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 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 343 to 4 KiB. 344 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 345 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB. 346 347 348 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 349 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 350 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 351 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 352 IOMMU initialization. 353 354 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 355 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 356 remapping modes: 357 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 358 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 359 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 360 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 361 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 362 363 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 364 disable 365 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 366 scaling driver for the supported processors 367 passive 368 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 369 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 370 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 371 tries to match the same performance level if it is 372 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 373 active 374 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 375 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 376 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 377 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 378 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 379 frequency. 380 guided 381 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 382 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 383 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 384 to the current workload. 385 386 amd_prefcore= 387 [X86] 388 disable 389 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 390 391 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 392 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 393 Format: <a>,<b> 394 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 395 396 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 397 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 398 connected to one of 16 gameports 399 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 400 401 apc= [HW,SPARC] 402 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 403 Format: noidle 404 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 405 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 406 APC and your system crashes randomly. 407 408 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 409 Change the output verbosity while booting 410 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 411 Change the amount of debugging information output 412 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 413 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 414 driver name. 415 Format: apic=driver_name 416 Examples: apic=bigsmp 417 418 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 419 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 420 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 421 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 422 backup of CPU 0 423 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 424 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 425 shot down by NMI 426 427 autoconf= [IPV6] 428 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 429 430 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 431 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 432 433 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 434 Format: { "0" | "1" } 435 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 436 0 -- disable. 437 1 -- enable. 438 Default value is set via kernel config option. 439 440 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 441 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 442 443 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 444 32 bit applications. 445 446 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 447 Identification support 448 449 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 450 Set instructions support 451 452 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 453 support 454 455 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 456 support 457 458 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 459 Extension support 460 461 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 462 Extension support 463 464 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 465 466 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 467 468 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 469 EzKey and similar keyboards 470 471 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 472 473 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 474 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 475 476 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 477 keyboards 478 479 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 480 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 481 482 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 483 Use software keyboard repeat 484 485 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 486 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 487 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 488 enabled until the next reboot 489 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 490 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 491 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 492 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 493 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 494 userspace auditd. 495 Default: unset 496 497 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 498 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 499 Default: 64 500 501 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 502 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 503 Format: { "0" | "1" } 504 0 - Disable the BAU. 505 1 - Enable the BAU. 506 unset - Disable the BAU. 507 508 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 509 Format: <io>,<mode> 510 511 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 512 Format: <io>,<mode> 513 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 514 515 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 516 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 517 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 518 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 519 520 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 521 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 522 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 523 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 524 525 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 526 Format: <bool> 527 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 528 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 529 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 530 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 531 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 532 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 533 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 534 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 535 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 536 537 bert_disable [ACPI] 538 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 539 540 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 541 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 542 543 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 544 embedded devices based on command line input. 545 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 546 547 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 548 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 549 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 550 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 551 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 552 erroneous and ignored. 553 Format: integer 554 555 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 556 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 557 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 558 559 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 560 561 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 562 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 563 kernel args too. 564 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 565 bttv.tuner= 566 567 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 568 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 569 at a time. 570 571 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 572 573 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 574 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 575 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 576 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 577 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 578 This option provides an override for these situations. 579 580 carrier_timeout= 581 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 582 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 583 it waits 120 seconds. 584 585 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 586 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 587 trust validation. 588 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 589 590 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 591 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 592 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 593 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 594 others). 595 596 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 597 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 598 599 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 600 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 601 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 602 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 603 a single hierarchy 604 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 605 subsystem 606 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 607 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 608 created 609 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 610 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 611 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 612 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 613 stall information accounting feature 614 615 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 616 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 617 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 618 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 619 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 620 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 621 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 622 all v1 hierarchies. 623 624 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 625 Format: { "true" | "false" } 626 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 627 628 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 629 Format: <string> 630 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 631 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 632 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 633 634 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 635 Format: { "0" | "1" } 636 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 637 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 638 any implied execute protection). 639 1 -- check protection requested by application. 640 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 641 Value can be changed at runtime via 642 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 643 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 644 645 cio_ignore= [S390] 646 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 647 648 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 649 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 650 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 651 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 652 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 653 ones should be. 654 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 655 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 656 instability issue. However, not all features have names 657 in /proc/cpuinfo. 658 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 659 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 660 or using the feature without checking anything 661 will still see it. This just prevents it from 662 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 663 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 664 some critical bits. 665 666 clk_ignore_unused 667 [CLK] 668 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 669 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 670 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 671 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 672 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 673 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 674 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 675 platform with proper driver support. For more 676 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 677 678 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 679 [Deprecated] 680 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 681 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 682 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 683 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 684 685 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 686 Format: <string> 687 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 688 with the name specified. 689 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 690 the platform: 691 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 692 [ACPI] acpi_pm 693 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 694 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 695 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 696 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 697 [MIPS] MIPS 698 [PARISC] cr16 699 [S390] tod 700 [SH] SuperH 701 [SPARC64] tick 702 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 703 704 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 705 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 706 Format: <bool> 707 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 708 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 709 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 710 systems. 711 712 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 713 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 714 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 715 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 716 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 717 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 718 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 719 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 720 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 721 722 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 723 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 724 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 725 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 726 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 727 728 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 729 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 730 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 731 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 732 placement constraint by the physical address range of 733 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 734 altogether. For more information, see 735 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 736 737 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 738 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 739 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 740 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 741 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 742 specified, the default value is 0. 743 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 744 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 745 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 746 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 747 748 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 749 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 750 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 751 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 752 area for the specified node. 753 754 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 755 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 756 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 757 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 758 759 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 760 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 761 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 762 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 763 a hypervisor. 764 Default: yes 765 766 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 767 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 768 allocations, by default set to 256K. 769 770 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 771 Format: 772 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 773 774 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 775 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 776 777 com90xx= [HW,NET] 778 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 779 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 780 781 condev= [HW,S390] console device 782 conmode= 783 784 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 785 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 786 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 787 the console buffer is full. In this case the 788 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 789 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 790 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 791 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 792 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 793 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 794 795 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 796 797 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 798 799 ttyS<n>[,options] 800 ttyUSB0[,options] 801 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 802 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 803 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 804 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 805 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 806 807 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 808 information. See 809 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 810 alternative. 811 812 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 813 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 814 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 815 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 816 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 817 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 818 819 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 820 can be viewed with: 821 822 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 823 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 824 825 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 826 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 827 way will only get added when the related device driver 828 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 829 the console may be desired for console output early on. 830 831 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 832 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 833 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 834 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 835 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 836 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 837 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 838 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 839 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 840 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 841 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 842 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 843 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 844 the h/w is not re-initialized. 