859 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2860 { integrity | confidentiality } 2861 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2862 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2863 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2864 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2865 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2866 are also disabled. 2867 2868 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2869 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2870 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2871 number of online CPUs. 2872 2873 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2874 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2875 2876 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2877 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2878 2879 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2880 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2881 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2882 2883 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2884 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2885 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2886 mode during the locktorture test. 2887 2888 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2889 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2890 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2891 2892 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2893 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2894 2895 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2896 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2897 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2898 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2899 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2900 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2901 2902 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2903 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2904 2905 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2906 Enable additional printk() statements. 2907 2908 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2909 Format: <irq> 2910 2911 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2912 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2913 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2914 loglevels are defined as follows: 2915 2916 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2917 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2918 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2919 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2920 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2921 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2922 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2923 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2924 2925 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2926 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2927 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2928 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2929 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2930 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2931 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2932 2933 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2934 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2935 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2936 kernel boot problems. 2937 2938 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2939 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2940 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2941 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2942 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2943 attached printers to be reset. Using 2944 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2945 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2946 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2947 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2948 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2949 port specification list means that device IDs 2950 from each port should be examined, to see if 2951 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2952 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2953 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2954 2955 lpj=n [KNL] 2956 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2957 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2958 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2959 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2960 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2961 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2962 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2963 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2964 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2965 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2966 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2967 hardware. 2968 2969 ltpc= [NET] 2970 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2971 2972 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2973 2974 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2975 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2976 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2977 2978 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2979 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2980 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2981 2982 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2983 different yeeloong laptops. 2984 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2985 2986 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2987 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2988 2989 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2990 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2991 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2992 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2993 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2994 only takes effect during system bootup. 2995 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2996 which also disables the IO APIC. 2997 2998 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2999 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3000 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3001 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3002 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3003 /dev/loop-control interface. 3004 3005 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3006 3007 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3008 3009 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3010 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3011 3012 mdacon= [MDA] 3013 Format: <first>,<last> 3014 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3015 3016 mds= [X86,INTEL] 3017 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3018 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3019 3020 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3021 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3022 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3023 3024 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3025 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3026 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3027 not have direct access. 3028 3029 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3030 options are: 3031 3032 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3033 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3034 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3035 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3036 3037 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3038 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3039 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3040 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3041 too. 3042 3043 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3044 mds=full. 3045 3046 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3047 3048 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3049 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3050 3051 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3052 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3053 3054 1 for test; 3055 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3056 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3057 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3058 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3059 3060 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3061 high memory is not affected. 3062 3063 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3064 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3065 3066 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3067 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3068 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3069 belonging to unused RAM. 3070 3071 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3072 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3073 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3074 3075 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3076 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3077 firmware. 3078 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3079 ss[KMG]. 3080 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3081 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3082 3083 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3084 memory. 3085 3086 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3087 3088 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3089 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3090 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3091 3092 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3093 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3094 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3095 set according to the 3096 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3097 option. 3098 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3099 3100 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3101 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3102 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3103 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3104 option description. 3105 3106 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3107 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3108 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3109 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3110 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3111 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3112 comma delimited. 3113 Example: 3114 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3115 3116 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3117 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3118 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3119 3120 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3121 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3122 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3123 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3124 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3125 or 3126 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3127 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3128 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3129 will be eaten. 3130 3131 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3132 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3133 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3134 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3135 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3136 3137 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3138 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3139 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3140 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3141 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3142 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3143 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3144 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3145 3146 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3147 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3148 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3149 Setting this option will scan the memory 3150 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3151 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3152 from using the memory being corrupted. 3153 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3154 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3155 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3156 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3157 3158 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3159 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3160 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3161 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3162 corruption in more or less memory. 3163 3164 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3165 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3166 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3167 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3168 3169 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3170 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3171 Format: {on | off (default)} 3172 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3173 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3174 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3175 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3176 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3177 lot of memory without requiring additional 3178 memory to do so. 3179 This feature is disabled by default because it 3180 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3181 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3182 memory blocks). 3183 The state of the flag can be read in 3184 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3185 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3186 the feature is not effective. 3187 3188 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3189 Format: <integer> 3190 default : 0 <disable> 3191 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3192 performed. Each pass selects another test 3193 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3194 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3195 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3196 regions that are detected. 3197 3198 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3199 Valid arguments: on, off 3200 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3201 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3202 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3203 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3204 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3205 3206 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3207 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3208 3209 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3210 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3211 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3212 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3213 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3214 3215 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3216 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3217 platforms. 3218 3219 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3220 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3221 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3222 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3223 3224 mga= [HW,DRM] 3225 3226 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3227 physical address is ignored. 3228 3229 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3230 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3231 Default: "0tb" 3232 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3233 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3234 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3235 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3236 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3237 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3238 unconfigured. 3239 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3240 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3241 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3242 VGA shield. 3243 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3244 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3245 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3246 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3247 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3248 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3249 3250 mitigations= 3251 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3252 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3253 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3254 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3255 3256 off 3257 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3258 improves system performance, but it may also 3259 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3260 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3261 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3262 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3263 nobp=0 [S390] 3264 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3265 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3266 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3267 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3268 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3269 l1tf=off [X86] 3270 mds=off [X86] 3271 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3272 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3273 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3274 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3275 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3276 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3277 retbleed=off [X86] 3278 3279 Exceptions: 3280 This does not have any effect on 3281 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3282 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3283 3284 auto (default) 3285 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3286 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3287 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3288 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3289 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3290 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3291 3292 auto,nosmt 3293 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3294 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3295 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3296 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3297 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3298 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3299 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3300 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3301 3302 mminit_loglevel= 3303 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3304 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3305 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3306 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3307 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3308 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3309 3310 mmio_stale_data= 3311 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3312 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3313 3314 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3315 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3316 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3317 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3318 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3319 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3320 3321 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3322 options are: 3323 3324 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3325 3326 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3327 vulnerable CPUs. 3328 3329 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3330 3331 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3332 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3333 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3334 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3335 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3336 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3337 3338 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3339 mmio_stale_data=full. 3340 3341 For details see: 3342 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3343 3344 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3345 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3346 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3347 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3348 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3349 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3350 3351 module.async_probe=<bool> 3352 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3353 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3354 specific module, use the module specific control that 3355 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3356 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3357 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3358 the specific module. 