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> 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_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 292 Possible values are: 293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 295 flushed before they will be reused, which 296 is a lot of faster 297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 298 the system 299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 301 allowed anymore to lift isolation 302 requirements as needed. This option 303 does not override iommu=pt 304 305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 309 IOMMU initialization. 310 311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 313 remapping modes: 314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 316 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 319 320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 322 Format: <a>,<b> 323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 324 325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 327 connected to one of 16 gameports 328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 329 330 apc= [HW,SPARC] 331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 332 Format: noidle 333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 335 APC and your system crashes randomly. 336 337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 338 Change the output verbosity while booting 339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 340 Change the amount of debugging information output 341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 343 driver name. 344 Format: apic=driver_name 345 Examples: apic=bigsmp 346 347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 351 backup of CPU 0 352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 354 shot down by NMI 355 356 autoconf= [IPV6] 357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 358 359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 365 apic=verbose is specified. 366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 367 368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 370 371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 373 374 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 375 Identification support 376 377 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 378 support 379 380 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 381 382 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 383 384 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 385 EzKey and similar keyboards 386 387 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 388 389 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 390 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 391 392 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 393 keyboards 394 395 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 396 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 397 398 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 399 Use software keyboard repeat 400 401 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 402 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 403 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 404 enabled until the next reboot 405 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 406 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 407 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 408 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 409 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 410 userspace auditd. 411 Default: unset 412 413 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 414 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 415 Default: 64 416 417 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 418 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 419 Format: { "0" | "1" } 420 0 - Disable the BAU. 421 1 - Enable the BAU. 422 unset - Disable the BAU. 423 424 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 425 Format: <io>,<mode> 426 427 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 428 Format: <io>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 430 431 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 432 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 433 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 434 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 435 436 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 437 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 438 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 439 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 440 441 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 442 embedded devices based on command line input. 443 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 444 445 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 446 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 447 no delay (0). 448 Format: integer 449 450 bootconfig [KNL] 451 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 452 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 453 454 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 455 456 bert_disable [ACPI] 457 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 458 459 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 460 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 461 462 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 463 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 464 kernel args too. 465 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 466 bttv.tuner= 467 468 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 469 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 470 at a time. 471 472 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 473 474 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 475 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 476 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 477 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 478 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 479 This option provides an override for these situations. 480 481 carrier_timeout= 482 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 483 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 484 it waits 120 seconds. 485 486 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 487 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 488 trust validation. 489 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 490 491 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 492 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 493 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 494 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 495 others). 496 497 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 498 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 499 500 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 501 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 502 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 503 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 504 a single hierarchy 505 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 506 subsystem 507 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 508 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 509 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 510 511 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 512 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 513 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 514 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 515 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 516 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 517 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 518 all v1 hierarchies. 519 520 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 521 Format: <string> 522 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 523 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 524 525 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 526 Format: { "0" | "1" } 527 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 528 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 529 any implied execute protection). 530 1 -- check protection requested by application. 531 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 532 Value can be changed at runtime via 533 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 534 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 535 536 cio_ignore= [S390] 537 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 538 clk_ignore_unused 539 [CLK] 540 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 541 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 542 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 543 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 544 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 545 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 546 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 547 platform with proper driver support. For more 548 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 549 550 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 551 [Deprecated] 552 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 553 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 554 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 555 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 556 557 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 558 Format: <string> 559 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 560 with the name specified. 561 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 562 the platform: 563 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 564 [ACPI] acpi_pm 565 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 566 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 567 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 568 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 569 [MIPS] MIPS 570 [PARISC] cr16 571 [S390] tod 572 [SH] SuperH 573 [SPARC64] tick 574 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 575 576 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 577 [ARM,ARM64] 578 Format: <bool> 579 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 580 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 581 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 582 systems. 583 584 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 585 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 586 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 587 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 588 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 589 ones should be. 590 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 591 or using the feature without checking anything 592 will still see it. This just prevents it from 593 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 594 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 595 some critical bits. 596 597 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 598 [KNL,CMA] 599 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 600 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 601 placement constraint by the physical address range of 602 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 603 altogether. For more information, see 604 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 605 606 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 607 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 608 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 609 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 610 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 611 specificed, the default value is 0. 612 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 613 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 614 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 615 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 616 617 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 618 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 619 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 620 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 621 a hypervisor. 622 Default: yes 623 624 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 625 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 626 allocations, by default set to 256K. 627 628 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 629 Format: 630 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 631 632 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 633 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 634 635 com90xx= [HW,NET] 636 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 637 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 638 639 condev= [HW,S390] console device 640 conmode= 641 642 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 643 644 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 645 646 ttyS<n>[,options] 647 ttyUSB0[,options] 648 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 649 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 650 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 651 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 652 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 653 654 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 655 information. See 656 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 657 alternative. 658 659 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 660 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 661 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 662 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 663 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 664 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 665 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 666 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 667 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 668 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 669 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 670 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 671 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 672 the h/w is not re-initialized. 673 674 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 675 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 676 677 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 678 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 679 console=brl,ttyS0 680 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 681 682 console_msg_format= 683 [KNL] Change console messages format 684 default 685 By default we print messages on consoles in 686 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 687 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 688 `printk_time' param). 689 syslog 690 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 691 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 692 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 693 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 694 from /proc/kmsg. 695 696 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 697 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 698 Defaults to 0. 699 700 coredump_filter= 701 [KNL] Change the default value for 702 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 703 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 704 705 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 706 [ARM,ARM64] 707 Format: <bool> 708 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 709 0: default value, disable debugging 710 1: enable debugging at boot time 711 712 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 713 disable the cpuidle sub-system 714 715 cpuidle.governor= 716 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 717 718 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 719 disable the cpufreq sub-system 720 721 cpufreq.default_governor= 722 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 723 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 724 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 725 726 cpu_init_udelay=N 727 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 728 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 729 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 730 Default: 10000 731 732 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 733 Format: 734 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 735 736 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 737 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 738 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 739 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 740 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 741 is selected automatically. 742 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 743 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 744 hasn't been specified. 745 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 746 747 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 748 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 749 in the running system. The syntax of range is 750 start-[end] where start and end are both 751 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 752 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 753 754 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 755 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 756 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 757 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 758 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 759 available. 760 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 761 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 762 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 763 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 764 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 765 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 766 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 767 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 768 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 769 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 770 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 771 for second kernel instead. 772 0: to disable low allocation. 773 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 774 or memory reserved is below 4G. 775 776 cryptomgr.notests 777 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 778 779 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 780 Format: <dma> 781 782 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 783 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 784 785 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 786 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 787 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 788 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 789 to resolve the hang situation. 790 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 791 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 792 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 793 but more data) 794 795 dasd= [HW,NET] 796 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 797 798 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 799 (one device per port) 800 Format: <port#>,<type> 801 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 802 803 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 804 time. See 805 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 806 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 807 808 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 809 810 debug_boot_weak_hash 811 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 812 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 813 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 814 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 815 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 816 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 817 818 debug_locks_verbose= 819 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 820 Format: <int> 821 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 822 self-tests. 823 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 824 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 825 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 826 useful to lockdep developers. 827 828 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 829 830 no_debug_objects 831 [KNL] Disable object debugging 832 833 debug_guardpage_minorder= 834 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 835 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 836 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 837 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 838 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 839 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 840 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 841 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 842 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 843 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 844 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 845 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 846 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 847 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 848 bypassed) which are not detectable by 849 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 850 tracking down these problems. 851 852 debug_pagealloc= 853 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 854 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 855 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 856 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 857 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 858 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 859 on: enable the feature 860 861 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 862 and debugfs internal clients. 863 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 864 on: All functions are enabled. 865 no-mount: 866 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 867 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 868 its content. There is nothing to mount. 869 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 870 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 871 or directories within debugfs. 872 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 873 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 874 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 875 876 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 877 878 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 879 Format: <area>[,<node>] 880 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 881 882 default_hugepagesz= 883 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 884 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 885 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 886 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 887 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 888 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 889 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 890 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 891 Format: size[KMG] 892 893 deferred_probe_timeout= 894 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 895 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 896 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 897 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 898 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 899 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 900 retrying. 901 902 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 903 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 904 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 905 level 1 and decompression (default) 906 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 907 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 908 only (compression on level 1) 909 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 910 only (decompression) 911 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 912 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 913 914 dhash_entries= [KNL] 915 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 916 917 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 918 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 919 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 920 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 921 miss to occur. 922 923 stress_slb [PPC] 924 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 925 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 926 on kernel addresses. 927 928 disable= [IPV6] 929 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 930 931 hardened_usercopy= 932 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 933 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 934 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 935 from reading or writing beyond known memory 936 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 937 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 938 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 939 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 940 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 941 942 disable_radix [PPC] 943 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 944 945 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 946 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 947 invalidate. 948 949 disable_tlbie [PPC] 950 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 951 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 952 953 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 954 Format: <int> 955 The number of initial APIC ID for the 956 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 957 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 958 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 959 causing system reset or hang due to sending 960 INIT from AP to BSP. 961 962 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 963 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 964 to workaround buggy firmware. 965 966 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 967 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 968 969 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 970 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 971 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 972 entry later. This parameter disables that. 973 974 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 975 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 976 memory out of your available memory pool based on 977 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 978 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 979 980 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 981 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 982 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 983 984 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 985 986 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 987 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 988 989 dma_debug_entries=<number> 990 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 991 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 992 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 993 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 994 architectural default is too low. 995 996 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 997 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 998 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 999 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1000 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1001 driver later using sysfs. 1002 1003 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1004 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1005 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1006 1007 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1008 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1009 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1010 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1011 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1012 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1013 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1014 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1015 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1016 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1017 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1018 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1019 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1020 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1021 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1022 data set with no connector name will be used for 1023 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1024 1025 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1026 1027 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1028 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1029 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1030 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1031 exists). 1032 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1033 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1034 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1035 1036 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1037 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1038 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1039 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1040 1041 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1042 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1043 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1044 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1045 for details. 1046 1047 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1048 in some Intel CPUs. 1049 1050 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1051 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1052 1053 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1054 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1055 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1056 which are not unmapped. 1057 1058 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1059 1060 When used with no options, the early console is 1061 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1062 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1063 the platform. 1064 1065 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1067 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1068 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1069 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1070 configured. 