1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 482 no delay (0). 483 Format: integer 484 485 bootconfig [KNL] 486 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 487 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 488 489 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 490 491 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 492 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 493 kernel args too. 494 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 495 bttv.tuner= 496 497 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 498 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 499 at a time. 500 501 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 502 503 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 504 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 505 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 506 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 507 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 508 This option provides an override for these situations. 509 510 carrier_timeout= 511 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 512 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 513 it waits 120 seconds. 514 515 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 516 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 517 trust validation. 518 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 519 520 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 521 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 522 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 523 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 524 others). 525 526 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 529 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 530 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 531 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 532 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 533 a single hierarchy 534 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 535 subsystem 536 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 537 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 538 created 539 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 540 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 541 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 542 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 543 stall information accounting feature 544 545 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 546 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 547 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 548 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 549 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 550 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 551 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 552 all v1 hierarchies. 553 554 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 555 Format: <string> 556 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 557 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 558 559 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 560 Format: { "0" | "1" } 561 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 562 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 563 any implied execute protection). 564 1 -- check protection requested by application. 565 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 566 Value can be changed at runtime via 567 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 568 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 569 570 cio_ignore= [S390] 571 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 572 573 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 574 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 575 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 576 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 577 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 578 ones should be. 579 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 580 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 581 instability issue. However, not all features have names 582 in /proc/cpuinfo. 583 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 584 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 585 or using the feature without checking anything 586 will still see it. This just prevents it from 587 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 588 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 589 some critical bits. 590 591 clk_ignore_unused 592 [CLK] 593 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 594 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 595 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 596 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 597 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 598 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 599 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 600 platform with proper driver support. For more 601 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 602 603 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 604 [Deprecated] 605 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 606 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 607 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 608 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 609 610 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 611 Format: <string> 612 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 613 with the name specified. 614 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 615 the platform: 616 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 617 [ACPI] acpi_pm 618 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 619 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 620 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 621 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 622 [MIPS] MIPS 623 [PARISC] cr16 624 [S390] tod 625 [SH] SuperH 626 [SPARC64] tick 627 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 628 629 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 630 [ARM,ARM64] 631 Format: <bool> 632 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 633 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 634 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 635 systems. 636 637 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 638 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 639 external delays before the clock will be marked 640 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 641 three attempts to read the clock under test. 642 643 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 644 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 645 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 646 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 647 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 648 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 649 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 650 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 651 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 652 653 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 654 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 655 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 656 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 657 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 658 659 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 660 [KNL,CMA] 661 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 662 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 663 placement constraint by the physical address range of 664 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 665 altogether. For more information, see 666 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 667 668 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 669 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 670 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 671 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 672 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 673 specificed, the default value is 0. 674 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 675 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 676 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 677 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 678 679 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 680 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 681 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 682 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 683 a hypervisor. 684 Default: yes 685 686 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 687 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 688 allocations, by default set to 256K. 689 690 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 691 Format: 692 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 693 694 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 695 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 696 697 com90xx= [HW,NET] 698 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 699 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 700 701 condev= [HW,S390] console device 702 conmode= 703 704 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 705 706 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 707 708 ttyS<n>[,options] 709 ttyUSB0[,options] 710 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 711 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 712 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 713 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 714 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 715 716 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 717 information. See 718 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 719 alternative. 720 721 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 722 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 723 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 724 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 725 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 726 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 727 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 728 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 729 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 730 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 731 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 732 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 733 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 734 the h/w is not re-initialized. 735 736 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 737 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 738 739 { null | "" } 740 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 741 console messages discarded. 742 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 743 kernel command line. 744 745 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 746 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 747 console=brl,ttyS0 748 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 749 750 console_msg_format= 751 [KNL] Change console messages format 752 default 753 By default we print messages on consoles in 754 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 755 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 756 `printk_time' param). 757 syslog 758 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 759 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 760 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 761 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 762 from /proc/kmsg. 763 764 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 765 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 766 Defaults to 0. 767 768 coredump_filter= 769 [KNL] Change the default value for 770 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 771 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 772 773 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 774 [ARM,ARM64] 775 Format: <bool> 776 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 777 0: default value, disable debugging 778 1: enable debugging at boot time 779 780 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 781 Format: 782 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 783 784 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 785 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 786 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 787 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 788 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 789 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 790 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 791 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 792 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 793 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 794 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 795 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 796 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 797 798 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 799 disable the cpuidle sub-system 800 801 cpuidle.governor= 802 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 803 804 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 805 disable the cpufreq sub-system 806 807 cpufreq.default_governor= 808 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 809 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 810 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 811 812 cpu_init_udelay=N 813 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 814 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 815 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 816 Default: 10000 817 818 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 819 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 820 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 821 succeeds in any situation. 822 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 823 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 824 kernel more unstable. 825 826 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 827 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 828 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 829 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 830 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 831 is selected automatically. 832 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 833 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 834 hasn't been specified. 835 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 836 837 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 838 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 839 in the running system. The syntax of range is 840 start-[end] where start and end are both 841 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 842 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 843 844 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 845 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 846 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 847 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 848 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 849 available. 850 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 851 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 852 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 853 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 854 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 855 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 856 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 857 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 858 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 859 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 860 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 861 for second kernel instead. 862 0: to disable low allocation. 863 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 864 or memory reserved is below 4G. 865 866 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 867 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 868 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 869 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 870 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 871 872 cryptomgr.notests 873 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 874 875 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 876 Format: <dma> 877 878 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 879 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 880 881 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 882 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 883 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 884 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 885 to resolve the hang situation. 886 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 887 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 888 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 889 but more data) 890 891 dasd= [HW,NET] 892 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 893 894 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 895 (one device per port) 896 Format: <port#>,<type> 897 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 898 899 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 900 901 debug_boot_weak_hash 902 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 903 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 904 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 905 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 906 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 907 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 908 909 debug_locks_verbose= 910 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 911 Format: <int> 912 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 913 self-tests. 914 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 915 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 916 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 917 useful to lockdep developers. 918 919 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 920 921 no_debug_objects 922 [KNL] Disable object debugging 923 924 debug_guardpage_minorder= 925 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 926 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 927 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 928 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 929 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 930 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 931 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 932 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 933 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 934 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 935 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 936 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 937 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 938 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 939 bypassed) which are not detectable by 940 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 941 tracking down these problems. 942 943 debug_pagealloc= 944 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 945 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 946 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 947 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 948 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 949 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 950 on: enable the feature 951 952 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 953 and debugfs internal clients. 954 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 955 on: All functions are enabled. 956 no-mount: 957 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 958 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 959 its content. There is nothing to mount. 960 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 961 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 962 or directories within debugfs. 963 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 964 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 965 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 966 967 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 968 969 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 970 Format: <area>[,<node>] 971 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 972 973 default_hugepagesz= 974 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 975 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 976 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 977 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 978 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 979 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 980 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 981 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 982 Format: size[KMG] 983 984 deferred_probe_timeout= 985 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 986 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 987 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 988 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 989 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 990 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 991 successful driver registration. This option will also 992 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 993 retrying. 994 995 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 996 997 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 998 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 999 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1000 hardware. 1001 1002 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1003 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1004 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1005 blacklisted features. 1006 1007 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1008 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1009 (disabled by default). 1010 1011 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1012 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1013 capability is set. 1014 1015 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1016 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1019 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1020 1021 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1022 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1023 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1024 level 1 and decompression (default) 1025 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1026 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1027 only (compression on level 1) 1028 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1029 only (decompression) 1030 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1031 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1032 1033 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1034 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1035 1036 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1037 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1038 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1039 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1040 miss to occur. 1041 1042 stress_slb [PPC] 1043 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1044 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1045 on kernel addresses. 1046 1047 disable= [IPV6] 1048 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1049 1050 disable_radix [PPC] 1051 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1052 1053 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1054 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1055 invalidate. 1056 1057 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1058 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1059 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1060 1061 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1062 Format: <int> 1063 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1064 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1065 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1066 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1067 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1068 INIT from AP to BSP. 1069 1070 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1071 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1072 to workaround buggy firmware. 1073 1074 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1075 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1076 1077 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1078 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1079 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1080 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1081 1082 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1083 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1084 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1085 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1086 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1087 1088 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1089 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1090 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1091 1092 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1093 1094 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1095 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1096 1097 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1098 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1099 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1100 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1101 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1102 architectural default is too low. 1103 1104 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1105 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1106 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1107 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1108 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1109 driver later using sysfs. 1110 1111 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1112 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1113 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1114 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1115 match the *. 1116 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1117 1118 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1119 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1120 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1121 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1122 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1123 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1124 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1125 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1126 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1127 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1128 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1129 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1130 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1131 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1132 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1133 data set with no connector name will be used for 1134 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1135 1136 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1137 1138 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1139 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1140 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1141 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1142 exists). 1143 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1144 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1145 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1146 1147 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1148 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1149 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1150 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1151 1152 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1153 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1154 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1155 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1156 for details. 1157 1158 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1159 in some Intel CPUs. 1160 1161 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 1162 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 1163 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 1164 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 1165 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 1166 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 1167 1168 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1169 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1170 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1171 which are not unmapped. 1172 1173 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1174 1175 When used with no options, the early console is 1176 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1177 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1178 the platform. 1179 1180 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1181 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1182 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1183 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1184 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1185 configured. 1186 1187 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1188 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1189 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1190 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1191 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1192 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1193 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1194 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1195 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1196 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1197 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1198 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1199 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1200 1201 pl011,<addr> 1202 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1203 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1204 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1205 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1206 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1207 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1208 the device registers. 1209 1210 liteuart,<addr> 1211 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1212 specified address. The serial port must already be 1213 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1214 1215 meson,<addr> 1216 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1217 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1218 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1219 supported. 1220 1221 msm_serial,<addr> 1222 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1223 port at the specified address. The serial port 1224 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1225 yet supported. 1226 1227 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1228 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1229 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1230 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1231 yet supported. 1232 1233 owl,<addr> 1234 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1235 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1236 specified address. The serial port must already be 1237 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1238 1239 rda,<addr> 1240 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1241 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1242 specified address. The serial port must already be 1243 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1244 1245 sbi 1246 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1247 console. 1248 1249 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1250 1251 s3c2410,<addr> 1252 s3c2412,<addr> 1253 s3c2440,<addr> 1254 s3c6400,<addr> 1255 s5pv210,<addr> 1256 exynos4210,<addr> 1257 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1258 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1259 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1260 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1261 Options are not yet supported. 1262 1263 lantiq,<addr> 1264 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1265 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1266 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1267 yet supported. 1268 1269 lpuart,<addr> 1270 lpuart32,<addr> 1271 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1272 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1273 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1274 port must already be setup and configured. 1275 1276 ec_imx21,<addr> 1277 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1278 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1279 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1280 must already be setup and configured. 