3359 3360 module.enable_dups_trace 3361 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3362 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3363 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3364 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3365 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3366 module.sig_enforce 3367 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3368 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3369 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3370 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3371 3372 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3373 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3374 3375 mousedev.tap_time= 3376 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3377 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3378 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3379 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3380 Format: <msecs> 3381 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3382 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3383 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3384 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3385 3386 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3387 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3388 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3389 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3390 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3391 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3392 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3393 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3394 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3395 is not too small. 3396 3397 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3398 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3399 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3400 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3401 allocations. Use with caution! 3402 3403 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3404 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3405 3406 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3407 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3408 3409 mtdparts= [MTD] 3410 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3411 3412 mtdset= [ARM] 3413 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3414 3415 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3416 3417 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3418 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3419 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3420 3421 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3422 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3423 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3424 3425 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3426 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3427 Default is 1. 3428 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3429 using up MTRRs. 3430 3431 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3432 Format: <integer> 3433 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3434 Default : 1 3435 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3436 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3437 3438 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3439 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3440 at a time. 3441 3442 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3443 3444 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3445 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3446 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3447 something different and driver-specific. 3448 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3449 file if at all. 3450 3451 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3452 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3453 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3454 waits 4 seconds. 3455 3456 nf_conntrack.acct= 3457 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3458 0 to disable accounting 3459 1 to enable accounting 3460 Default value is 0. 3461 3462 nfs.cache_getent= 3463 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3464 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3465 3466 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3467 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3468 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3469 3470 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3471 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3472 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3473 requests. 3474 3475 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3476 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3477 channel should listen. 3478 3479 nfs.enable_ino64= 3480 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3481 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3482 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3483 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3484 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3485 3486 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3487 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3488 entries. 3489 3490 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3491 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3492 slots the client will assign to the callback 3493 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3494 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3495 a particular server. 3496 3497 nfs.max_session_slots= 3498 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3499 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3500 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3501 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3502 Note that there is little point in setting this 3503 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3504 3505 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3506 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3507 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3508 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3509 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3510 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3511 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3512 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3513 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3514 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3515 back to using the idmapper. 3516 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3517 3518 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3519 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3520 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3521 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3522 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3523 3524 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3525 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3526 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3527 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3528 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3529 after the locks are lost. 3530 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3531 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3532 parameter to '1'. 3533 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3534 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3535 3536 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3537 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3538 information in exchange_id requests. 3539 If zero, no implementation identification information 3540 will be sent. 3541 The default is to send the implementation identification 3542 information. 3543 3544 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3545 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3546 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3547 3548 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3549 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3550 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3551 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3552 3553 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3554 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3555 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3556 the destination of the copy. 3557 3558 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3559 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3560 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3561 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3562 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3563 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3564 3565 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3566 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3567 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3568 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3569 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3570 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3571 this parameter. 3572 3573 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3574 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3575 3576 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3577 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3578 3579 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3580 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3581 3582 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3583 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3584 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3585 3586 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3587 when a NMI is triggered. 3588 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3589 3590 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3591 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3592 Valid num: 0 or 1 3593 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3594 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3595 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3596 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3597 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3598 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3599 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3600 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3601 need the box quickly up again. 3602 3603 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3604 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3605 3606 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3607 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3608 is present. 3609 3610 no4lvl [RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces 3611 kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3612 3613 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3614 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3615 3616 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3617 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3618 but will impact performance. 3619 3620 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3621 3622 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3623 (CPU alternatives feature). 3624 3625 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3626 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3627 3628 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3629 3630 nocache [ARM] 3631 3632 no_console_suspend 3633 [HW] Never suspend the console 3634 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3635 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3636 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3637 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3638 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3639 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3640 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3641 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3642 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3643 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3644 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3645 turn on/off it dynamically. 3646 3647 no_debug_objects 3648 [KNL] Disable object debugging 3649 3650 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3651 3652 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3653 3654 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3655 3656 noexec [IA-64] 3657 3658 noexec32 [X86-64] 3659 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3660 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3661 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3662 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3663 read implies executable mappings 3664 3665 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3666 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3667 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3668 3669 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3670 3671 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3672 3673 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3674 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3675 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3676 3677 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3678 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3679 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3680 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3681 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3682 real-time systems. 3683 3684 no_hash_pointers 3685 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3686 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3687 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3688 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3689 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3690 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3691 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3692 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3693 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3694 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3695 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3696 kernels. 3697 3698 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3699 3700 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3701 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3702 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3703 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3704 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3705 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3706 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3707 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3708 3709 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3710 3711 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3712 3713 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3714 Valid arguments: on, off 3715 Default: on 3716 3717 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3718 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3719 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3720 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3721 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3722 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3723 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3724 just as if they had also been called out in the 3725 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3726 3727 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3728 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3729 3730 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3731 initial RAM disk. 3732 3733 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3734 remapping. 3735 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3736 3737 nointroute [IA-64] 3738 3739 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3740 3741 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3742 3743 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3744 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3745 3746 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3747 3748 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3749 3750 nokaslr [KNL] 3751 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3752 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3753 Layout Randomization). 3754 3755 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3756 fault handling. 3757 3758 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3759 3760 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3761 3762 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3763 3764 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3765 3766 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3767 3768 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3769 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3770 3771 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3772 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3773 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3774 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3775 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3776 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3777 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3778 3779 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3780 3781 nomodule Disable module load 3782 3783 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3784 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3785 irq. 3786 3787 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3788 pagetables) support. 3789 3790 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3791 3792 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3793 in some Intel CPUs. 3794 3795 nopti [X86-64] 3796 Equivalent to pti=off 3797 3798 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3799 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3800 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3801 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3802 3803 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3804 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3805 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3806 contention. 3807 3808 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3809 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3810 3811 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3812 with UP alternatives 3813 3814 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3815 space. 3816 3817 nosbagart [IA-64] 3818 3819 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3820 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3821 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3822 3823 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3824 3825 nosmap [PPC] 3826 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3827 even if it is supported by processor. 3828 3829 nosmep [PPC64s] 3830 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3831 even if it is supported by processor. 3832 3833 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3834 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3835 3836 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3837 Equivalent to smt=1. 3838 3839 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3840 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3841 via the sysfs control file. 3842 3843 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3844 3845 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3846 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3847 3848 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3849 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3850 with this option. 3851 3852 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3853 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3854 possible in the system. 3855 3856 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3857 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3858 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3859 option. 3860 3861 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3862 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3863 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3864 3865 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3866 3867 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3868 broken timer IRQ sources. 3869 3870 no_uaccess_flush 3871 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3872 3873 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3874 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3875 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3876 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3877 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3878 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3879 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3880 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3881 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3882 is set. 3883 3884 no-vmw-sched-clock 3885 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3886 clock and use the default one. 3887 3888 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3889 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3890 3891 nowb [ARM] 3892 3893 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3894 3895 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3896 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3897 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3898 3899 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3900 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3901 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3902 3903 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3904 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3905 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3906 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3907 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3908 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3909 3910 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3911 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3912 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3913 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3914 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3915 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3916 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3917 3918 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3919 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3920 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3921 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3922 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3923 parameter's value. 3924 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3925 Default: 255 3926 3927 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3928 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3929 SAL PALO. 3930 3931 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3932 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3933 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3934 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3935 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3936 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3937 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3938 hot plugging. 