1071 1072 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1073 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1074 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1075 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1076 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1077 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1078 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1079 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1080 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1081 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1082 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1083 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1084 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1085 1086 pl011,<addr> 1087 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1088 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1089 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1090 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1091 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1092 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1093 the device registers. 1094 1095 meson,<addr> 1096 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1097 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1098 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1099 supported. 1100 1101 msm_serial,<addr> 1102 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1103 port at the specified address. The serial port 1104 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1105 yet supported. 1106 1107 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1108 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1109 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1110 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1111 yet supported. 1112 1113 owl,<addr> 1114 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1115 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1116 specified address. The serial port must already be 1117 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1118 1119 rda,<addr> 1120 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1121 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1122 specified address. The serial port must already be 1123 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1124 1125 sbi 1126 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1127 console. 1128 1129 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1130 1131 s3c2410,<addr> 1132 s3c2412,<addr> 1133 s3c2440,<addr> 1134 s3c6400,<addr> 1135 s5pv210,<addr> 1136 exynos4210,<addr> 1137 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1138 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1139 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1140 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1141 Options are not yet supported. 1142 1143 lantiq,<addr> 1144 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1145 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1146 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1147 yet supported. 1148 1149 lpuart,<addr> 1150 lpuart32,<addr> 1151 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1152 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1153 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1154 port must already be setup and configured. 1155 1156 ec_imx21,<addr> 1157 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1158 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1159 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1160 must already be setup and configured. 1161 1162 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1163 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1164 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1165 address. The serial port must already be setup 1166 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1167 1168 qcom_geni,<addr> 1169 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1170 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1171 specified address. The serial port must already be 1172 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1173 1174 efifb,[options] 1175 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1176 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1177 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1178 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1179 mapped with the correct attributes. 1180 1181 linflex,<addr> 1182 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1183 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1184 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1185 already be setup and configured. 1186 1187 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1188 earlyprintk=vga 1189 earlyprintk=sclp 1190 earlyprintk=xen 1191 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1192 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1193 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1194 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1195 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1196 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1197 1198 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1199 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1200 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1201 1202 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1203 takes over. 1204 1205 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1206 be used at a time. 1207 1208 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1209 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1210 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1211 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1212 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1213 You can find the port for a given device in 1214 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1215 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1216 1217 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1218 very good. 1219 1220 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1221 the real console. 1222 1223 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1224 1225 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1226 1227 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1228 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1229 UART class. 1230 1231 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1232 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1233 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1234 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1235 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1236 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1237 default: on. 1238 1239 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1240 ekgdboc=kbd 1241 1242 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1243 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1244 1245 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1246 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1247 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1248 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1249 1250 edd= [EDD] 1251 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1252 1253 efi= [EFI] 1254 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1255 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1256 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1257 debug: enable misc debug output. 1258 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1259 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1260 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1261 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1262 firmware implementations. 1263 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1264 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1265 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1266 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1267 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1268 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1269 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1270 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1271 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1272 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1273 1274 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1275 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1276 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1277 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1278 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1279 1280 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1281 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1282 updating original EFI memory map. 1283 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1284 from ss to ss+nn. 1285 1286 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1287 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1288 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1289 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1290 1291 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1292 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1293 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1294 1295 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1296 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1297 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1298 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1299 "soft reserved". 1300 1301 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1302 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1303 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1304 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1305 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1306 1307 1308 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1309 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1310 1311 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1312 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1313 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1314 1315 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1316 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1317 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1318 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1319 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1320 1321 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1322 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1323 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1324 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1325 1326 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1327 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1328 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1329 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1330 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1331 1332 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1333 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1334 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1335 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1336 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1337 Default value is 0. 1338 Value can be changed at runtime via 1339 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1340 1341 erst_disable [ACPI] 1342 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1343 support. 1344 1345 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1346 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1347 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1348 1349 evm= [EVM] 1350 Format: { "fix" } 1351 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1352 current integrity status. 1353 1354 failslab= 1355 fail_usercopy= 1356 fail_page_alloc= 1357 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1358 General fault injection mechanism. 1359 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1360 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1361 1362 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1363 Format: { initns | none } 1364 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1365 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1366 1367 floppy= [HW] 1368 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1369 1370 force_pal_cache_flush 1371 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1372 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1373 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1374 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1375 1376 forcepae [X86-32] 1377 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1378 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1379 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1380 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1381 and may cause unknown problems. 1382 1383 ftrace=[tracer] 1384 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1385 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1386 boot debugging. 1387 1388 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1389 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1390 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1391 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1392 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1393 oops. 1394 1395 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1396 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1397 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1398 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1399 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1400 tracing directory. 1401 1402 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1403 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1404 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1405 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1406 tracing directory. 1407 1408 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1409 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1410 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1411 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1412 that can be changed at run time by the 1413 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1414 1415 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1416 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1417 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1418 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1419 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1420 1421 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1422 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1423 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1424 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1425 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1426 1427 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1428 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1429 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1430 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1431 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1432 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1433 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1434 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1435 suppliers). 1436 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1437 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1438 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1439 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1440 up (sync_state() calls). 1441 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1442 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1443 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1444 1445 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1446 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1447 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1448 Format: <bool> 1449 1450 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1451 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1452 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1453 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1454 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1455 1456 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1457 1458 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1459 Format: off | on 1460 default: on 1461 1462 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1463 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1464 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1465 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1466 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1467 1468 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1469 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1470 android emulator 1471 1472 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1473 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1474 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1475 GPT to be used instead. 1476 1477 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1478 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1479 Format: 0 | 1 1480 Default: 0 1481 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1482 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1483 Format: 0 | 1 1484 Default: 0 1485 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1486 Format: 0 | 1 1487 Default: 0 1488 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1489 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1490 Default: 1024 1491 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1492 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1493 Default: 1024 1494 1495 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1496 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1497 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1498 1499 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1500 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1501 backtraces on all cpus. 1502 Format: 0 | 1 1503 1504 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1505 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1506 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1507 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1508 1509 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1510 1511 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1512 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1513 1514 hest_disable [ACPI] 1515 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1516 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1517 logic will be disabled. 1518 1519 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1520 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1521 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1522 size on bigger boxes. 1523 1524 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1525 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1526 Default: "on" 1527 1528 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1529 1530 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1531 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1532 verbose } 1533 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1534 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1535 VIA, nVidia) 1536 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1537 1538 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1539 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1540 1541 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1542 of gigantic hugepages. 1543 Format: nn[KMGTPE] 1544 1545 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1546 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1547 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1548 1549 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1550 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1551 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1552 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1553 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1554 the default huge page size. See also 1555 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1556 Format: <integer> 1557 1558 hugepagesz= 1559 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1560 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1561 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1562 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1563 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1564 architecture dependent. See also 1565 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1566 Format: size[KMG] 1567 1568 hung_task_panic= 1569 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1570 Format: 0 | 1 1571 1572 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1573 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1574 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1575 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1576 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1577 1578 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1579 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1580 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1581 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1582 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1583 1584 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1585 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1586 guest on lock contention. 1587 1588 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1589 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1590 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1591 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1592 the real console. 1593 1594 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1595 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1596 registered from board initialization code. 1597 Format: 1598 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1599 1600 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1601 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1602 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1603 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1604 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1605 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1606 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1607 keyboard and cannot control its state 1608 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1609 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1610 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1611 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1612 for the AUX port 1613 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1614 controller 1615 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1616 controllers 1617 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1618 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1619 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1620 transitions, or never reset 1621 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1622 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1623 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1624 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1625 architectures force reset to be always executed 1626 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1627 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1628 1629 i810= [HW,DRM] 1630 1631 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1632 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1633 hardware. 1634 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1635 does not match list of supported models. 1636 i8k.power_status 1637 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1638 (disabled by default) 1639 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1640 capability is set. 1641 1642 i915.invert_brightness= 1643 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1644 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1645 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1646 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1647 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1648 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1649 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1650 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1651 value switches the backlight off. 1652 -1 -- never invert brightness 1653 0 -- machine default 1654 1 -- force brightness inversion 1655 1656 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1657 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1658 1659 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1660 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1661 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1662 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1663 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1664 1665 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1666 Format: <int> 1667 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1668 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1669 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1670 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1671 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1672 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1673 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1674 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1675 was 0x3. 1676 1677 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1678 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1679 1680 idle= [X86] 1681 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1682 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1683 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1684 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1685 Not recommended. 1686 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1687 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1688 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1689 1690 idxd.sva= [HW] 1691 Format: <bool> 1692 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1693 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1694 true (1). 1695 1696 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1697 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1698 Default: strict 1699 1700 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1701 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1702 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1703 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1704 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1705 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1706 encoding mode. 1707 1708 Available settings are as follows: 1709 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1710 supported by the FPU 1711 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1712 by the FPU 1713 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1714 by the FPU 1715 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1716 supported by the FPU 1717 1718 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1719 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1720 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1721 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1722 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1723 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1724 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1725 MIPS64 CPUs. 1726 1727 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1728 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1729 except where unsupported by hardware. 1730 1731 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1732 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1733 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1734 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1735 could change it dynamically, usually by 1736 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1737 1738 ignore_rlimit_data 1739 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1740 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1741 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1742 1743 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1744 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1745 1746 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1747 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1748 default: "enforce" 1749 1750 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1751 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1752 owned by uid=0. 1753 1754 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1755 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1756 measurements, instead of host native format. 1757 1758 ima_hash= [IMA] 1759 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1760 | sha512 | ... } 1761 default: "sha1" 1762 1763 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1764 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1765 1766 ima_policy= [IMA] 1767 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1768 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1769 fail_securely | critical_data" 1770 1771 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1772 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1773 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1774 uid=0. 1775 1776 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1777 all files owned by root. 1778 1779 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1780 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1781 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1782 1783 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1784 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1785 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1786 flag. 1787 1788 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1789 critical data. 1790 1791 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1792 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1793 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1794 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1795 opened for read by uid=0. 1796 1797 ima_template= [IMA] 1798 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1799 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1800 Default: "ima-ng" 1801 1802 ima_template_fmt= 1803 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1804 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1805 1806 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1807 Format: <min_file_size> 1808 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1809 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1810 1811 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1812 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1813 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1814 1815 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1816 Format: <bufsize> 1817 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1818 1819 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1820 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1821 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1822 1823 init= [KNL] 1824 Format: <full_path> 1825 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1826 process. 