1281 1282 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1283 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1284 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1285 address. The serial port must already be setup 1286 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1287 1288 qcom_geni,<addr> 1289 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1290 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1291 specified address. The serial port must already be 1292 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1293 1294 efifb,[options] 1295 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1296 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1297 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1298 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1299 mapped with the correct attributes. 1300 1301 linflex,<addr> 1302 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1303 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1304 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1305 already be setup and configured. 1306 1307 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1308 earlyprintk=vga 1309 earlyprintk=sclp 1310 earlyprintk=xen 1311 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1312 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1313 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1314 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1315 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1316 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1317 1318 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1319 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1320 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1321 1322 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1323 takes over. 1324 1325 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1326 be used at a time. 1327 1328 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1329 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1330 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1331 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1332 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1333 You can find the port for a given device in 1334 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1335 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1336 1337 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1338 very good. 1339 1340 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1341 the real console. 1342 1343 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1344 1345 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1346 1347 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1348 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1349 UART class. 1350 1351 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1352 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1353 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1354 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1355 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1356 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1357 default: on. 1358 1359 edd= [EDD] 1360 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1361 1362 efi= [EFI] 1363 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1364 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1365 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1366 debug: enable misc debug output. 1367 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1368 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1369 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1370 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1371 firmware implementations. 1372 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1373 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1374 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1375 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1376 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1377 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1378 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1379 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1380 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1381 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1382 1383 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1384 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1385 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1386 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1387 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1388 1389 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1390 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1391 updating original EFI memory map. 1392 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1393 from ss to ss+nn. 1394 1395 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1396 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1397 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1398 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1399 1400 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1401 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1402 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1403 1404 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1405 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1406 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1407 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1408 "soft reserved". 1409 1410 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1411 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1412 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1413 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1414 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1415 1416 1417 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1418 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1419 1420 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1421 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1422 1423 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1424 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1425 1426 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1427 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1428 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1429 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1430 1431 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1432 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1433 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1434 1435 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1436 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1437 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1438 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1439 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1440 1441 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1442 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1443 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1444 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1445 1446 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1447 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1448 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1449 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1450 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1451 1452 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1453 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1454 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1455 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1456 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1457 Default value is 0. 1458 Value can be changed at runtime via 1459 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1460 1461 erst_disable [ACPI] 1462 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1463 support. 1464 1465 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1466 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1467 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1468 1469 evm= [EVM] 1470 Format: { "fix" } 1471 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1472 current integrity status. 1473 1474 failslab= 1475 fail_usercopy= 1476 fail_page_alloc= 1477 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1478 General fault injection mechanism. 1479 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1480 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1481 1482 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1483 Format: { initns | none } 1484 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1485 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1486 1487 floppy= [HW] 1488 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1489 1490 force_pal_cache_flush 1491 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1492 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1493 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1494 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1495 1496 forcepae [X86-32] 1497 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1498 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1499 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1500 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1501 and may cause unknown problems. 1502 1503 ftrace=[tracer] 1504 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1505 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1506 boot debugging. 1507 1508 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1509 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1510 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1511 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1512 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1513 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1514 start up functionality. 1515 1516 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1517 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1518 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1519 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1520 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1521 oops. 1522 1523 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1524 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1525 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1526 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1527 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1528 tracing directory. 1529 1530 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1531 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1532 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1533 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1534 tracing directory. 1535 1536 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1537 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1538 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1539 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1540 that can be changed at run time by the 1541 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1542 1543 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1544 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1545 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1546 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1547 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1548 1549 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1550 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1551 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1552 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1553 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1554 1555 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1556 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1557 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1558 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1559 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1560 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1561 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1562 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1563 suppliers). 1564 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1565 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1566 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1567 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1568 up (sync_state() calls). 1569 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1570 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1571 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1572 1573 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1574 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1575 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1576 Format: <bool> 1577 1578 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1579 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1580 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1581 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1582 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1583 1584 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1585 1586 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1587 Format: off | on 1588 default: on 1589 1590 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1591 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1592 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1593 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1594 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1595 1596 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1597 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1598 android emulator 1599 1600 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1601 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1602 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1603 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1604 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1605 1606 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1607 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1608 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1609 GPT to be used instead. 1610 1611 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1612 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1613 Format: 0 | 1 1614 Default: 0 1615 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1616 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1617 Format: 0 | 1 1618 Default: 0 1619 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1620 Format: 0 | 1 1621 Default: 0 1622 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1623 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1624 Default: 1024 1625 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1626 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1627 Default: 1024 1628 1629 hardened_usercopy= 1630 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1631 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1632 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1633 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1634 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1635 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1636 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1637 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1638 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1639 1640 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1641 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1642 backtraces on all cpus. 1643 Format: 0 | 1 1644 1645 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1646 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1647 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1648 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1649 1650 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1651 1652 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1653 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1654 1655 hest_disable [ACPI] 1656 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1657 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1658 logic will be disabled. 1659 1660 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1661 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1662 present during boot. 1663 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1664 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1665 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1666 (that will set all pages holding image data 1667 during restoration read-only). 1668 1669 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1670 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1671 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1672 size on bigger boxes. 1673 1674 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1675 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1676 Default: "on" 1677 1678 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1679 1680 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1681 Format: <string> 1682 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1683 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1684 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1685 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1686 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1687 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1688 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1689 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1690 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1691 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1692 1693 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1694 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1695 verbose } 1696 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1697 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1698 VIA, nVidia) 1699 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1700 1701 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1702 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1703 1704 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1705 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1706 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1707 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1708 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1709 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1710 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1711 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1712 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1713 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1714 1715 hugepagesz= 1716 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1717 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1718 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1719 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1720 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1721 architecture dependent. See also 1722 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1723 Format: size[KMG] 1724 1725 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1726 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1727 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1728 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1729 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1730 1731 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1732 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1733 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1734 1735 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1736 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1737 enabled. 1738 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1739 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1740 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1741 Format: { on | off (default) } 1742 1743 on: enable HVO 1744 off: disable HVO 1745 1746 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1747 the default is on. 1748 1749 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1750 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1751 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1752 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1753 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1754 1755 hung_task_panic= 1756 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1757 Format: 0 | 1 1758 1759 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1760 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1761 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1762 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1763 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1764 1765 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1766 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1767 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1768 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1769 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1770 1771 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1772 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1773 guest on lock contention. 1774 1775 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1776 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1777 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1778 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1779 the real console. 1780 1781 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1782 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1783 registered from board initialization code. 1784 Format: 1785 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1786 1787 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1788 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1789 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1790 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1791 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1792 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1793 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1794 keyboard and cannot control its state 1795 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1796 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1797 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1798 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1799 for the AUX port 1800 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1801 controller 1802 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1803 controllers 1804 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1805 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1806 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1807 transitions, or never reset 1808 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1809 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1810 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1811 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1812 architectures force reset to be always executed 1813 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1814 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1815 i8042.probe_defer 1816 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1817 1818 i810= [HW,DRM] 1819 1820 i915.invert_brightness= 1821 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1822 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1823 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1824 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1825 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1826 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1827 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1828 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1829 value switches the backlight off. 1830 -1 -- never invert brightness 1831 0 -- machine default 1832 1 -- force brightness inversion 1833 1834 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1835 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1836 1837 1838 idle= [X86] 1839 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1840 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1841 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1842 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1843 Not recommended. 1844 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1845 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1846 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1847 1848 idxd.sva= [HW] 1849 Format: <bool> 1850 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1851 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1852 true (1). 1853 1854 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1855 Format: <bool> 1856 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1857 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1858 1859 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1860 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1861 Default: strict 1862 1863 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1864 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1865 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1866 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1867 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1868 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1869 encoding mode. 1870 1871 Available settings are as follows: 1872 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1873 supported by the FPU 1874 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1875 by the FPU 1876 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1877 by the FPU 1878 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1879 supported by the FPU 1880 1881 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1882 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1883 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1884 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1885 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1886 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1887 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1888 MIPS64 CPUs. 1889 1890 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1891 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1892 except where unsupported by hardware. 1893 1894 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1895 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1896 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1897 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1898 could change it dynamically, usually by 1899 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1900 1901 ignore_rlimit_data 1902 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1903 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1904 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1905 1906 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1907 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1908 1909 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1910 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1911 default: "enforce" 1912 1913 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1914 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1915 owned by uid=0. 1916 1917 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1918 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1919 measurements, instead of host native format. 1920 1921 ima_hash= [IMA] 1922 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1923 | sha512 | ... } 1924 default: "sha1" 1925 1926 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1927 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1928 1929 ima_policy= [IMA] 1930 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1931 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1932 fail_securely | critical_data" 1933 1934 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1935 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1936 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1937 uid=0. 1938 1939 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1940 all files owned by root. 1941 1942 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1943 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1944 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1945 1946 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1947 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1948 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1949 flag. 1950 1951 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1952 critical data. 1953 1954 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1955 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1956 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1957 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1958 opened for read by uid=0. 1959 1960 ima_template= [IMA] 1961 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1962 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1963 "ima-sigv2" } 1964 Default: "ima-ng" 1965 1966 ima_template_fmt= 1967 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1968 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1969 1970 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1971 Format: <min_file_size> 1972 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1973 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1974 1975 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1976 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1977 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1978 1979 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1980 Format: <bufsize> 1981 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1982 1983 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1984 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1985 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1986 1987 init= [KNL] 1988 Format: <full_path> 1989 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1990 process. 1991 1992 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1993 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1994 startup. 1995 1996 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1997 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1998 modules and initcalls. 1999 2000 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2001 Format: <bool> 2002 Default: 1 2003 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2004 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2005 with devices being probed and 2006 initialized. This should normally just work, 2007 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2008 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2009 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2010 late_ initcalls. 2011 2012 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2013 2014 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2015 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2016 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2017 setting. 2018 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2019 Default is 0, 0 2020 2021 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2022 zeroes. 2023 Format: 0 | 1 2024 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2025 2026 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2027 Format: 0 | 1 2028 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2029 2030 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2031 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2032 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2033 override in debugfs after boot. 2034 2035 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2036 Format: <irq> 2037 2038 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2039 2040 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2041 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2042 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2043 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2044 2045 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2046 on 2047 Enable intel iommu driver. 2048 off 2049 Disable intel iommu driver. 2050 igfx_off [Default Off] 2051 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2052 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2053 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2054 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2055 DMA. 2056 strict [Default Off] 2057 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2058 sp_off [Default Off] 2059 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2060 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2061 not be supported. 2062 sm_on 2063 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2064 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2065 translation. 2066 sm_off 2067 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2068 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2069 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2070 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2071 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2072 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2073 mapping is enabled. 2074 Note that using this option lowers the security 2075 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2076 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2077 2078 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2079 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2080 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2081 2082 intel_pstate= [X86] 2083 disable 2084 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2085 scaling driver for the supported processors 2086 passive 2087 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2088 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2089 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2090 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2091 feature. 2092 force 2093 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2094 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2095 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2096 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2097 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2098 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2099 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2100 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2101 no_hwp 2102 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2103 if available. 