1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or 25 "acpi=force" are available 26 27 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 28 29 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 30 Format: <int> 31 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 32 1,0: use 1st APIC table 33 default: 0 34 35 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 36 { vendor | video | native | none } 37 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 38 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 39 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 40 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 41 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 42 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 43 44 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 45 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 46 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 47 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 48 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 49 50 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 51 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 52 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 53 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 54 This option is useful for developers to identify the 55 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 56 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 57 58 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 59 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 60 Format: <int> 61 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 62 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 63 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 64 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 65 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 66 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 67 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 68 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 69 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 70 debug layers and levels. 71 72 Enable processor driver info messages: 73 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 74 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 75 object while interpreting AML: 76 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 77 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 78 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 79 80 Some values produce so much output that the system is 81 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 82 if you need to capture more output. 83 84 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 85 { strict | lax | no } 86 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 87 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 88 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 89 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 90 can interfere with legacy drivers. 91 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 92 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 93 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 94 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 95 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 96 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 97 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 98 no further checks are performed. 99 100 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 101 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 102 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 103 size limitation. 104 105 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 106 ACPI will balance active IRQs 107 default in APIC mode 108 109 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 111 default in PIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 114 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 115 116 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 117 use by PCI 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 121 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 122 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 123 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 124 the GPE dispatcher. 125 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 126 GPE floodings. 127 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 128 129 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 131 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 132 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 133 auto-serialization feature. 134 This feature is enabled by default. 135 This option allows to turn off the feature. 136 137 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 138 kernels. 139 140 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 141 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 142 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 143 installed automatically and they will appear under 144 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 145 This option turns off this feature. 146 Note that specifying this option does not affect 147 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 148 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 149 150 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 151 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 152 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 153 154 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 155 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 156 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 157 second kernel for kdump. 158 159 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 160 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 161 162 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 163 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 164 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 165 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 166 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 167 168 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 169 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 170 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 171 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 172 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 173 strings 174 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 175 strings 176 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 177 178 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 179 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 180 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 181 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 182 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 183 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 184 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 185 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 186 care about the state of the feature group strings which 187 should be controlled by the OSPM. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 190 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 191 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 192 193 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 194 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 195 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 196 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 197 multiple times through kernel command line is also 198 meaningless. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 201 FALSE. 202 203 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 204 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 205 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 206 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 207 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 208 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 209 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 210 there are quirks related to this string. This command 211 is useful when one want to control the state of the 212 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 213 the OSPM features. 214 Examples: 215 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 216 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 217 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 218 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 219 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 220 equivalent to 221 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 222 and 223 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 224 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 225 226 acpi_pm_good [X86] 227 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 228 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 229 and always returns good values. 230 231 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 232 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 233 234 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 235 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 236 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 237 238 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 239 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 240 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 241 sci_force_enable, nobl } 242 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 243 s3_bios and s3_mode. 244 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 245 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 246 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 247 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 248 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 249 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 250 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 251 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 252 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 253 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 254 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 255 used (or even warned about) during resume. 256 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 257 control method, with respect to putting devices into 258 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 259 of _PTS is used by default). 260 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 261 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 262 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 263 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 264 but some broken systems don't work without it). 265 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 266 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 267 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 268 269 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 270 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 271 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 272 273 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 274 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 275 276 agp= [AGP] 277 { off | try_unsupported } 278 off: disable AGP support 279 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 280 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 281 282 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 283 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 284 285 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 286 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 287 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 288 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 289 290 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 291 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 292 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 293 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 294 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 295 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 296 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 297 298 32: only for 32-bit processes 299 64: only for 64-bit processes 300 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 301 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 302 303 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 304 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 305 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 306 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 307 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 308 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 309 310 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 311 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 312 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 313 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 314 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 315 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 316 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 317 318 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 319 information. 320 321 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 322 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 323 Possible values are: 324 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 325 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 326 the system 327 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 328 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 329 allowed anymore to lift isolation 330 requirements as needed. This option 331 does not override iommu=pt 332 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 333 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 334 option with care. 335 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 336 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 337 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 338 339 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 340 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 341 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 342 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 343 IOMMU initialization. 344 345 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 346 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 347 remapping modes: 348 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 349 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 350 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 351 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 352 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 353 354 amd_pstate= [X86] 355 disable 356 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 357 scaling driver for the supported processors 358 passive 359 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 360 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 361 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 362 tries to match the same performance level if it is 363 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 364 active 365 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 366 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 367 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 368 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 369 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 370 frequency. 371 guided 372 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 373 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 374 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 375 to the current workload. 376 377 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 378 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 379 Format: <a>,<b> 380 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 381 382 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 383 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 384 connected to one of 16 gameports 385 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 386 387 apc= [HW,SPARC] 388 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 389 Format: noidle 390 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 391 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 392 APC and your system crashes randomly. 393 394 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 395 Change the output verbosity while booting 396 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 397 Change the amount of debugging information output 398 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 399 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 400 driver name. 401 Format: apic=driver_name 402 Examples: apic=bigsmp 403 404 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 405 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 406 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 407 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 408 backup of CPU 0 409 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 410 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 411 shot down by NMI 412 413 autoconf= [IPV6] 414 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 415 416 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 417 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 418 419 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 420 Format: { "0" | "1" } 421 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 422 0 -- disable. 423 1 -- enable. 424 Default value is set via kernel config option. 425 426 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 427 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 428 429 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 430 Identification support 431 432 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 433 Set instructions support 434 435 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 436 support 437 438 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 439 support 440 441 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 442 Extension support 443 444 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 445 Extension support 446 447 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 448 449 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 450 451 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 452 EzKey and similar keyboards 453 454 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 455 456 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 457 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 458 459 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 460 keyboards 461 462 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 463 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 464 465 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 466 Use software keyboard repeat 467 468 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 469 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 470 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 471 enabled until the next reboot 472 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 473 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 474 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 475 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 476 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 477 userspace auditd. 478 Default: unset 479 480 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 481 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 482 Default: 64 483 484 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 485 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 486 Format: { "0" | "1" } 487 0 - Disable the BAU. 488 1 - Enable the BAU. 489 unset - Disable the BAU. 490 491 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 492 Format: <io>,<mode> 493 494 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 495 Format: <io>,<mode> 496 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 497 498 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 499 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 500 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 501 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 502 503 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 504 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 505 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 506 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 507 508 bert_disable [ACPI] 509 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 510 511 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 512 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 513 514 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 515 embedded devices based on command line input. 516 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 517 518 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 519 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 520 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 521 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 522 erroneous and ignored. 523 Format: integer 524 525 bootconfig [KNL] 526 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 527 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 528 529 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 530 531 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 532 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 533 kernel args too. 534 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 535 bttv.tuner= 536 537 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 538 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 539 at a time. 540 541 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 542 543 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 544 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 545 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 546 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 547 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 548 This option provides an override for these situations. 549 550 carrier_timeout= 551 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 552 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 553 it waits 120 seconds. 554 555 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 556 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 557 trust validation. 558 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 559 560 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 561 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 562 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 563 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 564 others). 565 566 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 567 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 568 569 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 570 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 571 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 572 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 573 a single hierarchy 574 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 575 subsystem 576 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 577 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 578 created 579 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 580 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 581 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 582 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 583 stall information accounting feature 584 585 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 586 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 587 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 588 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 589 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 590 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 591 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 592 all v1 hierarchies. 593 594 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 595 Format: { "true" | "false" } 596 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 597 598 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 599 Format: <string> 600 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 601 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 602 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 603 604 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 605 Format: { "0" | "1" } 606 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 607 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 608 any implied execute protection). 609 1 -- check protection requested by application. 610 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 611 Value can be changed at runtime via 612 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 613 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 614 615 cio_ignore= [S390] 616 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 617 618 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 619 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 620 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 621 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 622 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 623 ones should be. 624 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 625 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 626 instability issue. However, not all features have names 627 in /proc/cpuinfo. 628 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 629 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 630 or using the feature without checking anything 631 will still see it. This just prevents it from 632 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 633 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 634 some critical bits. 635 636 clk_ignore_unused 637 [CLK] 638 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 639 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 640 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 641 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 642 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 643 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 644 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 645 platform with proper driver support. For more 646 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 647 648 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 649 [Deprecated] 650 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 651 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 652 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 653 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 654 655 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 656 Format: <string> 657 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 658 with the name specified. 659 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 660 the platform: 661 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 662 [ACPI] acpi_pm 663 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 664 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 665 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 666 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 667 [MIPS] MIPS 668 [PARISC] cr16 669 [S390] tod 670 [SH] SuperH 671 [SPARC64] tick 672 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 673 674 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 675 [ARM,ARM64] 676 Format: <bool> 677 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 678 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 679 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 680 systems. 681 682 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 683 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 684 external delays before the clock will be marked 685 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 686 three attempts to read the clock under test. 687 688 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 689 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 690 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 691 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 692 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 693 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 694 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 695 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 696 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 697 698 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 699 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 700 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 701 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 702 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 703 704 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 705 [KNL,CMA] 706 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 707 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 708 placement constraint by the physical address range of 709 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 710 altogether. For more information, see 711 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 712 713 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 714 [KNL,CMA] 715 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 716 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 717 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 718 specified, the default value is 0. 719 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 720 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 721 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 722 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 723 724 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 725 [KNL,CMA] 726 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 727 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 728 area for the specified node. 729 730 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 731 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 732 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 733 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 734 735 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 736 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 737 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 738 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 739 a hypervisor. 740 Default: yes 741 742 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 743 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 744 allocations, by default set to 256K. 745 746 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 747 Format: 748 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 749 750 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 751 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 752 753 com90xx= [HW,NET] 754 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 755 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 756 757 condev= [HW,S390] console device 758 conmode= 759 760 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 761 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 762 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 763 the console buffer is full. In this case the 764 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 765 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 766 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 767 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 768 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 769 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 770 771 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 772 773 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 774 775 ttyS<n>[,options] 776 ttyUSB0[,options] 777 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 778 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 779 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 780 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 781 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 782 783 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 784 information. See 785 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 786 alternative. 787 788 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 789 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 790 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 791 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 792 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 793 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 794 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 795 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 796 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 797 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 798 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 799 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 800 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 801 the h/w is not re-initialized. 802 803 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 804 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 805 806 { null | "" } 807 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 808 console messages discarded. 809 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 810 kernel command line. 811 812 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 813 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 814 console=brl,ttyS0 815 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 816 817 console_msg_format= 818 [KNL] Change console messages format 819 default 820 By default we print messages on consoles in 821 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 822 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 823 `printk_time' param). 824 syslog 825 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 826 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 827 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 828 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 829 from /proc/kmsg. 830 831 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 832 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 833 Defaults to 0. 834 835 coredump_filter= 836 [KNL] Change the default value for 837 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 838 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 839 840 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 841 [ARM,ARM64] 842 Format: <bool> 843 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 844 0: default value, disable debugging 845 1: enable debugging at boot time 846 847 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 848 Format: 849 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 850 851 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 852 disable the cpuidle sub-system 853 854 cpuidle.governor= 855 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 856 857 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 858 disable the cpufreq sub-system 859 860 cpufreq.default_governor= 861 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 862 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 863 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 864 865 cpu_init_udelay=N 866 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 867 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 868 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 869 Default: 10000 870 871 cpuhp.parallel= 872 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 873 Format: <bool> 874 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 875 the parameter has no effect. 876 877 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 878 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 879 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 880 succeeds in any situation. 881 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 882 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 883 kernel more unstable. 884 885 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 886 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 887 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 888 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 889 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 890 is selected automatically. 891 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 892 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 893 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 894 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 895 896 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 897 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 898 in the running system. The syntax of range is 899 start-[end] where start and end are both 900 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 901 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 902 903 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 904 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 905 above 4G. 906 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 907 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 908 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 909 below 4G, if available. 910 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 911 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 912 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 913 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 914 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 915 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 916 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 917 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 918 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 919 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 920 size is platform dependent. 921 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 922 --> arm64: 128MiB 923 --> riscv: 128MiB 924 --> loongarch: 128MiB 925 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 926 for second kernel instead. 927 0: to disable low allocation. 928 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 929 or memory reserved is below 4G. 930 931 cryptomgr.notests 932 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 933 934 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 935 Format: <dma> 936 937 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 938 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 939 940 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 941 function call handling. When switched on, 942 additional debug data is printed to the console 943 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 944 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 945 the hang situation. The default value of this 946 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 947 Kconfig option. 