1827 1828 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1829 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1830 startup. 1831 1832 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1833 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1834 modules and initcalls. 1835 1836 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1837 1838 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1839 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1840 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1841 setting. 1842 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1843 Default is 0, 0 1844 1845 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1846 zeroes. 1847 Format: 0 | 1 1848 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1849 1850 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1851 Format: 0 | 1 1852 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1853 1854 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1855 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1856 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1857 override in debugfs after boot. 1858 1859 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1860 Format: <irq> 1861 1862 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1863 1864 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1865 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1866 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1867 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1868 1869 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1870 on 1871 Enable intel iommu driver. 1872 off 1873 Disable intel iommu driver. 1874 igfx_off [Default Off] 1875 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1876 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1877 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1878 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1879 DMA. 1880 strict [Default Off] 1881 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1882 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1883 to batching them for performance. 1884 sp_off [Default Off] 1885 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1886 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1887 not be supported. 1888 sm_on [Default Off] 1889 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1890 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1891 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1892 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1893 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1894 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1895 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1896 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1897 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1898 mapping is enabled. 1899 Note that using this option lowers the security 1900 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1901 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1902 1903 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1904 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1905 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1906 1907 intel_pstate= [X86] 1908 disable 1909 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1910 scaling driver for the supported processors 1911 passive 1912 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1913 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1914 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1915 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1916 feature. 1917 force 1918 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1919 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1920 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1921 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1922 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1923 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1924 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1925 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1926 no_hwp 1927 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1928 if available. 1929 hwp_only 1930 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1931 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1932 support_acpi_ppc 1933 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1934 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1935 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1936 then this feature is turned on by default. 1937 per_cpu_perf_limits 1938 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1939 cpufreq sysfs interface 1940 1941 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1942 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1943 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1944 nosid disable Source ID checking 1945 no_x2apic_optout 1946 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1947 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1948 1949 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1950 strict regions from userspace. 1951 relaxed 1952 1953 iommu= [X86] 1954 off 1955 force 1956 noforce 1957 biomerge 1958 panic 1959 nopanic 1960 merge 1961 nomerge 1962 soft 1963 pt [X86] 1964 nopt [X86] 1965 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1966 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1967 1968 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 1969 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1970 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 1971 falling back to the full range if needed. 1972 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 1973 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 1974 greater than 32-bit addressing. 1975 1976 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1977 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1978 0 - Lazy mode. 1979 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1980 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1981 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1982 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1983 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1984 1 - Strict mode (default). 1985 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1986 synchronously. 1987 1988 iommu.passthrough= 1989 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1990 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1991 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1992 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1993 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1994 1995 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 1996 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1997 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1998 1999 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2000 0x80 2001 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2002 0xed 2003 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2004 udelay 2005 Simple two microseconds delay 2006 none 2007 No delay 2008 2009 ip= [IP_PNP] 2010 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2011 2012 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2013 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2014 2015 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2016 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2017 2018 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2019 [ARM, ARM64] 2020 Format: <bool> 2021 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2022 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2023 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2024 2025 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2026 [ARM, ARM64] 2027 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2028 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2029 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2030 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2031 LPIs. 2032 2033 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2034 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2035 requires the kernel to be built with 2036 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2037 2038 irqfixup [HW] 2039 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2040 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2041 firmware running. 2042 2043 irqpoll [HW] 2044 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2045 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2046 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2047 firmware running. 2048 2049 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2050 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2051 2052 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2053 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2054 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2055 2056 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2057 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2058 2059 nohz 2060 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2061 2062 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2063 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2064 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2065 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2066 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2067 2068 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2069 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2070 be configured manually after bootup. 2071 2072 domain 2073 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2074 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2075 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2076 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2077 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2078 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2079 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2080 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2081 2082 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2083 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2084 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2085 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2086 2087 managed_irq 2088 2089 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2090 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2091 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2092 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2093 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2094 2095 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2096 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2097 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2098 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2099 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2100 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2101 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2102 2103 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2104 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2105 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2106 only delivered when tasks running on those 2107 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2108 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2109 queues. 2110 2111 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2112 2113 iucv= [HW,NET] 2114 2115 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2116 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2117 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2118 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2119 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2120 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2121 2122 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2123 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2124 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2125 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2126 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2127 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2128 2129 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2130 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2131 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2132 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2133 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2134 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2135 2136 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2137 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2138 2139 nokaslr [KNL] 2140 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2141 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2142 Layout Randomization). 2143 2144 kasan_multi_shot 2145 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2146 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2147 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2148 invalid access. 2149 2150 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2151 2152 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2153 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2154 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2155 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2156 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2157 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2158 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2159 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2160 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2161 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2162 2163 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2164 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2165 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2166 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2167 zone if it does not. 2168 2169 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2170 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2171 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2172 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2173 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2174 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2175 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2176 2177 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2178 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2179 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2180 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2181 optional and is the number seconds in between 2182 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2183 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2184 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2185 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2186 the kernel debugger. 2187 2188 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2189 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2190 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2191 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2192 keyboard only format: kbd 2193 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2194 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2195 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2196 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2197 2198 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2199 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2200 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2201 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2202 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2203 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2204 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2205 2206 The name of the early console should be specified 2207 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2208 the early console might be different than the tty 2209 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2210 blank and the first boot console that implements 2211 read() will be picked. 2212 2213 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2214 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2215 2216 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2217 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2218 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2219 2220 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2221 Valid arguments: on, off 2222 Default: on 2223 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2224 the default is off. 2225 2226 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2227 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2228 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2229 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2230 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2231 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2232 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2233 2234 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2235 2236 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2237 Boot Parameter" section. 2238 2239 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2240 and kernel address spaces. 2241 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2242 0: force disabled 2243 1: force enabled 2244 2245 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2246 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2247 2248 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2249 Default is false (don't support). 2250 2251 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2252 KVM MMU at runtime. 2253 Default is 0 (off) 2254 2255 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2256 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2257 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2258 force : Always deploy workaround. 2259 off : Never deploy workaround. 2260 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2261 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2262 2263 Default is 'auto'. 2264 2265 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2266 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2267 2268 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2269 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2270 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2271 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2272 minute. The default is 60. 2273 2274 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2275 Default is 1 (enabled) 2276 2277 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2278 for all guests. 2279 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2280 2281 kvm-arm.mode= 2282 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2283 2284 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2285 protected guests. 2286 2287 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2288 state is kept private from the host. 2289 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2290 2291 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. 2292 2293 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2294 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2295 system registers 2296 2297 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2298 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2299 system registers 2300 2301 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2302 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2303 system registers 2304 2305 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2306 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2307 LPIs. 2308 2309 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2310 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2311 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2312 allocation. 2313 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2314 Format: <integer> 2315 Default: 5 2316 2317 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2318 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2319 Default is 1 (enabled) 2320 2321 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2322 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2323 Default is 0 (disabled) 2324 2325 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2326 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2327 Default is 1 (enabled) 2328 2329 kvm-intel.nested= 2330 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2331 Default is 0 (disabled) 2332 2333 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2334 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2335 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2336 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2337 2338 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2339 CVE-2018-3620. 2340 2341 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2342 2343 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2344 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2345 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2346 never: Disables the mitigation 2347 2348 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2349 2350 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2351 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2352 Default is 1 (enabled) 2353 2354 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2355 affected CPUs 2356 2357 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2358 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2359 2360 full 2361 Provides all available mitigations for the 2362 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2363 enables all mitigations in the 2364 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2365 2366 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2367 sysfs interface is still possible after 2368 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2369 when the first VM is started in a 2370 potentially insecure configuration, 2371 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2372 2373 full,force 2374 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2375 flush runtime control. Implies the 2376 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2377 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2378 2379 flush 2380 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2381 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2382 L1D flush. 2383 2384 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2385 sysfs interface is still possible after 2386 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2387 when the first VM is started in a 2388 potentially insecure configuration, 2389 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2390 2391 flush,nosmt 2392 2393 Disables SMT and enables the default 2394 hypervisor mitigation. 2395 2396 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2397 sysfs interface is still possible after 2398 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2399 when the first VM is started in a 2400 potentially insecure configuration, 2401 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2402 2403 flush,nowarn 2404 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2405 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2406 insecure configuration. 2407 2408 off 2409 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2410 emit any warnings. 2411 It also drops the swap size and available 2412 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2413 bare metal. 2414 2415 Default is 'flush'. 2416 2417 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2418 2419 l2cr= [PPC] 2420 2421 l3cr= [PPC] 2422 2423 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2424 disabled it. 2425 2426 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2427 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2428 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2429 Format: notscdeadline 2430 2431 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2432 in C2 power state. 2433 2434 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2435 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2436 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2437 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2438 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2439 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2440 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2441 2442 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2443 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2444 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2445 2446 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2447 when set. 2448 Format: <int> 2449 2450 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2451 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2452 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2453 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2454 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2455 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2456 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2457 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2458 2459 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2460 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2461 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2462 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2463 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2464 host link and device attached to it. 2465 2466 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2467 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2468 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2469 The following configurations can be forced. 2470 2471 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2472 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2473 2474 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2475 2476 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2477 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2478 allowed. 2479 2480 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2481 2482 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2483 2484 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2485 and both resets. 2486 2487 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2488 hot-unplug link recovery 2489 2490 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2491 2492 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2493 2494 * disable: Disable this device. 2495 2496 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2497 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2498 2499 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2500 2501 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2502 2503 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2504 Format: <integer> 2505 2506 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2507 Format: <integer> 2508 2509 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2510 Format: <integer> 2511 2512 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2513 Format: <integer> 2514 2515 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2516 { integrity | confidentiality } 2517 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2518 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2519 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2520 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2521 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2522 are also disabled. 2523 2524 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2525 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2526 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2527 number of online CPUs. 2528 2529 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2530 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2531 2532 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2533 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2534 2535 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2536 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2537 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2538 2539 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2540 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2541 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2542 mode during the locktorture test. 2543 2544 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2545 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2546 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2547 2548 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2549 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2550 2551 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2552 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2553 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2554 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2555 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2556 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2557 2558 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2559 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2560 2561 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2562 Enable additional printk() statements. 2563 2564 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2565 Format: <irq> 2566 2567 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2568 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2569 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2570 loglevels are defined as follows: 2571 2572 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2573 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2574 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2575 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2576 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2577 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2578 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2579 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2580 2581 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2582 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2583 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2584 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2585 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2586 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2587 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2588 2589 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2590 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2591 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2592 kernel boot problems. 