2104 hwp_only 2105 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2106 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2107 support_acpi_ppc 2108 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2109 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2110 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2111 then this feature is turned on by default. 2112 per_cpu_perf_limits 2113 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2114 cpufreq sysfs interface 2115 2116 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2117 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2118 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2119 nosid disable Source ID checking 2120 no_x2apic_optout 2121 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2122 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2123 2124 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2125 strict regions from userspace. 2126 relaxed 2127 2128 iommu= [X86] 2129 off 2130 force 2131 noforce 2132 biomerge 2133 panic 2134 nopanic 2135 merge 2136 nomerge 2137 soft 2138 pt [X86] 2139 nopt [X86] 2140 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2141 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2142 2143 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2144 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2145 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2146 falling back to the full range if needed. 2147 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2148 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2149 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2150 2151 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2152 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2153 0 - Lazy mode. 2154 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2155 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2156 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2157 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2158 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2159 1 - Strict mode. 2160 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2161 synchronously. 2162 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2163 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2164 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2165 2166 iommu.passthrough= 2167 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2168 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2169 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2170 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2171 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2172 2173 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2174 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2175 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2176 2177 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2178 0x80 2179 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2180 0xed 2181 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2182 udelay 2183 Simple two microseconds delay 2184 none 2185 No delay 2186 2187 ip= [IP_PNP] 2188 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2189 2190 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2191 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2192 2193 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2194 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2195 2196 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2197 [ARM, ARM64] 2198 Format: <bool> 2199 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2200 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2201 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2202 2203 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2204 [ARM, ARM64] 2205 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2206 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2207 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2208 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2209 LPIs. 2210 2211 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2212 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2213 requires the kernel to be built with 2214 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2215 2216 irqfixup [HW] 2217 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2218 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2219 firmware running. 2220 2221 irqpoll [HW] 2222 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2223 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2224 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2225 firmware running. 2226 2227 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2228 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2229 2230 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2231 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2232 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2233 2234 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2235 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2236 2237 nohz 2238 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2239 2240 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2241 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2242 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2243 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2244 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2245 2246 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2247 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2248 be configured manually after bootup. 2249 2250 domain 2251 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2252 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2253 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2254 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2255 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2256 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2257 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2258 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2259 2260 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2261 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2262 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2263 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2264 2265 managed_irq 2266 2267 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2268 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2269 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2270 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2271 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2272 2273 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2274 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2275 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2276 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2277 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2278 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2279 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2280 2281 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2282 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2283 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2284 only delivered when tasks running on those 2285 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2286 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2287 queues. 2288 2289 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2290 2291 iucv= [HW,NET] 2292 2293 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2294 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2295 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2296 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2297 For example: 2298 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2299 write the parameter as: 2300 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2301 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2302 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2303 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2304 2305 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2306 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2307 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2308 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2309 For example: 2310 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2311 write the parameter as: 2312 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2313 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2314 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2315 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2316 2317 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2318 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2319 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2320 2321 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2322 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2323 write the parameter as: 2324 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2325 2326 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2327 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2328 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2329 2330 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2331 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2332 2333 nokaslr [KNL] 2334 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2335 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2336 Layout Randomization). 2337 2338 kasan_multi_shot 2339 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2340 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2341 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2342 invalid access. 2343 2344 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2345 2346 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2347 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2348 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2349 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2350 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2351 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2352 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2353 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2354 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2355 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2356 2357 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2358 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2359 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2360 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2361 zone if it does not. 2362 2363 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2364 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2365 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2366 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2367 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2368 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2369 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2370 2371 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2372 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2373 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2374 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2375 optional and is the number seconds in between 2376 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2377 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2378 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2379 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2380 the kernel debugger. 2381 2382 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2383 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2384 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2385 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2386 keyboard only format: kbd 2387 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2388 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2389 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2390 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2391 2392 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2393 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2394 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2395 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2396 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2397 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2398 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2399 2400 The name of the early console should be specified 2401 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2402 the early console might be different than the tty 2403 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2404 blank and the first boot console that implements 2405 read() will be picked. 2406 2407 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2408 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2409 2410 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2411 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2412 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2413 2414 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2415 Valid arguments: on, off 2416 Default: on 2417 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2418 the default is off. 2419 2420 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2421 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2422 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2423 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2424 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2425 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2426 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2427 2428 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2429 2430 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2431 Boot Parameter" section. 2432 2433 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2434 and kernel address spaces. 2435 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2436 0: force disabled 2437 1: force enabled 2438 2439 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2440 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2441 default value can be overridden via 2442 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2443 Default is 1 (enabled) 2444 2445 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2446 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2447 2448 kvm.eager_page_split= 2449 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2450 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2451 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2452 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2453 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2454 required to split huge pages lazily. 2455 2456 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2457 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2458 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2459 still be used for reads. 2460 2461 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2462 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2463 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2464 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2465 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2466 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2467 cleared. 2468 2469 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2470 2471 Default is Y (on). 2472 2473 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2474 Default is false (don't support). 2475 2476 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2477 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2478 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2479 force : Always deploy workaround. 2480 off : Never deploy workaround. 2481 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2482 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2483 2484 Default is 'auto'. 2485 2486 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2487 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2488 2489 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2490 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2491 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2492 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2493 period (see below). The default is 60. 2494 2495 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2496 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2497 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2498 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2499 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2500 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2501 2502 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2503 Default is 1 (enabled) 2504 2505 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2506 for all guests. 2507 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2508 2509 kvm-arm.mode= 2510 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2511 2512 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2513 2514 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2515 protected guests. 2516 2517 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2518 state is kept private from the host. 2519 2520 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2521 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2522 for the host. 2523 2524 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2525 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2526 system registers 2527 2528 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2529 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2530 system registers 2531 2532 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2533 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2534 system registers 2535 2536 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2537 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2538 LPIs. 2539 2540 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2541 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2542 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2543 allocation. 2544 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2545 Format: <integer> 2546 Default: 5 2547 2548 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2549 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2550 Default is 1 (enabled) 2551 2552 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2553 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2554 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2555 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2556 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2557 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2558 Default is 1 (enabled) 2559 2560 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2561 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2562 Default is 1 (enabled) 2563 2564 kvm-intel.nested= 2565 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2566 Default is 0 (disabled) 2567 2568 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2569 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2570 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2571 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2572 2573 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2574 CVE-2018-3620. 2575 2576 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2577 2578 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2579 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2580 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2581 never: Disables the mitigation 2582 2583 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2584 2585 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2586 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2587 Default is 1 (enabled) 2588 2589 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2590 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2591 2592 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2593 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2594 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2595 2596 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2597 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2598 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2599 not have direct access. 2600 2601 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2602 options are: 2603 2604 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2605 2606 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2607 affected CPUs 2608 2609 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2610 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2611 2612 full 2613 Provides all available mitigations for the 2614 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2615 enables all mitigations in the 2616 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2617 2618 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2619 sysfs interface is still possible after 2620 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2621 when the first VM is started in a 2622 potentially insecure configuration, 2623 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2624 2625 full,force 2626 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2627 flush runtime control. Implies the 2628 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2629 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2630 2631 flush 2632 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2633 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2634 L1D flush. 2635 2636 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2637 sysfs interface is still possible after 2638 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2639 when the first VM is started in a 2640 potentially insecure configuration, 2641 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2642 2643 flush,nosmt 2644 2645 Disables SMT and enables the default 2646 hypervisor mitigation. 2647 2648 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2649 sysfs interface is still possible after 2650 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2651 when the first VM is started in a 2652 potentially insecure configuration, 2653 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2654 2655 flush,nowarn 2656 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2657 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2658 insecure configuration. 2659 2660 off 2661 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2662 emit any warnings. 2663 It also drops the swap size and available 2664 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2665 bare metal. 2666 2667 Default is 'flush'. 2668 2669 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2670 2671 l2cr= [PPC] 2672 2673 l3cr= [PPC] 2674 2675 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2676 disabled it. 2677 2678 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2679 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2680 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2681 Format: notscdeadline 2682 2683 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2684 in C2 power state. 2685 2686 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2687 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2688 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2689 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2690 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2691 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2692 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2693 2694 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2695 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2696 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2697 2698 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2699 when set. 2700 Format: <int> 2701 2702 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2703 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2704 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2705 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2706 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2707 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2708 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2709 to all ports, links and devices. 2710 2711 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2712 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2713 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2714 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2715 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2716 host link and device attached to it. 2717 2718 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2719 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2720 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2721 The following configurations can be forced. 2722 2723 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2724 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2725 2726 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2727 2728 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2729 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2730 allowed. 2731 2732 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2733 resets. 2734 2735 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2736 link recovery. 2737 2738 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2739 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2740 detection. 2741 2742 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2743 2744 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2745 2746 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2747 2748 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2749 2750 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2751 2752 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2753 2754 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2755 2756 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2757 2758 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2759 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2760 2761 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2762 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2763 2764 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2765 identify device data log. 2766 2767 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2768 purpose log directory. 2769 2770 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2771 2772 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2773 1024 sectors. 2774 2775 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2776 65535 sectors. 2777 2778 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2779 2780 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2781 should be skipped. 2782 2783 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2784 2785 * disable: Disable this device. 2786 2787 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2788 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2789 2790 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2791 2792 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2793 Format: <integer> 2794 2795 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2796 Format: <integer> 2797 2798 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2799 Format: <integer> 2800 2801 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2802 Format: <integer> 2803 2804 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2805 { integrity | confidentiality } 2806 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2807 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2808 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2809 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2810 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2811 are also disabled. 2812 2813 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2814 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2815 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2816 number of online CPUs. 2817 2818 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2819 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2820 2821 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2822 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2823 2824 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2825 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2826 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2827 2828 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2829 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2830 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2831 mode during the locktorture test. 2832 2833 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2834 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2835 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2836 2837 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2838 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2839 2840 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2841 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2842 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2843 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2844 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2845 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2846 2847 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2848 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2849 2850 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2851 Enable additional printk() statements. 2852 2853 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2854 Format: <irq> 2855 2856 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2857 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2858 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2859 loglevels are defined as follows: 2860 2861 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2862 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2863 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2864 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2865 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2866 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2867 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2868 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2869 2870 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2871 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2872 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2873 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2874 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2875 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2876 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2877 2878 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2879 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2880 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2881 kernel boot problems. 2882 2883 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2884 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2885 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2886 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2887 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2888 attached printers to be reset. Using 2889 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2890 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2891 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2892 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2893 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2894 port specification list means that device IDs 2895 from each port should be examined, to see if 2896 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2897 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2898 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2899 2900 lpj=n [KNL] 2901 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2902 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2903 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2904 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2905 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2906 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2907 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2908 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2909 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2910 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2911 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2912 hardware. 2913 2914 ltpc= [NET] 2915 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2916 2917 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2918 2919 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2920 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2921 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2922 2923 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2924 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2925 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2926 2927 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2928 different yeeloong laptops. 2929 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2930 2931 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2932 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2933 2934 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2935 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2936 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2937 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2938 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2939 only takes effect during system bootup. 2940 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2941 which also disables the IO APIC. 2942 2943 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2944 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2945 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2946 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2947 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2948 /dev/loop-control interface. 