3939 3940 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3941 3942 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3943 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3944 3945 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3946 NUMA balancing. 3947 Allowed values are enable and disable 3948 3949 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3950 'node', 'default' can be specified 3951 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3952 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3953 3954 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3955 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3956 info. 3957 3958 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3959 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3960 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3961 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3962 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3963 interrupts *may* be lost! 3964 3965 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3966 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3967 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3968 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3969 3970 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3971 3972 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3973 3974 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3975 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3976 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3977 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3978 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3979 3980 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3981 process, but there is a small probability of 3982 deadlocking the machine. 3983 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3984 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3985 3986 page_alloc.shuffle= 3987 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3988 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3989 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3990 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3991 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3992 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3993 can be read from sysfs at: 3994 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3995 3996 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3997 Storage of the information about who allocated 3998 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3999 we can turn it on. 4000 on: enable the feature 4001 4002 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4003 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4004 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4005 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4006 on: turn on poisoning 4007 4008 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4009 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4010 Format: <integer> 4011 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4012 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER. 4013 4014 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4015 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4016 timeout = 0: wait forever 4017 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4018 Format: <timeout> 4019 4020 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4021 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4022 bit 0: print all tasks info 4023 bit 1: print system memory info 4024 bit 2: print timer info 4025 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4026 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4027 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4028 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4029 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4030 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4031 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4032 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4033 4034 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4035 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4036 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4037 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4038 called with any of the flags in this set. 4039 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4040 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4041 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4042 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4043 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4044 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4045 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4046 4047 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4048 on a WARN(). 4049 4050 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4051 connected to, default is 0. 4052 Format: <parport#> 4053 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4054 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4055 Format: <mode> 4056 4057 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4058 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4059 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4060 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4061 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4062 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4063 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4064 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4065 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4066 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4067 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4068 are specified on the command line, starting 4069 with parport0. 4070 4071 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4072 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4073 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4074 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4075 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4076 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4077 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4078 4079 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4080 Format: <int> 4081 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4082 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4083 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4084 4085 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4086 Format: <int> 4087 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4088 changes. Disabled by default. 4089 4090 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4091 Format: <int> 4092 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4093 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4094 Disabled by default. 4095 4096 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4097 Format: <int> 4098 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4099 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4100 Disabled by default. 4101 4102 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4103 Format: <int> 4104 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4105 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4106 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4107 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4108 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4109 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4110 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4111 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4112 all channels. 4113 4114 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4115 Format: <int> 4116 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4117 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4118 respectively. Disabled by default. 4119 4120 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4121 Format: <int> 4122 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4123 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4124 respectively. Disabled by default. 4125 4126 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4127 Format: <int> 4128 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4129 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4130 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4131 All modes allowed by default. 4132 4133 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4134 Format: <int> 4135 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4136 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4137 4138 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4139 Format: <int> 4140 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4141 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4142 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4143 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4144 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4145 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4146 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4147 By default all supported ports are probed. 4148 4149 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4150 Format: <int> 4151 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4152 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4153 4154 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4155 Format: <int> 4156 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4157 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4158 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4159 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4160 0 otherwise. 4161 4162 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4163 Format: <int> 4164 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4165 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4166 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4167 allowed by default. 4168 4169 pause_on_oops= 4170 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4171 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4172 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4173 4174 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4175 4176 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4177 4178 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4179 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4180 specified in one of the following formats: 4181 4182 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4183 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4184 4185 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4186 bus/device/function address which may change 4187 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4188 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4189 by other kernel parameters. If the 4190 domain is left unspecified, it is 4191 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4192 to a device through multiple device/function 4193 addresses can be specified after the base 4194 address (this is more robust against 4195 renumbering issues). The second format 4196 selects devices using IDs from the 4197 configuration space which may match multiple 4198 devices in the system. 4199 4200 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4201 changes anything 4202 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4203 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4204 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4205 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4206 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4207 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4208 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4209 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4210 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4211 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4212 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4213 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4214 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4215 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4216 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4217 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4218 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4219 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4220 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4221 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4222 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4223 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4224 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4225 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4226 Configuration 4227 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4228 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4229 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4230 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4231 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4232 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4233 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4234 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4235 should never be necessary. 4236 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4237 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4238 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4239 when the system masks IRQs. 4240 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4241 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4242 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4243 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4244 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4245 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4246 on several machines and they hang the machine 4247 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4248 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4249 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4250 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4251 motherboard. 4252 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4253 Use with caution as certain devices share 4254 address decoders between ROMs and other 4255 resources. 4256 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4257 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4258 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4259 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4260 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4261 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4262 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4263 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4264 this way. 4265 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4266 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4267 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4268 F0000h-100000h range. 4269 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4270 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4271 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4272 explicitly which ones they are. 4273 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4274 numbers ourselves, overriding 4275 whatever the firmware may have done. 4276 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4277 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4278 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4279 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4280 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4281 IRQ routing is enabled. 4282 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4283 or for PCI scanning. 4284 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4285 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4286 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4287 please report a bug. 4288 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4289 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4290 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4291 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4292 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4293 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4294 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4295 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4296 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4297 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4298 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4299 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4300 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4301 so this option is a temporary workaround 4302 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4303 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4304 handle more pci cards 4305 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4306 This might help on some broken boards which 4307 machine check when some devices' config space 4308 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4309 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4310 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4311 This sorting is done to get a device 4312 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4313 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4314 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4315 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4316 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4317 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4318 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4319 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4320 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4321 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4322 or bus can support) for best performance. 4323 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4324 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4325 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4326 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4327 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4328 that hot-added devices will work. 4329 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4330 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4331 The default value is 256 bytes. 4332 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4333 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4334 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4335 resource_alignment= 4336 Format: 4337 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4338 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4339 aligned memory resources. How to 4340 specify the device is described above. 4341 If <order of align> is not specified, 4342 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4343 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4344 windows need to be expanded. 4345 To specify the alignment for several 4346 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4347 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4348 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4349 for 4096-byte alignment. 4350 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4351 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4352 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4353 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4354 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4355 the default. 4356 off: Turn ECRC off 4357 on: Turn ECRC on. 4358 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4359 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4360 Default size is 256 bytes. 4361 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4362 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4363 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4364 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4365 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4366 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4367 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4368 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4369 MMIO_PREF window. 4370 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4371 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4372 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4373 Default is 1. 4374 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4375 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4376 accommodate resources required by all child 4377 devices. 4378 off: Turn realloc off 4379 on: Turn realloc on 4380 realloc same as realloc=on 4381 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4382 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4383 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4384 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4385 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4386 port. 4387 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4388 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4389 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4390 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4391 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4392 taints the kernel. 4393 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4394 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4395 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4396 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4397 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4398 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4399 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4400 this removes isolation between devices and 4401 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4402 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4403 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4404 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4405 one PCI domain per PCI function 4406 4407 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4408 Management. 4409 off Disable ASPM. 4410 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4411 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4412 4413 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4414 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4415 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4416 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4417 also tries to use these services. 4418 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4419 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4420 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4421 hotplug). 