948 949 dasd= [HW,NET] 950 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 951 952 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 953 (one device per port) 954 Format: <port#>,<type> 955 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 956 957 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 958 959 debug_boot_weak_hash 960 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 961 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 962 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 963 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 964 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 965 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 966 967 debug_locks_verbose= 968 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 969 Format: <int> 970 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 971 self-tests. 972 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 973 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 974 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 975 useful to lockdep developers. 976 977 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 978 979 debug_guardpage_minorder= 980 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 981 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 982 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 983 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 984 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 985 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 986 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 987 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 988 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 989 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 990 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 991 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 992 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 993 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 994 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 995 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 996 help tracking down these problems. 997 998 debug_pagealloc= 999 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1000 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1001 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1002 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1003 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1004 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1005 on: enable the feature 1006 1007 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 1008 and debugfs internal clients. 1009 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1010 on: All functions are enabled. 1011 no-mount: 1012 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1013 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1014 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1015 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1016 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1017 or directories within debugfs. 1018 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1019 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1020 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1021 1022 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1023 1024 default_hugepagesz= 1025 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1026 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1027 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1028 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1029 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1030 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1031 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1032 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1033 Format: size[KMG] 1034 1035 deferred_probe_timeout= 1036 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1037 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1038 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1039 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1040 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1041 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1042 successful driver registration. This option will also 1043 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1044 retrying. 1045 1046 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1047 1048 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1049 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1050 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1051 hardware. 1052 1053 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1054 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1055 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1056 blacklisted features. 1057 1058 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1059 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1060 (disabled by default). 1061 1062 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1063 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1064 capability is set. 1065 1066 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1067 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1068 1069 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1070 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1071 1072 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1073 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1074 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1075 level 1 and decompression (default) 1076 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1077 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1078 only (compression on level 1) 1079 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1080 only (decompression) 1081 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1082 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1083 1084 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1085 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1086 1087 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1088 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1089 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1090 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1091 miss to occur. 1092 1093 disable= [IPV6] 1094 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1095 1096 disable_radix [PPC] 1097 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1098 1099 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1100 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1101 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1102 1103 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1104 Format: <int> 1105 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1106 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1107 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1108 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1109 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1110 INIT from AP to BSP. 1111 1112 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1113 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1114 to workaround buggy firmware. 1115 1116 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1117 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1118 1119 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1120 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1121 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1122 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1123 1124 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1125 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1126 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1127 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1128 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1129 1130 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1131 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1132 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1133 1134 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1135 1136 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1137 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1138 1139 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1140 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1141 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1142 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1143 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1144 architectural default is too low. 1145 1146 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1147 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1148 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1149 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1150 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1151 driver later using sysfs. 1152 1153 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1154 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1155 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1156 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1157 match the *. 1158 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1159 1160 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1161 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1162 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1163 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1164 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1165 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1166 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1167 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1168 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1169 data set with no connector name will be used for 1170 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1171 1172 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1173 1174 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1175 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1176 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1177 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1178 exists). 1179 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1180 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1181 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1182 1183 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1184 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1185 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1186 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1187 1188 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1189 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1190 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1191 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1192 for details. 1193 1194 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1195 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1196 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1197 which are not unmapped. 1198 1199 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1200 1201 When used with no options, the early console is 1202 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1203 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1204 the platform. 1205 1206 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1207 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1208 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1209 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1210 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1211 configured. 1212 1213 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1214 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1215 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1216 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1217 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1219 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1220 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1221 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1222 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1223 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1224 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1225 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1226 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1227 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1228 1229 pl011,<addr> 1230 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1231 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1232 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1233 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1234 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1235 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1236 the device registers. 1237 1238 liteuart,<addr> 1239 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1240 specified address. The serial port must already be 1241 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1242 1243 meson,<addr> 1244 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1245 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1246 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1247 supported. 1248 1249 msm_serial,<addr> 1250 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1251 port at the specified address. The serial port 1252 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1253 yet supported. 1254 1255 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1256 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1257 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1258 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1259 yet supported. 1260 1261 owl,<addr> 1262 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1263 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1264 specified address. The serial port must already be 1265 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1266 1267 rda,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1269 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1270 specified address. The serial port must already be 1271 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1272 1273 sbi 1274 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1275 console. 1276 1277 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1278 1279 s3c2410,<addr> 1280 s3c2412,<addr> 1281 s3c2440,<addr> 1282 s3c6400,<addr> 1283 s5pv210,<addr> 1284 exynos4210,<addr> 1285 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1286 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1287 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1288 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1289 Options are not yet supported. 1290 1291 lantiq,<addr> 1292 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1293 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1294 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1295 yet supported. 1296 1297 lpuart,<addr> 1298 lpuart32,<addr> 1299 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1300 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1301 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1302 port must already be setup and configured. 1303 1304 ec_imx21,<addr> 1305 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1306 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1307 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1308 must already be setup and configured. 1309 1310 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1311 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1312 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1313 address. The serial port must already be setup 1314 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1315 1316 qcom_geni,<addr> 1317 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1318 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1319 specified address. The serial port must already be 1320 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1321 1322 efifb,[options] 1323 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1324 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1325 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1326 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1327 mapped with the correct attributes. 1328 1329 linflex,<addr> 1330 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1331 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1332 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1333 already be setup and configured. 1334 1335 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1336 earlyprintk=vga 1337 earlyprintk=sclp 1338 earlyprintk=xen 1339 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1340 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1341 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1342 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1343 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1344 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1345 earlyprintk=bios 1346 1347 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1348 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1349 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1350 1351 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1352 takes over. 1353 1354 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1355 be used at a time. 1356 1357 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1358 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1359 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1360 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1361 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1362 You can find the port for a given device in 1363 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1364 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1365 1366 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1367 very good. 1368 1369 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1370 the real console. 1371 1372 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1373 1374 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1375 1376 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1377 1378 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1379 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1380 UART class. 1381 1382 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1383 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1384 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1385 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1386 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1387 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1388 default: on. 1389 1390 edd= [EDD] 1391 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1392 1393 efi= [EFI] 1394 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1395 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1396 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1397 debug: enable misc debug output. 1398 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1399 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1400 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1401 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1402 firmware implementations. 1403 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1404 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1405 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1406 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1407 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1408 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1409 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1410 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1411 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1412 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1413 1414 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1415 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1416 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1417 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1418 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1419 1420 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1421 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1422 updating original EFI memory map. 1423 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1424 from ss to ss+nn. 1425 1426 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1427 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1428 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1429 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1430 1431 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1432 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1433 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1434 1435 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1436 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1437 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1438 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1439 "soft reserved". 1440 1441 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1442 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1443 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1444 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1445 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1446 1447 1448 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1449 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1450 1451 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1452 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1453 1454 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1455 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1456 1457 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1458 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1459 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1460 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1461 1462 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1463 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1464 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1465 1466 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1467 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1468 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1469 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1470 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1471 1472 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1473 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1474 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1475 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1476 1477 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1478 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1479 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1480 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1481 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1482 1483 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1484 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1485 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1486 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1487 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1488 Default value is 0. 1489 Value can be changed at runtime via 1490 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1491 1492 erst_disable [ACPI] 1493 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1494 support. 1495 1496 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1497 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1498 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1499 1500 evm= [EVM] 1501 Format: { "fix" } 1502 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1503 current integrity status. 1504 1505 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1506 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1507 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1508 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1509 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1510 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1511 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1512 1513 failslab= 1514 fail_usercopy= 1515 fail_page_alloc= 1516 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1517 General fault injection mechanism. 1518 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1519 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1520 1521 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1522 Format: { initns | none } 1523 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1524 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1525 1526 floppy= [HW] 1527 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1528 1529 forcepae [X86-32] 1530 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1531 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1532 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1533 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1534 and may cause unknown problems. 1535 1536 ftrace=[tracer] 1537 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1538 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1539 boot debugging. 1540 1541 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1542 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1543 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1544 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1545 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1546 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1547 start up functionality. 1548 1549 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1550 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1551 line parameter. 1552 1553 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1554 1555 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1556 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1557 1558 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1559 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1560 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1561 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1562 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1563 oops. 1564 1565 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1566 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1567 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1568 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1569 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1570 tracing directory. 1571 1572 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1573 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1574 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1575 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1576 tracing directory. 1577 1578 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1579 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1580 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1581 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1582 that can be changed at run time by the 1583 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1584 1585 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1586 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1587 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1588 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1589 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1590 1591 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1592 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1593 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1594 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1595 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1596 1597 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1598 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1599 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1600 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1601 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1602 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1603 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1604 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1605 suppliers). 1606 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1607 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1608 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1609 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1610 up (sync_state() calls). 1611 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1612 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1613 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1614 1615 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1616 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1617 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1618 Format: <bool> 1619 1620 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1621 [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished 1622 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1623 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1624 calls. 1625 Format: { strict | timeout } 1626 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1627 probe successfully. 1628 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1629 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1630 received their sync_state() calls after 1631 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1632 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1633 1634 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1635 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1636 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1637 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1638 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1639 1640 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1641 1642 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1643 Format: off | on 1644 default: on 1645 1646 gather_data_sampling= 1647 [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1648 mitigation. 1649 1650 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1651 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1652 previously stored in vector registers. 1653 1654 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1655 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1656 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1657 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1658 1659 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1660 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1661 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1662 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1663 1664 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1665 1666 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1667 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1668 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1669 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1670 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1671 1672 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1673 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1674 android emulator 1675 1676 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1677 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1678 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1679 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1680 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1681 1682 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1683 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1684 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1685 GPT to be used instead. 1686 1687 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1688 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1689 Format: 0 | 1 1690 Default: 0 1691 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1692 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1693 Format: 0 | 1 1694 Default: 0 1695 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1696 Format: 0 | 1 1697 Default: 0 1698 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1699 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1700 Default: 1024 1701 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1702 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1703 Default: 1024 1704 1705 hardened_usercopy= 1706 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1707 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1708 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1709 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1710 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1711 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1712 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1713 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1714 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1715 1716 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1717 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1718 backtraces on all cpus. 1719 Format: 0 | 1 1720 1721 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1722 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1723 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1724 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1725 1726 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1727 1728 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1729 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1730 1731 hest_disable [ACPI] 1732 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1733 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1734 logic will be disabled. 1735 1736 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1737 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1738 present during boot. 1739 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1740 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1741 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1742 (that will set all pages holding image data 1743 during restoration read-only). 1744 1745 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1746 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1747 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1748 size on bigger boxes. 1749 1750 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1751 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1752 Default: "on" 1753 1754 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1755 1756 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1757 Format: <string> 1758 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1759 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1760 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1761 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1762 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1763 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1764 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1765 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1766 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1767 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1768 1769 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1770 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1771 verbose } 1772 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1773 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1774 VIA, nVidia) 1775 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1776 1777 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1778 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1779 1780 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1781 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1782 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1783 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1784 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1785 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1786 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1787 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1788 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1789 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1790 1791 hugepagesz= 1792 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1793 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1794 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1795 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1796 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1797 architecture dependent. See also 1798 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1799 Format: size[KMG] 1800 1801 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1802 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1803 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1804 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1805 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1806 1807 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1808 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1809 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1810 1811 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1812 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1813 enabled. 1814 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1815 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1816 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1817 Format: { on | off (default) } 1818 1819 on: enable HVO 1820 off: disable HVO 1821 1822 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1823 the default is on. 1824 1825 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1826 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1827 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1828 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1829 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1830 1831 hung_task_panic= 1832 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1833 Format: 0 | 1 1834 1835 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1836 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1837 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1838 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1839 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1840 1841 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1842 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1843 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1844 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1845 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1846 1847 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1848 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1849 guest on lock contention. 