2593 2594 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2595 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2596 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2597 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2598 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2599 attached printers to be reset. Using 2600 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2601 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2602 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2603 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2604 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2605 port specification list means that device IDs 2606 from each port should be examined, to see if 2607 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2608 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2609 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2610 2611 lpj=n [KNL] 2612 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2613 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2614 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2615 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2616 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2617 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2618 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2619 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2620 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2621 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2622 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2623 hardware. 2624 2625 ltpc= [NET] 2626 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2627 2628 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2629 2630 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2631 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2632 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2633 2634 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2635 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2636 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2637 2638 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2639 different yeeloong laptops. 2640 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2641 2642 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2643 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2644 2645 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2646 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2647 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2648 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2649 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2650 only takes effect during system bootup. 2651 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2652 which also disables the IO APIC. 2653 2654 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2655 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2656 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2657 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2658 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2659 /dev/loop-control interface. 2660 2661 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2662 2663 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2664 2665 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2666 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2667 2668 mdacon= [MDA] 2669 Format: <first>,<last> 2670 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2671 2672 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2673 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2674 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2675 2676 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2677 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2678 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2679 2680 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2681 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2682 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2683 not have direct access. 2684 2685 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2686 options are: 2687 2688 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2689 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2690 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2691 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2692 2693 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2694 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2695 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2696 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2697 too. 2698 2699 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2700 mds=full. 2701 2702 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2703 2704 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2705 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2706 2707 1 for test; 2708 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2709 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2710 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2711 2712 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2713 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2714 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2715 belonging to unused RAM. 2716 2717 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2718 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2719 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2720 2721 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2722 memory. 2723 2724 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2725 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2726 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2727 2728 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2729 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2730 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2731 set according to the 2732 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2733 option. 2734 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2735 2736 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2737 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2738 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2739 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2740 option description. 2741 2742 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2743 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2744 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2745 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2746 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2747 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2748 comma delimited. 2749 Example: 2750 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2751 2752 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2753 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2754 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2755 2756 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2757 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2758 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2759 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2760 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2761 or 2762 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2763 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2764 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2765 will be eaten. 2766 2767 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2768 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2769 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2770 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2771 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2772 2773 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2774 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2775 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2776 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2777 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2778 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2779 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2780 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2781 2782 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2783 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2784 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2785 Setting this option will scan the memory 2786 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2787 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2788 from using the memory being corrupted. 2789 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2790 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2791 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2792 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2793 2794 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2795 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2796 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2797 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2798 corruption in more or less memory. 2799 2800 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2801 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2802 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2803 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2804 2805 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2806 Format: <integer> 2807 default : 0 <disable> 2808 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2809 performed. Each pass selects another test 2810 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2811 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2812 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2813 regions that are detected. 2814 2815 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2816 Valid arguments: on, off 2817 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2818 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2819 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2820 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2821 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2822 2823 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2824 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2825 2826 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2827 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2828 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2829 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2830 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2831 2832 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2833 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2834 2835 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2836 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2837 platforms. 2838 2839 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2840 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2841 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2842 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2843 2844 mga= [HW,DRM] 2845 2846 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2847 physical address is ignored. 2848 2849 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2850 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2851 Default: "0tb" 2852 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2853 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2854 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2855 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2856 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2857 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2858 unconfigured. 2859 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2860 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2861 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2862 VGA shield. 2863 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2864 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2865 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2866 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2867 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2868 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2869 2870 mitigations= 2871 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2872 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2873 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2874 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2875 2876 off 2877 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2878 improves system performance, but it may also 2879 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2880 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2881 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2882 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2883 nobp=0 [S390] 2884 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2885 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2886 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2887 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2888 l1tf=off [X86] 2889 mds=off [X86] 2890 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2891 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2892 no_entry_flush [PPC] 2893 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 2894 2895 Exceptions: 2896 This does not have any effect on 2897 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2898 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2899 2900 auto (default) 2901 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2902 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2903 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2904 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2905 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2906 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2907 2908 auto,nosmt 2909 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2910 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2911 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2912 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2913 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2914 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2915 2916 mminit_loglevel= 2917 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2918 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2919 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2920 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2921 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2922 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2923 2924 module.sig_enforce 2925 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2926 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2927 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2928 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2929 2930 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2931 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2932 2933 mousedev.tap_time= 2934 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2935 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2936 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2937 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2938 Format: <msecs> 2939 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2940 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2941 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2942 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2943 2944 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2945 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2946 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2947 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2948 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2949 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2950 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2951 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2952 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2953 is not too small. 2954 2955 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2956 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2957 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2958 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2959 allocations. Use with caution! 2960 2961 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2962 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2963 2964 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2965 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2966 2967 mtdparts= [MTD] 2968 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 2969 2970 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2971 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2972 at a time. 2973 2974 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2975 2976 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2977 2978 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2979 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2980 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2981 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2982 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2983 2984 mtdset= [ARM] 2985 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2986 2987 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 2988 2989 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2990 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2991 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2992 2993 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2994 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2995 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2996 2997 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2998 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2999 Default is 1. 3000 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3001 using up MTRRs. 3002 3003 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3004 Format: <integer> 3005 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3006 Default : 1 3007 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3008 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3009 3010 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3011 3012 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3013 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3014 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3015 something different and driver-specific. 3016 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3017 file if at all. 3018 3019 nf_conntrack.acct= 3020 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3021 0 to disable accounting 3022 1 to enable accounting 3023 Default value is 0. 3024 3025 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3026 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3027 3028 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3029 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3030 3031 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3032 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3033 3034 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3035 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3036 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3037 requests. 3038 3039 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3040 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3041 channel should listen. 3042 3043 nfs.cache_getent= 3044 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3045 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3046 3047 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3048 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3049 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3050 3051 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3052 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3053 entries. 3054 3055 nfs.enable_ino64= 3056 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3057 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3058 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3059 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3060 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3061 3062 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3063 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3064 slots the client will assign to the callback 3065 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3066 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3067 a particular server. 3068 3069 nfs.max_session_slots= 3070 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3071 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3072 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3073 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3074 Note that there is little point in setting this 3075 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3076 3077 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3078 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3079 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3080 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3081 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3082 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3083 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3084 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3085 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3086 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3087 back to using the idmapper. 3088 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3089 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3090 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3091 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3092 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3093 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3094 3095 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3096 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3097 information in exchange_id requests. 3098 If zero, no implementation identification information 3099 will be sent. 3100 The default is to send the implementation identification 3101 information. 3102 3103 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3104 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3105 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3106 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3107 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3108 after the locks are lost. 3109 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3110 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3111 parameter to '1'. 3112 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3113 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3114 3115 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3116 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3117 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3118 3119 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3120 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3121 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3122 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3123 3124 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3125 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3126 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3127 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3128 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3129 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3130 3131 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3132 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3133 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3134 3135 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3136 when a NMI is triggered. 3137 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3138 3139 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3140 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3141 Valid num: 0 or 1 3142 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3143 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3144 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3145 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3146 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3147 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3148 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3149 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3150 need the box quickly up again. 3151 3152 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3153 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3154 3155 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3156 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3157 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3158 waits 4 seconds. 3159 3160 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3161 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3162 is present. 3163 3164 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3165 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3166 3167 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3168 3169 no_console_suspend 3170 [HW] Never suspend the console 3171 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3172 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3173 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3174 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3175 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3176 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3177 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3178 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3179 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3180 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3181 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3182 turn on/off it dynamically. 3183 3184 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3185 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3186 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3187 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3188 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3189 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3190 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3191 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3192 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3193 is set. 3194 3195 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3196 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3197 but will impact performance. 3198 3199 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3200 3201 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3202 (CPU alternatives feature). 3203 3204 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3205 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3206 3207 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3208 3209 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3210 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3211 3212 nocache [ARM] 3213 3214 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3215 3216 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3217 3218 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3219 3220 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3221 3222 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3223 3224 noexec [IA-64] 3225 3226 noexec [X86] 3227 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3228 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3229 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3230 3231 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3232 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3233 even if it is supported by processor. 3234 3235 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3236 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3237 even if it is supported by processor. 3238 3239 noexec32 [X86-64] 3240 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3241 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3242 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3243 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3244 read implies executable mappings 3245 3246 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3247 3248 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3249 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3250 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3251 3252 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3253 3254 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3255 Equivalent to smt=1. 3256 3257 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3258 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3259 via the sysfs control file. 3260 3261 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3262 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3263 possible in the system. 3264 3265 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3266 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3267 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3268 option. 3269 3270 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3271 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3272 3273 no_uaccess_flush 3274 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3275 3276 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3277 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3278 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3279 3280 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3281 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3282 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3283 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3284 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3285 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3286 3287 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3288 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3289 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3290 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3291 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3292 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3293 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3294 3295 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3296 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3297 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3298 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3299 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3300 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3301 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3302 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3303 3304 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3305 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3306 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3307 3308 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3309 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3310 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3311 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3312 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3313 real-time systems. 