2949 2950 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2951 2952 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2953 2954 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2955 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2956 2957 mdacon= [MDA] 2958 Format: <first>,<last> 2959 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2960 2961 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2962 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2963 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2964 2965 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2966 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2967 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2968 2969 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2970 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2971 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2972 not have direct access. 2973 2974 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2975 options are: 2976 2977 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2978 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2979 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2980 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2981 2982 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2983 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2984 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2985 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2986 too. 2987 2988 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2989 mds=full. 2990 2991 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2992 2993 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2994 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2995 2996 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2997 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2998 2999 1 for test; 3000 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3001 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3002 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3003 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3004 3005 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3006 high memory is not affected. 3007 3008 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3009 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3010 3011 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3012 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3013 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3014 belonging to unused RAM. 3015 3016 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3017 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3018 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3019 3020 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3021 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3022 firmware. 3023 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3024 ss[KMG]. 3025 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3026 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3027 3028 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3029 memory. 3030 3031 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3032 3033 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3034 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3035 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3036 3037 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3038 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3039 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3040 set according to the 3041 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3042 option. 3043 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3044 3045 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3046 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3047 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3048 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3049 option description. 3050 3051 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3052 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3053 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3054 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3055 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3056 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3057 comma delimited. 3058 Example: 3059 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3060 3061 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3062 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3063 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3064 3065 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3066 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3067 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3068 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3069 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3070 or 3071 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3072 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3073 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3074 will be eaten. 3075 3076 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3077 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3078 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3079 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3080 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3081 3082 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3083 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3084 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3085 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3086 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3087 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3088 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3089 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3090 3091 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3092 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3093 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3094 Setting this option will scan the memory 3095 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3096 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3097 from using the memory being corrupted. 3098 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3099 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3100 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3101 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3102 3103 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3104 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3105 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3106 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3107 corruption in more or less memory. 3108 3109 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3110 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3111 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3112 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3113 3114 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3115 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3116 Format: {on | off (default)} 3117 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3118 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3119 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3120 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3121 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3122 lot of memory without requiring additional 3123 memory to do so. 3124 This feature is disabled by default because it 3125 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3126 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3127 memory blocks). 3128 The state of the flag can be read in 3129 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3130 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3131 the feature is not effective. 3132 3133 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3134 Format: <integer> 3135 default : 0 <disable> 3136 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3137 performed. Each pass selects another test 3138 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3139 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3140 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3141 regions that are detected. 3142 3143 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3144 Valid arguments: on, off 3145 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3146 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3147 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3148 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3149 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3150 3151 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3152 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3153 3154 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3155 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3156 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3157 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3158 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3159 3160 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3161 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3162 3163 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3164 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3165 platforms. 3166 3167 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3168 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3169 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3170 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3171 3172 mga= [HW,DRM] 3173 3174 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3175 physical address is ignored. 3176 3177 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3178 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3179 Default: "0tb" 3180 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3181 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3182 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3183 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3184 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3185 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3186 unconfigured. 3187 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3188 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3189 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3190 VGA shield. 3191 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3192 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3193 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3194 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3195 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3196 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3197 3198 mitigations= 3199 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3200 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3201 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3202 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3203 3204 off 3205 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3206 improves system performance, but it may also 3207 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3208 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3209 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3210 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3211 nobp=0 [S390] 3212 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3213 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3214 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3215 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3216 l1tf=off [X86] 3217 mds=off [X86] 3218 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3219 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3220 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3221 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3222 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3223 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3224 retbleed=off [X86] 3225 3226 Exceptions: 3227 This does not have any effect on 3228 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3229 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3230 3231 auto (default) 3232 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3233 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3234 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3235 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3236 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3237 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3238 3239 auto,nosmt 3240 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3241 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3242 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3243 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3244 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3245 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3246 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3247 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3248 3249 mminit_loglevel= 3250 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3251 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3252 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3253 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3254 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3255 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3256 3257 mmio_stale_data= 3258 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3259 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3260 3261 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3262 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3263 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3264 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3265 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3266 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3267 3268 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3269 options are: 3270 3271 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3272 3273 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3274 vulnerable CPUs. 3275 3276 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3277 3278 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3279 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3280 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3281 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3282 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3283 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3284 3285 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3286 mmio_stale_data=full. 3287 3288 For details see: 3289 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3290 3291 module.async_probe=<bool> 3292 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3293 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3294 specific module, use the module specific control that 3295 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3296 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3297 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3298 the specific module. 3299 3300 module.sig_enforce 3301 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3302 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3303 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3304 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3305 3306 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3307 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3308 3309 mousedev.tap_time= 3310 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3311 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3312 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3313 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3314 Format: <msecs> 3315 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3316 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3317 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3318 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3319 3320 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3321 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3322 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3323 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3324 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3325 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3326 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3327 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3328 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3329 is not too small. 3330 3331 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3332 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3333 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3334 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3335 allocations. Use with caution! 3336 3337 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3338 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3339 3340 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3341 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3342 3343 mtdparts= [MTD] 3344 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3345 3346 mtdset= [ARM] 3347 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3348 3349 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3350 3351 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3352 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3353 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3354 3355 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3356 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3357 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3358 3359 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3360 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3361 Default is 1. 3362 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3363 using up MTRRs. 3364 3365 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3366 Format: <integer> 3367 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3368 Default : 1 3369 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3370 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3371 3372 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3373 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3374 at a time. 3375 3376 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3377 3378 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3379 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3380 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3381 something different and driver-specific. 3382 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3383 file if at all. 3384 3385 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3386 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3387 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3388 waits 4 seconds. 3389 3390 nf_conntrack.acct= 3391 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3392 0 to disable accounting 3393 1 to enable accounting 3394 Default value is 0. 3395 3396 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3397 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3398 3399 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3400 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3401 3402 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3403 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3404 3405 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3406 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3407 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3408 requests. 3409 3410 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3411 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3412 channel should listen. 3413 3414 nfs.cache_getent= 3415 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3416 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3417 3418 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3419 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3420 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3421 3422 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3423 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3424 entries. 3425 3426 nfs.enable_ino64= 3427 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3428 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3429 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3430 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3431 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3432 3433 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3434 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3435 slots the client will assign to the callback 3436 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3437 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3438 a particular server. 3439 3440 nfs.max_session_slots= 3441 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3442 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3443 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3444 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3445 Note that there is little point in setting this 3446 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3447 3448 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3449 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3450 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3451 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3452 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3453 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3454 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3455 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3456 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3457 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3458 back to using the idmapper. 3459 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3460 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3461 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3462 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3463 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3464 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3465 3466 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3467 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3468 information in exchange_id requests. 3469 If zero, no implementation identification information 3470 will be sent. 3471 The default is to send the implementation identification 3472 information. 3473 3474 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3475 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3476 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3477 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3478 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3479 after the locks are lost. 3480 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3481 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3482 parameter to '1'. 3483 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3484 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3485 3486 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3487 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3488 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3489 3490 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3491 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3492 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3493 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3494 3495 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3496 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3497 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3498 the destination of the copy. 3499 3500 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3501 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3502 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3503 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3504 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3505 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3506 this parameter. 3507 3508 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3509 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3510 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3511 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3512 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3513 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3514 3515 3516 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3517 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3518 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3519 3520 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3521 when a NMI is triggered. 3522 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3523 3524 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3525 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3526 Valid num: 0 or 1 3527 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3528 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3529 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3530 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3531 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3532 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3533 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3534 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3535 need the box quickly up again. 3536 3537 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3538 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3539 3540 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3541 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3542 is present. 3543 3544 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3545 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3546 3547 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3548 3549 no_console_suspend 3550 [HW] Never suspend the console 3551 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3552 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3553 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3554 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3555 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3556 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3557 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3558 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3559 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3560 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3561 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3562 turn on/off it dynamically. 3563 3564 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3565 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3566 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3567 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3568 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3569 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3570 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3571 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3572 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3573 is set. 3574 3575 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3576 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3577 but will impact performance. 3578 3579 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3580 3581 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3582 (CPU alternatives feature). 3583 3584 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3585 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3586 3587 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3588 3589 nocache [ARM] 3590 3591 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3592 3593 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3594 3595 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3596 3597 noexec [IA-64] 3598 3599 nosmap [PPC] 3600 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3601 even if it is supported by processor. 3602 3603 nosmep [PPC64s] 3604 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3605 even if it is supported by processor. 3606 3607 noexec32 [X86-64] 3608 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3609 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3610 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3611 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3612 read implies executable mappings 3613 3614 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3615 3616 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3617 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3618 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3619 3620 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3621 3622 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3623 3624 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3625 Equivalent to smt=1. 3626 3627 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3628 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3629 via the sysfs control file. 3630 3631 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3632 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3633 possible in the system. 3634 3635 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3636 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3637 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3638 option. 3639 3640 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3641 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3642 3643 no_uaccess_flush 3644 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3645 3646 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3647 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3648 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3649 3650 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3651 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3652 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3653 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3654 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3655 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3656 3657 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3658 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3659 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3660 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3661 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3662 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3663 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3664 3665 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3666 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3667 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3668 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3669 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3670 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3671 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3672 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3673 3674 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3675 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3676 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3677 3678 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3679 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3680 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3681 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3682 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3683 real-time systems. 3684 3685 no_hash_pointers 3686 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3687 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3688 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3689 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3690 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3691 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3692 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3693 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3694 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3695 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3696 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3697 kernels. 3698 3699 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3700 3701 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3702 Valid arguments: on, off 3703 Default: on 3704 3705 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3706 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3707 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3708 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3709 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3710 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3711 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3712 just as if they had also been called out in the 3713 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3714 3715 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3716 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3717 3718 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3719 3720 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3721 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3722 3723 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3724 broken timer IRQ sources. 3725 3726 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3727 3728 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3729 initial RAM disk. 3730 3731 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3732 remapping. 3733 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3734 3735 nointroute [IA-64] 3736 3737 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3738 3739 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3740 3741 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3742 3743 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3744 fault handling. 3745 3746 no-vmw-sched-clock 3747 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3748 clock and use the default one. 3749 3750 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3751 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3752 influence scheduler behaviour 3753 3754 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3755 3756 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3757 3758 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3759 3760 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3761 3762 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3763 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3764 3765 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3766 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3767 irq. 3768 3769 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3770 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3771 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3772 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3773 3774 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3775 3776 nomodule Disable module load 3777 3778 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3779 pagetables) support. 