4422 4423 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4424 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4425 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4426 4427 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4428 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4429 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4430 4431 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4432 4433 pd_ignore_unused 4434 [PM] 4435 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4436 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4437 for debug and development, but should not be 4438 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4439 4440 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4441 boot time. 4442 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4443 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4444 4445 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4446 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4447 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4448 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4449 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4450 and performance comparison. 4451 4452 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4453 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4454 4455 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4456 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4457 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4458 4459 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4460 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4461 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4462 4463 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4464 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4465 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4466 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4467 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4468 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4469 remains 0. 4470 4471 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4472 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4473 4474 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4475 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4476 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4477 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4478 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4479 possible settings and some assignment information. 4480 4481 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4482 { off } 4483 4484 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4485 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4486 4487 pnp_reserve_irq= 4488 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4489 4490 pnp_reserve_dma= 4491 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4492 4493 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4494 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4495 4496 pnp_reserve_mem= 4497 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4498 autoconfiguration. 4499 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4500 4501 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4502 Default is 21. 4503 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4504 may be specified. 4505 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4506 4507 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4508 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4509 platform machine description specific power_save 4510 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4511 execution priority. 4512 4513 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4514 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4515 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4516 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4517 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4518 4519 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4520 Format: {"off"} 4521 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4522 4523 preempt= [KNL] 4524 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4525 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4526 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4527 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4528 can be preempted anytime. 4529 4530 print-fatal-signals= 4531 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4532 4533 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4534 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4535 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4536 coredump - etc. 4537 4538 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4539 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4540 4541 default: off. 4542 4543 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4544 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4545 panics 4546 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4547 default: disabled 4548 4549 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4550 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4551 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4552 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4553 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4554 in order to provide more debug information. 4555 Format: <bool> 4556 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4557 4558 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4559 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4560 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4561 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4562 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4563 Default: ratelimit 4564 4565 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4566 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4567 4568 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4569 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4570 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4571 4572 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4573 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4574 instead using the legacy FADT method 4575 4576 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4577 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4578 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4579 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4580 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4581 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4582 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4583 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4584 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4585 statistical time based profiling. 4586 4587 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4588 4589 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4590 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4591 that). 4592 Format: <bool> 4593 4594 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4595 tracking. 4596 Format: <bool> 4597 4598 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4599 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4600 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4601 per second. 4602 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4603 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4604 (0 = never). 4605 psmouse.resolution= 4606 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4607 psmouse.smartscroll= 4608 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4609 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4610 4611 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4612 4613 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4614 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4615 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4616 system calls and interrupts. 4617 4618 on - unconditionally enable 4619 off - unconditionally disable 4620 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4621 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4622 4623 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4624 4625 pty.legacy_count= 4626 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4627 default number. 4628 4629 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4630 4631 r128= [HW,DRM] 4632 4633 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4634 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4635 invalidate. 4636 4637 raid= [HW,RAID] 4638 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4639 4640 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4641 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4642 4643 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4644 4645 random.trust_cpu=off 4646 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4647 random number generator (if available) to 4648 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4649 4650 random.trust_bootloader=off 4651 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4652 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4653 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4654 4655 randomize_kstack_offset= 4656 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4657 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4658 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4659 that depend on stack address determinism or 4660 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4661 available on architectures that have defined 4662 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4663 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4664 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4665 4666 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4667 4668 cec_disable [X86] 4669 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4670 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4671 4672 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4673 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4674 as described above. 4675 4676 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4677 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4678 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4679 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4680 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4681 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4682 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4683 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4684 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4685 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4686 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4687 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4688 4689 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4690 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4691 4692 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4693 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4694 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4695 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4696 4697 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4698 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4699 4700 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4701 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4702 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4703 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4704 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4705 This improves the real-time response for the 4706 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4707 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4708 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4709 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4710 4711 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4712 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4713 process in one batch. 4714 4715 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4716 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4717 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4718 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4719 4720 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4721 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4722 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4723 4724 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4725 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4726 RCU grace-period initialization. 4727 4728 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4729 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4730 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4731 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4732 the rcu_node combining tree. 4733 4734 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4735 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4736 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4737 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4738 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4739 4740 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4741 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4742 to zero. 4743 4744 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4745 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4746 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4747 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4748 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4749 4750 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4751 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4752 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4753 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4754 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4755 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4756 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4757 4758 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4759 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4760 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4761 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4762 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4763 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4764 condition. 4765 4766 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4767 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4768 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4769 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4770 4771 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4772 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4773 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4774 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4775 and maximum value is HZ. 4776 4777 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4778 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4779 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4780 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4781 4782 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4783 Set required age in jiffies for a 4784 given grace period before RCU starts 4785 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4786 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4787 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4788 a value based on the most recent settings 4789 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4790 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4791 This calculated value may be viewed in 4792 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4793 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4794 overwritten. 4795 4796 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4797 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4798 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4799 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4800 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4801 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4802 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4803 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4804 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4805 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4806 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4807 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4808 4809 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4810 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4811 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4812 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4813 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4814 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4815 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4816 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4817 4818 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4819 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4820 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4821 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4822 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4823 4824 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4825 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4826 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4827 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4828 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4829 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4830 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4831 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4832 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4833 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4834 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4835 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4836 4837 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4838 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4839 each group, which defaults to the square root 4840 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4841 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4842 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4843 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4844 4845 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4846 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4847 batch limiting is disabled. 4848 4849 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4850 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4851 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4852 4853 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4854 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4855 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4856 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4857 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4858 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4859 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4860 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4861 4862 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4863 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4864 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4865 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4866 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4867 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4868 4869 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4870 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4871 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4872 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4873 Larger delays increase the probability of 4874 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4875 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4876 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4877 4878 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4879 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4880 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4881 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4882 4883 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4884 Measure performance of asynchronous 4885 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4886 4887 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4888 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4889 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4890 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4891 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4892 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4893 4894 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4895 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4896 grace-period primitives. 4897 4898 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4899 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4900 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4901 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4902 interference. 4903 4904 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4905 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4906 4907 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4908 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4909 If this parameter has the same value as 4910 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4911 and double-argument variants are tested. 4912 4913 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4914 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4915 If this parameter has the same value as 4916 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4917 and double-argument variants are tested. 4918 4919 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4920 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4921 4922 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4923 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4924 4925 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4926 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4927 of allocations and frees. 4928 4929 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4930 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4931 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4932 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4933 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4934 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4935 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4936 a single reader. 4937 4938 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4939 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4940 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4941 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4942 4943 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4944 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4945 4946 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4947 Shut the system down after performance tests 4948 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4949 testing. 