1850 1851 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1852 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1853 registered from board initialization code. 1854 Format: 1855 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1856 1857 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1858 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1859 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1860 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1861 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1862 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1863 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1864 keyboard and cannot control its state 1865 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1866 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1867 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1868 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1869 for the AUX port 1870 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1871 controller 1872 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1873 controllers 1874 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1875 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1876 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1877 transitions, or never reset 1878 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1879 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1880 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1881 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1882 architectures force reset to be always executed 1883 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1884 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1885 i8042.probe_defer 1886 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1887 1888 i810= [HW,DRM] 1889 1890 i915.invert_brightness= 1891 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1892 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1893 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1894 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1895 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1896 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1897 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1898 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1899 value switches the backlight off. 1900 -1 -- never invert brightness 1901 0 -- machine default 1902 1 -- force brightness inversion 1903 1904 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1905 Format: <bool> 1906 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1907 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1908 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1909 1910 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1911 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1912 1913 1914 idle= [X86] 1915 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1916 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1917 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1918 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1919 Not recommended. 1920 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1921 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1922 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1923 1924 idxd.sva= [HW] 1925 Format: <bool> 1926 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1927 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1928 true (1). 1929 1930 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1931 Format: <bool> 1932 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1933 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1934 1935 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1936 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1937 Default: strict 1938 1939 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1940 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1941 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1942 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1943 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1944 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1945 encoding mode. 1946 1947 Available settings are as follows: 1948 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1949 supported by the FPU 1950 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1951 by the FPU 1952 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1953 by the FPU 1954 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1955 supported by the FPU 1956 1957 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1958 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1959 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1960 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1961 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1962 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1963 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1964 MIPS64 CPUs. 1965 1966 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1967 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1968 except where unsupported by hardware. 1969 1970 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1971 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1972 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1973 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1974 could change it dynamically, usually by 1975 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1976 1977 ignore_rlimit_data 1978 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1979 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1980 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1981 1982 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1983 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1984 1985 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1986 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1987 default: "enforce" 1988 1989 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1990 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1991 owned by uid=0. 1992 1993 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1994 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1995 measurements, instead of host native format. 1996 1997 ima_hash= [IMA] 1998 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1999 | sha512 | ... } 2000 default: "sha1" 2001 2002 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2003 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2004 2005 ima_policy= [IMA] 2006 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2007 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2008 fail_securely | critical_data" 2009 2010 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2011 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2012 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2013 uid=0. 2014 2015 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2016 all files owned by root. 2017 2018 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2019 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2020 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2021 2022 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2023 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2024 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2025 flag. 2026 2027 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2028 critical data. 2029 2030 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2031 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2032 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2033 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2034 opened for read by uid=0. 2035 2036 ima_template= [IMA] 2037 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2038 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2039 "ima-sigv2" } 2040 Default: "ima-ng" 2041 2042 ima_template_fmt= 2043 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2044 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2045 2046 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2047 Format: <min_file_size> 2048 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2049 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2050 2051 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2052 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2053 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2054 2055 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2056 Format: <bufsize> 2057 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2058 2059 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2060 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2061 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2062 2063 init= [KNL] 2064 Format: <full_path> 2065 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2066 process. 2067 2068 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2069 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2070 startup. 2071 2072 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2073 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2074 modules and initcalls. 2075 2076 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2077 Format: <bool> 2078 Default: 1 2079 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2080 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2081 with devices being probed and 2082 initialized. This should normally just work, 2083 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2084 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2085 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2086 late_ initcalls. 2087 2088 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2089 2090 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2091 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2092 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2093 setting. 2094 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2095 Default is 0, 0 2096 2097 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2098 zeroes. 2099 Format: 0 | 1 2100 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2101 2102 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2103 Format: 0 | 1 2104 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2105 2106 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2107 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2108 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2109 override in debugfs after boot. 2110 2111 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2112 Format: <irq> 2113 2114 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2115 2116 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2117 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2118 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2119 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2120 2121 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2122 on 2123 Enable intel iommu driver. 2124 off 2125 Disable intel iommu driver. 2126 igfx_off [Default Off] 2127 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2128 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2129 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2130 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2131 DMA. 2132 strict [Default Off] 2133 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2134 sp_off [Default Off] 2135 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2136 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2137 not be supported. 2138 sm_on 2139 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2140 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2141 translation. 2142 sm_off 2143 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2144 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2145 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2146 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2147 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2148 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2149 mapping is enabled. 2150 Note that using this option lowers the security 2151 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2152 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2153 2154 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2155 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2156 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2157 2158 intel_pstate= [X86] 2159 disable 2160 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2161 scaling driver for the supported processors 2162 active 2163 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2164 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2165 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2166 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2167 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2168 performance. The way they both operate depends 2169 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2170 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2171 and possibly on the processor model. 2172 passive 2173 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2174 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2175 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2176 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2177 feature. 2178 force 2179 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2180 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2181 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2182 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2183 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2184 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2185 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2186 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2187 no_hwp 2188 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2189 if available. 2190 hwp_only 2191 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2192 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2193 support_acpi_ppc 2194 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2195 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2196 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2197 then this feature is turned on by default. 2198 per_cpu_perf_limits 2199 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2200 cpufreq sysfs interface 2201 2202 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2203 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2204 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2205 nosid disable Source ID checking 2206 no_x2apic_optout 2207 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2208 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2209 2210 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2211 strict regions from userspace. 2212 relaxed 2213 2214 iommu= [X86] 2215 off 2216 force 2217 noforce 2218 biomerge 2219 panic 2220 nopanic 2221 merge 2222 nomerge 2223 soft 2224 pt [X86] 2225 nopt [X86] 2226 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2227 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2228 2229 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2230 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2231 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2232 falling back to the full range if needed. 2233 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2234 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2235 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2236 2237 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86, S390] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2238 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2239 0 - Lazy mode. 2240 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2241 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2242 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2243 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2244 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2245 1 - Strict mode. 2246 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2247 synchronously. 2248 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2249 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2250 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2251 2252 iommu.passthrough= 2253 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2254 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2255 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2256 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2257 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2258 2259 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2260 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2261 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2262 2263 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2264 0x80 2265 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2266 0xed 2267 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2268 udelay 2269 Simple two microseconds delay 2270 none 2271 No delay 2272 2273 ip= [IP_PNP] 2274 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2275 2276 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2277 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2278 2279 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2280 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2281 2282 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2283 [ARM, ARM64] 2284 Format: <bool> 2285 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2286 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2287 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2288 2289 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2290 [ARM, ARM64] 2291 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2292 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2293 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2294 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2295 LPIs. 2296 2297 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2298 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2299 requires the kernel to be built with 2300 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2301 2302 irqfixup [HW] 2303 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2304 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2305 firmware running. 2306 2307 irqpoll [HW] 2308 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2309 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2310 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2311 firmware running. 2312 2313 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2314 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2315 2316 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2317 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2318 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2319 2320 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2321 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2322 2323 nohz 2324 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2325 2326 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2327 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2328 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2329 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2330 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2331 2332 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2333 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2334 be configured manually after bootup. 2335 2336 domain 2337 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2338 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2339 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2340 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2341 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2342 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2343 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2344 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2345 2346 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2347 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2348 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2349 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2350 2351 managed_irq 2352 2353 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2354 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2355 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2356 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2357 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2358 2359 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2360 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2361 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2362 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2363 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2364 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2365 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2366 2367 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2368 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2369 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2370 only delivered when tasks running on those 2371 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2372 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2373 queues. 2374 2375 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2376 2377 iucv= [HW,NET] 2378 2379 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2380 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2381 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2382 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2383 2384 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2385 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2386 write the parameter as: 2387 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2388 2389 Deprecated formats: 2390 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2391 write the parameter as: 2392 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2393 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2394 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2395 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2396 2397 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2398 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2399 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2400 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2401 2402 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2403 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2404 write the parameter as: 2405 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2406 2407 Deprecated formats: 2408 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2409 write the parameter as: 2410 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2411 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2412 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2413 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2414 2415 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2416 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2417 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2418 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2419 2420 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2421 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2422 write the parameter as: 2423 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2424 2425 Deprecated formats: 2426 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2427 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2428 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2429 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2430 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2431 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2432 2433 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2434 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2435 2436 kasan_multi_shot 2437 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2438 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2439 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2440 invalid access. 2441 2442 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2443 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2444 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2445 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2446 the real console. 2447 2448 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2449 2450 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2451 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2452 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2453 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2454 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2455 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2456 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2457 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2458 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2459 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2460 2461 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2462 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2463 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2464 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2465 zone if it does not. 2466 2467 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2468 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2469 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2470 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2471 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2472 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2473 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2474 2475 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2476 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2477 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2478 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2479 optional and is the number seconds in between 2480 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2481 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2482 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2483 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2484 the kernel debugger. 2485 2486 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2487 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2488 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2489 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2490 keyboard only format: kbd 2491 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2492 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2493 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2494 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2495 2496 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2497 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2498 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2499 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2500 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2501 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2502 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2503 2504 The name of the early console should be specified 2505 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2506 the early console might be different than the tty 2507 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2508 blank and the first boot console that implements 2509 read() will be picked. 2510 2511 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2512 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2513 2514 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2515 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2516 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2517 2518 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2519 Valid arguments: on, off 2520 Default: on 2521 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2522 the default is off. 2523 2524 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2525 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2526 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2527 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2528 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2529 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2530 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2531 2532 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2533 2534 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2535 Boot Parameter" section. 2536 2537 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2538 and kernel address spaces. 2539 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2540 0: force disabled 2541 1: force enabled 2542 2543 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2544 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2545 default value can be overridden via 2546 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2547 Default is 1 (enabled) 2548 2549 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2550 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2551 2552 kvm.eager_page_split= 2553 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2554 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2555 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2556 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2557 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2558 required to split huge pages lazily. 2559 2560 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2561 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2562 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2563 still be used for reads. 2564 2565 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2566 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2567 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2568 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2569 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2570 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2571 cleared. 2572 2573 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2574 2575 Default is Y (on). 2576 2577 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2578 Default is false (don't support). 2579 2580 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2581 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2582 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2583 force : Always deploy workaround. 2584 off : Never deploy workaround. 2585 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2586 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2587 2588 Default is 'auto'. 2589 2590 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2591 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2592 2593 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2594 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2595 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2596 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2597 period (see below). The default is 60. 2598 2599 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2600 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2601 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2602 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2603 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2604 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2605 2606 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2607 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2608 2609 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2610 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2611 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2612 for NPT. 2613 2614 kvm-arm.mode= 2615 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2616 2617 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2618 2619 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2620 protected guests. 2621 2622 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2623 state is kept private from the host. 2624 2625 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2626 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2627 hardware. 2628 2629 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2630 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2631 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2632 used with extreme caution. 2633 2634 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2635 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2636 system registers 2637 2638 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2639 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2640 system registers 2641 2642 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2643 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2644 system registers 2645 2646 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2647 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2648 LPIs. 2649 2650 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2651 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2652 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2653 allocation. 2654 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2655 Format: <integer> 2656 Default: 5 2657 2658 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2659 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2660 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2661 for EPT. 2662 2663 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2664 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2665 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2666 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2667 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2668 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2669 Default is 1 (enabled). 2670 2671 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2672 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2673 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2674 hardware lacks support for it. 2675 2676 kvm-intel.nested= 2677 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2678 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2679 2680 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2681 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2682 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2683 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2684 hardware lacks support for it. 2685 2686 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2687 CVE-2018-3620. 2688 2689 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2690 2691 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2692 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2693 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2694 never: Disables the mitigation 2695 2696 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2697 2698 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2699 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2700 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2701 for it. 2702 2703 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2704 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2705 2706 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2707 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2708 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2709 2710 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2711 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2712 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2713 not have direct access. 2714 2715 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2716 options are: 2717 2718 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2719 2720 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2721 affected CPUs 2722 2723 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2724 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2725 2726 full 2727 Provides all available mitigations for the 2728 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2729 enables all mitigations in the 2730 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2731 2732 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2733 sysfs interface is still possible after 2734 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2735 when the first VM is started in a 2736 potentially insecure configuration, 2737 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2738 2739 full,force 2740 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2741 flush runtime control. Implies the 2742 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2743 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2744 2745 flush 2746 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2747 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2748 L1D flush. 2749 2750 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2751 sysfs interface is still possible after 2752 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2753 when the first VM is started in a 2754 potentially insecure configuration, 2755 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2756 2757 flush,nosmt 2758 2759 Disables SMT and enables the default 2760 hypervisor mitigation. 2761 2762 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2763 sysfs interface is still possible after 2764 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2765 when the first VM is started in a 2766 potentially insecure configuration, 2767 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2768 2769 flush,nowarn 2770 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2771 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2772 insecure configuration. 2773 2774 off 2775 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2776 emit any warnings. 2777 It also drops the swap size and available 2778 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2779 bare metal. 2780 2781 Default is 'flush'. 2782 2783 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2784 2785 l2cr= [PPC] 2786 2787 l3cr= [PPC] 2788 2789 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2790 disabled it. 2791 2792 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2793 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2794 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2795 Format: notscdeadline 2796 2797 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2798 in C2 power state. 2799 2800 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2801 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2802 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2803 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2804 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2805 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2806 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2807 2808 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2809 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2810 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2811 2812 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2813 when set. 2814 Format: <int> 2815 2816 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2817 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2818 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2819 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2820 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2821 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2822 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2823 to all ports, links and devices. 2824 2825 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2826 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2827 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2828 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2829 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2830 host link and device attached to it. 2831 2832 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2833 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2834 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2835 The following configurations can be forced. 