3780 3781 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3782 3783 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3784 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3785 3786 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3787 with UP alternatives 3788 3789 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3790 space. 3791 3792 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3793 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3794 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3795 3796 nosbagart [IA-64] 3797 3798 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3799 3800 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3801 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3802 3803 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3804 3805 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3806 3807 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3808 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3809 3810 nowb [ARM] 3811 3812 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3813 3814 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3815 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3816 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3817 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3818 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3819 parameter's value. 3820 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3821 Default: 255 3822 3823 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3824 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3825 SAL PALO. 3826 3827 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3828 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3829 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3830 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3831 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3832 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3833 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3834 hot plugging. 3835 3836 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3837 3838 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3839 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3840 3841 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3842 NUMA balancing. 3843 Allowed values are enable and disable 3844 3845 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3846 'node', 'default' can be specified 3847 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3848 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3849 3850 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3851 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3852 info. 3853 3854 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3855 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3856 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3857 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3858 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3859 interrupts *may* be lost! 3860 3861 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3862 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3863 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3864 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3865 3866 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3867 3868 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3869 3870 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3871 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3872 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3873 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3874 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3875 3876 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3877 process, but there is a small probability of 3878 deadlocking the machine. 3879 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3880 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3881 3882 page_alloc.shuffle= 3883 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3884 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3885 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3886 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3887 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3888 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3889 can be read from sysfs at: 3890 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3891 3892 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3893 Storage of the information about who allocated 3894 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3895 we can turn it on. 3896 on: enable the feature 3897 3898 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3899 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3900 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3901 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3902 on: turn on poisoning 3903 3904 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3905 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3906 Format: <integer> 3907 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3908 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3909 3910 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3911 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3912 timeout = 0: wait forever 3913 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3914 Format: <timeout> 3915 3916 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3917 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3918 bit 0: print all tasks info 3919 bit 1: print system memory info 3920 bit 2: print timer info 3921 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3922 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3923 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3924 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3925 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3926 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3927 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3928 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3929 3930 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3931 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3932 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3933 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3934 called with any of the flags in this set. 3935 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3936 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3937 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3938 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3939 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3940 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3941 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3942 3943 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3944 on a WARN(). 3945 3946 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3947 connected to, default is 0. 3948 Format: <parport#> 3949 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3950 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3951 Format: <mode> 3952 3953 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3954 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3955 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3956 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3957 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3958 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3959 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3960 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3961 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3962 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3963 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3964 are specified on the command line, starting 3965 with parport0. 3966 3967 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3968 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3969 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3970 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3971 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3972 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3973 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3974 3975 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3976 Format: <int> 3977 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3978 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3979 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3980 3981 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3982 Format: <int> 3983 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3984 changes. Disabled by default. 3985 3986 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3987 Format: <int> 3988 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3989 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3990 Disabled by default. 3991 3992 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3993 Format: <int> 3994 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3995 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3996 Disabled by default. 3997 3998 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3999 Format: <int> 4000 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4001 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4002 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4003 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4004 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4005 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4006 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4007 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4008 all channels. 4009 4010 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4011 Format: <int> 4012 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4013 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4014 respectively. Disabled by default. 4015 4016 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4017 Format: <int> 4018 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4019 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4020 respectively. Disabled by default. 4021 4022 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4023 Format: <int> 4024 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4025 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4026 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4027 All modes allowed by default. 4028 4029 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4030 Format: <int> 4031 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4032 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4033 4034 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4035 Format: <int> 4036 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4037 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4038 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4039 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4040 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4041 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4042 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4043 By default all supported ports are probed. 4044 4045 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4046 Format: <int> 4047 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4048 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4049 4050 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4051 Format: <int> 4052 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4053 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4054 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4055 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4056 0 otherwise. 4057 4058 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4059 Format: <int> 4060 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4061 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4062 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4063 allowed by default. 4064 4065 pause_on_oops= 4066 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4067 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4068 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4069 4070 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4071 4072 pcd. [PARIDE] 4073 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4074 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4075 4076 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4077 4078 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4079 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4080 specified in one of the following formats: 4081 4082 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4083 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4084 4085 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4086 bus/device/function address which may change 4087 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4088 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4089 by other kernel parameters. If the 4090 domain is left unspecified, it is 4091 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4092 to a device through multiple device/function 4093 addresses can be specified after the base 4094 address (this is more robust against 4095 renumbering issues). The second format 4096 selects devices using IDs from the 4097 configuration space which may match multiple 4098 devices in the system. 4099 4100 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4101 changes anything 4102 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4103 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4104 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4105 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4106 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4107 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4108 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4109 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4110 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4111 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4112 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4113 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4114 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4115 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4116 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4117 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4118 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4119 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4120 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4121 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4122 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4123 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4124 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4125 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4126 Configuration 4127 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4128 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4129 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4130 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4131 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4132 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4133 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4134 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4135 should never be necessary. 4136 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4137 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4138 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4139 when the system masks IRQs. 4140 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4141 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4142 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4143 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4144 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4145 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4146 on several machines and they hang the machine 4147 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4148 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4149 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4150 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4151 motherboard. 4152 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4153 Use with caution as certain devices share 4154 address decoders between ROMs and other 4155 resources. 4156 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4157 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4158 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4159 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4160 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4161 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4162 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4163 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4164 this way. 4165 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4166 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4167 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4168 F0000h-100000h range. 4169 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4170 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4171 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4172 explicitly which ones they are. 4173 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4174 numbers ourselves, overriding 4175 whatever the firmware may have done. 4176 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4177 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4178 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4179 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4180 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4181 IRQ routing is enabled. 4182 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4183 or for PCI scanning. 4184 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4185 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4186 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4187 please report a bug. 4188 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4189 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4190 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4191 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4192 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4193 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4194 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4195 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4196 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4197 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4198 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4199 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4200 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4201 so this option is a temporary workaround 4202 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4203 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4204 handle more pci cards 4205 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4206 This might help on some broken boards which 4207 machine check when some devices' config space 4208 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4209 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4210 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4211 This sorting is done to get a device 4212 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4213 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4214 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4215 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4216 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4217 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4218 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4219 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4220 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4221 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4222 or bus can support) for best performance. 4223 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4224 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4225 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4226 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4227 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4228 that hot-added devices will work. 4229 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4230 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4231 The default value is 256 bytes. 4232 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4233 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4234 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4235 resource_alignment= 4236 Format: 4237 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4238 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4239 aligned memory resources. How to 4240 specify the device is described above. 4241 If <order of align> is not specified, 4242 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4243 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4244 windows need to be expanded. 4245 To specify the alignment for several 4246 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4247 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4248 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4249 for 4096-byte alignment. 4250 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4251 end-to-end CRC checking). 4252 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4253 the default. 4254 off: Turn ECRC off 4255 on: Turn ECRC on. 4256 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4257 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4258 Default size is 256 bytes. 4259 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4260 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4261 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4262 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4263 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4264 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4265 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4266 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4267 MMIO_PREF window. 4268 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4269 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4270 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4271 Default is 1. 4272 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4273 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4274 accommodate resources required by all child 4275 devices. 4276 off: Turn realloc off 4277 on: Turn realloc on 4278 realloc same as realloc=on 4279 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4280 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4281 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4282 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4283 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4284 port. 4285 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4286 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4287 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4288 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4289 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4290 taints the kernel. 4291 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4292 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4293 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4294 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4295 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4296 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4297 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4298 this removes isolation between devices and 4299 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4300 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4301 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4302 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4303 one PCI domain per PCI function 4304 4305 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4306 Management. 4307 off Disable ASPM. 4308 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4309 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4310 4311 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4312 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4313 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4314 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4315 also tries to use these services. 4316 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4317 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4318 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4319 hotplug). 4320 4321 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4322 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4323 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4324 4325 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4326 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4327 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4328 4329 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4330 4331 pd_ignore_unused 4332 [PM] 4333 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4334 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4335 for debug and development, but should not be 4336 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4337 4338 pd. [PARIDE] 4339 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4340 4341 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4342 boot time. 4343 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4344 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4345 4346 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4347 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4348 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4349 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4350 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4351 and performance comparison. 4352 4353 pf. [PARIDE] 4354 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4355 4356 pg. [PARIDE] 4357 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4358 4359 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4360 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4361 4362 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4363 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4364 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4365 4366 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4367 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4368 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4369 4370 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4371 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4372 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4373 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4374 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4375 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4376 remains 0. 4377 4378 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4379 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4380 4381 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4382 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4383 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4384 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4385 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4386 possible settings and some assignment information. 4387 4388 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4389 { off } 4390 4391 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4392 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4393 4394 pnp_reserve_irq= 4395 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4396 4397 pnp_reserve_dma= 4398 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4399 4400 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4401 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4402 4403 pnp_reserve_mem= 4404 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4405 autoconfiguration. 4406 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4407 4408 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4409 Default is 21. 4410 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4411 may be specified. 4412 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4413 4414 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4415 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4416 platform machine description specific power_save 4417 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4418 execution priority. 4419 4420 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4421 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4422 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4423 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4424 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4425 4426 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4427 Format: {"off"} 4428 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4429 4430 preempt= [KNL] 4431 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4432 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4433 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4434 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4435 can be preempted anytime. 4436 4437 print-fatal-signals= 4438 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4439 4440 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4441 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4442 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4443 coredump - etc. 4444 4445 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4446 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4447 4448 default: off. 4449 4450 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4451 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4452 panics 4453 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4454 default: disabled 4455 4456 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4457 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4458 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4459 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4460 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4461 in order to provide more debug information. 4462 Format: <bool> 4463 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4464 4465 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4466 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4467 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4468 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4469 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4470 Default: ratelimit 4471 4472 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4473 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4474 4475 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4476 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4477 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4478 4479 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4480 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4481 instead using the legacy FADT method 4482 4483 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4484 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4485 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4486 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4487 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4488 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4489 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4490 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4491 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4492 statistical time based profiling. 4493 4494 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4495 4496 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4497 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4498 that). 4499 Format: <bool> 4500 4501 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4502 tracking. 4503 Format: <bool> 4504 4505 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4506 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4507 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4508 per second. 4509 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4510 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4511 (0 = never). 4512 psmouse.resolution= 4513 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4514 psmouse.smartscroll= 4515 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4516 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4517 4518 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4519 4520 pt. [PARIDE] 4521 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4522 4523 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4524 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4525 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4526 system calls and interrupts. 4527 4528 on - unconditionally enable 4529 off - unconditionally disable 4530 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4531 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4532 4533 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4534 4535 nopti [X86-64] 4536 Equivalent to pti=off 4537 4538 pty.legacy_count= 4539 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4540 default number. 