845 846 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 847 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 848 849 { null | "" } 850 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 851 console messages discarded. 852 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 853 kernel command line. 854 855 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 856 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 857 console=brl,ttyS0 858 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 859 860 console_msg_format= 861 [KNL] Change console messages format 862 default 863 By default we print messages on consoles in 864 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 865 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 866 `printk_time' param). 867 syslog 868 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 869 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 870 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 871 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 872 from /proc/kmsg. 873 874 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 875 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 876 Defaults to 0. 877 878 coredump_filter= 879 [KNL] Change the default value for 880 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 881 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 882 883 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 884 [ARM,ARM64] 885 Format: <bool> 886 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 887 0: default value, disable debugging 888 1: enable debugging at boot time 889 890 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 891 Format: 892 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 893 894 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 895 disable the cpuidle sub-system 896 897 cpuidle.governor= 898 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 899 900 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 901 disable the cpufreq sub-system 902 903 cpufreq.default_governor= 904 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 905 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 906 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 907 908 cpu_init_udelay=N 909 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 910 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 911 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 912 Default: 10000 913 914 cpuhp.parallel= 915 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 916 Format: <bool> 917 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 918 the parameter has no effect. 919 920 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 921 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic 922 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases 923 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic 924 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable. 925 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable, 926 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting 927 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS 928 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some 929 configurations enable this option unconditionally, 930 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP. 931 932 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 933 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 934 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 935 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 936 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 937 is selected automatically. 938 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 939 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 940 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 941 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 942 943 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 944 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 945 in the running system. The syntax of range is 946 start-[end] where start and end are both 947 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 948 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 949 950 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 951 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 952 above 4G. 953 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 954 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 955 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 956 below 4G, if available. 957 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 958 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 959 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 960 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 961 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 962 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 963 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 964 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 965 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 966 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 967 size is platform dependent. 968 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 969 --> arm64: 128MiB 970 --> riscv: 128MiB 971 --> loongarch: 128MiB 972 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 973 for second kernel instead. 974 0: to disable low allocation. 975 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 976 or memory reserved is below 4G. 977 978 cryptomgr.notests 979 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 980 981 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 982 Format: <dma> 983 984 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 985 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 986 987 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 988 function call handling. When switched on, 989 additional debug data is printed to the console 990 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 991 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 992 the hang situation. The default value of this 993 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 994 Kconfig option. 995 996 dasd= [HW,NET] 997 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 998 999 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 1000 (one device per port) 1001 Format: <port#>,<type> 1002 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1003 1004 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 1005 1006 debug_boot_weak_hash 1007 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 1008 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1009 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1010 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1011 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1012 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1013 1014 debug_locks_verbose= 1015 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1016 Format: <int> 1017 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1018 self-tests. 1019 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1020 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1021 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1022 useful to lockdep developers. 1023 1024 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1025 1026 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1027 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1028 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1029 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1030 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1031 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1032 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1033 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1034 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1035 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1036 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1037 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1038 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1039 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1040 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1041 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1042 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1043 help tracking down these problems. 1044 1045 debug_pagealloc= 1046 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1047 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1048 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1049 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1050 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1051 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1052 on: enable the feature 1053 1054 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1055 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1056 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1057 on: All functions are enabled. 1058 no-mount: 1059 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1060 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1061 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1062 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1063 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1064 or directories within debugfs. 1065 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1066 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1067 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1068 1069 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1070 1071 default_hugepagesz= 1072 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1073 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1074 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1075 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1076 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1077 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1078 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1079 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1080 Format: size[KMG] 1081 1082 deferred_probe_timeout= 1083 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1084 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1085 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1086 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1087 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1088 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1089 successful driver registration. This option will also 1090 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1091 retrying. 1092 1093 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1094 1095 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1096 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1097 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1098 hardware. 1099 1100 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1101 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1102 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1103 blacklisted features. 1104 1105 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1106 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1107 (disabled by default). 1108 1109 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1110 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1111 capability is set. 1112 1113 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1114 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1115 1116 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1117 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1118 1119 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1120 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1121 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1122 level 1 and decompression (default) 1123 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1124 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1125 only (compression on level 1) 1126 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1127 only (decompression) 1128 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1129 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1130 1131 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1132 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1133 1134 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1135 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1136 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1137 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1138 miss to occur. 1139 1140 disable= [IPV6] 1141 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1142 1143 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1144 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1145 1146 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1147 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1148 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1149 1150 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1151 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1152 to workaround buggy firmware. 1153 1154 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1155 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1156 1157 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1158 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1159 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1160 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1161 1162 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1163 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1164 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1165 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1166 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1167 1168 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1169 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1170 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1171 1172 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1173 1174 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1175 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1176 1177 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1178 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1179 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1180 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1181 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1182 architectural default is too low. 1183 1184 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1185 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1186 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1187 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1188 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1189 driver later using sysfs. 1190 1191 reg_file_data_sampling= 1192 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1193 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1194 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1195 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1196 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1197 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1198 1199 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1200 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1201 1202 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1203 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1204 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1205 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1206 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1207 1208 For details see: 1209 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1210 1211 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1212 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1213 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1214 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1215 match the *. 1216 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1217 1218 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1219 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1220 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1221 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1222 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1223 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1224 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1225 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1226 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1227 data set with no connector name will be used for 1228 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1229 1230 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1231 1232 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1233 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1234 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1235 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1236 exists). 1237 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1238 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1239 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1240 1241 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1242 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1243 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1244 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1245 1246 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1247 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1248 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1249 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1250 for details. 1251 1252 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1253 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1254 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1255 which are not unmapped. 1256 1257 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1258 1259 When used with no options, the early console is 1260 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1261 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1262 the platform. 1263 1264 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1265 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1266 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1267 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1268 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1269 configured. 1270 1271 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1272 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1273 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1274 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1275 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1276 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1277 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1278 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1279 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1280 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1281 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1282 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1283 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1284 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1285 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1286 1287 pl011,<addr> 1288 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1289 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1290 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1291 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1292 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1293 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1294 the device registers. 