2836 2837 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2838 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2839 2840 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2841 2842 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2843 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2844 allowed. 2845 2846 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2847 resets. 2848 2849 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2850 link recovery. 2851 2852 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2853 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2854 detection. 2855 2856 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2857 2858 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2859 2860 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2861 2862 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2863 2864 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2865 2866 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2867 2868 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2869 2870 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2871 2872 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2873 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2874 2875 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2876 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2877 2878 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2879 identify device data log. 2880 2881 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2882 purpose log directory. 2883 2884 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2885 2886 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2887 1024 sectors. 2888 2889 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2890 65535 sectors. 2891 2892 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2893 2894 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2895 should be skipped. 2896 2897 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2898 support for devices supporting this feature. 2899 2900 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2901 2902 * disable: Disable this device. 2903 2904 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2905 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2906 2907 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2908 2909 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2910 Format: <integer> 2911 2912 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2913 Format: <integer> 2914 2915 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2916 Format: <integer> 2917 2918 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2919 Format: <integer> 2920 2921 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2922 { integrity | confidentiality } 2923 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2924 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2925 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2926 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2927 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2928 are also disabled. 2929 2930 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 2931 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 2932 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 2933 will result in a splat once they do complete. 2934 2935 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 2936 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 2937 to be bound. 2938 2939 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 2940 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 2941 to be bound. 2942 2943 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 2944 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 2945 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 2946 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 2947 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 2948 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 2949 2950 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 2951 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 2952 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 2953 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 2954 2955 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 2956 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 2957 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 2958 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 2959 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 2960 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 2961 2962 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2963 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2964 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2965 number of online CPUs. 2966 2967 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2968 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2969 2970 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2971 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2972 2973 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2974 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2975 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2976 2977 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 2978 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 2979 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 2980 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 2981 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 2982 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 2983 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 2984 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 2985 disable boosting. 2986 2987 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 2988 Number that determines how often and for how 2989 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 2990 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 2991 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 2992 constant as the number of writers increases. 2993 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 2994 increases with the number of writers. 2995 2996 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2997 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2998 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2999 mode during the locktorture test. 3000 3001 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3002 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3003 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3004 3005 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3006 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3007 3008 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3009 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3010 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3011 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3012 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3013 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3014 3015 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3016 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3017 3018 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3019 Enable additional printk() statements. 3020 3021 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3022 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3023 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3024 3025 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3026 Format: <irq> 3027 3028 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3029 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3030 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3031 loglevels are defined as follows: 3032 3033 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3034 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3035 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3036 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3037 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3038 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3039 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3040 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3041 3042 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 3043 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 3044 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 3045 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 3046 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 3047 that allows to increase the default size depending on 3048 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 3049 3050 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3051 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3052 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3053 kernel boot problems. 3054 3055 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3056 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3057 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3058 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3059 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3060 attached printers to be reset. Using 3061 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3062 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3063 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3064 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3065 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3066 port specification list means that device IDs 3067 from each port should be examined, to see if 3068 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3069 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3070 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3071 3072 lpj=n [KNL] 3073 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3074 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3075 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3076 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3077 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3078 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3079 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3080 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3081 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3082 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3083 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3084 hardware. 3085 3086 ltpc= [NET] 3087 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 3088 3089 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3090 3091 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3092 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3093 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3094 3095 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 3096 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 3097 Example: machvec=hpzx1 3098 3099 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3100 different yeeloong laptops. 3101 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3102 3103 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 3104 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 3105 3106 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3107 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3108 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3109 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3110 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3111 only takes effect during system bootup. 3112 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3113 which also disables the IO APIC. 3114 3115 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3116 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3117 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3118 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3119 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3120 /dev/loop-control interface. 3121 3122 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3123 3124 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3125 3126 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3127 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3128 3129 mdacon= [MDA] 3130 Format: <first>,<last> 3131 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3132 3133 mds= [X86,INTEL] 3134 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3135 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3136 3137 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3138 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3139 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3140 3141 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3142 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3143 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3144 not have direct access. 3145 3146 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3147 options are: 3148 3149 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3150 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3151 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3152 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3153 3154 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3155 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3156 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3157 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3158 too. 3159 3160 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3161 mds=full. 3162 3163 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3164 3165 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3166 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3167 3168 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3169 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3170 3171 1 for test; 3172 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3173 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3174 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3175 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3176 3177 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3178 high memory is not affected. 3179 3180 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3181 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3182 3183 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3184 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3185 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3186 belonging to unused RAM. 3187 3188 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3189 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3190 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3191 3192 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3193 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3194 firmware. 3195 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3196 ss[KMG]. 3197 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3198 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3199 3200 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3201 memory. 3202 3203 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3204 3205 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3206 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3207 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3208 3209 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3210 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3211 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3212 set according to the 3213 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3214 option. 3215 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3216 3217 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3218 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3219 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3220 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3221 option description. 3222 3223 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3224 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3225 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3226 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3227 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3228 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3229 comma delimited. 3230 Example: 3231 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3232 3233 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3234 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3235 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3236 3237 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3238 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3239 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3240 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3241 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3242 or 3243 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3244 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3245 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3246 will be eaten. 3247 3248 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3249 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3250 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3251 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3252 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3253 3254 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3255 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3256 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3257 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3258 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3259 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3260 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3261 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3262 3263 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3264 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3265 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3266 Setting this option will scan the memory 3267 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3268 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3269 from using the memory being corrupted. 3270 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3271 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3272 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3273 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3274 3275 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3276 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3277 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3278 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3279 corruption in more or less memory. 3280 3281 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3282 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3283 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3284 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3285 3286 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3287 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3288 Format: {on | off (default)} 3289 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3290 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3291 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3292 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3293 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3294 lot of memory without requiring additional 3295 memory to do so. 3296 This feature is disabled by default because it 3297 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3298 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3299 memory blocks). 3300 The state of the flag can be read in 3301 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3302 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3303 the feature is not effective. 3304 3305 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3306 Format: <integer> 3307 default : 0 <disable> 3308 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3309 performed. Each pass selects another test 3310 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3311 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3312 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3313 regions that are detected. 3314 3315 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3316 Valid arguments: on, off 3317 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3318 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3319 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3320 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3321 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3322 3323 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3324 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3325 3326 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3327 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3328 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3329 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3330 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3331 3332 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3333 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3334 platforms. 3335 3336 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3337 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3338 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3339 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3340 3341 mga= [HW,DRM] 3342 3343 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3344 Format: <bool> 3345 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3346 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3347 3348 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3349 physical address is ignored. 3350 3351 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3352 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3353 Default: "0tb" 3354 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3355 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3356 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3357 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3358 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3359 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3360 unconfigured. 3361 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3362 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3363 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3364 VGA shield. 3365 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3366 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3367 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3368 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3369 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3370 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3371 3372 mitigations= 3373 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3374 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3375 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3376 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3377 3378 off 3379 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3380 improves system performance, but it may also 3381 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3382 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3383 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3384 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3385 l1tf=off [X86] 3386 mds=off [X86] 3387 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3388 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3389 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3390 nobp=0 [S390] 3391 nopti [X86,PPC] 3392 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3393 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3394 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3395 retbleed=off [X86] 3396 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3397 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3398 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3399 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3400 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3401 3402 Exceptions: 3403 This does not have any effect on 3404 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3405 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3406 3407 auto (default) 3408 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3409 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3410 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3411 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3412 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3413 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3414 3415 auto,nosmt 3416 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3417 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3418 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3419 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3420 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3421 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3422 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3423 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3424 3425 mminit_loglevel= 3426 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3427 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3428 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3429 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3430 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3431 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3432 3433 mmio_stale_data= 3434 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3435 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3436 3437 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3438 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3439 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3440 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3441 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3442 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3443 3444 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3445 options are: 3446 3447 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3448 3449 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3450 vulnerable CPUs. 3451 3452 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3453 3454 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3455 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3456 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3457 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3458 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3459 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3460 3461 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3462 mmio_stale_data=full. 3463 3464 For details see: 3465 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3466 3467 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3468 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3469 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3470 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3471 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3472 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3473 3474 module.async_probe=<bool> 3475 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3476 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3477 specific module, use the module specific control that 3478 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3479 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3480 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3481 the specific module. 3482 3483 module.enable_dups_trace 3484 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3485 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3486 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3487 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3488 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3489 module.sig_enforce 3490 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3491 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3492 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3493 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3494 3495 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3496 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3497 3498 mousedev.tap_time= 3499 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3500 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3501 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3502 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3503 Format: <msecs> 3504 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3505 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3506 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3507 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3508 3509 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3510 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3511 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3512 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3513 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3514 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3515 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3516 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3517 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3518 is not too small. 3519 3520 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3521 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3522 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3523 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3524 allocations. Use with caution! 3525 3526 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3527 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3528 3529 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3530 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3531 3532 mtdparts= [MTD] 3533 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3534 3535 mtdset= [ARM] 3536 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3537 3538 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3539 3540 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3541 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3542 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3543 3544 mtrr=debug [X86] 3545 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3546 registers at boot time. 3547 3548 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3549 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3550 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3551 3552 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3553 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3554 Default is 1. 3555 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3556 using up MTRRs. 3557 3558 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3559 Format: <integer> 3560 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3561 Default : 1 3562 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3563 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3564 3565 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3566 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3567 at a time. 3568 3569 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3570 3571 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3572 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3573 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3574 something different and driver-specific. 3575 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3576 file if at all. 3577 3578 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3579 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3580 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3581 waits 4 seconds. 3582 3583 nf_conntrack.acct= 3584 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3585 0 to disable accounting 3586 1 to enable accounting 3587 Default value is 0. 3588 3589 nfs.cache_getent= 3590 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3591 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3592 3593 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3594 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3595 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3596 3597 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3598 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3599 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3600 requests. 3601 3602 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3603 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3604 channel should listen. 3605 3606 nfs.delay_retrans= 3607 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3608 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3609 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3610 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3611 and the specified value is >= 0. 3612 3613 nfs.enable_ino64= 3614 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3615 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3616 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3617 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3618 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3619 3620 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3621 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3622 entries. 3623 3624 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3625 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3626 slots the client will assign to the callback 3627 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3628 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3629 a particular server. 3630 3631 nfs.max_session_slots= 3632 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3633 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3634 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3635 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3636 Note that there is little point in setting this 3637 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3638 3639 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3640 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3641 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3642 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3643 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3644 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3645 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3646 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3647 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3648 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3649 back to using the idmapper. 3650 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3651 3652 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3653 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3654 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3655 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3656 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3657 3658 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3659 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3660 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3661 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3662 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3663 after the locks are lost. 3664 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3665 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3666 parameter to '1'. 3667 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3668 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3669 3670 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3671 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3672 information in exchange_id requests. 3673 If zero, no implementation identification information 3674 will be sent. 3675 The default is to send the implementation identification 3676 information. 3677 3678 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3679 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3680 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3681 3682 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3683 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3684 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3685 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3686 3687 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3688 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3689 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3690 the destination of the copy. 3691 3692 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3693 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3694 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3695 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3696 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3697 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3698 3699 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3700 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3701 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3702 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3703 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3704 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3705 this parameter. 3706 3707 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3708 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3709 3710 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3711 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3712 3713 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3714 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3715 3716 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3717 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3718 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3719 3720 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3721 when a NMI is triggered. 3722 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3723 3724 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3725 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3726 Valid num: 0 or 1 3727 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3728 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3729 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3730 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3731 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3732 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3733 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3734 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3735 need the box quickly up again. 3736 3737 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3738 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3739 3740 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3741 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3742 is present. 3743 3744 no4lvl [RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces 3745 kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3746 3747 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3748 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3749 3750 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3751 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3752 but will impact performance. 