4950 4951 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4952 Enable additional printk() statements. 4953 4954 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4955 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4956 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4957 no holdoff. 4958 4959 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4960 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4961 in microseconds. 4962 4963 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4964 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4965 in microseconds. 4966 4967 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4968 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4969 in seconds. 4970 4971 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4972 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4973 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4974 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4975 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4976 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4977 of CPUs to be used. 4978 4979 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4980 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4981 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4982 4983 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4984 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4985 forward-progress tests. 4986 4987 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4988 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4989 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4990 testing. 4991 4992 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4993 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4994 primitives, if available. 4995 4996 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4997 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4998 4999 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5000 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5001 update-side primitives, if available. 5002 5003 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5004 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5005 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5006 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5007 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5008 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5009 they are all non-zero. 5010 5011 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5012 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5013 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5014 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5015 5016 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5017 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5018 This can of course result in splats, and is 5019 intended to test the ability of things like 5020 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5021 such leaks. 5022 5023 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5024 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5025 5026 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5027 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5028 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5029 test, hence the "fake". 5030 5031 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5032 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5033 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5034 5035 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5036 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5037 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5038 5039 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5040 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5041 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5042 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5043 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5044 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5045 5046 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5047 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5048 5049 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5050 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5051 5052 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5053 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5054 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5055 5056 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5057 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5058 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5059 task-exit processing. 5060 5061 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5062 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5063 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5064 is spawned. 5065 5066 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5067 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5068 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5069 5070 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5071 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5072 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5073 during the rcutorture test. 5074 5075 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5076 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5077 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5078 5079 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5080 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5081 warnings, zero to disable. 5082 5083 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5084 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5085 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 5086 to any other stall-related activity. 5087 5088 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5089 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5090 5091 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5092 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5093 5094 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5095 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5096 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5097 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5098 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5099 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5100 5101 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5102 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5103 5104 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5105 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5106 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5107 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5108 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5109 5110 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5111 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5112 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5113 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5114 5115 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5116 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5117 5118 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5119 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5120 5121 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5122 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5123 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5124 5125 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5126 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5127 5128 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5129 Enable additional printk() statements. 5130 5131 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5132 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5133 stall warning. 5134 5135 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5136 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5137 5138 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5139 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5140 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5141 during early boot, that is, during the time 5142 before the init task is spawned. 5143 5144 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5145 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5146 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5147 value is 300 seconds. 5148 5149 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5150 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5151 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5152 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5153 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5154 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5155 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5156 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5157 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5158 5159 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5160 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5161 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5162 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5163 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5164 5165 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5166 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5167 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5168 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5169 5170 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5171 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5172 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5173 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5174 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5175 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5176 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5177 5178 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5179 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5180 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5181 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5182 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5183 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5184 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5185 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5186 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5187 5188 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5189 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5190 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5191 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5192 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5193 5194 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5195 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5196 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5197 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5198 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5199 grace-period processing. 5200 5201 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5202 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5203 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5204 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5205 a single callback queue. This switching only 5206 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5207 set to the default value of -1. 5208 5209 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5210 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5211 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5212 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5213 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5214 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5215 the default value of -1. 5216 5217 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5218 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5219 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5220 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5221 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5222 for use in testing. 5223 5224 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5225 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5226 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5227 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5228 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5229 but lengthens grace periods. 5230 5231 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5232 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5233 informational messages, which give some indication 5234 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5235 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5236 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5237 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5238 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5239 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5240 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5241 5242 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5243 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5244 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5245 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5246 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5247 the value three, so that the first informational 5248 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5249 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5250 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5251 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5252 5253 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5254 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5255 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5256 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5257 A change in value does not take effect until 5258 the beginning of the next grace period. 5259 5260 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5261 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5262 5263 rdinit= [KNL] 5264 Format: <full_path> 5265 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5266 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5267 5268 rdrand= [X86] 5269 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5270 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5271 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5272 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5273 path). 5274 5275 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5276 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5277 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5278 mba, smba, bmec. 5279 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5280 rdt=cmt,!mba 5281 5282 reboot= [KNL] 5283 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5284 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5285 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5286 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5287 [[,]f[orce] 5288 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5289 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5290 reboot only), 5291 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5292 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5293 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5294 to be used for rebooting. 5295 5296 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5297 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5298 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5299 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5300 interference. 5301 5302 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5303 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5304 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5305 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5306 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5307 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5308 x86 laptops. 5309 5310 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5311 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5312 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5313 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5314 5315 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5316 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5317 the console log. 5318 5319 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5320 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5321 measured in microseconds. 5322 5323 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5324 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5325 5326 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5327 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5328 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5329 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5330 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5331 5332 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5333 Enable additional printk() statements. 5334 5335 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5336 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5337 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5338 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5339 specified. 5340 5341 relax_domain_level= 5342 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5343 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5344 5345 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5346 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5347 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5348 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5349 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5350 5351 reservetop= [X86-32] 5352 Format: nn[KMG] 5353 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5354 address space. 5355 5356 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5357 during initialization. 5358 5359 resume= [SWSUSP] 5360 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5361 Format: 5362 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5363 5364 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5365 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5366 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5367 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5368 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5369 5370 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5371 read the resume files 5372 5373 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5374 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5375 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5376 5377 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5378 5379 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5380 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5381 vulnerability. 5382 5383 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5384 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5385 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5386 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5387 that don't. 5388 5389 off - no mitigation 5390 auto - automatically select a migitation 5391 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5392 disabling SMT if necessary for 5393 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5394 and older without STIBP). 5395 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5396 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5397 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5398 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5399 on Intel. 5400 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5401 when STIBP is not available. This is 5402 the alternative for systems which do not 5403 have STIBP. 5404 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5405 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5406 systems. 5407 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5408 is not available. This is the alternative for 5409 systems which do not have STIBP. 5410 5411 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5412 time according to the CPU. 5413 5414 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5415 5416 rfkill.default_state= 5417 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5418 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5419 1 Unblocked. 5420 5421 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5422 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5423 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5424 blocked and the previous configuration. 5425 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5426 blocked and everything unblocked. 5427 5428 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5429 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5430 5431 ring3mwait=disable 5432 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5433 CPUs. 5434 5435 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5436 5437 rodata= [KNL] 5438 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5439 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5440 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5441 [arm64] 5442 5443 rockchip.usb_uart 5444 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5445 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5446 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5447 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5448 5449 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5450 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5451 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5452 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5453 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5454 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5455 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5456 5457 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5458 mount the root filesystem 5459 5460 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5461 5462 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5463 5464 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5465 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5466 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5467 5468 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5469 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5470 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5471 managed by CMA. 5472 5473 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5474 5475 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5476 5477 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5478 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5479 strict 5480 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5481 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5482 which is faster. 