4541 4542 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4543 4544 r128= [HW,DRM] 4545 4546 raid= [HW,RAID] 4547 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4548 4549 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4550 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4551 4552 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4553 4554 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4555 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4556 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4557 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4558 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4559 4560 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4561 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4562 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4563 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4564 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4565 4566 randomize_kstack_offset= 4567 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4568 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4569 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4570 that depend on stack address determinism or 4571 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4572 available on architectures that have defined 4573 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4574 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4575 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4576 4577 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4578 4579 cec_disable [X86] 4580 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4581 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4582 4583 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4584 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4585 as described above. 4586 4587 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4588 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4589 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4590 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4591 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4592 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4593 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4594 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4595 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4596 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4597 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4598 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4599 4600 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4601 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4602 4603 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4604 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4605 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4606 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4607 4608 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4609 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4610 4611 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4612 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4613 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4614 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4615 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4616 This improves the real-time response for the 4617 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4618 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4619 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4620 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4621 4622 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4623 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4624 process in one batch. 4625 4626 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4627 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4628 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4629 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4630 4631 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4632 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4633 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4634 4635 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4636 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4637 RCU grace-period initialization. 4638 4639 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4640 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4641 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4642 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4643 the rcu_node combining tree. 4644 4645 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4646 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4647 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4648 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4649 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4650 4651 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4652 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4653 to zero. 4654 4655 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4656 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4657 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4658 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4659 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4660 4661 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4662 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4663 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4664 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4665 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4666 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4667 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4668 4669 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4670 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4671 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4672 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4673 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4674 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4675 condition. 4676 4677 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4678 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4679 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4680 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4681 4682 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4683 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4684 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4685 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4686 and maximum value is HZ. 4687 4688 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4689 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4690 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4691 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4692 4693 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4694 Set required age in jiffies for a 4695 given grace period before RCU starts 4696 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4697 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4698 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4699 a value based on the most recent settings 4700 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4701 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4702 This calculated value may be viewed in 4703 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4704 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4705 overwritten. 4706 4707 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4708 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4709 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4710 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4711 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4712 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4713 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4714 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4715 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4716 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4717 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4718 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4719 4720 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4721 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4722 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4723 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4724 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4725 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4726 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4727 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4728 4729 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4730 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4731 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4732 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4733 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4734 4735 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4736 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4737 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4738 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4739 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4740 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4741 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4742 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4743 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4744 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4745 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4746 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4747 4748 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4749 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4750 each group, which defaults to the square root 4751 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4752 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4753 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4754 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4755 4756 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4757 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4758 batch limiting is disabled. 4759 4760 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4761 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4762 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4763 4764 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4765 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4766 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4767 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4768 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4769 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4770 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4771 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4772 4773 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4774 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4775 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4776 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4777 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4778 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4779 4780 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4781 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4782 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4783 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4784 Larger delays increase the probability of 4785 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4786 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4787 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4788 4789 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4790 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4791 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4792 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4793 4794 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4795 Measure performance of asynchronous 4796 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4797 4798 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4799 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4800 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4801 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4802 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4803 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4804 4805 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4806 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4807 grace-period primitives. 4808 4809 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4810 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4811 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4812 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4813 interference. 4814 4815 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4816 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4817 4818 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4819 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4820 If this parameter has the same value as 4821 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4822 and double-argument variants are tested. 4823 4824 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4825 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4826 If this parameter has the same value as 4827 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4828 and double-argument variants are tested. 4829 4830 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4831 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4832 4833 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4834 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4835 4836 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4837 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4838 of allocations and frees. 4839 4840 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4841 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4842 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4843 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4844 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4845 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4846 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4847 a single reader. 4848 4849 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4850 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4851 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4852 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4853 4854 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4855 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4856 4857 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4858 Shut the system down after performance tests 4859 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4860 testing. 4861 4862 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4863 Enable additional printk() statements. 4864 4865 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4866 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4867 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4868 no holdoff. 4869 4870 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4871 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4872 in microseconds. 4873 4874 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4875 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4876 in microseconds. 4877 4878 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4879 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4880 in seconds. 4881 4882 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4883 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4884 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4885 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4886 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4887 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4888 of CPUs to be used. 4889 4890 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4891 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4892 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4893 4894 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4895 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4896 forward-progress tests. 4897 4898 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4899 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4900 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4901 testing. 4902 4903 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4904 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4905 primitives, if available. 4906 4907 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4908 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4909 4910 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4911 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4912 update-side primitives, if available. 4913 4914 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4915 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4916 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4917 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4918 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4919 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4920 they are all non-zero. 4921 4922 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4923 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4924 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4925 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4926 4927 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4928 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4929 This can of course result in splats, and is 4930 intended to test the ability of things like 4931 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4932 such leaks. 4933 4934 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4935 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4936 4937 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4938 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4939 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4940 test, hence the "fake". 4941 4942 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4943 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4944 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4945 4946 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4947 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4948 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4949 4950 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4951 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4952 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4953 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4954 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4955 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4956 4957 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4958 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4959 4960 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4961 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4962 4963 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4964 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4965 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4966 4967 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4968 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4969 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4970 task-exit processing. 4971 4972 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4973 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4974 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4975 is spawned. 4976 4977 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4978 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4979 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4980 4981 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4982 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4983 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4984 during the rcutorture test. 4985 4986 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4987 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4988 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4989 4990 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4991 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4992 warnings, zero to disable. 4993 4994 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4995 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4996 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4997 to any other stall-related activity. 4998 4999 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5000 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5001 5002 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5003 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5004 5005 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5006 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5007 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5008 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5009 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5010 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5011 5012 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5013 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5014 5015 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5016 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5017 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5018 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5019 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5020 5021 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5022 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5023 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5024 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5025 5026 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5027 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5028 5029 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5030 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5031 5032 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5033 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5034 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5035 5036 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5037 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5038 5039 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5040 Enable additional printk() statements. 5041 5042 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5043 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5044 stall warning. 5045 5046 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5047 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5048 5049 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5050 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5051 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5052 during early boot, that is, during the time 5053 before the init task is spawned. 5054 5055 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5056 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5057 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5058 value is 300 seconds. 5059 5060 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5061 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5062 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5063 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5064 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5065 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5066 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5067 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5068 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5069 5070 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5071 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5072 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5073 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5074 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5075 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5076 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5077 5078 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5079 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5080 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5081 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5082 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5083 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5084 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5085 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5086 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5087 5088 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5089 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5090 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5091 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5092 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5093 5094 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5095 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5096 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5097 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5098 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5099 grace-period processing. 5100 5101 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5102 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5103 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5104 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5105 a single callback queue. This switching only 5106 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5107 set to the default value of -1. 5108 5109 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5110 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5111 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5112 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5113 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5114 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5115 the default value of -1. 5116 5117 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5118 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5119 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5120 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5121 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5122 for use in testing. 5123 5124 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5125 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5126 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5127 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5128 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5129 but lengthens grace periods. 5130 5131 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5132 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5133 informational messages, which give some indication 5134 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5135 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5136 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5137 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5138 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5139 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5140 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5141 5142 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5143 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5144 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5145 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5146 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5147 the value three, so that the first informational 5148 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5149 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5150 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5151 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5152 5153 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5154 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5155 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5156 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5157 A change in value does not take effect until 5158 the beginning of the next grace period. 5159 5160 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5161 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5162 5163 rdinit= [KNL] 5164 Format: <full_path> 5165 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5166 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5167 5168 rdrand= [X86] 5169 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5170 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5171 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5172 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5173 path). 5174 5175 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5176 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5177 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5178 mba. 5179 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5180 rdt=cmt,!mba 5181 5182 reboot= [KNL] 5183 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5184 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5185 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5186 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5187 [[,]f[orce] 5188 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5189 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5190 reboot only), 5191 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5192 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5193 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5194 to be used for rebooting. 5195 5196 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5197 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5198 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5199 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5200 interference. 5201 5202 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5203 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5204 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5205 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5206 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5207 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5208 x86 laptops. 5209 5210 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5211 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5212 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5213 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5214 5215 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5216 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5217 the console log. 5218 5219 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5220 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5221 measured in microseconds. 5222 5223 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5224 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5225 5226 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5227 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5228 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5229 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5230 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5231 5232 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5233 Enable additional printk() statements. 5234 5235 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5236 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5237 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5238 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5239 specified. 5240 5241 relax_domain_level= 5242 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5243 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5244 5245 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5246 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5247 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5248 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5249 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5250 5251 reservetop= [X86-32] 5252 Format: nn[KMG] 5253 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5254 address space. 5255 5256 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5257 during initialization. 5258 5259 resume= [SWSUSP] 5260 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5261 Format: 5262 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5263 5264 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5265 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5266 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5267 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5268 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5269 5270 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5271 read the resume files 5272 5273 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5274 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5275 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5276 5277 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5278 5279 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5280 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5281 vulnerability. 5282 5283 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5284 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5285 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5286 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5287 that don't. 5288 5289 off - no mitigation 5290 auto - automatically select a migitation 5291 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5292 disabling SMT if necessary for 5293 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5294 and older without STIBP). 5295 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5296 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5297 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5298 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5299 on Intel. 5300 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5301 when STIBP is not available. This is 5302 the alternative for systems which do not 5303 have STIBP. 5304 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5305 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5306 systems. 5307 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5308 is not available. This is the alternative for 5309 systems which do not have STIBP. 5310 5311 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5312 time according to the CPU. 5313 5314 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5315 5316 rfkill.default_state= 5317 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5318 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5319 1 Unblocked. 