1295 1296 liteuart,<addr> 1297 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1298 specified address. The serial port must already be 1299 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1300 1301 meson,<addr> 1302 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1303 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1304 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1305 supported. 1306 1307 msm_serial,<addr> 1308 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1309 port at the specified address. The serial port 1310 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1311 yet supported. 1312 1313 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1314 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1315 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1316 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1317 yet supported. 1318 1319 owl,<addr> 1320 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1321 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1322 specified address. The serial port must already be 1323 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1324 1325 rda,<addr> 1326 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1327 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1328 specified address. The serial port must already be 1329 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1330 1331 sbi 1332 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1333 console. 1334 1335 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1336 1337 s3c2410,<addr> 1338 s3c2412,<addr> 1339 s3c2440,<addr> 1340 s3c6400,<addr> 1341 s5pv210,<addr> 1342 exynos4210,<addr> 1343 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1344 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1345 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1346 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1347 Options are not yet supported. 1348 1349 lantiq,<addr> 1350 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1351 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1352 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1353 yet supported. 1354 1355 lpuart,<addr> 1356 lpuart32,<addr> 1357 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1358 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1359 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1360 port must already be setup and configured. 1361 1362 ec_imx21,<addr> 1363 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1364 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1365 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1366 must already be setup and configured. 1367 1368 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1369 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1370 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1371 address. The serial port must already be setup 1372 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1373 1374 qcom_geni,<addr> 1375 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1376 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1377 specified address. The serial port must already be 1378 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1379 1380 efifb,[options] 1381 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1382 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1383 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1384 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1385 mapped with the correct attributes. 1386 1387 linflex,<addr> 1388 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1389 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1390 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1391 already be setup and configured. 1392 1393 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1394 earlyprintk=vga 1395 earlyprintk=sclp 1396 earlyprintk=xen 1397 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1398 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1399 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1400 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1401 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1402 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1403 earlyprintk=bios 1404 1405 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1406 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1407 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1408 1409 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1410 takes over. 1411 1412 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1413 be used at a time. 1414 1415 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1416 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1417 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1418 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1419 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1420 You can find the port for a given device in 1421 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1422 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1423 1424 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1425 very good. 1426 1427 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1428 the real console. 1429 1430 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1431 1432 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1433 1434 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1435 1436 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1437 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1438 UART class. 1439 1440 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1441 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1442 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1443 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1444 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1445 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1446 default: on. 1447 1448 edd= [EDD] 1449 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1450 1451 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1452 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1453 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1454 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1455 debug: enable misc debug output. 1456 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1457 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1458 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1459 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1460 firmware implementations. 1461 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1462 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1463 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1464 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1465 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1466 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1467 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1468 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1469 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1470 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1471 1472 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1473 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1474 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1475 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1476 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1477 1478 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1479 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1480 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1481 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1482 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1483 1484 1485 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1486 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1487 1488 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1489 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1490 1491 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1492 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1493 1494 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1495 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1496 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1497 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1498 1499 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1500 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1501 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1502 1503 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1504 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1505 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1506 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1507 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1508 1509 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1510 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1511 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1512 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1513 1514 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1515 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1516 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1517 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1518 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1519 1520 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1521 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1522 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1523 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1524 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1525 Default value is 0. 1526 Value can be changed at runtime via 1527 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1528 1529 erst_disable [ACPI] 1530 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1531 support. 1532 1533 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1534 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1535 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1536 1537 evm= [EVM] 1538 Format: { "fix" } 1539 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1540 current integrity status. 1541 1542 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1543 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1544 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1545 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1546 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1547 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1548 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1549 1550 failslab= 1551 fail_usercopy= 1552 fail_page_alloc= 1553 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1554 General fault injection mechanism. 1555 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1556 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1557 1558 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1559 Format: { initns | none } 1560 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1561 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1562 1563 floppy= [HW] 1564 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1565 1566 forcepae [X86-32] 1567 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1568 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1569 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1570 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1571 and may cause unknown problems. 1572 1573 fred= [X86-64] 1574 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1575 Format: { on | off } 1576 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1577 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1578 1579 ftrace=[tracer] 1580 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1581 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1582 boot debugging. 1583 1584 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1585 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1586 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1587 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1588 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1589 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1590 start up functionality. 1591 1592 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1593 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1594 line parameter. 1595 1596 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1597 1598 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1599 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1600 1601 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1602 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1603 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1604 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1605 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1606 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1607 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1608 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1609 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1610 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1611 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1612 1613 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1614 1615 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1616 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1617 1618 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1619 1620 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1621 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1622 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1623 1624 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1625 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1626 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1627 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1628 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1629 tracing directory. 1630 1631 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1632 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1633 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1634 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1635 tracing directory. 1636 1637 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1638 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1639 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1640 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1641 that can be changed at run time by the 1642 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1643 1644 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1645 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1646 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1647 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1648 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1649 1650 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1651 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1652 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1653 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1654 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1655 1656 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1657 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1658 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1659 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1660 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1661 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1662 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1663 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1664 suppliers). 1665 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1666 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1667 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1668 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1669 up (sync_state() calls). 1670 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1671 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1672 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1673 1674 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1675 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1676 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1677 Format: <bool> 1678 1679 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1680 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1681 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1682 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1683 calls. 1684 Format: { strict | timeout } 1685 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1686 probe successfully. 1687 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1688 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1689 received their sync_state() calls after 1690 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1691 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1692 1693 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1694 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1695 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1696 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1697 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1698 1699 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1700 1701 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1702 Format: off | on 1703 default: on 1704 1705 gather_data_sampling= 1706 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1707 mitigation. 1708 1709 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1710 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1711 previously stored in vector registers. 1712 1713 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1714 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1715 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1716 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1717 1718 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1719 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1720 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1721 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1722 1723 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1724 1725 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1726 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1727 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1728 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1729 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1730 1731 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1732 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1733 android emulator 1734 1735 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1736 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1737 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1738 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1739 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1740 1741 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1742 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1743 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1744 GPT to be used instead. 1745 1746 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1747 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1748 Format: 0 | 1 1749 Default: 0 1750 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1751 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1752 Format: 0 | 1 1753 Default: 0 1754 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1755 Format: 0 | 1 1756 Default: 0 1757 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1758 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1759 Default: 1024 1760 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1761 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1762 Default: 1024 1763 1764 hardened_usercopy= 1765 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1766 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1767 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1768 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1769 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1770 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1771 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1772 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1773 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1774 1775 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1776 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1777 backtraces on all cpus. 1778 Format: 0 | 1 1779 1780 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1781 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1782 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1783 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1784 1785 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1786 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1787 1788 hest_disable [ACPI] 1789 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1790 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1791 logic will be disabled. 