3314 3315 no_hash_pointers 3316 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3317 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3318 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3319 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3320 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3321 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3322 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3323 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3324 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3325 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be 3326 hashed. This option should only be specified when 3327 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3328 kernels. 3329 3330 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3331 3332 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3333 Valid arguments: on, off 3334 Default: on 3335 3336 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3337 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3338 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3339 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3340 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3341 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3342 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3343 just as if they had also been called out in the 3344 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3345 3346 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3347 3348 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3349 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3350 3351 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3352 broken timer IRQ sources. 3353 3354 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3355 3356 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3357 initial RAM disk. 3358 3359 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3360 remapping. 3361 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3362 3363 nointroute [IA-64] 3364 3365 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3366 3367 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3368 3369 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3370 3371 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3372 fault handling. 3373 3374 no-vmw-sched-clock 3375 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3376 clock and use the default one. 3377 3378 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3379 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3380 influence scheduler behaviour 3381 3382 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3383 3384 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3385 3386 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3387 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3388 3389 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3390 3391 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3392 3393 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3394 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3395 3396 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3397 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3398 irq. 3399 3400 nomodule Disable module load 3401 3402 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3403 pagetables) support. 3404 3405 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3406 3407 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3408 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3409 3410 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3411 with UP alternatives 3412 3413 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3414 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3415 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3416 available to user space applications. 3417 3418 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3419 space. 3420 3421 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3422 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3423 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3424 3425 nosbagart [IA-64] 3426 3427 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3428 3429 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3430 3431 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3432 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3433 3434 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3435 3436 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3437 3438 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3439 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3440 3441 nowb [ARM] 3442 3443 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3444 3445 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3446 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3447 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3448 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3449 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3450 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3451 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3452 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3453 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3454 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3455 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3456 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3457 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3458 3459 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3460 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3461 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3462 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3463 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3464 parameter's value. 3465 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3466 Default: 255 3467 3468 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3469 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3470 SAL PALO. 3471 3472 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3473 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3474 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3475 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3476 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3477 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3478 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3479 hot plugging. 3480 3481 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3482 3483 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3484 NUMA balancing. 3485 Allowed values are enable and disable 3486 3487 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3488 'node', 'default' can be specified 3489 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3490 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3491 3492 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3493 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3494 info. 3495 3496 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3497 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3498 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3499 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3500 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3501 interrupts *may* be lost! 3502 3503 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3504 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3505 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3506 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3507 3508 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3509 process, but there is a small probability of 3510 deadlocking the machine. 3511 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3512 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3513 3514 page_alloc.shuffle= 3515 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3516 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3517 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3518 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3519 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3520 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3521 can be read from sysfs at: 3522 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3523 3524 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3525 Storage of the information about who allocated 3526 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3527 we can turn it on. 3528 on: enable the feature 3529 3530 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3531 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3532 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3533 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3534 on: turn on poisoning 3535 3536 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3537 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3538 timeout = 0: wait forever 3539 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3540 Format: <timeout> 3541 3542 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3543 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3544 bit 0: print all tasks info 3545 bit 1: print system memory info 3546 bit 2: print timer info 3547 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3548 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3549 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3550 3551 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3552 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3553 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3554 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3555 called with any of the flags in this set. 3556 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3557 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3558 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3559 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3560 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3561 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3562 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3563 3564 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3565 on a WARN(). 3566 3567 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3568 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3569 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3570 succeeds in any situation. 3571 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3572 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3573 kernel more unstable. 3574 3575 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3576 connected to, default is 0. 3577 Format: <parport#> 3578 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3579 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3580 Format: <mode> 3581 3582 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3583 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3584 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3585 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3586 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3587 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3588 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3589 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3590 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3591 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3592 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3593 are specified on the command line, starting 3594 with parport0. 3595 3596 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3597 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3598 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3599 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3600 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3601 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3602 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3603 3604 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3605 Format: <int> 3606 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3607 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3608 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3609 3610 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3611 Format: <int> 3612 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3613 changes. Disabled by default. 3614 3615 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3616 Format: <int> 3617 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3618 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3619 Disabled by default. 3620 3621 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3622 Format: <int> 3623 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3624 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3625 Disabled by default. 3626 3627 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3628 Format: <int> 3629 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3630 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3631 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3632 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3633 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3634 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3635 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3636 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3637 all channels. 3638 3639 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3640 Format: <int> 3641 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3642 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3643 respectively. Disabled by default. 3644 3645 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3646 Format: <int> 3647 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3648 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3649 respectively. Disabled by default. 3650 3651 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3652 Format: <int> 3653 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3654 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3655 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3656 All modes allowed by default. 3657 3658 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3659 Format: <int> 3660 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3661 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3662 3663 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3664 Format: <int> 3665 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3666 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3667 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3668 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3669 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3670 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3671 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3672 By default all supported ports are probed. 3673 3674 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3675 Format: <int> 3676 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3677 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3678 3679 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3680 Format: <int> 3681 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3682 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3683 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3684 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3685 0 otherwise. 3686 3687 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3688 Format: <int> 3689 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3690 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3691 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3692 allowed by default. 3693 3694 pause_on_oops= 3695 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3696 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3697 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3698 3699 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3700 3701 pcd. [PARIDE] 3702 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3703 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3704 3705 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3706 3707 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3708 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3709 specified in one of the following formats: 3710 3711 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3712 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3713 3714 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3715 bus/device/function address which may change 3716 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3717 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3718 by other kernel parameters. If the 3719 domain is left unspecified, it is 3720 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3721 to a device through multiple device/function 3722 addresses can be specified after the base 3723 address (this is more robust against 3724 renumbering issues). The second format 3725 selects devices using IDs from the 3726 configuration space which may match multiple 3727 devices in the system. 3728 3729 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3730 changes anything 3731 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3732 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3733 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3734 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3735 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3736 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3737 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3738 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3739 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3740 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3741 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3742 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3743 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3744 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3745 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3746 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3747 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3748 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3749 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3750 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3751 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3752 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3753 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3754 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3755 Configuration 3756 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3757 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3758 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3759 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3760 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3761 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3762 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3763 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3764 should never be necessary. 3765 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3766 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3767 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3768 when the system masks IRQs. 3769 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3770 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3771 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3772 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3773 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3774 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3775 on several machines and they hang the machine 3776 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3777 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3778 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3779 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3780 motherboard. 3781 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3782 Use with caution as certain devices share 3783 address decoders between ROMs and other 3784 resources. 3785 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3786 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3787 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3788 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3789 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3790 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3791 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3792 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3793 this way. 3794 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3795 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3796 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3797 F0000h-100000h range. 3798 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3799 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3800 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3801 explicitly which ones they are. 3802 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3803 numbers ourselves, overriding 3804 whatever the firmware may have done. 3805 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3806 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3807 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3808 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3809 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3810 IRQ routing is enabled. 3811 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3812 or for PCI scanning. 3813 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3814 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3815 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3816 please report a bug. 3817 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3818 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3819 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3820 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3821 so this option is a temporary workaround 3822 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3823 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3824 handle more pci cards 3825 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3826 This might help on some broken boards which 3827 machine check when some devices' config space 3828 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3829 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3830 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3831 This sorting is done to get a device 3832 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3833 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3834 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3835 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3836 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3837 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3838 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3839 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3840 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3841 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3842 or bus can support) for best performance. 3843 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3844 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3845 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3846 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3847 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3848 that hot-added devices will work. 3849 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3850 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3851 The default value is 256 bytes. 3852 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3853 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3854 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3855 resource_alignment= 3856 Format: 3857 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3858 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3859 aligned memory resources. How to 3860 specify the device is described above. 3861 If <order of align> is not specified, 3862 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3863 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3864 windows need to be expanded. 3865 To specify the alignment for several 3866 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3867 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3868 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3869 for 4096-byte alignment. 3870 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3871 end-to-end CRC checking). 3872 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3873 the default. 3874 off: Turn ECRC off 3875 on: Turn ECRC on. 3876 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3877 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3878 Default size is 256 bytes. 3879 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3880 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3881 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3882 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3883 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3884 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3885 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3886 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3887 MMIO_PREF window. 3888 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3889 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3890 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3891 Default is 1. 3892 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3893 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3894 accommodate resources required by all child 3895 devices. 3896 off: Turn realloc off 3897 on: Turn realloc on 3898 realloc same as realloc=on 3899 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3900 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3901 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3902 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3903 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3904 port. 3905 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3906 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3907 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3908 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3909 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3910 taints the kernel. 3911 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3912 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3913 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3914 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3915 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3916 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3917 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3918 this removes isolation between devices and 3919 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3920 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3921 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3922 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 3923 one PCI domain per PCI function 3924 3925 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3926 Management. 3927 off Disable ASPM. 3928 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3929 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3930 3931 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3932 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3933 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3934 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3935 also tries to use these services. 3936 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3937 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3938 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3939 hotplug). 3940 3941 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3942 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3943 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3944 3945 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3946 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3947 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3948 3949 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3950 3951 pd_ignore_unused 3952 [PM] 3953 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3954 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3955 for debug and development, but should not be 3956 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3957 3958 pd. [PARIDE] 3959 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3960 3961 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3962 boot time. 3963 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3964 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3965 3966 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3967 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3968 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3969 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3970 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3971 and performance comparison. 3972 3973 pf. [PARIDE] 3974 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3975 3976 pg. [PARIDE] 3977 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3978 3979 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3980 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3981 3982 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3983 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3984 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3985 3986 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3987 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3988 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3989 3990 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 3991 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 3992 3993 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3994 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3995 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3996 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3997 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3998 possible settings and some assignment information. 3999 4000 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4001 { off } 4002 4003 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4004 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4005 4006 pnp_reserve_irq= 4007 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4008 4009 pnp_reserve_dma= 4010 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4011 4012 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4013 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4014 4015 pnp_reserve_mem= 4016 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4017 autoconfiguration. 4018 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4019 4020 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4021 Default is 21. 4022 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4023 may be specified. 4024 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4025 4026 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4027 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4028 platform machine description specific power_save 4029 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4030 execution priority. 