5320 5321 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5322 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5323 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5324 blocked and the previous configuration. 5325 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5326 blocked and everything unblocked. 5327 5328 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5329 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5330 5331 ring3mwait=disable 5332 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5333 CPUs. 5334 5335 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5336 5337 rodata= [KNL] 5338 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5339 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5340 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5341 [arm64] 5342 5343 rockchip.usb_uart 5344 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5345 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5346 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5347 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5348 5349 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5350 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5351 5352 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5353 mount the root filesystem 5354 5355 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5356 5357 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5358 5359 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5360 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5361 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5362 5363 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5364 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5365 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5366 managed by CMA. 5367 5368 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5369 5370 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5371 5372 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5373 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5374 strict 5375 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5376 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5377 which is faster. 5378 5379 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5380 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5381 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5382 factor of the size of main memory. 5383 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5384 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5385 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5386 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5387 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5388 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5389 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5390 5391 sa1100ir [NET] 5392 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5393 5394 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5395 5396 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5397 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5398 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5399 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5400 5401 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5402 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5403 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5404 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5405 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5406 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5407 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5408 value. 5409 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5410 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5411 1 64 ms 5412 2 128 ms 5413 and so on. 5414 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5415 Default is 0. 5416 5417 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5418 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5419 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5420 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5421 tests. 5422 5423 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5424 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5425 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5426 default) disables this feature. Please note 5427 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5428 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5429 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5430 5431 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5432 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5433 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5434 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5435 equal to the number of CPUs. 5436 5437 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5438 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5439 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5440 5441 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5442 Number seconds to wait between successive 5443 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5444 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5445 5446 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5447 The number of seconds following the start of the 5448 test after which to shut down the system. The 5449 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5450 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5451 5452 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5453 The number of seconds between outputting the 5454 current test statistics to the console. A value 5455 of zero disables statistics output. 5456 5457 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5458 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5459 to the set of CPUs under test. 5460 5461 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5462 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5463 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5464 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5465 functions. 5466 5467 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5468 Enable additional printk() statements. 5469 5470 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5471 The probability weighting to use for the 5472 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5473 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5474 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5475 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5476 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5477 5478 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5479 The probability weighting to use for the 5480 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5481 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5482 5483 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5484 The probability weighting to use for the 5485 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5486 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5487 Note well that setting a high probability for 5488 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5489 on the system. 5490 5491 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5492 The probability weighting to use for the 5493 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5494 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5495 and weight_many. 5496 5497 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5498 The probability weighting to use for the 5499 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5500 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5501 weight_many. 5502 5503 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5504 The probability weighting to use for the 5505 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5506 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5507 and weight_many. 5508 5509 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5510 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5511 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5512 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5513 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5514 1 -- enable. 5515 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5516 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5517 5518 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5519 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5520 "lsm=" parameter. 5521 5522 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5523 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5524 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5525 0 -- disable. 5526 1 -- enable. 5527 Default value is 1. 5528 5529 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5530 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5531 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5532 0 -- disable. 5533 1 -- enable. 5534 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5535 5536 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5537 5538 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5539 5540 shapers= [NET] 5541 Maximal number of shapers. 5542 5543 simeth= [IA-64] 5544 simscsi= 5545 5546 slram= [HW,MTD] 5547 5548 slab_merge [MM] 5549 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5550 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5551 5552 slab_nomerge [MM] 5553 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5554 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5555 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5556 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5557 layout control by attackers can usually be 5558 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5559 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5560 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5561 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5562 own. 5563 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5564 5565 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5566 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5567 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5568 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5569 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5570 5571 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5572 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5573 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5574 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5575 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5576 last alloc / free. For more information see 5577 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5578 5579 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5580 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5581 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5582 fragmentation. For more information see 5583 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5584 5585 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5586 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5587 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5588 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5589 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5590 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5591 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5592 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5593 5594 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5595 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5596 lower than slub_max_order. 5597 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5598 5599 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5600 Same with slab_merge. 5601 5602 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5603 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5604 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5605 5606 smart2= [HW] 5607 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5608 5609 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5610 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5611 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5612 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5613 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5614 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5615 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5616 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5617 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5618 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5619 5620 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5621 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5622 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5623 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5624 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5625 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5626 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5627 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5628 1: Fast pin select (default) 5629 2: ATC IRMode 5630 5631 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5632 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5633 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5634 actual hardware limit. 5635 Format: <integer> 5636 Default: -1 (no limit) 5637 5638 softlockup_panic= 5639 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5640 Format: 0 | 1 5641 5642 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5643 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5644 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5645 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5646 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5647 5648 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5649 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5650 backtraces on all cpus. 5651 Format: 0 | 1 5652 5653 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5654 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5655 5656 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5657 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5658 The default operation protects the kernel from 5659 user space attacks. 5660 5661 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5662 spectre_v2_user=on 5663 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5664 spectre_v2_user=off 5665 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5666 vulnerable 5667 5668 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5669 mitigation method at run time according to the 5670 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5671 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5672 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5673 5674 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5675 against user space to user space task attacks. 5676 5677 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5678 the user space protections. 5679 5680 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5681 5682 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5683 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5684 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5685 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5686 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5687 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5688 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5689 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5690 5691 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5692 spectre_v2=auto. 5693 5694 spectre_v2_user= 5695 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5696 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5697 user space tasks 5698 5699 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5700 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5701 5702 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5703 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5704 5705 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5706 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5707 per thread. The mitigation control state 5708 is inherited on fork. 5709 5710 prctl,ibpb 5711 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5712 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5713 always when switching between different user 5714 space processes. 5715 5716 seccomp 5717 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5718 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5719 they explicitly opt out. 5720 5721 seccomp,ibpb 5722 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5723 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5724 always when switching between different 5725 user space processes. 5726 5727 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5728 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5729 5730 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5731 5732 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5733 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5734 5735 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5736 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5737 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5738 5739 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5740 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5741 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5742 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5743 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5744 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5745 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5746 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5747 5748 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5749 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5750 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5751 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5752 5753 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5754 Bypass optimization is used. 5755 5756 On x86 the options are: 5757 5758 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5759 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5760 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5761 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5762 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5763 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5764 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5765 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5766 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5767 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5768 for a process by default. The state of the control 5769 is inherited on fork. 5770 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5771 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5772 5773 Default mitigations: 5774 X86: "prctl" 5775 5776 On powerpc the options are: 5777 5778 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5779 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5780 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5781 exit. 5782 off - No action. 5783 5784 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5785 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5786 5787 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5788 spia_fio_base= 5789 spia_pedr= 5790 spia_peddr= 5791 5792 split_lock_detect= 5793 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5794 5795 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5796 instructions that access data across cache line 5797 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5798 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5799 bus lock detection. 5800 5801 off - not enabled 5802 5803 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5804 about applications triggering the #AC 5805 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5806 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5807 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5808 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5809 enabled in hardware. 5810 5811 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5812 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5813 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5814 both features are enabled in hardware. 5815 5816 ratelimit:N - 5817 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5818 per second for bus lock detection. 5819 0 < N <= 1000. 5820 5821 N/A for split lock detection. 5822 5823 5824 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5825 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5826 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5827 mode. 5828 5829 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5830 CPL > 0. 5831 5832 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5833 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5834 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5835 5836 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5837 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5838 number generator. 5839 5840 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5841 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5842 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5843 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5844 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5845 5846 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5847 the following option: 5848 5849 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5850 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5851 5852 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5853 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5854 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5855 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5856 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5857 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5858 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5859 (decide at boot). 5860 5861 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5862 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5863 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5864 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5865 5866 0: Never. 5867 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5868 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5869 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5870 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5871 5872 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5873 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5874 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5875 5876 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5877 Specifies how frequently to check for 5878 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5879 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5880 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5881 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5882 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5883 are ignored. 5884 5885 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5886 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5887 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5888 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5889 grace period will be considered for automatic 5890 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5891 expediting. 5892 5893 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5894 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5895 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5896 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5897 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5898 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5899 5900 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5901 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5902 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5903 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5904 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5905 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5906 5907 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5908 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5909 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5910 5911 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5912 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5913 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5914 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5915 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5916 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5917 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5918 5919 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5920 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5921 5922 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5923 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5924 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5925 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5926 5927 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5928 for both kernel and userspace 5929 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5930 for both kernel and userspace 5931 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5932 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5933 to allow userspace to register its 5934 interest in being mitigated too. 5935 5936 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5937 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5938 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5939 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5940 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5941 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5942 5943 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5944 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5945 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5946 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5947 to false. 5948 5949 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5950 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5951 5952 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5953 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5954 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5955 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5956 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5957 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5958 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5959 5960 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5961 Format: <num> 5962 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5963 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5964 as the initial boot-console. 5965 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5966 5967 sti_font= [HW] 5968 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5969 5970 stifb= [HW] 5971 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5972 5973 strict_sas_size= 5974 [X86] 5975 Format: <bool> 5976 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5977 against the required signal frame size which 5978 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5979 be used to filter out binaries which have 5980 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5981 5982 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5983 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5984 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5985 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5986 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5987 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5988 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5989 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5990 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5991 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5992 maximum port values. 5993 5994 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5995 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5996 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5997 process in parallel from a single connection. 5998 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5999 6000 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6001 [NFS] 6002 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6003 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6004 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6005 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6006 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6007 NFS server is running. 6008 6009 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6010 automatically using heuristics 6011 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6012 percpu one pool for each CPU 6013 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6014 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6015 6016 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6017 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6018 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6019 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6020 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6021 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6022 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6023 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6024 6025 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6026 [SUSPEND] 6027 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6028 mode before resuming the system (see 6029 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6030 is set. Default value is 5. 6031 6032 svm= [PPC] 6033 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6034 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6035 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6036 6037 swapaccount= [KNL] 6038 Format: [0|1] 6039 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 6040 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 6041 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 6042 6043 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6044 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6045 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6046 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6047 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6048 to a power of 2. 6049 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6050 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6051 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6052 6053 switches= [HW,M68k] 6054 6055 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6056 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6057 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6058 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6059 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6060 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6061 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6062 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6063 6064 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6065 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6066 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6067 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6068 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6069 in older udev will not work anymore. 6070 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6071 the kernel configuration. 6072 6073 sysrq_always_enabled 6074 [KNL] 6075 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6076 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6077 Useful for debugging. 6078 6079 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6080 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6081 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6082 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6083 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6084 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6085 6086 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6087 6088 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6089 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6090 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6091 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6092 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6093 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6094 The system is woken from this state using a 6095 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6096 6097 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6098 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6099 6100 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6101 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6102 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6103 6104 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6105 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6106 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6107 6108 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6109 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6110 critical and hot trip points. 6111 6112 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6113 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6114 6115 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6116 -1: disable all passive trip points 6117 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6118 value 6119 6120 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6121 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6122 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6123 0: no polling (default) 6124 6125 threadirqs [KNL] 6126 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6127 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6128 6129 topology= [S390] 6130 Format: {off | on} 6131 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6132 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6133 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6134 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6135 Default is on. 6136 6137 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6138 Format: {off} 6139 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6140 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6141 LPAR. 6142 6143 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6144 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6145 until after init has spawned. 