1792 1793 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1794 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1795 present during boot. 1796 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1797 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1798 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1799 (that will set all pages holding image data 1800 during restoration read-only). 1801 1802 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1803 used with hibernation. 1804 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1805 Default: lzo 1806 1807 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1808 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1809 1810 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1811 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1812 1813 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1814 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1815 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1816 size on bigger boxes. 1817 1818 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1819 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1820 Default: "on" 1821 1822 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1823 1824 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1825 Format: <string> 1826 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1827 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1828 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1829 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1830 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1831 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1832 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1833 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1834 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1835 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1836 1837 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1838 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1839 verbose } 1840 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1841 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1842 VIA, nVidia) 1843 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1844 1845 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1846 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1847 1848 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1849 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1850 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1851 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1852 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1853 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1854 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1855 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1856 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1857 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1858 1859 hugepagesz= 1860 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1861 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1862 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1863 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1864 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1865 architecture dependent. See also 1866 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1867 Format: size[KMG] 1868 1869 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1870 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1871 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1872 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1873 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1874 1875 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1876 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1877 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1878 1879 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1880 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1881 enabled. 1882 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1883 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1884 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1885 Format: { on | off (default) } 1886 1887 on: enable HVO 1888 off: disable HVO 1889 1890 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1891 the default is on. 1892 1893 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1894 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1895 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1896 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1897 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1898 1899 hung_task_panic= 1900 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1901 Format: 0 | 1 1902 1903 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1904 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1905 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1906 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1907 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1908 1909 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1910 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1911 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1912 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1913 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1914 1915 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1916 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1917 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1918 on lock contention. 1919 1920 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1921 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1922 registered from board initialization code. 1923 Format: 1924 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1925 1926 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1927 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1928 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1929 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1930 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1931 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1932 1933 Format: 1934 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1935 Where <val> is one of: 1936 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1937 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1938 Anything else Set a string device-property 1939 1940 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1941 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1942 touchscreen-inverted-y 1943 1944 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1945 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1946 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1947 1948 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1949 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1950 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1951 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1952 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1953 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1954 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1955 keyboard and cannot control its state 1956 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1957 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1958 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1959 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1960 for the AUX port 1961 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1962 controller 1963 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1964 controllers 1965 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1966 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1967 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1968 transitions, or never reset 1969 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1970 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1971 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1972 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1973 architectures force reset to be always executed 1974 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1975 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1976 i8042.probe_defer 1977 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1978 1979 i810= [HW,DRM] 1980 1981 i915.invert_brightness= 1982 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1983 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1984 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1985 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1986 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1987 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1988 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1989 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1990 value switches the backlight off. 1991 -1 -- never invert brightness 1992 0 -- machine default 1993 1 -- force brightness inversion 1994 1995 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1996 Format: <bool> 1997 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1998 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1999 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 2000 2001 icn= [HW,ISDN] 2002 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 2003 2004 2005 idle= [X86,EARLY] 2006 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 2007 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 2008 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 2009 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 2010 Not recommended. 2011 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2012 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2013 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2014 2015 idxd.sva= [HW] 2016 Format: <bool> 2017 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2018 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2019 true (1). 2020 2021 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2022 Format: <bool> 2023 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2024 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2025 2026 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2027 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2028 Default: strict 2029 2030 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2031 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2032 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2033 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2034 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2035 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2036 encoding mode. 2037 2038 Available settings are as follows: 2039 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2040 supported by the FPU 2041 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2042 by the FPU 2043 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2044 by the FPU 2045 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2046 supported by the FPU 2047 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2048 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2049 2050 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2051 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2052 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2053 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2054 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2055 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2056 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2057 MIPS64 CPUs. 2058 2059 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2060 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2061 except where unsupported by hardware. 2062 2063 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2064 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2065 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2066 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2067 could change it dynamically, usually by 2068 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2069 2070 ignore_rlimit_data 2071 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2072 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2073 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2074 2075 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2076 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2077 2078 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2079 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2080 default: "enforce" 2081 2082 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2083 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2084 owned by uid=0. 2085 2086 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2087 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2088 measurements, instead of host native format. 2089 2090 ima_hash= [IMA] 2091 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2092 | sha512 | ... } 2093 default: "sha1" 2094 2095 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2096 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2097 2098 ima_policy= [IMA] 2099 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2100 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2101 fail_securely | critical_data" 2102 2103 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2104 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2105 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2106 uid=0. 2107 2108 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2109 all files owned by root. 2110 2111 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2112 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2113 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2114 2115 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2116 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2117 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2118 flag. 2119 2120 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2121 critical data. 2122 2123 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2124 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2125 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2126 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2127 opened for read by uid=0. 2128 2129 ima_template= [IMA] 2130 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2131 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2132 "ima-sigv2" } 2133 Default: "ima-ng" 2134 2135 ima_template_fmt= 2136 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2137 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2138 2139 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2140 Format: <min_file_size> 2141 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2142 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2143 2144 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2145 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2146 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2147 2148 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2149 Format: <bufsize> 2150 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2151 2152 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2153 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2154 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2155 2156 init= [KNL] 2157 Format: <full_path> 2158 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2159 process. 2160 2161 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2162 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2163 startup. 2164 2165 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2166 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2167 modules and initcalls. 2168 2169 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2170 Format: <bool> 2171 Default: 1 2172 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2173 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2174 with devices being probed and 2175 initialized. This should normally just work, 2176 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2177 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2178 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2179 late_ initcalls. 2180 2181 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2182 2183 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2184 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2185 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2186 setting. 2187 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2188 Default is 0, 0 2189 2190 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2191 zeroes. 2192 Format: 0 | 1 2193 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2194 2195 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2196 Format: 0 | 1 2197 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2198 2199 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2200 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2201 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2202 override in debugfs after boot. 2203 2204 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2205 Format: <irq> 2206 2207 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2208 2209 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2210 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2211 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2212 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2213 2214 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2215 on 2216 Enable intel iommu driver. 2217 off 2218 Disable intel iommu driver. 2219 igfx_off [Default Off] 2220 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2221 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2222 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2223 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2224 DMA. 2225 strict [Default Off] 2226 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2227 sp_off [Default Off] 2228 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2229 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2230 not be supported. 2231 sm_on 2232 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2233 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2234 translation. 2235 sm_off 2236 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2237 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2238 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2239 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2240 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2241 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2242 mapping is enabled. 2243 Note that using this option lowers the security 2244 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2245 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2246 2247 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2248 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2249 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2250 2251 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2252 disable 2253 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2254 scaling driver for the supported processors 2255 active 2256 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2257 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2258 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2259 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2260 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2261 performance. The way they both operate depends 2262 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2263 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2264 and possibly on the processor model. 2265 passive 2266 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2267 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2268 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2269 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2270 feature. 