5483 5484 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5485 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5486 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5487 factor of the size of main memory. 5488 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5489 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5490 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5491 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5492 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5493 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5494 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5495 5496 sa1100ir [NET] 5497 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5498 5499 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5500 5501 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5502 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5503 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5504 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5505 5506 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5507 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5508 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5509 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5510 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5511 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5512 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5513 value. 5514 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5515 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5516 1 64 ms 5517 2 128 ms 5518 and so on. 5519 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5520 Default is 0. 5521 5522 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5523 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5524 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5525 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5526 tests. 5527 5528 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5529 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5530 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5531 default) disables this feature. Please note 5532 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5533 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5534 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5535 5536 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5537 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5538 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5539 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5540 equal to the number of CPUs. 5541 5542 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5543 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5544 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5545 5546 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5547 Number seconds to wait between successive 5548 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5549 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5550 5551 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5552 The number of seconds following the start of the 5553 test after which to shut down the system. The 5554 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5555 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5556 5557 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5558 The number of seconds between outputting the 5559 current test statistics to the console. A value 5560 of zero disables statistics output. 5561 5562 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5563 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5564 to the set of CPUs under test. 5565 5566 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5567 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5568 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5569 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5570 functions. 5571 5572 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5573 Enable additional printk() statements. 5574 5575 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5576 The probability weighting to use for the 5577 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5578 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5579 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5580 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5581 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5582 5583 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5584 The probability weighting to use for the 5585 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5586 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5587 5588 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5589 The probability weighting to use for the 5590 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5591 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5592 Note well that setting a high probability for 5593 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5594 on the system. 5595 5596 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5597 The probability weighting to use for the 5598 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5599 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5600 and weight_many. 5601 5602 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5603 The probability weighting to use for the 5604 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5605 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5606 weight_many. 5607 5608 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5609 The probability weighting to use for the 5610 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5611 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5612 and weight_many. 5613 5614 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5615 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5616 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5617 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5618 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5619 1 -- enable. 5620 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5621 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5622 5623 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5624 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5625 "lsm=" parameter. 5626 5627 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5628 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5629 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5630 0 -- disable. 5631 1 -- enable. 5632 Default value is 1. 5633 5634 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5635 5636 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5637 5638 shapers= [NET] 5639 Maximal number of shapers. 5640 5641 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5642 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5643 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5644 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5645 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5646 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5647 apic=verbose is specified. 5648 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5649 5650 simeth= [IA-64] 5651 simscsi= 5652 5653 slram= [HW,MTD] 5654 5655 slab_merge [MM] 5656 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5657 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5658 5659 slab_nomerge [MM] 5660 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5661 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5662 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5663 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5664 layout control by attackers can usually be 5665 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5666 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5667 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5668 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5669 own. 5670 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5671 5672 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5673 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5674 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5675 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5676 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5677 5678 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5679 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5680 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5681 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5682 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5683 last alloc / free. For more information see 5684 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5685 5686 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5687 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5688 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5689 fragmentation. For more information see 5690 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5691 5692 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5693 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5694 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5695 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5696 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5697 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5698 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5699 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5700 5701 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5702 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5703 lower than slub_max_order. 5704 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5705 5706 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5707 Same with slab_merge. 5708 5709 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5710 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5711 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5712 5713 smart2= [HW] 5714 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5715 5716 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5717 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5718 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5719 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5720 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5721 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5722 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5723 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5724 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5725 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5726 5727 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5728 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5729 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5730 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5731 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5732 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5733 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5734 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5735 1: Fast pin select (default) 5736 2: ATC IRMode 5737 5738 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5739 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5740 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5741 actual hardware limit. 5742 Format: <integer> 5743 Default: -1 (no limit) 5744 5745 softlockup_panic= 5746 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5747 Format: 0 | 1 5748 5749 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5750 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5751 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5752 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5753 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5754 5755 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5756 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5757 backtraces on all cpus. 5758 Format: 0 | 1 5759 5760 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5761 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5762 5763 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5764 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5765 The default operation protects the kernel from 5766 user space attacks. 5767 5768 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5769 spectre_v2_user=on 5770 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5771 spectre_v2_user=off 5772 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5773 vulnerable 5774 5775 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5776 mitigation method at run time according to the 5777 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5778 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5779 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5780 5781 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5782 against user space to user space task attacks. 5783 5784 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5785 the user space protections. 5786 5787 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5788 5789 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5790 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5791 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5792 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5793 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5794 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5795 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5796 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5797 5798 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5799 spectre_v2=auto. 5800 5801 spectre_v2_user= 5802 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5803 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5804 user space tasks 5805 5806 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5807 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5808 5809 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5810 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5811 5812 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5813 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5814 per thread. The mitigation control state 5815 is inherited on fork. 5816 5817 prctl,ibpb 5818 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5819 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5820 always when switching between different user 5821 space processes. 5822 5823 seccomp 5824 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5825 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5826 they explicitly opt out. 5827 5828 seccomp,ibpb 5829 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5830 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5831 always when switching between different 5832 user space processes. 5833 5834 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5835 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5836 5837 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5838 5839 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5840 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5841 5842 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5843 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5844 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5845 5846 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5847 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5848 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5849 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5850 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5851 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5852 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5853 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5854 5855 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5856 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5857 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5858 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5859 5860 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5861 Bypass optimization is used. 5862 5863 On x86 the options are: 5864 5865 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5866 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5867 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5868 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5869 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5870 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5871 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5872 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5873 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5874 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5875 for a process by default. The state of the control 5876 is inherited on fork. 5877 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5878 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5879 5880 Default mitigations: 5881 X86: "prctl" 5882 5883 On powerpc the options are: 5884 5885 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5886 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5887 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5888 exit. 5889 off - No action. 5890 5891 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5892 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5893 5894 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5895 spia_fio_base= 5896 spia_pedr= 5897 spia_peddr= 5898 5899 split_lock_detect= 5900 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5901 5902 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5903 instructions that access data across cache line 5904 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5905 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5906 bus lock detection. 5907 5908 off - not enabled 5909 5910 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5911 about applications triggering the #AC 5912 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5913 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5914 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5915 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5916 enabled in hardware. 5917 5918 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5919 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5920 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5921 both features are enabled in hardware. 5922 5923 ratelimit:N - 5924 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5925 per second for bus lock detection. 5926 0 < N <= 1000. 5927 5928 N/A for split lock detection. 5929 5930 5931 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5932 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5933 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5934 mode. 5935 5936 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5937 CPL > 0. 5938 5939 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5940 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5941 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5942 5943 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5944 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5945 number generator. 5946 5947 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5948 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5949 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5950 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5951 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5952 5953 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5954 the following option: 5955 5956 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5957 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5958 5959 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5960 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5961 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5962 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5963 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5964 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5965 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5966 (decide at boot). 5967 5968 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5969 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5970 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5971 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5972 5973 0: Never. 5974 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5975 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5976 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5977 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5978 5979 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5980 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5981 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5982 5983 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5984 Specifies how frequently to check for 5985 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5986 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5987 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5988 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5989 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5990 are ignored. 5991 5992 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5993 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5994 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5995 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5996 grace period will be considered for automatic 5997 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5998 expediting. 