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