2271 force 2272 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2273 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2274 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2275 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2276 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2277 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2278 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2279 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2280 no_hwp 2281 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2282 if available. 2283 hwp_only 2284 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2285 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2286 support_acpi_ppc 2287 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2288 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2289 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2290 then this feature is turned on by default. 2291 per_cpu_perf_limits 2292 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2293 cpufreq sysfs interface 2294 2295 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2296 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2297 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2298 nosid disable Source ID checking 2299 no_x2apic_optout 2300 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2301 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2302 posted_msi 2303 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2304 2305 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2306 strict regions from userspace. 2307 relaxed 2308 2309 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2310 off 2311 force 2312 noforce 2313 biomerge 2314 panic 2315 nopanic 2316 merge 2317 nomerge 2318 soft 2319 pt [X86] 2320 nopt [X86] 2321 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2322 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2323 2324 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2325 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2326 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2327 falling back to the full range if needed. 2328 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2329 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2330 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2331 2332 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2333 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2334 0 - Lazy mode. 2335 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2336 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2337 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2338 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2339 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2340 1 - Strict mode. 2341 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2342 synchronously. 2343 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2344 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2345 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2346 2347 iommu.passthrough= 2348 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2349 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2350 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2351 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2352 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2353 2354 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2355 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2356 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2357 2358 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2359 0x80 2360 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2361 0xed 2362 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2363 udelay 2364 Simple two microseconds delay 2365 none 2366 No delay 2367 2368 ip= [IP_PNP] 2369 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2370 2371 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2372 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2373 2374 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2375 Format: <bool> 2376 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2377 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2378 2379 ipe.success_audit= 2380 [IPE] 2381 Format: <bool> 2382 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2383 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2384 is 0. 2385 2386 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2387 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2388 2389 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2390 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2391 Format: <bool> 2392 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2393 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2394 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2395 2396 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2397 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2398 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2399 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2400 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2401 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2402 LPIs. 2403 2404 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2405 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2406 requires the kernel to be built with 2407 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2408 2409 irqfixup [HW] 2410 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2411 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2412 firmware running. 2413 2414 irqpoll [HW] 2415 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2416 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2417 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2418 firmware running. 2419 2420 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2421 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2422 2423 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2424 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2425 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2426 2427 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2428 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2429 2430 nohz 2431 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2432 2433 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2434 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2435 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2436 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2437 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2438 2439 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2440 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2441 be configured manually after bootup. 2442 2443 domain 2444 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2445 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2446 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2447 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2448 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2449 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2450 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2451 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2452 2453 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2454 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2455 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2456 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2457 2458 managed_irq 2459 2460 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2461 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2462 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2463 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2464 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2465 2466 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2467 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2468 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2469 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2470 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2471 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2472 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2473 2474 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2475 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2476 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2477 only delivered when tasks running on those 2478 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2479 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2480 queues. 2481 2482 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2483 2484 iucv= [HW,NET] 2485 2486 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2487 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2488 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2489 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2490 2491 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2492 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2493 write the parameter as: 2494 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2495 2496 Deprecated formats: 2497 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2498 write the parameter as: 2499 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2500 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2501 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2502 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2503 2504 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2505 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2506 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2507 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2508 2509 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2510 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2511 write the parameter as: 2512 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2513 2514 Deprecated formats: 2515 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2516 write the parameter as: 2517 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2518 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2519 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2520 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2521 2522 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2523 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2524 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2525 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2526 2527 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2528 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2529 write the parameter as: 2530 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2531 2532 Deprecated formats: 2533 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2534 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2535 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2536 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2537 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2538 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2539 2540 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2541 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2542 2543 kasan_multi_shot 2544 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2545 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2546 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2547 invalid access. 2548 2549 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2550 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2551 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2552 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2553 the real console. 2554 2555 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2556 2557 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2558 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2559 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2560 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2561 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2562 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2563 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2564 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2565 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2566 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2567 2568 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2569 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2570 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2571 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2572 zone if it does not. 2573 2574 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2575 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2576 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2577 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2578 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2579 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2580 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2581 2582 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2583 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2584 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2585 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2586 optional and is the number seconds in between 2587 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2588 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2589 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2590 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2591 the kernel debugger. 2592 2593 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2594 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2595 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2596 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2597 keyboard only format: kbd 2598 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2599 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2600 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2601 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2602 2603 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2604 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2605 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2606 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2607 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2608 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2609 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2610 2611 The name of the early console should be specified 2612 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2613 the early console might be different than the tty 2614 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2615 blank and the first boot console that implements 2616 read() will be picked. 2617 2618 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2619 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2620 2621 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2622 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2623 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2624 2625 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2626 Valid arguments: on, off 2627 Default: on 2628 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2629 the default is off. 2630 2631 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2632 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2633 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2634 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2635 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2636 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2637 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2638 2639 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2640 2641 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2642 Boot Parameter" section. 2643 2644 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2645 user and kernel address spaces. 2646 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2647 0: force disabled 2648 1: force enabled 2649 2650 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2651 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2652 default value can be overridden via 2653 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2654 Default is 1 (enabled) 2655 2656 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2657 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2658 2659 kvm.eager_page_split= 2660 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2661 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2662 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2663 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2664 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2665 required to split huge pages lazily. 2666 2667 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2668 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2669 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2670 still be used for reads. 2671 2672 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2673 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2674 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2675 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2676 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2677 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2678 cleared. 2679 2680 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2681 2682 Default is Y (on). 2683 2684 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86] 2685 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware 2686 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM 2687 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module). 2688 2689 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable 2690 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying 2691 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the 2692 number of VMs. 2693 2694 Enabling virtualization at module lode avoids potential 2695 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes 2696 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The 2697 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded, 2698 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree 2699 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware. 2700 2701 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2702 Default is false (don't support). 2703 2704 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2705 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2706 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2707 force : Always deploy workaround. 2708 off : Never deploy workaround. 2709 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2710 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2711 2712 Default is 'auto'. 2713 2714 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2715 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2716 2717 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2718 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2719 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2720 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2721 period (see below). The default is 60. 2722 2723 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2724 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2725 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2726 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2727 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2728 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2729 2730 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2731 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2732 2733 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2734 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2735 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2736 for NPT. 2737 2738 kvm-arm.mode= 2739 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2740 operation. 2741 2742 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2743 2744 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2745 protected guests. 2746 2747 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2748 state is kept private from the host. 2749 2750 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2751 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2752 hardware. 2753 2754 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2755 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2756 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2757 used with extreme caution. 