4031 4032 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4033 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4034 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4035 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4036 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4037 4038 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4039 Format: {"off"} 4040 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4041 4042 preempt= [KNL] 4043 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4044 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4045 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4046 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4047 can be preempted anytime. 4048 4049 print-fatal-signals= 4050 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4051 4052 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4053 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4054 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4055 coredump - etc. 4056 4057 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4058 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4059 4060 default: off. 4061 4062 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4063 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4064 panics 4065 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4066 default: disabled 4067 4068 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4069 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4070 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4071 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4072 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4073 Default: ratelimit 4074 4075 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4076 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4077 4078 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4079 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4080 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4081 4082 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4083 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4084 instead using the legacy FADT method 4085 4086 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4087 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4088 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4089 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4090 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4091 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4092 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4093 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4094 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4095 statistical time based profiling. 4096 4097 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4098 4099 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4100 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4101 that). 4102 Format: <bool> 4103 4104 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4105 tracking. 4106 Format: <bool> 4107 4108 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4109 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4110 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4111 per second. 4112 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4113 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4114 (0 = never). 4115 psmouse.resolution= 4116 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4117 psmouse.smartscroll= 4118 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4119 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4120 4121 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4122 4123 pt. [PARIDE] 4124 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4125 4126 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4127 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4128 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4129 system calls and interrupts. 4130 4131 on - unconditionally enable 4132 off - unconditionally disable 4133 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4134 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4135 4136 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4137 4138 nopti [X86-64] 4139 Equivalent to pti=off 4140 4141 pty.legacy_count= 4142 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4143 default number. 4144 4145 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4146 4147 r128= [HW,DRM] 4148 4149 raid= [HW,RAID] 4150 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4151 4152 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4153 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4154 4155 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4156 4157 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4158 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4159 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4160 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4161 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4162 4163 randomize_kstack_offset= 4164 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4165 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4166 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4167 that depend on stack address determinism or 4168 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4169 available on architectures that have defined 4170 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4171 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4172 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4173 4174 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4175 4176 cec_disable [X86] 4177 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4178 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4179 4180 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4181 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4182 4183 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4184 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4185 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4186 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4187 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4188 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4189 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4190 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4191 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4192 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4193 4194 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4195 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4196 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4197 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4198 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4199 This improves the real-time response for the 4200 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4201 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4202 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4203 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4204 4205 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4206 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4207 process in one batch. 4208 4209 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4210 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4211 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4212 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4213 4214 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4215 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4216 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4217 4218 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4219 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4220 RCU grace-period initialization. 4221 4222 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4223 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4224 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4225 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4226 the rcu_node combining tree. 4227 4228 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4229 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4230 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4231 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4232 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4233 4234 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4235 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4236 to zero. 4237 4238 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4239 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4240 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4241 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4242 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4243 4244 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4245 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4246 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4247 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4248 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4249 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4250 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4251 4252 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4253 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4254 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4255 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4256 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4257 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4258 condition. 4259 4260 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4261 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4262 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4263 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4264 and maximum value is HZ. 4265 4266 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4267 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4268 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4269 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4270 4271 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4272 Set required age in jiffies for a 4273 given grace period before RCU starts 4274 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4275 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4276 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4277 a value based on the most recent settings 4278 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4279 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4280 This calculated value may be viewed in 4281 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4282 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4283 overwritten. 4284 4285 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4286 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4287 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4288 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4289 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4290 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4291 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4292 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4293 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4294 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4295 4296 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4297 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4298 each group, which defaults to the square root 4299 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4300 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4301 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4302 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4303 4304 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4305 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4306 batch limiting is disabled. 4307 4308 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4309 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4310 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4311 4312 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4313 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4314 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4315 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4316 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4317 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4318 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4319 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4320 4321 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4322 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4323 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4324 4325 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4326 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4327 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4328 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4329 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4330 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4331 4332 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4333 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4334 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4335 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4336 Larger delays increase the probability of 4337 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4338 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4339 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4340 4341 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4342 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4343 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4344 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4345 4346 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4347 Measure performance of asynchronous 4348 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4349 4350 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4351 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4352 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4353 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4354 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4355 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4356 4357 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4358 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4359 grace-period primitives. 4360 4361 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4362 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4363 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4364 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4365 interference. 4366 4367 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4368 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4369 4370 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4371 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4372 If this parameter has the same value as 4373 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4374 and double-argument variants are tested. 4375 4376 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4377 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4378 If this parameter has the same value as 4379 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4380 and double-argument variants are tested. 4381 4382 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4383 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4384 4385 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4386 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4387 4388 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4389 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4390 of allocations and frees. 4391 4392 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4393 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4394 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4395 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4396 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4397 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4398 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4399 a single reader. 4400 4401 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4402 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4403 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4404 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4405 4406 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4407 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4408 4409 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4410 Shut the system down after performance tests 4411 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4412 testing. 4413 4414 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4415 Enable additional printk() statements. 4416 4417 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4418 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4419 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4420 no holdoff. 4421 4422 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4423 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4424 in microseconds. 4425 4426 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4427 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4428 in microseconds. 4429 4430 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4431 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4432 in seconds. 4433 4434 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4435 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4436 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4437 4438 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4439 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4440 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4441 4442 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4443 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4444 forward-progress tests. 4445 4446 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4447 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4448 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4449 testing. 4450 4451 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4452 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4453 primitives, if available. 4454 4455 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4456 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4457 4458 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4459 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4460 update-side primitives, if available. 4461 4462 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4463 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4464 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4465 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4466 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4467 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4468 they are all non-zero. 4469 4470 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4471 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4472 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4473 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4474 4475 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4476 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4477 This can of course result in splats, and is 4478 intended to test the ability of things like 4479 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4480 such leaks. 4481 4482 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4483 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4484 4485 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4486 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4487 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4488 test, hence the "fake". 4489 4490 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4491 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4492 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4493 4494 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4495 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4496 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4497 4498 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4499 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4500 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4501 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4502 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4503 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4504 4505 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4506 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4507 4508 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4509 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4510 4511 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4512 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4513 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4514 4515 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4516 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4517 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4518 task-exit processing. 4519 4520 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4521 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4522 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4523 is spawned. 4524 4525 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4526 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4527 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4528 4529 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4530 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4531 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4532 during the rcutorture test. 4533 4534 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4535 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4536 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4537 4538 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4539 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4540 warnings, zero to disable. 4541 4542 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4543 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4544 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4545 to any other stall-related activity. 4546 4547 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4548 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4549 4550 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4551 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4552 4553 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4554 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4555 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4556 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4557 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4558 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4559 4560 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4561 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4562 4563 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4564 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4565 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4566 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4567 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4568 4569 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4570 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4571 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4572 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4573 4574 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4575 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4576 4577 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4578 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4579 4580 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4581 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4582 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4583 4584 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4585 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4586 4587 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4588 Enable additional printk() statements. 4589 4590 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4591 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4592 stall warning. 4593 4594 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4595 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4596 4597 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4598 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4599 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4600 during early boot, that is, during the time 4601 before the init task is spawned. 4602 4603 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4604 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4605 4606 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4607 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4608 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4609 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4610 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4611 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4612 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4613 4614 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4615 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4616 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4617 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4618 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4619 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4620 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4621 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4622 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4623 4624 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4625 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4626 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4627 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4628 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4629 4630 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4631 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4632 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4633 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4634 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4635 grace-period processing. 4636 4637 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4638 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4639 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4640 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4641 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4642 but lengthens grace periods. 4643 4644 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4645 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4646 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4647 to zero. 4648 4649 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4650 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4651 4652 rdinit= [KNL] 4653 Format: <full_path> 4654 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4655 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4656 4657 rdrand= [X86] 4658 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4659 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4660 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4661 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4662 path). 4663 4664 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4665 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4666 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4667 mba. 4668 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4669 rdt=cmt,!mba 4670 4671 reboot= [KNL] 4672 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4673 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4674 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4675 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4676 [[,]f[orce] 4677 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4678 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4679 reboot only), 4680 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4681 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4682 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4683 to be used for rebooting. 4684 4685 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4686 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4687 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4688 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4689 interference. 4690 4691 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4692 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4693 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4694 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4695 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4696 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4697 x86 laptops. 4698 4699 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4700 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4701 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4702 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4703 4704 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4705 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4706 the console log. 4707 4708 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4709 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4710 measured in microseconds. 4711 4712 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4713 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4714 4715 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4716 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4717 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4718 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4719 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4720 4721 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4722 Enable additional printk() statements. 4723 4724 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4725 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4726 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4727 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4728 specified. 4729 4730 relax_domain_level= 4731 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4732 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4733 4734 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4735 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4736 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4737 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4738 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4739 4740 reservetop= [X86-32] 4741 Format: nn[KMG] 4742 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4743 address space. 4744 4745 reservelow= [X86] 4746 Format: nn[K] 4747 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4748 the bottom of the address space. 4749 4750 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4751 during initialization. 