3753 3754 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3755 3756 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3757 (CPU alternatives feature). 3758 3759 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3760 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3761 3762 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3763 3764 nocache [ARM] 3765 3766 no_console_suspend 3767 [HW] Never suspend the console 3768 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3769 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3770 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3771 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3772 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3773 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3774 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3775 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3776 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3777 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3778 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3779 turn on/off it dynamically. 3780 3781 no_debug_objects 3782 [KNL] Disable object debugging 3783 3784 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3785 3786 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3787 3788 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3789 3790 noexec [IA-64] 3791 3792 noexec32 [X86-64] 3793 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3794 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3795 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3796 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3797 read implies executable mappings 3798 3799 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3800 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3801 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3802 3803 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3804 3805 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3806 3807 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3808 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3809 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3810 3811 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3812 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3813 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3814 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3815 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3816 real-time systems. 3817 3818 no_hash_pointers 3819 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3820 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3821 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3822 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3823 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3824 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3825 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3826 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3827 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3828 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3829 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3830 kernels. 3831 3832 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3833 3834 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to 3835 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3836 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3837 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3838 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3839 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3840 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3841 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3842 3843 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3844 3845 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3846 3847 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3848 Valid arguments: on, off 3849 Default: on 3850 3851 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3852 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3853 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3854 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3855 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3856 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3857 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3858 just as if they had also been called out in the 3859 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3860 3861 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3862 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3863 3864 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3865 initial RAM disk. 3866 3867 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3868 remapping. 3869 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3870 3871 nointroute [IA-64] 3872 3873 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3874 3875 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3876 3877 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3878 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3879 3880 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3881 3882 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3883 3884 nokaslr [KNL] 3885 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3886 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3887 Layout Randomization). 3888 3889 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3890 fault handling. 3891 3892 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3893 3894 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3895 3896 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3897 3898 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3899 3900 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3901 3902 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3903 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3904 3905 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3906 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3907 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3908 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3909 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3910 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3911 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3912 3913 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3914 3915 nomodule Disable module load 3916 3917 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3918 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3919 irq. 3920 3921 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3922 pagetables) support. 3923 3924 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3925 3926 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3927 in some Intel CPUs. 3928 3929 nopti [X86-64] 3930 Equivalent to pti=off 3931 3932 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3933 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3934 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3935 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3936 3937 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3938 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3939 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3940 contention. 3941 3942 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3943 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3944 3945 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3946 with UP alternatives 3947 3948 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3949 space. 3950 3951 nosbagart [IA-64] 3952 3953 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3954 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3955 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3956 3957 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3958 3959 nosmap [PPC] 3960 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3961 even if it is supported by processor. 3962 3963 nosmep [PPC64s] 3964 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3965 even if it is supported by processor. 3966 3967 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3968 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3969 3970 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3971 Equivalent to smt=1. 3972 3973 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3974 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3975 via the sysfs control file. 3976 3977 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3978 3979 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3980 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3981 3982 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3983 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3984 with this option. 3985 3986 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3987 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3988 possible in the system. 3989 3990 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3991 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3992 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3993 option. 3994 3995 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV] Disable 3996 paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time is 3997 computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 3998 3999 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4000 4001 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4002 broken timer IRQ sources. 4003 4004 no_uaccess_flush 4005 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4006 4007 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4008 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4009 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4010 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4011 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4012 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4013 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4014 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4015 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4016 is set. 4017 4018 no-vmw-sched-clock 4019 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 4020 clock and use the default one. 4021 4022 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4023 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4024 4025 nowb [ARM] 4026 4027 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4028 4029 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4030 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4031 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4032 4033 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4034 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4035 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4036 4037 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4038 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4039 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4040 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4041 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4042 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4043 4044 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4045 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4046 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4047 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4048 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4049 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4050 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4051 4052 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 4053 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 4054 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 4055 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 4056 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 4057 parameter's value. 4058 Format: integer between 1 and 255 4059 Default: 255 4060 4061 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 4062 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 4063 SAL PALO. 4064 4065 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4066 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4067 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4068 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4069 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4070 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4071 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4072 hot plugging. 4073 4074 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4075 4076 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 4077 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 4078 4079 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4080 NUMA balancing. 4081 Allowed values are enable and disable 4082 4083 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4084 'node', 'default' can be specified 4085 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4086 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4087 4088 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4089 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4090 info. 4091 4092 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4093 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4094 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4095 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4096 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4097 interrupts *may* be lost! 4098 4099 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4100 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4101 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4102 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4103 4104 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4105 4106 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4107 4108 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4109 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4110 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4111 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4112 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4113 4114 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4115 process, but there is a small probability of 4116 deadlocking the machine. 4117 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4118 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4119 4120 page_alloc.shuffle= 4121 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4122 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 4123 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 4124 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 4125 cache, and this parameter can be used to 4126 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 4127 can be read from sysfs at: 4128 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4129 4130 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4131 Storage of the information about who allocated 4132 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4133 we can turn it on. 4134 on: enable the feature 4135 4136 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4137 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4138 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4139 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4140 on: turn on poisoning 4141 4142 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4143 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4144 Format: <integer> 4145 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4146 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4147 4148 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4149 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4150 timeout = 0: wait forever 4151 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4152 Format: <timeout> 4153 4154 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4155 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4156 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4157 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4158 called with any of the flags in this set. 4159 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4160 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4161 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4162 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4163 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4164 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4165 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4166 4167 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4168 on a WARN(). 4169 4170 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4171 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4172 bit 0: print all tasks info 4173 bit 1: print system memory info 4174 bit 2: print timer info 4175 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4176 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4177 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4178 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4179 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4180 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4181 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4182 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4183 4184 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4185 connected to, default is 0. 4186 Format: <parport#> 4187 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4188 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4189 Format: <mode> 4190 4191 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4192 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4193 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4194 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4195 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4196 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4197 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4198 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4199 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4200 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4201 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4202 are specified on the command line, starting 4203 with parport0. 4204 4205 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4206 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4207 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4208 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4209 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4210 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4211 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4212 4213 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4214 Format: <int> 4215 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4216 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4217 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4218 4219 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4220 Format: <int> 4221 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4222 changes. Disabled by default. 4223 4224 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4225 Format: <int> 4226 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4227 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4228 Disabled by default. 4229 4230 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4231 Format: <int> 4232 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4233 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4234 Disabled by default. 4235 4236 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4237 Format: <int> 4238 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4239 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4240 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4241 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4242 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4243 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4244 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4245 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4246 all channels. 4247 4248 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4249 Format: <int> 4250 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4251 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4252 respectively. Disabled by default. 4253 4254 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4255 Format: <int> 4256 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4257 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4258 respectively. Disabled by default. 4259 4260 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4261 Format: <int> 4262 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4263 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4264 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4265 All modes allowed by default. 4266 4267 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4268 Format: <int> 4269 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4270 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4271 4272 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4273 Format: <int> 4274 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4275 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4276 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4277 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4278 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4279 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4280 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4281 By default all supported ports are probed. 4282 4283 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4284 Format: <int> 4285 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4286 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4287 4288 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4289 Format: <int> 4290 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4291 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4292 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4293 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4294 0 otherwise. 4295 4296 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4297 Format: <int> 4298 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4299 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4300 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4301 allowed by default. 4302 4303 pause_on_oops=<int> 4304 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4305 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4306 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4307 4308 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4309 4310 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4311 4312 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4313 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4314 specified in one of the following formats: 4315 4316 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4317 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4318 4319 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4320 bus/device/function address which may change 4321 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4322 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4323 by other kernel parameters. If the 4324 domain is left unspecified, it is 4325 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4326 to a device through multiple device/function 4327 addresses can be specified after the base 4328 address (this is more robust against 4329 renumbering issues). The second format 4330 selects devices using IDs from the 4331 configuration space which may match multiple 4332 devices in the system. 4333 4334 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4335 changes anything 4336 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4337 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4338 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4339 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4340 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4341 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4342 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4343 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4344 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4345 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4346 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4347 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4348 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4349 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4350 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4351 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4352 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4353 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4354 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4355 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4356 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4357 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4358 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4359 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4360 Configuration 4361 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4362 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4363 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4364 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4365 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4366 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4367 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4368 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4369 should never be necessary. 4370 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4371 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4372 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4373 when the system masks IRQs. 4374 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4375 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4376 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4377 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4378 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4379 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4380 on several machines and they hang the machine 4381 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4382 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4383 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4384 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4385 motherboard. 4386 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4387 Use with caution as certain devices share 4388 address decoders between ROMs and other 4389 resources. 4390 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4391 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4392 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4393 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4394 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4395 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4396 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4397 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4398 this way. 4399 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4400 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4401 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4402 F0000h-100000h range. 4403 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4404 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4405 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4406 explicitly which ones they are. 4407 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4408 numbers ourselves, overriding 4409 whatever the firmware may have done. 4410 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4411 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4412 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4413 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4414 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4415 IRQ routing is enabled. 4416 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4417 or for PCI scanning. 4418 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4419 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4420 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4421 please report a bug. 4422 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4423 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4424 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4425 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4426 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4427 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4428 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4429 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4430 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4431 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4432 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4433 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4434 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4435 so this option is a temporary workaround 4436 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4437 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4438 handle more pci cards 4439 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4440 This might help on some broken boards which 4441 machine check when some devices' config space 4442 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4443 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4444 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4445 This sorting is done to get a device 4446 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4447 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4448 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4449 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4450 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4451 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4452 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4453 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4454 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4455 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4456 or bus can support) for best performance. 4457 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4458 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4459 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4460 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4461 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4462 that hot-added devices will work. 4463 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4464 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4465 The default value is 256 bytes. 4466 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4467 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4468 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4469 resource_alignment= 4470 Format: 4471 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4472 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4473 aligned memory resources. How to 4474 specify the device is described above. 4475 If <order of align> is not specified, 4476 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4477 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4478 windows need to be expanded. 4479 To specify the alignment for several 4480 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4481 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4482 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4483 for 4096-byte alignment. 4484 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4485 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4486 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4487 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4488 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4489 the default. 4490 off: Turn ECRC off 4491 on: Turn ECRC on. 4492 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4493 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4494 Default size is 256 bytes. 4495 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4496 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4497 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4498 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4499 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4500 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4501 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4502 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4503 MMIO_PREF window. 4504 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4505 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4506 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4507 Default is 1. 4508 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4509 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4510 accommodate resources required by all child 4511 devices. 4512 off: Turn realloc off 4513 on: Turn realloc on 4514 realloc same as realloc=on 4515 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4516 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4517 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4518 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4519 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4520 port. 4521 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4522 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4523 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4524 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4525 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4526 taints the kernel. 4527 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4528 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4529 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4530 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4531 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4532 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4533 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4534 this removes isolation between devices and 4535 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4536 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4537 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4538 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4539 one PCI domain per PCI function 4540 4541 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4542 Management. 4543 off Disable ASPM. 4544 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4545 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4546 4547 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4548 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4549 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4550 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4551 also tries to use these services. 4552 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4553 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4554 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4555 hotplug). 4556 4557 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4558 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4559 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4560 4561 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4562 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4563 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4564 4565 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4566 4567 pd_ignore_unused 4568 [PM] 4569 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4570 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4571 for debug and development, but should not be 4572 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4573 4574 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4575 boot time. 4576 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4577 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4578 4579 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4580 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4581 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4582 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4583 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4584 and performance comparison. 4585 4586 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4587 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4588 4589 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4590 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4591 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4592 4593 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4594 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4595 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4596 4597 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4598 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4599 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4600 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4601 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4602 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4603 remains 0. 4604 4605 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4606 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4607 4608 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4609 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4610 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4611 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4612 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4613 possible settings and some assignment information. 4614 4615 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4616 { off } 4617 4618 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4619 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4620 4621 pnp_reserve_irq= 4622 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4623 4624 pnp_reserve_dma= 4625 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4626 4627 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4628 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4629 4630 pnp_reserve_mem= 4631 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4632 autoconfiguration. 4633 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4634 4635 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4636 Default is 21. 4637 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4638 may be specified. 4639 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4640 4641 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4642 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4643 platform machine description specific power_save 4644 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4645 execution priority. 