5999 6000 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6001 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6002 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6003 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6004 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6005 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6006 6007 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6008 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6009 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6010 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6011 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6012 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6013 6014 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6015 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6016 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6017 6018 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6019 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6020 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6021 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6022 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6023 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6024 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6025 6026 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 6027 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6028 6029 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6030 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6031 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6032 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6033 6034 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6035 for both kernel and userspace 6036 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6037 for both kernel and userspace 6038 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6039 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6040 to allow userspace to register its 6041 interest in being mitigated too. 6042 6043 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6044 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6045 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6046 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6047 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6048 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6049 6050 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6051 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6052 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6053 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6054 to false. 6055 6056 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6057 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6058 6059 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6060 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6061 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6062 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6063 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6064 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6065 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6066 6067 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6068 Format: <num> 6069 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6070 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6071 as the initial boot-console. 6072 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6073 6074 sti_font= [HW] 6075 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6076 6077 stifb= [HW] 6078 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6079 6080 strict_sas_size= 6081 [X86] 6082 Format: <bool> 6083 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6084 against the required signal frame size which 6085 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6086 be used to filter out binaries which have 6087 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6088 6089 stress_hpt [PPC] 6090 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6091 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6092 faults on kernel addresses. 6093 6094 stress_slb [PPC] 6095 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6096 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6097 on kernel addresses. 6098 6099 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6100 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6101 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6102 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6103 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6104 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6105 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6106 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6107 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6108 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6109 maximum port values. 6110 6111 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6112 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6113 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6114 process in parallel from a single connection. 6115 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6116 6117 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6118 [NFS] 6119 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6120 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6121 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6122 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6123 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6124 NFS server is running. 6125 6126 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6127 automatically using heuristics 6128 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6129 percpu one pool for each CPU 6130 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6131 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6132 6133 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6134 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6135 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6136 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6137 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6138 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6139 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6140 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6141 6142 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6143 [SUSPEND] 6144 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6145 mode before resuming the system (see 6146 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6147 is set. Default value is 5. 6148 6149 svm= [PPC] 6150 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6151 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6152 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6153 6154 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6155 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6156 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6157 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6158 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6159 to a power of 2. 6160 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6161 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6162 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6163 6164 switches= [HW,M68k] 6165 6166 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6167 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6168 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6169 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6170 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6171 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6172 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6173 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6174 6175 sysrq_always_enabled 6176 [KNL] 6177 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6178 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6179 Useful for debugging. 6180 6181 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6182 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6183 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6184 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6185 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6186 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6187 6188 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6189 6190 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6191 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6192 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6193 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6194 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6195 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6196 The system is woken from this state using a 6197 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6198 6199 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6200 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6201 6202 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6203 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6204 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6205 6206 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6207 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6208 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6209 6210 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6211 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6212 critical and hot trip points. 6213 6214 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6215 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6216 6217 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6218 -1: disable all passive trip points 6219 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6220 value 6221 6222 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6223 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6224 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6225 0: no polling (default) 6226 6227 threadirqs [KNL] 6228 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6229 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6230 6231 topology= [S390] 6232 Format: {off | on} 6233 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6234 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6235 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6236 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6237 Default is on. 6238 6239 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6240 Format: {off} 6241 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6242 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6243 LPAR. 6244 6245 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6246 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6247 until after init has spawned. 6248 6249 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6250 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6251 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6252 very costly operation when many torture tests 6253 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6254 with rotating-rust storage. 6255 6256 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6257 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6258 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6259 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6260 6261 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6262 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6263 6264 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6265 6266 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6267 Format: integer pcr id 6268 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6269 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6270 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6271 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6272 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6273 are saved. 6274 6275 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6276 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6277 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6278 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6279 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6280 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6281 6282 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6283 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6284 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6285 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6286 6287 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6288 to stop the printing of events to console at 6289 late_initcall_sync. 6290 6291 ** CAUTION ** 6292 6293 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6294 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6295 the system to live lock. 6296 6297 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6298 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6299 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6300 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6301 make the system inoperable. 6302 6303 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6304 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6305 6306 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6307 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6308 6309 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6310 at boot up. 6311 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6312 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6313 depending on the architecture, may not be 6314 in sync between CPUs. 6315 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6316 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6317 but better for some race conditions. 6318 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6319 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6320 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6321 once per event. 6322 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6323 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6324 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6325 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6326 stamps. 6327 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6328 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6329 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6330 6331 trace_event=[event-list] 6332 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6333 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6334 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6335 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6336 6337 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6338 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6339 This will be listed in: 6340 6341 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6342 6343 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6344 via: 6345 6346 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6347 6348 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6349 unique. 6350 6351 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6352 6353 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6354 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6355 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6356 6357 trace_options=[option-list] 6358 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6359 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6360 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6361 to echo the option name into 6362 6363 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6364 6365 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6366 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6367 6368 trace_options=stacktrace 6369 6370 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6371 section. 6372 6373 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6374 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6375 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6376 filter. 6377 6378 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6379 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6380 6381 For example: 6382 6383 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6384 6385 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6386 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6387 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6388 6389 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6390 6391 6392 traceoff_on_warning 6393 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6394 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6395 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6396 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6397 6398 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6399 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6400 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6401 6402 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6403 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6404 6405 transparent_hugepage= 6406 [KNL] 6407 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6408 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6409 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6410 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6411 for more details. 6412 6413 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6414 Format: <string> 6415 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6416 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6417 sources: 6418 - "tpm" 6419 - "tee" 6420 - "caam" 6421 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6422 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6423 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6424 successfully during iteration. 6425 6426 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6427 Format: <string> 6428 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6429 Can be one of: 6430 - "kernel" 6431 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6432 - "default" 6433 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6434 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6435 6436 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6437 Format: <string> 6438 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6439 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6440 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6441 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6442 virtualized environment. 6443 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6444 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6445 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6446 can add overhead. 6447 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6448 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6449 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6450 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6451 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6452 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6453 acceptable). 6454 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6455 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6456 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6457 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6458 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6459 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6460 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6461 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6462 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6463 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6464 6465 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6466 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6467 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6468 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6469 Format: <unsigned int> 6470 6471 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6472 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6473 support TSX control. 6474 6475 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6476 6477 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6478 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6479 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6480 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6481 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6482 with leaving it enabled. 6483 6484 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6485 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6486 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6487 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6488 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6489 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6490 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6491 6492 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6493 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6494 6495 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6496 6497 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6498 for more details. 6499 6500 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6501 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6502 6503 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6504 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6505 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6506 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6507 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6508 conditions. 6509 6510 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6511 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6512 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6513 access. 6514 6515 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6516 options are: 6517 6518 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6519 if TSX is enabled. 6520 6521 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6522 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6523 is not disabled because CPU is not 6524 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6525 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6526 6527 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6528 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6529 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6530 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6531 6532 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6533 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6534 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6535 required and doesn't provide any additional 6536 mitigation. 6537 6538 For details see: 6539 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6540 6541 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6542 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6543 Format: 6544 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6545 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6546 6547 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6548 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6549 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6550 help "seeing" what's going on. 6551 6552 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6553 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6554 6555 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6556 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6557 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6558 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6559 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6560 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6561 reported either. 