2758 2759 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2760 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2761 system registers 2762 2763 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2764 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2765 system registers 2766 2767 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2768 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2769 system registers 2770 2771 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2772 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2773 injection of LPIs. 2774 2775 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2776 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2777 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2778 CPU architecture. 2779 2780 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2781 2782 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2783 2784 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2785 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2786 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2787 CPU architecture. 2788 2789 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2790 2791 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2792 2793 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2794 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2795 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2796 allocation. 2797 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2798 Format: <integer> 2799 Default: 5 2800 2801 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2802 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2803 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2804 for EPT. 2805 2806 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2807 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2808 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2809 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2810 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2811 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2812 Default is 1 (enabled). 2813 2814 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2815 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2816 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2817 hardware lacks support for it. 2818 2819 kvm-intel.nested= 2820 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2821 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2822 2823 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2824 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2825 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2826 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2827 hardware lacks support for it. 2828 2829 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2830 CVE-2018-3620. 2831 2832 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2833 2834 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2835 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2836 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2837 never: Disables the mitigation 2838 2839 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2840 2841 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2842 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2843 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2844 for it. 2845 2846 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2847 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2848 2849 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2850 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2851 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2852 2853 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2854 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2855 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2856 not have direct access. 2857 2858 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2859 options are: 2860 2861 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2862 2863 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2864 affected CPUs 2865 2866 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2867 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2868 2869 full 2870 Provides all available mitigations for the 2871 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2872 enables all mitigations in the 2873 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2874 2875 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2876 sysfs interface is still possible after 2877 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2878 when the first VM is started in a 2879 potentially insecure configuration, 2880 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2881 2882 full,force 2883 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2884 flush runtime control. Implies the 2885 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2886 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2887 2888 flush 2889 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2890 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2891 L1D flush. 2892 2893 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2894 sysfs interface is still possible after 2895 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2896 when the first VM is started in a 2897 potentially insecure configuration, 2898 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2899 2900 flush,nosmt 2901 2902 Disables SMT and enables the default 2903 hypervisor mitigation. 2904 2905 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2906 sysfs interface is still possible after 2907 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2908 when the first VM is started in a 2909 potentially insecure configuration, 2910 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2911 2912 flush,nowarn 2913 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2914 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2915 insecure configuration. 2916 2917 off 2918 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2919 emit any warnings. 2920 It also drops the swap size and available 2921 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2922 bare metal. 2923 2924 Default is 'flush'. 2925 2926 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2927 2928 l2cr= [PPC] 2929 2930 l3cr= [PPC] 2931 2932 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2933 disabled it. 2934 2935 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2936 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2937 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2938 Format: notscdeadline 2939 2940 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 2941 in C2 power state. 2942 2943 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2944 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2945 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2946 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2947 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2948 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2949 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2950 2951 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2952 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2953 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2954 2955 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2956 when set. 2957 Format: <int> 2958 2959 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2960 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2961 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2962 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2963 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2964 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2965 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2966 to all ports, links and devices. 2967 2968 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2969 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2970 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2971 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2972 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2973 host link and device attached to it. 2974 2975 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2976 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2977 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2978 The following configurations can be forced. 2979 2980 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2981 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2982 2983 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2984 2985 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2986 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2987 allowed. 2988 2989 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2990 resets. 2991 2992 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2993 link recovery. 2994 2995 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2996 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2997 detection. 2998 2999 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 3000 3001 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 3002 3003 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 3004 3005 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 3006 3007 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 3008 3009 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 3010 3011 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 3012 3013 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 3014 3015 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 3016 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 3017 3018 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 3019 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 3020 3021 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 3022 identify device data log. 3023 3024 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 3025 purpose log directory. 3026 3027 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3028 3029 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3030 1024 sectors. 3031 3032 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3033 65535 sectors. 3034 3035 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3036 3037 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3038 should be skipped. 3039 3040 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3041 support for devices supporting this feature. 3042 3043 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3044 3045 * disable: Disable this device. 3046 3047 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3048 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3049 3050 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3051 3052 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3053 Format: <integer> 3054 3055 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3056 Format: <integer> 3057 3058 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3059 Format: <integer> 3060 3061 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3062 Format: <integer> 3063 3064 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3065 { integrity | confidentiality } 3066 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3067 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3068 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3069 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3070 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3071 are also disabled. 3072 3073 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3074 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3075 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3076 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3077 3078 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3079 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3080 to be bound. 3081 3082 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3083 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3084 to be bound. 3085 3086 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3087 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3088 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3089 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3090 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3091 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3092 3093 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3094 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3095 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3096 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3097 3098 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3099 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3100 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3101 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3102 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3103 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3104 3105 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3106 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3107 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3108 number of online CPUs. 3109 3110 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3111 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3112 3113 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3114 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3115 3116 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3117 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3118 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3119 3120 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3121 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3122 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3123 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3124 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3125 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3126 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3127 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3128 disable boosting. 3129 3130 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3131 Number that determines how often and for how 3132 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3133 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3134 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3135 constant as the number of writers increases. 3136 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3137 increases with the number of writers. 3138 3139 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3140 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3141 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3142 mode during the locktorture test. 3143 3144 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3145 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3146 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3147 3148 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3149 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3150 3151 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3152 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3153 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3154 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3155 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3156 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3157 3158 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3159 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3160 3161 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3162 Enable additional printk() statements. 3163 3164 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3165 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3166 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3167 3168 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3169 Format: <irq> 3170 3171 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3172 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3173 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3174 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3175 loglevels are defined as follows: 3176 3177 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3178 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3179 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3180 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3181 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3182 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3183 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3184 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3185 3186 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3187 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3188 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3189 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3190 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3191 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3192 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3193 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3194 for more details. 3195 3196 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3197 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3198 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3199 kernel boot problems. 3200 3201 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3202 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3203 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3204 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3205 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3206 attached printers to be reset. Using 3207 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3208 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3209 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3210 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3211 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3212 port specification list means that device IDs 3213 from each port should be examined, to see if 3214 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3215 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3216 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3217 3218 lpj=n [KNL] 3219 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3220 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3221 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3222 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3223 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3224 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3225 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3226 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3227 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3228 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3229 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3230 hardware. 3231 3232 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3233 3234 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3235 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3236 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3237 3238 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3239 different yeeloong laptops. 3240 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3241 3242 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3243 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3244 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3245 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3246 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3247 only takes effect during system bootup. 3248 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3249 which also disables the IO APIC. 3250 3251 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3252 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3253 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3254 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3255 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3256 /dev/loop-control interface. 