4752 4753 resume= [SWSUSP] 4754 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4755 Format: 4756 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4757 4758 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4759 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4760 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4761 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4762 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4763 4764 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4765 read the resume files 4766 4767 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4768 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4769 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4770 4771 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4772 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4773 present during boot. 4774 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4775 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4776 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4777 (that will set all pages holding image data 4778 during restoration read-only). 4779 4780 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4781 4782 rfkill.default_state= 4783 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4784 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4785 1 Unblocked. 4786 4787 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4788 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4789 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4790 blocked and the previous configuration. 4791 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4792 blocked and everything unblocked. 4793 4794 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4795 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4796 4797 ring3mwait=disable 4798 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4799 CPUs. 4800 4801 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4802 4803 rodata= [KNL] 4804 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4805 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4806 4807 rockchip.usb_uart 4808 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4809 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4810 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4811 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4812 4813 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4814 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4815 4816 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4817 mount the root filesystem 4818 4819 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4820 4821 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4822 4823 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4824 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4825 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4826 4827 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4828 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4829 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4830 managed by CMA. 4831 4832 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4833 4834 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4835 4836 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4837 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4838 strict 4839 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4840 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4841 which is faster. 4842 4843 sa1100ir [NET] 4844 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4845 4846 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4847 4848 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4849 4850 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4851 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4852 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4853 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4854 4855 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 4856 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 4857 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 4858 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 4859 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 4860 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 4861 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 4862 value. 4863 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 4864 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 4865 1 64 ms 4866 2 128 ms 4867 and so on. 4868 Format: integer between 0 and 10 4869 Default is 0. 4870 4871 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 4872 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 4873 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 4874 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 4875 tests. 4876 4877 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 4878 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 4879 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 4880 default) disables this feature. Please note 4881 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 4882 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 4883 softlockup complaints, and so on. 4884 4885 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 4886 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 4887 smp_call_function() family of functions. 4888 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 4889 equal to the number of CPUs. 4890 4891 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4892 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 4893 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 4894 4895 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4896 Number seconds to wait between successive 4897 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 4898 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 4899 4900 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4901 The number of seconds following the start of the 4902 test after which to shut down the system. The 4903 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 4904 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 4905 4906 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4907 The number of seconds between outputting the 4908 current test statistics to the console. A value 4909 of zero disables statistics output. 4910 4911 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 4912 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 4913 to the set of CPUs under test. 4914 4915 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 4916 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 4917 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 4918 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 4919 functions. 4920 4921 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 4922 Enable additional printk() statements. 4923 4924 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 4925 The probability weighting to use for the 4926 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 4927 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 4928 default if all other weights are -1. However, 4929 if at least one weight has some other value, a 4930 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 4931 4932 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 4933 The probability weighting to use for the 4934 smp_call_function_single() function with a 4935 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4936 4937 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 4938 The probability weighting to use for the 4939 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 4940 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4941 Note well that setting a high probability for 4942 this weighting can place serious IPI load 4943 on the system. 4944 4945 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 4946 The probability weighting to use for the 4947 smp_call_function_many() function with a 4948 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4949 and weight_many. 4950 4951 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 4952 The probability weighting to use for the 4953 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 4954 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 4955 weight_many. 4956 4957 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 4958 The probability weighting to use for the 4959 smp_call_function_all() function with a 4960 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4961 and weight_many. 4962 4963 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4964 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4965 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4966 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4967 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4968 1 -- enable. 4969 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4970 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4971 4972 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4973 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4974 "lsm=" parameter. 4975 4976 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4977 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4978 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4979 0 -- disable. 4980 1 -- enable. 4981 Default value is 1. 4982 4983 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4984 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4985 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4986 0 -- disable. 4987 1 -- enable. 4988 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4989 4990 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4991 4992 shapers= [NET] 4993 Maximal number of shapers. 4994 4995 simeth= [IA-64] 4996 simscsi= 4997 4998 slram= [HW,MTD] 4999 5000 slab_merge [MM] 5001 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5002 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5003 5004 slab_nomerge [MM] 5005 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5006 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5007 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5008 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5009 layout control by attackers can usually be 5010 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5011 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5012 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5013 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5014 own. 5015 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5016 5017 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5018 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5019 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5020 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5021 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5022 5023 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5024 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5025 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5026 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5027 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5028 last alloc / free. For more information see 5029 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5030 5031 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5032 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5033 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5034 fragmentation. For more information see 5035 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5036 5037 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5038 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5039 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5040 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5041 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5042 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5043 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5044 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5045 5046 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5047 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5048 lower than slub_max_order. 5049 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5050 5051 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5052 Same with slab_merge. 5053 5054 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5055 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5056 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5057 5058 smart2= [HW] 5059 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5060 5061 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5062 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5063 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5064 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5065 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5066 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5067 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5068 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5069 1: Fast pin select (default) 5070 2: ATC IRMode 5071 5072 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5073 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5074 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5075 actual hardware limit. 5076 Format: <integer> 5077 Default: -1 (no limit) 5078 5079 softlockup_panic= 5080 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5081 Format: 0 | 1 5082 5083 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5084 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5085 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5086 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5087 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5088 5089 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5090 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5091 backtraces on all cpus. 5092 Format: 0 | 1 5093 5094 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5095 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5096 5097 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5098 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5099 The default operation protects the kernel from 5100 user space attacks. 5101 5102 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5103 spectre_v2_user=on 5104 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5105 spectre_v2_user=off 5106 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5107 vulnerable 5108 5109 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5110 mitigation method at run time according to the 5111 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5112 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5113 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5114 5115 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5116 against user space to user space task attacks. 5117 5118 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5119 the user space protections. 5120 5121 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5122 5123 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5124 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 5125 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 5126 5127 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5128 spectre_v2=auto. 5129 5130 spectre_v2_user= 5131 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5132 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5133 user space tasks 5134 5135 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5136 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5137 5138 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5139 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5140 5141 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5142 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5143 per thread. The mitigation control state 5144 is inherited on fork. 5145 5146 prctl,ibpb 5147 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5148 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5149 always when switching between different user 5150 space processes. 5151 5152 seccomp 5153 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5154 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5155 they explicitly opt out. 5156 5157 seccomp,ibpb 5158 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5159 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5160 always when switching between different 5161 user space processes. 5162 5163 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5164 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5165 5166 Default mitigation: 5167 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5168 5169 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5170 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5171 5172 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5173 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5174 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5175 5176 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5177 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5178 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5179 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5180 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5181 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5182 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5183 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5184 5185 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5186 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5187 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5188 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5189 5190 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5191 Bypass optimization is used. 5192 5193 On x86 the options are: 5194 5195 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5196 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5197 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5198 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5199 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5200 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5201 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5202 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5203 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5204 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5205 for a process by default. The state of the control 5206 is inherited on fork. 5207 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5208 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5209 5210 Default mitigations: 5211 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5212 5213 On powerpc the options are: 5214 5215 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5216 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5217 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5218 exit. 5219 off - No action. 5220 5221 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5222 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5223 5224 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5225 spia_fio_base= 5226 spia_pedr= 5227 spia_peddr= 5228 5229 split_lock_detect= 5230 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5231 5232 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5233 instructions that access data across cache line 5234 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5235 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5236 bus lock detection. 5237 5238 off - not enabled 5239 5240 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5241 about applications triggering the #AC 5242 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5243 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5244 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5245 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5246 enabled in hardware. 5247 5248 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5249 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5250 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5251 both features are enabled in hardware. 5252 5253 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5254 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5255 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5256 mode. 5257 5258 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5259 CPL > 0. 5260 5261 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5262 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5263 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5264 5265 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5266 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5267 number generator. 5268 5269 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5270 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5271 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5272 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5273 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5274 5275 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5276 the following option: 5277 5278 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5279 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5280 5281 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5282 Specifies how frequently to check for 5283 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5284 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5285 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5286 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5287 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5288 are ignored. 5289 5290 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5291 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5292 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5293 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5294 grace period will be considered for automatic 5295 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5296 expediting. 5297 5298 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5299 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5300 5301 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5302 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5303 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5304 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5305 5306 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5307 for both kernel and userspace 5308 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5309 for both kernel and userspace 5310 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5311 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5312 to allow userspace to register its 5313 interest in being mitigated too. 5314 5315 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5316 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5317 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5318 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5319 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5320 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5321 5322 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5323 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5324 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5325 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5326 to false. 5327 5328 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5329 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5330 5331 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5332 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5333 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5334 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5335 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5336 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5337 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5338 5339 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5340 Format: <num> 5341 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5342 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5343 as the initial boot-console. 5344 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5345 5346 sti_font= [HW] 5347 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5348 5349 stifb= [HW] 5350 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5351 5352 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5353 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5354 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5355 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5356 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5357 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5358 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5359 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5360 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5361 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5362 maximum port values. 5363 5364 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5365 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5366 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5367 process in parallel from a single connection. 5368 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5369 5370 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5371 [NFS] 5372 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5373 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5374 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5375 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5376 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5377 NFS server is running. 5378 5379 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5380 automatically using heuristics 5381 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5382 percpu one pool for each CPU 5383 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5384 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5385 5386 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5387 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5388 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5389 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5390 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5391 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5392 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5393 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5394 5395 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5396 [SUSPEND] 5397 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5398 mode before resuming the system (see 5399 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5400 is set. Default value is 5. 5401 5402 svm= [PPC] 5403 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5404 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5405 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5406 5407 swapaccount=[0|1] 5408 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5409 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5410 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5411 5412 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5413 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5414 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5415 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5416 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5417 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5418 5419 switches= [HW,M68k] 5420 5421 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5422 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5423 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5424 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5425 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5426 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5427 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5428 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5429 5430 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5431 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5432 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5433 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5434 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5435 in older udev will not work anymore. 5436 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5437 the kernel configuration. 5438 5439 sysrq_always_enabled 5440 [KNL] 5441 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5442 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5443 Useful for debugging. 5444 5445 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5446 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5447 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5448 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5449 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5450 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5451 5452 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5453 5454 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5455 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5456 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5457 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5458 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5459 The system is woken from this state using a 5460 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5461 5462 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5463 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5464 5465 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5466 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5467 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5468 5469 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5470 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5471 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5472 5473 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5474 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5475 critical and hot trip points. 5476 5477 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5478 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5479 5480 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5481 -1: disable all passive trip points 5482 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5483 value 5484 5485 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5486 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5487 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5488 0: no polling (default) 5489 5490 threadirqs [KNL] 5491 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5492 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5493 5494 topology= [S390] 5495 Format: {off | on} 5496 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5497 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5498 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5499 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5500 Default is on. 5501 5502 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5503 Format: {off} 5504 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5505 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5506 LPAR. 5507 5508 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5509 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5510 until after init has spawned. 5511 5512 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5513 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5514 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5515 very costly operation when many torture tests 5516 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5517 with rotating-rust storage. 