4646 4647 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4648 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4649 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4650 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4651 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4652 4653 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4654 Format: {"off"} 4655 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4656 4657 preempt= [KNL] 4658 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4659 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4660 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4661 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4662 can be preempted anytime. 4663 4664 print-fatal-signals= 4665 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4666 4667 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4668 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4669 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4670 coredump - etc. 4671 4672 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4673 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4674 4675 default: off. 4676 4677 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4678 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4679 panics 4680 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4681 default: disabled 4682 4683 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4684 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4685 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4686 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4687 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4688 in order to provide more debug information. 4689 Format: <bool> 4690 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4691 4692 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4693 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4694 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4695 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4696 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4697 Default: ratelimit 4698 4699 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4700 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4701 4702 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4703 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4704 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4705 4706 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4707 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4708 instead using the legacy FADT method 4709 4710 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4711 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4712 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4713 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4714 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4715 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4716 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4717 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4718 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4719 statistical time based profiling. 4720 4721 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4722 4723 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4724 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4725 that). 4726 Format: <bool> 4727 4728 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4729 tracking. 4730 Format: <bool> 4731 4732 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4733 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4734 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4735 per second. 4736 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4737 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4738 (0 = never). 4739 psmouse.resolution= 4740 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4741 psmouse.smartscroll= 4742 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4743 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4744 4745 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4746 4747 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4748 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4749 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4750 system calls and interrupts. 4751 4752 on - unconditionally enable 4753 off - unconditionally disable 4754 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4755 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4756 4757 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4758 4759 pty.legacy_count= 4760 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4761 default number. 4762 4763 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4764 4765 r128= [HW,DRM] 4766 4767 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4768 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4769 invalidate. 4770 4771 raid= [HW,RAID] 4772 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4773 4774 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4775 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4776 4777 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4778 4779 random.trust_cpu=off 4780 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4781 random number generator (if available) to 4782 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4783 4784 random.trust_bootloader=off 4785 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4786 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4787 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4788 4789 randomize_kstack_offset= 4790 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4791 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4792 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4793 that depend on stack address determinism or 4794 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4795 available on architectures that have defined 4796 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4797 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4798 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4799 4800 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4801 4802 cec_disable [X86] 4803 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4804 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4805 4806 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4807 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4808 as described above. 4809 4810 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4811 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4812 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4813 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4814 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4815 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4816 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4817 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4818 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4819 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4820 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4821 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4822 4823 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4824 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4825 4826 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4827 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4828 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4829 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4830 4831 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4832 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4833 4834 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4835 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4836 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4837 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4838 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4839 This improves the real-time response for the 4840 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4841 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4842 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4843 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4844 4845 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4846 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4847 process in one batch. 4848 4849 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4850 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4851 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4852 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4853 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4854 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4855 4856 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4857 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4858 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4859 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4860 4861 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4862 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4863 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4864 4865 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4866 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4867 RCU grace-period initialization. 4868 4869 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4870 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4871 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4872 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4873 the rcu_node combining tree. 4874 4875 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4876 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4877 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4878 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4879 and maximum value is HZ. 4880 4881 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4882 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4883 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4884 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4885 4886 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4887 Set required age in jiffies for a 4888 given grace period before RCU starts 4889 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4890 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4891 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4892 a value based on the most recent settings 4893 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4894 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4895 This calculated value may be viewed in 4896 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4897 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4898 overwritten. 4899 4900 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4901 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4902 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4903 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4904 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4905 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4906 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4907 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4908 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4909 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4910 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4911 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4912 4913 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4914 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4915 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4916 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4917 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4918 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4919 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4920 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4921 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4922 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4923 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4924 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4925 4926 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4927 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4928 batch limiting is disabled. 4929 4930 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4931 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4932 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4933 4934 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4935 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4936 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4937 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4938 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4939 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4940 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4941 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4942 4943 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4944 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4945 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4946 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4947 4948 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4949 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4950 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4951 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4952 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4953 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4954 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4955 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4956 4957 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4958 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4959 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4960 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4961 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4962 4963 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4964 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4965 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4966 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4967 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4968 4969 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4970 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4971 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4972 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4973 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4974 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4975 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4976 4977 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4978 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4979 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4980 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4981 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4982 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4983 condition. 4984 4985 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4986 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4987 each group, which defaults to the square root 4988 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4989 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4990 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4991 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4992 4993 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4994 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4995 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4996 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4997 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4998 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4999 5000 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5001 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5002 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5003 By default, this limit is checked only once 5004 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5005 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5006 5007 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5008 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5009 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5010 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5011 Larger delays increase the probability of 5012 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5013 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5014 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5015 5016 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5017 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5018 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5019 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5020 5021 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5022 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5023 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5024 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5025 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5026 5027 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5028 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5029 to zero. 5030 5031 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5032 Measure performance of asynchronous 5033 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5034 5035 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5036 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5037 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5038 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5039 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5040 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5041 5042 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5043 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5044 grace-period primitives. 5045 5046 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5047 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5048 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5049 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5050 interference. 5051 5052 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5053 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5054 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5055 5056 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5057 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5058 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5059 Defaults to 1. 5060 5061 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5062 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5063 5064 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5065 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5066 If this parameter has the same value as 5067 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5068 and double-argument variants are tested. 5069 5070 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5071 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5072 If this parameter has the same value as 5073 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5074 and double-argument variants are tested. 5075 5076 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5077 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5078 5079 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5080 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5081 5082 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5083 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5084 of allocations and frees. 5085 5086 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5087 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5088 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5089 but instead allows better measurement of things 5090 like CPU consumption. 5091 5092 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5093 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5094 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5095 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5096 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5097 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5098 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5099 a single reader. 5100 5101 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5102 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5103 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5104 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5105 5106 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5107 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5108 5109 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5110 Shut the system down after performance tests 5111 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5112 testing. 5113 5114 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5115 Enable additional printk() statements. 5116 5117 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5118 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5119 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5120 no holdoff. 5121 5122 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5123 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5124 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5125 says no holdoff. 5126 5127 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5128 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5129 in microseconds. 5130 5131 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5132 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5133 in microseconds. 5134 5135 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5136 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5137 in seconds. 5138 5139 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5140 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5141 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5142 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5143 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5144 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5145 of CPUs to be used. 5146 5147 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5148 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5149 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5150 5151 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5152 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5153 forward-progress tests. 5154 5155 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5156 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5157 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5158 testing. 5159 5160 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5161 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5162 primitives, if available. 5163 5164 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5165 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5166 5167 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5168 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5169 update-side primitives, if available. 5170 5171 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5172 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5173 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5174 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5175 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5176 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5177 they are all non-zero. 5178 5179 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5180 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5181 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5182 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5183 5184 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5185 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5186 This can of course result in splats, and is 5187 intended to test the ability of things like 5188 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5189 such leaks. 5190 5191 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5192 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5193 5194 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5195 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5196 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5197 test, hence the "fake". 5198 5199 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5200 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5201 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5202 5203 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5204 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5205 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5206 5207 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5208 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5209 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5210 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5211 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5212 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5213 5214 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5215 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5216 5217 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5218 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5219 5220 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5221 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5222 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5223 5224 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5225 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5226 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5227 task-exit processing. 5228 5229 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5230 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5231 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5232 is spawned. 5233 5234 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5235 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5236 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5237 5238 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5239 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5240 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5241 during the rcutorture test. 5242 5243 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5244 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5245 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5246 5247 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5248 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5249 warnings, zero to disable. 5250 5251 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5252 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5253 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5254 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5255 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5256 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5257 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5258 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5259 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5260 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5261 5262 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5263 5264 5265 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5266 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5267 5268 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5269 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5270 5271 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5272 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5273 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5274 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5275 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5276 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5277 5278 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5279 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5280 5281 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5282 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5283 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5284 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5285 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5286 5287 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5288 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5289 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5290 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5291 5292 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5293 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5294 5295 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5296 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5297 5298 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5299 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5300 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5301 5302 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5303 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5304 5305 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5306 Enable additional printk() statements. 5307 5308 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5309 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5310 stall warning. 5311 5312 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5313 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5314 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5315 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5316 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5317 5318 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5319 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5320 5321 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5322 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5323 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5324 during early boot, that is, during the time 5325 before the init task is spawned. 5326 5327 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5328 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5329 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5330 value is 300 seconds. 5331 5332 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5333 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5334 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5335 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5336 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5337 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5338 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5339 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5340 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5341 5342 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5343 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5344 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5345 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5346 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5347 5348 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5349 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5350 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5351 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5352 5353 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5354 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5355 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5356 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5357 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5358 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5359 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5360 5361 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5362 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5363 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5364 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5365 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5366 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5367 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5368 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5369 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5370 5371 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5372 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5373 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5374 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5375 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5376 5377 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5378 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5379 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5380 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5381 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5382 grace-period processing. 5383 5384 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5385 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5386 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5387 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5388 a single callback queue. This switching only 5389 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5390 set to the default value of -1. 5391 5392 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5393 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5394 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5395 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5396 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5397 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5398 the default value of -1. 5399 5400 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5401 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5402 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5403 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5404 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5405 for use in testing. 5406 5407 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5408 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5409 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5410 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5411 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5412 but lengthens grace periods. 5413 5414 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5415 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5416 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5417 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5418 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5419 callback flooding. 5420 5421 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5422 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5423 informational messages, which give some indication 5424 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5425 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5426 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5427 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5428 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5429 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5430 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5431 5432 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5433 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5434 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5435 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5436 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5437 the value three, so that the first informational 5438 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5439 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5440 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5441 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5442 5443 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5444 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5445 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5446 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5447 A change in value does not take effect until 5448 the beginning of the next grace period. 5449 5450 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5451 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5452 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5453 A negative value will take the default. A value 5454 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5455 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5456 5457 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5458 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5459 Rude asynchronous callback batching for 5460 call_rcu_tasks_rude(). A negative value 5461 will take the default. A value of zero will 5462 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5463 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(). 5464 5465 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5466 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5467 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5468 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5469 will take the default. A value of zero will 5470 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5471 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5472 5473 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5474 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5475 5476 rdinit= [KNL] 5477 Format: <full_path> 5478 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5479 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5480 5481 rdrand= [X86] 5482 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5483 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5484 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5485 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5486 path). 5487 5488 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5489 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5490 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5491 mba, smba, bmec. 5492 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5493 rdt=cmt,!mba 5494 5495 reboot= [KNL] 5496 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5497 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5498 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5499 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5500 [[,]f[orce] 5501 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5502 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5503 reboot only), 5504 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5505 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5506 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5507 to be used for rebooting. 5508 5509 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5510 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5511 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5512 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5513 interference. 5514 5515 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5516 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5517 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5518 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5519 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5520 5521 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5522 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5523 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5524 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5525 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5526 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5527 x86 laptops. 