3257 3258 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3259 3260 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3261 3262 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3263 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3264 3265 mdacon= [MDA] 3266 Format: <first>,<last> 3267 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3268 3269 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3270 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3271 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3272 3273 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3274 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3275 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3276 3277 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3278 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3279 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3280 not have direct access. 3281 3282 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3283 options are: 3284 3285 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3286 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3287 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3288 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3289 3290 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3291 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3292 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3293 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3294 too. 3295 3296 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3297 mds=full. 3298 3299 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3300 3301 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3302 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3303 3304 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3305 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3306 as follows: 3307 3308 1 for test; 3309 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3310 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3311 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3312 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3313 3314 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3315 high memory is not affected. 3316 3317 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3318 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3319 3320 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3321 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3322 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3323 belonging to unused RAM. 3324 3325 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3326 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3327 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3328 3329 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3330 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3331 reported by firmware. 3332 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3333 ss[KMG]. 3334 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3335 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3336 3337 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3338 memory. 3339 3340 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3341 3342 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3343 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3344 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3345 3346 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3347 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3348 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3349 set according to the 3350 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3351 option. 3352 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3353 3354 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3355 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3356 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3357 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3358 option description. 3359 3360 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3361 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3362 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3363 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3364 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3365 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3366 comma delimited. 3367 Example: 3368 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3369 3370 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3371 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3372 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3373 3374 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3375 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3376 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3377 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3378 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3379 or 3380 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3381 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3382 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3383 will be eaten. 3384 3385 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3386 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3387 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3388 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3389 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3390 3391 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3392 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3393 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3394 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3395 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3396 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3397 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3398 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3399 3400 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3401 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3402 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3403 Setting this option will scan the memory 3404 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3405 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3406 from using the memory being corrupted. 3407 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3408 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3409 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3410 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3411 3412 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3413 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3414 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3415 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3416 corruption in more or less memory. 3417 3418 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3419 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3420 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3421 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3422 3423 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3424 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3425 Format: {on | off (default)} 3426 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3427 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3428 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3429 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3430 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3431 lot of memory without requiring additional 3432 memory to do so. 3433 This feature is disabled by default because it 3434 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3435 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3436 memory blocks). 3437 The state of the flag can be read in 3438 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3439 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3440 the feature is not effective. 3441 3442 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3443 Format: <integer> 3444 default : 0 <disable> 3445 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3446 performed. Each pass selects another test 3447 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3448 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3449 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3450 regions that are detected. 3451 3452 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3453 Valid arguments: on, off 3454 Default: off 3455 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3456 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3457 3458 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3459 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3460 3461 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3462 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3463 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3464 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3465 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3466 3467 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3468 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3469 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3470 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3471 3472 mga= [HW,DRM] 3473 3474 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3475 Format: <bool> 3476 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3477 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3478 3479 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3480 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3481 Default: "0tb" 3482 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3483 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3484 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3485 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3486 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3487 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3488 unconfigured. 3489 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3490 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3491 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3492 VGA shield. 3493 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3494 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3495 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3496 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3497 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3498 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3499 3500 mitigations= 3501 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3502 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3503 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3504 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3505 3506 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3507 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3508 3509 off 3510 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3511 improves system performance, but it may also 3512 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3513 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3514 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3515 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3516 l1tf=off [X86] 3517 mds=off [X86] 3518 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3519 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3520 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3521 nobp=0 [S390] 3522 nopti [X86,PPC] 3523 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3524 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3525 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3526 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3527 retbleed=off [X86] 3528 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3529 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3530 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3531 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3532 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3533 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3534 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3535 3536 Exceptions: 3537 This does not have any effect on 3538 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3539 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3540 3541 auto (default) 3542 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3543 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3544 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3545 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3546 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3547 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3548 3549 auto,nosmt 3550 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3551 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3552 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3553 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3554 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3555 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3556 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3557 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3558 3559 mminit_loglevel= 3560 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3561 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3562 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3563 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3564 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3565 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3566 3567 mmio_stale_data= 3568 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3569 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3570 3571 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3572 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3573 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3574 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3575 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3576 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3577 3578 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3579 options are: 3580 3581 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3582 3583 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3584 vulnerable CPUs. 3585 3586 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3587 3588 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3589 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3590 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3591 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3592 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3593 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3594 3595 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3596 mmio_stale_data=full. 3597 3598 For details see: 3599 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3600 3601 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3602 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3603 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3604 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3605 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3606 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3607 3608 module.async_probe=<bool> 3609 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3610 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3611 specific module, use the module specific control that 3612 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3613 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3614 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3615 the specific module. 3616 3617 module.enable_dups_trace 3618 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3619 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3620 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3621 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3622 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3623 module.sig_enforce 3624 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3625 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3626 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3627 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3628 3629 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3630 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3631 3632 mousedev.tap_time= 3633 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3634 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3635 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3636 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3637 Format: <msecs> 3638 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3639 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3640 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3641 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3642 3643 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3644 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3645 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3646 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3647 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3648 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3649 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3650 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3651 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3652 is not too small. 3653 3654 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3655 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3656 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3657 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3658 allocations. Use with caution! 3659 3660 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3661 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3662 3663 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3664 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3665 3666 mtdparts= [MTD] 3667 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3668 3669 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3670 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3671 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3672 3673 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3674 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3675 registers at boot time. 3676 3677 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3678 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3679 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3680 3681 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3682 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3683 Default is 1. 3684 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3685 using up MTRRs. 3686 3687 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3688 Format: <integer> 3689 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3690 Default : 1 3691 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3692 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3693 3694 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3695 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3696 at a time. 3697 3698 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3699 3700 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3701 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3702 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3703 something different and driver-specific. 3704 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3705 file if at all. 3706 3707 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3708 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3709 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3710 waits 4 seconds. 3711 3712 nf_conntrack.acct= 3713 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3714 0 to disable accounting 3715 1 to enable accounting 3716 Default value is 0. 3717 3718 nfs.cache_getent= 3719 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3720 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3721 3722 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3723 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3724 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3725 3726 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3727 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3728 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3729 requests. 3730 3731 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3732 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3733 channel should listen. 3734 3735 nfs.delay_retrans= 3736 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3737 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3738 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3739 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3740 and the specified value is >= 0. 