5518 5519 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5520 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5521 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5522 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5523 5524 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5525 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5526 5527 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5528 5529 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5530 Format: integer pcr id 5531 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5532 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5533 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5534 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5535 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5536 are saved. 5537 5538 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5539 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5540 5541 trace_event=[event-list] 5542 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5543 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5544 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5545 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5546 5547 trace_options=[option-list] 5548 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5549 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5550 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5551 to echo the option name into 5552 5553 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5554 5555 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5556 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5557 5558 trace_options=stacktrace 5559 5560 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5561 section. 5562 5563 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5564 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5565 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5566 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5567 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5568 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5569 5570 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5571 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5572 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5573 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5574 5575 ** CAUTION ** 5576 5577 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5578 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5579 the system to live lock. 5580 5581 traceoff_on_warning 5582 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5583 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5584 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5585 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5586 5587 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5588 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5589 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5590 5591 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5592 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5593 5594 transparent_hugepage= 5595 [KNL] 5596 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5597 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5598 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5599 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5600 for more details. 5601 5602 trusted.source= [KEYS] 5603 Format: <string> 5604 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 5605 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 5606 sources: 5607 - "tpm" 5608 - "tee" 5609 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 5610 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 5611 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 5612 successfully during iteration. 5613 5614 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5615 Format: <string> 5616 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5617 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5618 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5619 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5620 virtualized environment. 5621 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5622 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5623 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5624 can add overhead. 5625 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5626 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5627 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5628 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5629 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5630 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5631 acceptable). 5632 5633 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5634 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5635 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5636 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5637 Format: <unsigned int> 5638 5639 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5640 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5641 support TSX control. 5642 5643 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5644 5645 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5646 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5647 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5648 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5649 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5650 with leaving it enabled. 5651 5652 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5653 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5654 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5655 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5656 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5657 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5658 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5659 5660 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5661 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5662 5663 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5664 5665 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5666 for more details. 5667 5668 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5669 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5670 5671 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5672 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5673 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5674 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5675 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5676 conditions. 5677 5678 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5679 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5680 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5681 access. 5682 5683 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5684 options are: 5685 5686 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5687 if TSX is enabled. 5688 5689 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5690 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5691 is not disabled because CPU is not 5692 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5693 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5694 5695 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5696 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5697 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5698 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5699 5700 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5701 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5702 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5703 required and doesn't provide any additional 5704 mitigation. 5705 5706 For details see: 5707 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5708 5709 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5710 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5711 Format: 5712 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5713 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5714 5715 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5716 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5717 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5718 help "seeing" what's going on. 5719 5720 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5721 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5722 5723 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5724 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5725 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5726 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5727 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5728 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5729 reported either. 5730 5731 unknown_nmi_panic 5732 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5733 5734 usbcore.authorized_default= 5735 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5736 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5737 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5738 if device connected to internal port) 5739 5740 usbcore.autosuspend= 5741 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5742 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5743 is the time required before an idle device will be 5744 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5745 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5746 5747 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5748 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5749 5750 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5751 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5752 (default = 65536). 5753 5754 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5755 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5756 5757 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5758 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5759 scheme (default 0 = off). 5760 5761 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5762 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5763 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5764 5765 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5766 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5767 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5768 5769 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5770 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5771 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5772 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5773 5774 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5775 5776 usbcore.quirks= 5777 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5778 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5779 commas. Each entry has the form 5780 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5781 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5782 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5783 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5784 the following meanings: 5785 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5786 descriptors must not be fetched using 5787 a 255-byte read); 5788 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5789 correctly so reset it instead); 5790 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5791 Set-Interface requests); 5792 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5793 handle its Configuration or Interface 5794 strings); 5795 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5796 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5797 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5798 more interface descriptions than the 5799 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5800 talking to these interfaces); 5801 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5802 during initialization, after we read 5803 the device descriptor); 5804 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5805 high speed and super speed interrupt 5806 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5807 require the interval in microframes (1 5808 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5809 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5810 (bInterval-1). 5811 Devices with this quirk report their 5812 bInterval as the result of this 5813 calculation instead of the exponent 5814 variable used in the calculation); 5815 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5816 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5817 requests); 5818 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5819 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5820 remote wakeup capability); 5821 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5822 Power Management); 5823 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5824 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5825 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5826 calculation); 5827 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5828 to be disconnected before suspend to 5829 prevent spurious wakeup); 5830 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5831 pause after every control message); 5832 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5833 delay after resetting its port); 5834 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5835 5836 usbhid.mousepoll= 5837 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5838 5839 usbhid.jspoll= 5840 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5841 5842 usbhid.kbpoll= 5843 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5844 5845 usb-storage.delay_use= 5846 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5847 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5848 5849 usb-storage.quirks= 5850 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5851 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5852 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5853 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5854 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5855 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5856 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5857 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5858 of sense data, not on uas); 5859 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5860 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5861 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5862 device capacity by one sector); 5863 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5864 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5865 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5866 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5867 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5868 command, uas only); 5869 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5870 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5871 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5872 reported device capacity by one 5873 sector if the number is odd); 5874 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5875 device); 5876 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5877 command, uas only); 5878 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 5879 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5880 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5881 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5882 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5883 not on uas); 5884 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5885 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5886 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5887 reported by the device, not on uas); 5888 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5889 by default, not on uas); 5890 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5891 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5892 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5893 Logical Unit); 5894 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5895 commands, uas only); 5896 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5897 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5898 medium is write-protected). 5899 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5900 even if the device claims no cache, 5901 not on uas) 5902 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5903 5904 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5905 Format: <int> 5906 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5907 1 - undefined instruction events 5908 2 - system calls 5909 4 - invalid data aborts 5910 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5911 16 - SIGBUS faults 5912 Example: user_debug=31 5913 5914 userpte= 5915 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5916 5917 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5918 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5919 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5920 5921 vdso= [X86,SH] 5922 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5923 5924 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5925 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5926 5927 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5928 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5929 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5930 5931 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5932 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5933 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5934 5935 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5936 alias for vdso32=0. 5937 5938 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5939 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5940 5941 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5942 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5943 5944 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5945 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5946 5947 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5948 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5949 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5950 level and then send out the event to user space through 5951 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5952 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5953 brightness level. 5954 default: 1 5955 5956 virtio_mmio.device= 5957 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5958 5959 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5960 where: 5961 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5962 like K, M and G) 5963 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5964 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5965 request_irq()) 5966 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5967 example: 5968 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5969 5970 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5971 5972 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5973 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5974 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5975 Use vga=ask for menu. 5976 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5977 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5978 5979 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5980 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5981 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5982 All options are enabled by default, and this 5983 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5984 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5985 debugging features. 5986 5987 Available options are: 5988 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5989 - Disable all of the above options 5990 5991 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5992 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5993 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5994 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5995 mapped kernel RAM. 5996 5997 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5998 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5999 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6000 6001 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6002 Format: <command> 6003 6004 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6005 Format: <command> 6006 6007 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6008 Format: <command> 6009 6010 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6011 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6012 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6013 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6014 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6015 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6016 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6017 6018 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6019 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6020 page is readable. 6021 6022 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6023 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6024 page is not readable. 6025 6026 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6027 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6028 might break your system. 6029 6030 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6031 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6032 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6033 6034 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6035 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6036 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6037 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6038 6039 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6040 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6041 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6042 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6043 ranging from 0-255. 6044 6045 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6046 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6047 Change the default green palette of the console. 6048 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6049 ranging from 0-255. 6050 6051 vt.default_red= [VT] 6052 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6053 Change the default red palette of the console. 6054 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6055 ranging from 0-255. 6056 6057 vt.default_utf8= 6058 [VT] 6059 Format=<0|1> 6060 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6061 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6062 newly opened terminals. 6063 6064 vt.global_cursor_default= 6065 [VT] 6066 Format=<-1|0|1> 6067 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6068 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6069 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6070 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6071 cursors, 1 will display them. 6072 6073 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6074 Default: 2 = green. 6075 6076 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6077 Default: 3 = cyan. 6078 6079 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6080 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6081 or other driver-specific files in the 6082 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6083 6084 watchdog_thresh= 6085 [KNL] 6086 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6087 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6088 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6089 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6090 seconds. 6091 6092 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6093 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6094 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6095 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6096 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6097 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6098 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6099 corresponding sysfs file. 6100 6101 workqueue.disable_numa 6102 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6103 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6104 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6105 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6106 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6107 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6108 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6109 6110 workqueue.power_efficient 6111 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6112 they show better performance thanks to cache 6113 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6114 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6115 6116 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6117 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6118 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6119 power usage at the cost of small performance 6120 overhead. 6121 6122 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6123 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6124 6125 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6126 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6127 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6128 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6129 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6130 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6131 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6132 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6133 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6134 impacted. 6135 6136 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6137 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6138 supporting x2apic. 6139 6140 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6141 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6142 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6143 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6144 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6145 domains. 6146 6147 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6148 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6149 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6150 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6151 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6152 nics -- unplug network devices 6153 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6154 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6155 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6156 the unplug protocol 6157 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6158 6159 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6160 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6161 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6162 6163 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6164 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6165 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6166 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6167 6168 xen_nopv [X86] 6169 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6170 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6171 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6172 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6173 6174 xen_no_vector_callback 6175 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6176 event channel interrupts. 6177 6178 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6179 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6180 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6181 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6182 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6183 6184 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6185 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6186 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6187 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6188 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6189 more timer interrupts. 6190 6191 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6192 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6193 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6194 6195 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6196 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6197 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6198 6199 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6200 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6201 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6202 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6203 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6204 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6205 6206 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6207 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6208 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6209 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6210 6211 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6212 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6213 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6214 contention. 6215 6216 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6217 Format: 6218 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6219 6220 xive= [PPC] 6221 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6222 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6223 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6224 6225 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6226 controller on both pseries and powernv 6227 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6228 6229 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6230 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6231 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6232 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6233 6234 xmon [PPC] 6235 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6236 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6237 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6238 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6239 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6240 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6241 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6242 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6243 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6244 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6245 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6246 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6247 can be written using xmon commands. 6248 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6249 memory, and other data can't be written using 6250 xmon commands. 6251 off xmon is disabled. 6252