5528 5529 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5530 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5531 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5532 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5533 5534 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5535 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5536 the console log. 5537 5538 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5539 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5540 measured in microseconds. 5541 5542 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5543 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5544 5545 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5546 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5547 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5548 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5549 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5550 5551 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5552 Enable additional printk() statements. 5553 5554 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5555 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5556 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5557 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5558 specified. 5559 5560 regulator_ignore_unused 5561 [REGULATOR] 5562 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5563 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5564 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5565 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5566 5567 relax_domain_level= 5568 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5569 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5570 5571 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5572 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5573 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5574 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5575 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5576 5577 reservetop= [X86-32] 5578 Format: nn[KMG] 5579 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5580 address space. 5581 5582 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5583 during initialization. 5584 5585 resume= [SWSUSP] 5586 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5587 Format: 5588 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5589 5590 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5591 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5592 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5593 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5594 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5595 5596 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5597 read the resume files 5598 5599 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5600 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5601 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5602 5603 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5604 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5605 5606 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5607 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5608 vulnerability. 5609 5610 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5611 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5612 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5613 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5614 that don't. 5615 5616 off - no mitigation 5617 auto - automatically select a migitation 5618 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5619 disabling SMT if necessary for 5620 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5621 and older without STIBP). 5622 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5623 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5624 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5625 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5626 on Intel. 5627 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5628 when STIBP is not available. This is 5629 the alternative for systems which do not 5630 have STIBP. 5631 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5632 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5633 systems. 5634 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5635 is not available. This is the alternative for 5636 systems which do not have STIBP. 5637 5638 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5639 time according to the CPU. 5640 5641 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5642 5643 rfkill.default_state= 5644 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5645 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5646 1 Unblocked. 5647 5648 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5649 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5650 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5651 blocked and the previous configuration. 5652 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5653 blocked and everything unblocked. 5654 5655 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5656 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5657 5658 ring3mwait=disable 5659 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5660 CPUs. 5661 5662 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV] 5663 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5664 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5665 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5666 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5667 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5668 5669 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5670 5671 rodata= [KNL] 5672 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5673 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5674 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5675 [arm64] 5676 5677 rockchip.usb_uart 5678 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5679 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5680 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5681 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5682 5683 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5684 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5685 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5686 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5687 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5688 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5689 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5690 5691 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5692 mount the root filesystem 5693 5694 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5695 5696 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5697 5698 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5699 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5700 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5701 5702 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5703 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5704 filesystem. 5705 5706 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5707 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5708 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5709 managed by CMA. 5710 5711 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5712 5713 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5714 5715 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5716 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5717 strict 5718 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5719 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5720 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5721 iommu.strict=1. 5722 5723 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5724 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5725 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5726 factor of the size of main memory. 5727 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5728 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5729 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5730 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5731 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5732 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5733 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5734 5735 sa1100ir [NET] 5736 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5737 5738 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5739 5740 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5741 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5742 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5743 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5744 5745 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5746 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5747 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5748 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5749 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5750 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5751 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5752 value. 5753 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5754 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5755 1 64 ms 5756 2 128 ms 5757 and so on. 5758 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5759 Default is 0. 5760 5761 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5762 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5763 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5764 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5765 tests. 5766 5767 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5768 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5769 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5770 default) disables this feature. Please note 5771 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5772 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5773 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5774 5775 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5776 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5777 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5778 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5779 equal to the number of CPUs. 5780 5781 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5782 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5783 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5784 5785 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5786 Number seconds to wait between successive 5787 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5788 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5789 5790 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5791 The number of seconds following the start of the 5792 test after which to shut down the system. The 5793 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5794 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5795 5796 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5797 The number of seconds between outputting the 5798 current test statistics to the console. A value 5799 of zero disables statistics output. 5800 5801 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5802 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5803 to the set of CPUs under test. 5804 5805 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5806 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5807 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5808 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5809 functions. 5810 5811 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5812 Enable additional printk() statements. 5813 5814 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5815 The probability weighting to use for the 5816 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5817 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5818 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5819 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5820 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5821 5822 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5823 The probability weighting to use for the 5824 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5825 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5826 5827 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5828 The probability weighting to use for the 5829 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5830 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5831 Note well that setting a high probability for 5832 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5833 on the system. 5834 5835 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5836 The probability weighting to use for the 5837 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5838 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5839 and weight_many. 5840 5841 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5842 The probability weighting to use for the 5843 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5844 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5845 weight_many. 5846 5847 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5848 The probability weighting to use for the 5849 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5850 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5851 and weight_many. 5852 5853 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5854 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5855 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5856 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5857 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5858 1 -- enable. 5859 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5860 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5861 5862 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5863 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5864 "lsm=" parameter. 5865 5866 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5867 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5868 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5869 0 -- disable. 5870 1 -- enable. 5871 Default value is 1. 5872 5873 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5874 5875 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5876 5877 shapers= [NET] 5878 Maximal number of shapers. 5879 5880 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5881 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5882 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5883 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5884 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5885 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5886 apic=verbose is specified. 5887 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5888 5889 simeth= [IA-64] 5890 simscsi= 5891 5892 slram= [HW,MTD] 5893 5894 slab_merge [MM] 5895 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5896 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5897 5898 slab_nomerge [MM] 5899 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5900 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5901 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5902 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5903 layout control by attackers can usually be 5904 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5905 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5906 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5907 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5908 own. 5909 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5910 5911 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5912 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5913 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5914 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5915 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5916 5917 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5918 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5919 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5920 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5921 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5922 last alloc / free. For more information see 5923 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5924 5925 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5926 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5927 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5928 fragmentation. For more information see 5929 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5930 5931 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5932 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5933 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5934 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5935 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5936 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5937 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5938 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5939 5940 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5941 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5942 lower than slub_max_order. 5943 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5944 5945 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5946 Same with slab_merge. 5947 5948 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5949 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5950 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5951 5952 smart2= [HW] 5953 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5954 5955 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5956 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5957 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5958 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5959 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5960 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5961 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5962 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5963 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5964 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5965 5966 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 5967 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 5968 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 5969 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 5970 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 5971 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 5972 5973 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5974 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5975 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5976 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5977 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5978 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5979 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5980 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5981 1: Fast pin select (default) 5982 2: ATC IRMode 5983 5984 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5985 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5986 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5987 actual hardware limit. 5988 Format: <integer> 5989 Default: -1 (no limit) 5990 5991 softlockup_panic= 5992 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5993 Format: 0 | 1 5994 5995 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5996 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5997 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5998 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5999 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6000 6001 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6002 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6003 backtraces on all cpus. 6004 Format: 0 | 1 6005 6006 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6007 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6008 6009 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6010 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6011 The default operation protects the kernel from 6012 user space attacks. 6013 6014 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6015 spectre_v2_user=on 6016 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6017 spectre_v2_user=off 6018 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6019 vulnerable 6020 6021 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6022 mitigation method at run time according to the 6023 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6024 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 6025 compiler with which the kernel was built. 6026 6027 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6028 against user space to user space task attacks. 6029 6030 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6031 the user space protections. 6032 6033 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6034 6035 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6036 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6037 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6038 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6039 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6040 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6041 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6042 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6043 6044 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6045 spectre_v2=auto. 6046 6047 spectre_v2_user= 6048 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6049 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6050 user space tasks 6051 6052 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6053 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6054 6055 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6056 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6057 6058 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6059 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6060 per thread. The mitigation control state 6061 is inherited on fork. 6062 6063 prctl,ibpb 6064 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6065 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6066 always when switching between different user 6067 space processes. 6068 6069 seccomp 6070 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6071 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6072 they explicitly opt out. 6073 6074 seccomp,ibpb 6075 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6076 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6077 always when switching between different 6078 user space processes. 6079 6080 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6081 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6082 6083 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6084 6085 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6086 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6087 6088 spec_rstack_overflow= 6089 [X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6090 6091 off - Disable mitigation 6092 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6093 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6094 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6095 kernel entry 6096 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6097 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6098 6099 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6100 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6101 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6102 6103 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6104 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6105 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6106 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6107 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6108 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6109 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6110 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6111 6112 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6113 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6114 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6115 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6116 6117 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6118 Bypass optimization is used. 6119 6120 On x86 the options are: 6121 6122 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6123 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6124 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6125 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6126 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6127 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6128 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6129 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6130 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6131 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6132 for a process by default. The state of the control 6133 is inherited on fork. 6134 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6135 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6136 6137 Default mitigations: 6138 X86: "prctl" 6139 6140 On powerpc the options are: 6141 6142 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6143 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6144 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6145 exit. 6146 off - No action. 6147 6148 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6149 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6150 6151 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 6152 spia_fio_base= 6153 spia_pedr= 6154 spia_peddr= 6155 6156 split_lock_detect= 6157 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6158 6159 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6160 instructions that access data across cache line 6161 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6162 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6163 bus lock detection. 6164 6165 off - not enabled 6166 6167 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6168 about applications triggering the #AC 6169 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6170 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6171 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6172 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6173 enabled in hardware. 6174 6175 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6176 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6177 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6178 both features are enabled in hardware. 6179 6180 ratelimit:N - 6181 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6182 per second for bus lock detection. 6183 0 < N <= 1000. 6184 6185 N/A for split lock detection. 6186 6187 6188 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6189 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6190 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6191 mode. 6192 6193 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6194 CPL > 0. 6195 6196 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 6197 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6198 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6199 6200 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6201 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6202 number generator. 6203 6204 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6205 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6206 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6207 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6208 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6209 6210 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6211 the following option: 6212 6213 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6214 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6215 6216 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6217 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6218 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6219 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6220 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6221 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6222 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6223 (decide at boot). 6224 6225 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6226 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6227 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6228 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6229 6230 0: Never. 6231 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6232 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6233 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6234 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6235 6236 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6237 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6238 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6239 6240 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6241 Specifies how frequently to check for 6242 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6243 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6244 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6245 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6246 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6247 are ignored. 6248 6249 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6250 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6251 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6252 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6253 grace period will be considered for automatic 6254 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6255 expediting. 6256 6257 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6258 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6259 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6260 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6261 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6262 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6263 6264 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6265 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6266 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6267 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6268 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6269 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6270 6271 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6272 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6273 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6274 6275 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6276 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6277 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6278 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6279 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6280 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6281 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6282 6283 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 6284 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6285 6286 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6287 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6288 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6289 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6290 6291 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6292 for both kernel and userspace 6293 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6294 for both kernel and userspace 6295 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6296 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6297 to allow userspace to register its 6298 interest in being mitigated too. 6299 6300 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6301 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6302 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6303 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6304 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6305 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6306 6307 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6308 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6309 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6310 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6311 to false. 6312 6313 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6314 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6315 6316 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6317 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6318 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6319 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6320 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6321 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6322 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6323 6324 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6325 Format: <num> 6326 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6327 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6328 as the initial boot-console. 6329 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6330 6331 sti_font= [HW] 6332 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6333 6334 stifb= [HW] 6335 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6336 6337 strict_sas_size= 6338 [X86] 6339 Format: <bool> 6340 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6341 against the required signal frame size which 6342 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6343 be used to filter out binaries which have 6344 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6345 6346 stress_hpt [PPC] 6347 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6348 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6349 faults on kernel addresses. 6350 6351 stress_slb [PPC] 6352 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6353 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6354 on kernel addresses. 6355 6356 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6357 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6358 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6359 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6360 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6361 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6362 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6363 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6364 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6365 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6366 maximum port values. 6367 6368 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6369 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6370 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6371 process in parallel from a single connection. 6372 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6373 6374 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6375 [NFS] 6376 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6377 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6378 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6379 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6380 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6381 NFS server is running. 6382 6383 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6384 automatically using heuristics 6385 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6386 percpu one pool for each CPU 6387 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6388 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6389 6390 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6391 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6392 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6393 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6394 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6395 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6396 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6397 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6398 6399 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6400 [SUSPEND] 6401 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6402 mode before resuming the system (see 6403 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6404 is set. Default value is 5. 6405 6406 svm= [PPC] 6407 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6408 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6409 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6410 6411 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6412 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6413 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6414 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6415 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6416 to a power of 2. 6417 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6418 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6419 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6420 6421 switches= [HW,M68k] 6422 6423 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6424 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6425 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6426 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6427 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6428 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6429 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6430 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6431 6432 sysrq_always_enabled 6433 [KNL] 6434 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6435 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6436 Useful for debugging. 