6146 6147 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6148 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6149 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6150 very costly operation when many torture tests 6151 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6152 with rotating-rust storage. 6153 6154 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6155 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6156 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6157 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6158 6159 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6160 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6161 6162 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6163 6164 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6165 Format: integer pcr id 6166 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6167 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6168 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6169 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6170 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6171 are saved. 6172 6173 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6174 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6175 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6176 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6177 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6178 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6179 6180 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6181 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6182 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6183 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6184 6185 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6186 to stop the printing of events to console at 6187 late_initcall_sync. 6188 6189 ** CAUTION ** 6190 6191 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6192 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6193 the system to live lock. 6194 6195 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6196 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6197 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6198 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6199 make the system inoperable. 6200 6201 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6202 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6203 6204 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6205 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6206 6207 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6208 at boot up. 6209 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6210 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6211 depending on the architecture, may not be 6212 in sync between CPUs. 6213 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6214 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6215 but better for some race conditions. 6216 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6217 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6218 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6219 once per event. 6220 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6221 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6222 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6223 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6224 stamps. 6225 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6226 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6227 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6228 6229 trace_event=[event-list] 6230 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6231 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6232 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6233 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6234 6235 trace_options=[option-list] 6236 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6237 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6238 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6239 to echo the option name into 6240 6241 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6242 6243 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6244 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6245 6246 trace_options=stacktrace 6247 6248 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6249 section. 6250 6251 traceoff_on_warning 6252 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6253 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6254 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6255 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6256 6257 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6258 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6259 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6260 6261 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6262 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6263 6264 transparent_hugepage= 6265 [KNL] 6266 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6267 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6268 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6269 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6270 for more details. 6271 6272 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6273 Format: <string> 6274 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6275 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6276 sources: 6277 - "tpm" 6278 - "tee" 6279 - "caam" 6280 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6281 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6282 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6283 successfully during iteration. 6284 6285 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6286 Format: <string> 6287 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6288 Can be one of: 6289 - "kernel" 6290 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6291 - "default" 6292 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6293 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6294 6295 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6296 Format: <string> 6297 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6298 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6299 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6300 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6301 virtualized environment. 6302 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6303 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6304 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6305 can add overhead. 6306 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6307 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6308 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6309 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6310 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6311 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6312 acceptable). 6313 6314 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6315 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6316 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6317 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6318 Format: <unsigned int> 6319 6320 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6321 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6322 support TSX control. 6323 6324 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6325 6326 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6327 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6328 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6329 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6330 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6331 with leaving it enabled. 6332 6333 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6334 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6335 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6336 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6337 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6338 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6339 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6340 6341 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6342 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6343 6344 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6345 6346 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6347 for more details. 6348 6349 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6350 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6351 6352 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6353 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6354 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6355 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6356 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6357 conditions. 6358 6359 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6360 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6361 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6362 access. 6363 6364 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6365 options are: 6366 6367 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6368 if TSX is enabled. 6369 6370 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6371 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6372 is not disabled because CPU is not 6373 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6374 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6375 6376 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6377 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6378 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6379 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6380 6381 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6382 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6383 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6384 required and doesn't provide any additional 6385 mitigation. 6386 6387 For details see: 6388 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6389 6390 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6391 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6392 Format: 6393 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6394 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6395 6396 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6397 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6398 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6399 help "seeing" what's going on. 6400 6401 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6402 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6403 6404 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6405 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6406 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6407 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6408 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6409 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6410 reported either. 6411 6412 unknown_nmi_panic 6413 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6414 6415 usbcore.authorized_default= 6416 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6417 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6418 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6419 if device connected to internal port) 6420 6421 usbcore.autosuspend= 6422 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6423 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6424 is the time required before an idle device will be 6425 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6426 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6427 6428 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6429 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6430 6431 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6432 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6433 (default = 65536). 6434 6435 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6436 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6437 6438 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6439 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6440 scheme (default 0 = off). 6441 6442 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6443 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6444 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6445 6446 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6447 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6448 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6449 6450 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6451 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6452 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6453 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6454 6455 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6456 6457 usbcore.quirks= 6458 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6459 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6460 commas. Each entry has the form 6461 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6462 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6463 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6464 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6465 the following meanings: 6466 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6467 descriptors must not be fetched using 6468 a 255-byte read); 6469 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6470 correctly so reset it instead); 6471 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6472 Set-Interface requests); 6473 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6474 handle its Configuration or Interface 6475 strings); 6476 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6477 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6478 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6479 more interface descriptions than the 6480 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6481 talking to these interfaces); 6482 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6483 during initialization, after we read 6484 the device descriptor); 6485 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6486 high speed and super speed interrupt 6487 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6488 require the interval in microframes (1 6489 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6490 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6491 (bInterval-1). 6492 Devices with this quirk report their 6493 bInterval as the result of this 6494 calculation instead of the exponent 6495 variable used in the calculation); 6496 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6497 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6498 requests); 6499 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6500 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6501 remote wakeup capability); 6502 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6503 Power Management); 6504 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6505 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6506 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6507 calculation); 6508 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6509 to be disconnected before suspend to 6510 prevent spurious wakeup); 6511 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6512 pause after every control message); 6513 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6514 delay after resetting its port); 6515 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6516 6517 usbhid.mousepoll= 6518 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6519 6520 usbhid.jspoll= 6521 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6522 6523 usbhid.kbpoll= 6524 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6525 6526 usb-storage.delay_use= 6527 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6528 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6529 6530 usb-storage.quirks= 6531 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6532 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6533 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6534 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6535 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6536 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6537 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6538 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6539 of sense data, not on uas); 6540 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6541 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6542 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6543 device capacity by one sector); 6544 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6545 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6546 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6547 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6548 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6549 command, uas only); 6550 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6551 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6552 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6553 reported device capacity by one 6554 sector if the number is odd); 6555 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6556 device); 6557 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6558 command, uas only); 6559 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6560 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6561 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6562 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6563 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6564 not on uas); 6565 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6566 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6567 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6568 reported by the device, not on uas); 6569 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6570 by default, not on uas); 6571 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6572 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6573 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6574 Logical Unit); 6575 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6576 commands, uas only); 6577 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6578 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6579 medium is write-protected). 6580 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6581 even if the device claims no cache, 6582 not on uas) 6583 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6584 6585 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6586 Format: <int> 6587 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6588 1 - undefined instruction events 6589 2 - system calls 6590 4 - invalid data aborts 6591 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6592 16 - SIGBUS faults 6593 Example: user_debug=31 6594 6595 userpte= 6596 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6597 6598 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6599 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6600 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6601 6602 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6603 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6604 6605 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6606 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6607 6608 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6609 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6610 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6611 6612 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6613 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6614 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6615 6616 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6617 alias for vdso32=0. 6618 6619 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6620 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6621 6622 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6623 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6624 6625 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6626 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6627 6628 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6629 Format: [0|1] 6630 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6631 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6632 level and then send out the event to user space through 6633 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6634 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6635 brightness level. 6636 default: 1 6637 6638 virtio_mmio.device= 6639 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6640 6641 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6642 where: 6643 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6644 like K, M and G) 6645 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6646 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6647 request_irq()) 6648 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6649 example: 6650 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6651 6652 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6653 6654 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6655 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6656 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6657 Use vga=ask for menu. 6658 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6659 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6660 6661 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6662 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6663 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6664 All options are enabled by default, and this 6665 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6666 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6667 debugging features. 6668 6669 Available options are: 6670 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6671 - Disable all of the above options 6672 6673 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6674 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6675 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6676 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6677 mapped kernel RAM. 6678 6679 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6680 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6681 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6682 6683 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6684 Format: <command> 6685 6686 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6687 Format: <command> 6688 6689 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6690 Format: <command> 6691 6692 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6693 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6694 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6695 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6696 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6697 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6698 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6699 6700 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6701 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6702 page is readable. 6703 6704 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6705 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6706 page is not readable. 6707 6708 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6709 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6710 might break your system. 6711 6712 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6713 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6714 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6715 6716 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6717 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6718 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6719 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6720 6721 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6722 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6723 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6724 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6725 ranging from 0-255. 6726 6727 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6728 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6729 Change the default green palette of the console. 6730 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6731 ranging from 0-255. 6732 6733 vt.default_red= [VT] 6734 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6735 Change the default red palette of the console. 6736 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6737 ranging from 0-255. 6738 6739 vt.default_utf8= 6740 [VT] 6741 Format=<0|1> 6742 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6743 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6744 newly opened terminals. 6745 6746 vt.global_cursor_default= 6747 [VT] 6748 Format=<-1|0|1> 6749 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6750 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6751 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6752 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6753 cursors, 1 will display them. 6754 6755 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6756 Default: 2 = green. 6757 6758 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6759 Default: 3 = cyan. 6760 6761 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6762 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6763 or other driver-specific files in the 6764 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6765 6766 watchdog_thresh= 6767 [KNL] 6768 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6769 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6770 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6771 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6772 seconds. 6773 6774 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6775 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6776 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6777 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6778 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6779 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6780 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6781 corresponding sysfs file. 6782 6783 workqueue.disable_numa 6784 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6785 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6786 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6787 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6788 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6789 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6790 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6791 6792 workqueue.power_efficient 6793 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6794 they show better performance thanks to cache 6795 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6796 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6797 6798 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6799 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6800 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6801 power usage at the cost of small performance 6802 overhead. 6803 6804 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6805 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6806 6807 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6808 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6809 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6810 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6811 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6812 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6813 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6814 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6815 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6816 impacted. 6817 6818 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6819 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6820 supporting x2apic. 6821 6822 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6823 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6824 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6825 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6826 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6827 domains. 6828 6829 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6830 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6831 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6832 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6833 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6834 nics -- unplug network devices 6835 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6836 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6837 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6838 the unplug protocol 6839 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6840 6841 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6842 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6843 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6844 6845 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6846 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6847 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6848 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6849 6850 xen_nopv [X86] 6851 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6852 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6853 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6854 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6855 6856 xen_no_vector_callback 6857 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6858 event channel interrupts. 6859 6860 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6861 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6862 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6863 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6864 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6865 6866 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6867 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6868 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6869 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6870 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6871 more timer interrupts. 6872 6873 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6874 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6875 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6876 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6877 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6878 max. Default is 180. 6879 6880 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6881 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6882 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6883 6884 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6885 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6886 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6887 6888 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6889 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6890 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6891 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6892 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6893 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6894 6895 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6896 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6897 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6898 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6899 6900 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6901 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6902 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6903 contention. 6904 6905 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6906 Format: 6907 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6908 6909 xive= [PPC] 6910 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6911 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6912 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6913 6914 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6915 controller on both pseries and powernv 6916 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6917 6918 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6919 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6920 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6921 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6922 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6923 6924 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6925 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6926 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6927 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6928 6929 xmon [PPC] 6930 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6931 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6932 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6933 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6934 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6935 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6936 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6937 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6938 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6939 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6940 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6941 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6942 can be written using xmon commands. 6943 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6944 memory, and other data can't be written using 6945 xmon commands. 6946 off xmon is disabled. 6947