6562 6563 unknown_nmi_panic 6564 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6565 6566 usbcore.authorized_default= 6567 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6568 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6569 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6570 if device connected to internal port) 6571 6572 usbcore.autosuspend= 6573 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6574 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6575 is the time required before an idle device will be 6576 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6577 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6578 6579 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6580 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6581 6582 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6583 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6584 (default = 65536). 6585 6586 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6587 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6588 6589 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6590 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6591 scheme (default 0 = off). 6592 6593 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6594 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6595 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6596 6597 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6598 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6599 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6600 6601 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6602 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6603 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6604 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6605 6606 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6607 6608 usbcore.quirks= 6609 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6610 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6611 commas. Each entry has the form 6612 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6613 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6614 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6615 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6616 the following meanings: 6617 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6618 descriptors must not be fetched using 6619 a 255-byte read); 6620 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6621 correctly so reset it instead); 6622 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6623 Set-Interface requests); 6624 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6625 handle its Configuration or Interface 6626 strings); 6627 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6628 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6629 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6630 more interface descriptions than the 6631 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6632 talking to these interfaces); 6633 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6634 during initialization, after we read 6635 the device descriptor); 6636 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6637 high speed and super speed interrupt 6638 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6639 require the interval in microframes (1 6640 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6641 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6642 (bInterval-1). 6643 Devices with this quirk report their 6644 bInterval as the result of this 6645 calculation instead of the exponent 6646 variable used in the calculation); 6647 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6648 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6649 requests); 6650 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6651 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6652 remote wakeup capability); 6653 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6654 Power Management); 6655 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6656 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6657 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6658 calculation); 6659 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6660 to be disconnected before suspend to 6661 prevent spurious wakeup); 6662 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6663 pause after every control message); 6664 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6665 delay after resetting its port); 6666 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6667 6668 usbhid.mousepoll= 6669 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6670 6671 usbhid.jspoll= 6672 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6673 6674 usbhid.kbpoll= 6675 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6676 6677 usb-storage.delay_use= 6678 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6679 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6680 6681 usb-storage.quirks= 6682 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6683 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6684 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6685 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6686 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6687 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6688 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6689 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6690 of sense data, not on uas); 6691 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6692 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6693 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6694 device capacity by one sector); 6695 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6696 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6697 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6698 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6699 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6700 command, uas only); 6701 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6702 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6703 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6704 reported device capacity by one 6705 sector if the number is odd); 6706 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6707 device); 6708 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6709 command, uas only); 6710 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6711 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6712 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6713 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6714 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6715 not on uas); 6716 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6717 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6718 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6719 reported by the device, not on uas); 6720 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6721 by default, not on uas); 6722 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6723 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6724 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6725 Logical Unit); 6726 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6727 commands, uas only); 6728 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6729 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6730 medium is write-protected). 6731 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6732 even if the device claims no cache, 6733 not on uas) 6734 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6735 6736 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6737 Format: <int> 6738 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6739 1 - undefined instruction events 6740 2 - system calls 6741 4 - invalid data aborts 6742 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6743 16 - SIGBUS faults 6744 Example: user_debug=31 6745 6746 userpte= 6747 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6748 6749 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6750 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6751 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6752 6753 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6754 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6755 6756 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6757 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6758 6759 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6760 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6761 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6762 6763 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6764 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6765 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6766 6767 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6768 alias for vdso32=0. 6769 6770 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6771 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6772 6773 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6774 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6775 6776 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6777 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6778 6779 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6780 Format: [0|1] 6781 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6782 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6783 level and then send out the event to user space through 6784 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6785 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6786 brightness level. 6787 default: 1 6788 6789 virtio_mmio.device= 6790 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6791 6792 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6793 where: 6794 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6795 like K, M and G) 6796 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6797 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6798 request_irq()) 6799 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6800 example: 6801 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6802 6803 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6804 6805 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6806 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 6807 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6808 Use vga=ask for menu. 6809 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6810 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6811 6812 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6813 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6814 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6815 All options are enabled by default, and this 6816 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6817 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6818 debugging features. 6819 6820 Available options are: 6821 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6822 - Disable all of the above options 6823 6824 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6825 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6826 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6827 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6828 mapped kernel RAM. 6829 6830 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6831 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6832 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6833 6834 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6835 Format: <command> 6836 6837 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6838 Format: <command> 6839 6840 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6841 Format: <command> 6842 6843 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6844 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6845 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6846 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6847 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6848 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6849 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6850 6851 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 6852 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 6853 readable. 6854 6855 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6856 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6857 page is not readable. 6858 6859 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6860 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6861 might break your system. 6862 6863 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6864 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6865 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6866 6867 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6868 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6869 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6870 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6871 6872 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6873 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6874 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6875 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6876 ranging from 0-255. 6877 6878 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6879 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6880 Change the default green palette of the console. 6881 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6882 ranging from 0-255. 6883 6884 vt.default_red= [VT] 6885 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6886 Change the default red palette of the console. 6887 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6888 ranging from 0-255. 6889 6890 vt.default_utf8= 6891 [VT] 6892 Format=<0|1> 6893 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6894 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6895 newly opened terminals. 6896 6897 vt.global_cursor_default= 6898 [VT] 6899 Format=<-1|0|1> 6900 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6901 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6902 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6903 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6904 cursors, 1 will display them. 6905 6906 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6907 Default: 2 = green. 6908 6909 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6910 Default: 3 = cyan. 6911 6912 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6913 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6914 or other driver-specific files in the 6915 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6916 6917 watchdog_thresh= 6918 [KNL] 6919 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6920 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6921 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6922 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6923 seconds. 6924 6925 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6926 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6927 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6928 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6929 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6930 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6931 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6932 corresponding sysfs file. 6933 6934 workqueue.disable_numa 6935 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6936 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6937 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6938 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6939 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6940 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6941 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6942 6943 workqueue.power_efficient 6944 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6945 they show better performance thanks to cache 6946 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6947 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6948 6949 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6950 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6951 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6952 power usage at the cost of small performance 6953 overhead. 6954 6955 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6956 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6957 6958 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6959 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6960 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6961 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6962 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6963 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6964 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6965 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6966 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6967 impacted. 6968 6969 writecombine= [LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of 6970 ioremap_wc(). 6971 6972 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 6973 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 6974 6975 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6976 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6977 supporting x2apic. 6978 6979 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6980 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6981 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6982 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6983 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6984 domains. 6985 6986 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6987 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6988 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6989 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6990 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6991 nics -- unplug network devices 6992 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6993 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6994 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6995 the unplug protocol 6996 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6997 6998 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6999 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7000 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7001 7002 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 7003 Format: <bool> 7004 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7005 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7006 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7007 7008 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 7009 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 7010 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 7011 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7012 7013 xen_nopv [X86] 7014 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7015 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7016 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7017 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7018 7019 xen_no_vector_callback 7020 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7021 event channel interrupts. 7022 7023 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7024 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7025 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7026 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7027 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7028 7029 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 7030 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7031 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7032 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7033 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7034 more timer interrupts. 7035 7036 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7037 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7038 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7039 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7040 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7041 max. Default is 180. 7042 7043 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7044 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7045 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7046 7047 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7048 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7049 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7050 7051 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7052 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7053 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7054 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7055 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7056 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7057 7058 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7059 Format: 7060 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7061 7062 xive= [PPC] 7063 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7064 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7065 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7066 7067 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7068 controller on both pseries and powernv 7069 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7070 7071 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7072 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7073 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7074 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7075 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7076 7077 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7078 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7079 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7080 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7081 7082 xmon [PPC] 7083 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7084 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7085 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7086 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7087 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7088 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7089 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7090 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7091 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7092 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7093 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7094 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7095 can be written using xmon commands. 7096 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7097 memory, and other data can't be written using 7098 xmon commands. 7099 off xmon is disabled. 7100 7101