6437 6438 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6439 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6440 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6441 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6442 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6443 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6444 6445 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6446 6447 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6448 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6449 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6450 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6451 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6452 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6453 The system is woken from this state using a 6454 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6455 6456 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6457 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6458 6459 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6460 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6461 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6462 6463 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6464 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6465 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6466 6467 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6468 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6469 6470 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6471 -1: disable all passive trip points 6472 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6473 value 6474 6475 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6476 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6477 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6478 0: no polling (default) 6479 6480 threadirqs [KNL] 6481 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6482 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6483 6484 topology= [S390] 6485 Format: {off | on} 6486 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6487 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6488 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6489 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6490 Default is on. 6491 6492 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6493 Format: {off} 6494 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6495 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6496 LPAR. 6497 6498 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6499 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6500 until after init has spawned. 6501 6502 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6503 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6504 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6505 very costly operation when many torture tests 6506 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6507 with rotating-rust storage. 6508 6509 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6510 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6511 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6512 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6513 6514 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6515 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6516 6517 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6518 6519 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6520 Format: integer pcr id 6521 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6522 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6523 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6524 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6525 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6526 are saved. 6527 6528 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6529 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6530 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6531 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6532 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6533 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6534 6535 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6536 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6537 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6538 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6539 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6540 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6541 6542 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6543 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6544 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6545 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6546 6547 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6548 to stop the printing of events to console at 6549 late_initcall_sync. 6550 6551 ** CAUTION ** 6552 6553 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6554 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6555 the system to live lock. 6556 6557 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6558 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6559 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6560 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6561 make the system inoperable. 6562 6563 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6564 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6565 6566 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6567 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6568 6569 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6570 at boot up. 6571 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6572 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6573 depending on the architecture, may not be 6574 in sync between CPUs. 6575 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6576 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6577 but better for some race conditions. 6578 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6579 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6580 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6581 once per event. 6582 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6583 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6584 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6585 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6586 stamps. 6587 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6588 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6589 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6590 6591 trace_event=[event-list] 6592 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6593 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6594 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6595 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6596 6597 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6598 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6599 This will be listed in: 6600 6601 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6602 6603 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6604 via: 6605 6606 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6607 6608 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6609 unique. 6610 6611 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6612 6613 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6614 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6615 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6616 6617 trace_options=[option-list] 6618 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6619 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6620 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6621 to echo the option name into 6622 6623 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6624 6625 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6626 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6627 6628 trace_options=stacktrace 6629 6630 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6631 section. 6632 6633 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6634 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6635 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6636 filter. 6637 6638 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6639 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6640 6641 For example: 6642 6643 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6644 6645 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6646 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6647 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6648 6649 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6650 6651 6652 traceoff_on_warning 6653 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6654 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6655 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6656 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6657 6658 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6659 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6660 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6661 6662 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6663 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6664 6665 transparent_hugepage= 6666 [KNL] 6667 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6668 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6669 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6670 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6671 for more details. 6672 6673 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6674 Format: <string> 6675 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6676 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6677 sources: 6678 - "tpm" 6679 - "tee" 6680 - "caam" 6681 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6682 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6683 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6684 successfully during iteration. 6685 6686 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6687 Format: <string> 6688 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6689 Can be one of: 6690 - "kernel" 6691 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6692 - "default" 6693 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6694 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6695 6696 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6697 Format: <string> 6698 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6699 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6700 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6701 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6702 virtualized environment. 6703 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6704 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6705 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6706 can add overhead. 6707 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6708 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6709 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6710 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6711 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6712 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6713 acceptable). 6714 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6715 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6716 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6717 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6718 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6719 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6720 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6721 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6722 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6723 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6724 6725 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6726 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6727 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6728 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6729 Format: <unsigned int> 6730 6731 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6732 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6733 support TSX control. 6734 6735 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6736 6737 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6738 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6739 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6740 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6741 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6742 with leaving it enabled. 6743 6744 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6745 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6746 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6747 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6748 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6749 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6750 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6751 6752 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6753 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6754 6755 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6756 6757 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6758 for more details. 6759 6760 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6761 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6762 6763 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6764 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6765 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6766 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6767 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6768 conditions. 6769 6770 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6771 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6772 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6773 access. 6774 6775 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6776 options are: 6777 6778 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6779 if TSX is enabled. 6780 6781 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6782 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6783 is not disabled because CPU is not 6784 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6785 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6786 6787 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6788 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6789 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6790 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6791 6792 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6793 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6794 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6795 required and doesn't provide any additional 6796 mitigation. 6797 6798 For details see: 6799 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6800 6801 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6802 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6803 Format: 6804 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6805 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6806 6807 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6808 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6809 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6810 help "seeing" what's going on. 6811 6812 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6813 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6814 6815 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6816 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6817 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6818 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6819 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6820 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6821 reported either. 6822 6823 unknown_nmi_panic 6824 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6825 6826 unwind_debug [X86-64] 6827 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 6828 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 6829 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 6830 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 6831 6832 usbcore.authorized_default= 6833 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6834 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 6835 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6836 if device connected to internal port) 6837 6838 usbcore.autosuspend= 6839 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6840 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6841 is the time required before an idle device will be 6842 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6843 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6844 6845 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6846 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6847 6848 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6849 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6850 (default = 65536). 6851 6852 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6853 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6854 6855 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6856 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6857 scheme (default 0 = off). 6858 6859 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6860 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6861 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6862 6863 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6864 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6865 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6866 6867 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6868 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6869 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6870 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6871 6872 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6873 6874 usbcore.quirks= 6875 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6876 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6877 commas. Each entry has the form 6878 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6879 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6880 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6881 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6882 the following meanings: 6883 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6884 descriptors must not be fetched using 6885 a 255-byte read); 6886 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6887 correctly so reset it instead); 6888 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6889 Set-Interface requests); 6890 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6891 handle its Configuration or Interface 6892 strings); 6893 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6894 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6895 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6896 more interface descriptions than the 6897 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6898 talking to these interfaces); 6899 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6900 during initialization, after we read 6901 the device descriptor); 6902 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6903 high speed and super speed interrupt 6904 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6905 require the interval in microframes (1 6906 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6907 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6908 (bInterval-1). 6909 Devices with this quirk report their 6910 bInterval as the result of this 6911 calculation instead of the exponent 6912 variable used in the calculation); 6913 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6914 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6915 requests); 6916 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6917 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6918 remote wakeup capability); 6919 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6920 Power Management); 6921 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6922 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6923 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6924 calculation); 6925 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6926 to be disconnected before suspend to 6927 prevent spurious wakeup); 6928 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6929 pause after every control message); 6930 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6931 delay after resetting its port); 6932 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 6933 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 6934 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 6935 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6936 6937 usbhid.mousepoll= 6938 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6939 6940 usbhid.jspoll= 6941 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6942 6943 usbhid.kbpoll= 6944 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6945 6946 usb-storage.delay_use= 6947 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6948 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6949 6950 usb-storage.quirks= 6951 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6952 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6953 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6954 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6955 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6956 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6957 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6958 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6959 of sense data, not on uas); 6960 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6961 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6962 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6963 device capacity by one sector); 6964 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6965 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6966 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6967 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6968 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6969 command, uas only); 6970 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6971 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6972 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6973 reported device capacity by one 6974 sector if the number is odd); 6975 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6976 device); 6977 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6978 command, uas only); 6979 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6980 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6981 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6982 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6983 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6984 not on uas); 6985 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6986 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6987 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6988 reported by the device, not on uas); 6989 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6990 by default, not on uas); 6991 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6992 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6993 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6994 Logical Unit); 6995 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6996 commands, uas only); 6997 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6998 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6999 medium is write-protected). 7000 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7001 even if the device claims no cache, 7002 not on uas) 7003 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7004 7005 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7006 Format: <int> 7007 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7008 1 - undefined instruction events 7009 2 - system calls 7010 4 - invalid data aborts 7011 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7012 16 - SIGBUS faults 7013 Example: user_debug=31 7014 7015 userpte= 7016 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7017 7018 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7019 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7020 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7021 7022 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7023 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7024 7025 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7026 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7027 7028 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7029 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7030 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7031 7032 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7033 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7034 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7035 7036 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7037 alias for vdso32=0. 7038 7039 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7040 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7041 7042 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 7043 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 7044 7045 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 7046 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7047 7048 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7049 Format: [0|1] 7050 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7051 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7052 level and then send out the event to user space through 7053 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7054 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7055 brightness level. 7056 default: 1 7057 7058 virtio_mmio.device= 7059 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7060 7061 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7062 where: 7063 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7064 like K, M and G) 7065 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7066 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7067 request_irq()) 7068 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7069 example: 7070 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7071 7072 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7073 7074 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7075 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7076 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7077 Use vga=ask for menu. 7078 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7079 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7080 7081 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7082 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7083 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7084 All options are enabled by default, and this 7085 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7086 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7087 debugging features. 7088 7089 Available options are: 7090 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7091 - Disable all of the above options 7092 7093 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 7094 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 7095 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 7096 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 7097 mapped kernel RAM. 7098 7099 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 7100 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7101 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7102 7103 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7104 Format: <command> 7105 7106 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7107 Format: <command> 7108 7109 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7110 Format: <command> 7111 7112 vsyscall= [X86-64] 7113 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7114 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7115 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7116 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7117 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7118 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7119 7120 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7121 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7122 readable. 7123 7124 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7125 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7126 page is not readable. 7127 7128 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7129 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7130 might break your system. 7131 7132 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7133 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7134 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7135 7136 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7137 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7138 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7139 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7140 7141 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7142 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7143 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7144 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7145 ranging from 0-255. 7146 7147 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7148 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7149 Change the default green palette of the console. 7150 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7151 ranging from 0-255. 7152 7153 vt.default_red= [VT] 7154 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7155 Change the default red palette of the console. 7156 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7157 ranging from 0-255. 7158 7159 vt.default_utf8= 7160 [VT] 7161 Format=<0|1> 7162 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7163 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7164 newly opened terminals. 7165 7166 vt.global_cursor_default= 7167 [VT] 7168 Format=<-1|0|1> 7169 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7170 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7171 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7172 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7173 cursors, 1 will display them. 7174 7175 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7176 Default: 2 = green. 7177 7178 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7179 Default: 3 = cyan. 7180 7181 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7182 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7183 or other driver-specific files in the 7184 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7185 7186 watchdog_thresh= 7187 [KNL] 7188 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7189 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7190 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7191 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7192 seconds. 7193 7194 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7195 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7196 to use in unbound workqueues. 7197 Format: <cpu-list> 7198 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7199 unbound workqueues. 7200 7201 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7202 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7203 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7204 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7205 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7206 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7207 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7208 corresponding sysfs file. 7209 7210 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7211 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7212 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7213 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7214 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7215 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7216 7217 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7218 will report the work functions which violate this 7219 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7220 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7221 7222 workqueue.power_efficient 7223 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7224 they show better performance thanks to cache 7225 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7226 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7227 7228 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7229 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7230 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7231 power usage at the cost of small performance 7232 overhead. 7233 7234 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7235 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7236 7237 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7238 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7239 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7240 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7241 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7242 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7243 7244 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7245 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7246 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7247 updated accordignly. 7248 7249 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7250 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7251 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7252 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7253 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7254 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7255 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7256 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7257 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7258 impacted. 7259 7260 writecombine= [LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of 7261 ioremap_wc(). 7262 7263 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7264 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7265 7266 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7267 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7268 supporting x2apic. 7269 7270 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7271 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7272 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7273 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7274 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7275 domains. 7276 7277 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 7278 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7279 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7280 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7281 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7282 nics -- unplug network devices 7283 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7284 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7285 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7286 the unplug protocol 7287 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7288 7289 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 7290 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7291 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7292 7293 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 7294 Format: <bool> 7295 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7296 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7297 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7298 7299 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 7300 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 7301 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 7302 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7303 7304 xen_nopv [X86] 7305 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7306 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7307 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7308 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7309 7310 xen_no_vector_callback 7311 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7312 event channel interrupts. 7313 7314 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7315 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7316 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7317 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7318 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7319 7320 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 7321 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7322 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7323 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7324 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7325 more timer interrupts. 7326 7327 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7328 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7329 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7330 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7331 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7332 max. Default is 180. 7333 7334 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7335 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7336 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7337 7338 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7339 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7340 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7341 7342 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7343 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7344 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7345 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7346 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7347 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7348 7349 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7350 Format: 7351 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7352 7353 xive= [PPC] 7354 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7355 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7356 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7357 7358 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7359 controller on both pseries and powernv 7360 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7361 7362 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7363 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7364 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7365 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7366 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7367 7368 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7369 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7370 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7371 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7372 7373 xmon [PPC] 7374 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7375 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7376 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7377 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7378 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7379 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7380 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7381 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7382 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7383 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7384 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7385 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7386 can be written using xmon commands. 7387 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7388 memory, and other data can't be written using 7389 xmon commands. 7390 off xmon is disabled. 7391 7392