3741 3742 nfs.enable_ino64= 3743 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3744 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3745 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3746 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3747 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3748 3749 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3750 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3751 entries. 3752 3753 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3754 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3755 slots the client will assign to the callback 3756 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3757 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3758 a particular server. 3759 3760 nfs.max_session_slots= 3761 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3762 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3763 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3764 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3765 Note that there is little point in setting this 3766 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3767 3768 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3769 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3770 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3771 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3772 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3773 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3774 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3775 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3776 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3777 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3778 back to using the idmapper. 3779 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3780 3781 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3782 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3783 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3784 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3785 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3786 3787 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3788 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3789 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3790 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3791 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3792 after the locks are lost. 3793 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3794 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3795 parameter to '1'. 3796 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3797 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3798 3799 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3800 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3801 information in exchange_id requests. 3802 If zero, no implementation identification information 3803 will be sent. 3804 The default is to send the implementation identification 3805 information. 3806 3807 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3808 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3809 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3810 3811 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3812 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3813 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3814 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3815 3816 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3817 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3818 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3819 the destination of the copy. 3820 3821 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3822 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3823 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3824 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3825 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3826 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3827 3828 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3829 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3830 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3831 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3832 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3833 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3834 this parameter. 3835 3836 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3837 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3838 3839 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3840 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3841 3842 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3843 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3844 3845 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3846 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3847 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3848 3849 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3850 when a NMI is triggered. 3851 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3852 3853 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3854 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 3855 Valid num: 0 or 1 3856 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3857 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3858 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 3859 3860 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3861 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3862 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3863 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3864 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3865 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3866 need the box quickly up again. 3867 3868 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3869 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3870 3871 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3872 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3873 is present. 3874 3875 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 3876 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3877 3878 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3879 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3880 3881 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3882 3883 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3884 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3885 3886 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3887 3888 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 3889 3890 no_console_suspend 3891 [HW] Never suspend the console 3892 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3893 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3894 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3895 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3896 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3897 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3898 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3899 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3900 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3901 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3902 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3903 turn on/off it dynamically. 3904 3905 no_debug_objects 3906 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 3907 3908 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3909 3910 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 3911 3912 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3913 3914 noexec32 [X86-64] 3915 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3916 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3917 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3918 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3919 read implies executable mappings 3920 3921 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3922 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3923 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3924 3925 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3926 3927 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3928 3929 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3930 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3931 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3932 3933 no_hash_pointers 3934 [KNL,EARLY] 3935 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3936 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3937 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3938 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3939 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3940 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3941 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3942 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3943 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3944 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3945 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3946 kernels. 3947 3948 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3949 3950 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 3951 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3952 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3953 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3954 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3955 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3956 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3957 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3958 3959 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3960 3961 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3962 3963 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3964 Valid arguments: on, off 3965 Default: on 3966 3967 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3968 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3969 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3970 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3971 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3972 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3973 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3974 just as if they had also been called out in the 3975 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3976 3977 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3978 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3979 3980 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3981 initial RAM disk. 3982 3983 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 3984 remapping. 3985 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3986 3987 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3988 3989 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3990 3991 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3992 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3993 3994 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3995 3996 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 3997 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3998 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3999 Layout Randomization). 4000 4001 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 4002 fault handling. 4003 4004 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 4005 4006 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 4007 4008 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 4009 4010 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 4011 4012 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4013 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4014 4015 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4016 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4017 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4018 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4019 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4020 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4021 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4022 4023 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4024 4025 nomodule Disable module load 4026 4027 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4028 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4029 irq. 4030 4031 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4032 pagetables) support. 4033 4034 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4035 4036 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4037 in some Intel CPUs. 4038 4039 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4040 Equivalent to pti=off 4041 4042 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4043 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4044 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4045 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4046 4047 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4048 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4049 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4050 contention. 4051 4052 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4053 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4054 4055 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4056 with UP alternatives 4057 4058 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4059 space. 4060 4061 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4062 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4063 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4064 4065 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4066 4067 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4068 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4069 even if it is supported by processor. 4070 4071 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4072 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4073 even if it is supported by processor. 4074 4075 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4076 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4077 4078 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4079 Equivalent to smt=1. 4080 4081 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4082 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4083 via the sysfs control file. 4084 4085 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4086 4087 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4088 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4089 Store Bypass vulnerability 4090 4091 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4092 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4093 with this option. 4094 4095 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4096 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4097 possible in the system. 4098 4099 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4100 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4101 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4102 leaks with this option. 4103 4104 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4105 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4106 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4107 4108 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4109 4110 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4111 broken timer IRQ sources. 4112 4113 no_uaccess_flush 4114 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4115 4116 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4117 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4118 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4119 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4120 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4121 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4122 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4123 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4124 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4125 is set. 4126 4127 no-vmw-sched-clock 4128 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4129 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4130 4131 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4132 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4133 4134 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4135 4136 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4137 4138 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4139 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4140 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4141 4142 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4143 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4144 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4145 4146 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4147 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4148 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4149 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4150 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4151 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4152 4153 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4154 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4155 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4156 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4157 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4158 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4159 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4160 4161 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4162 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4163 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4164 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4165 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4166 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4167 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4168 hot plugging. 4169 4170 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4171 4172 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4173 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4174 spanning all memory. 4175 4176 numa=fake=<size>[MG] 4177 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4178 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with 4179 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes. 4180 4181 numa=fake=<N> 4182 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4183 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N 4184 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. 4185 4186 numa=fake=<N>U 4187 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4188 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will 4189 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. 4190 4191 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4192 NUMA balancing. 4193 Allowed values are enable and disable 4194 4195 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4196 'node', 'default' can be specified 4197 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4198 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4199 4200 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4201 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4202 info. 4203 4204 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4205 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4206 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4207 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4208 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4209 interrupts *may* be lost! 4210 4211 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4212 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4213 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4214 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4215 4216 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4217 4218 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4219 4220 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4221 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4222 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4223 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4224 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4225 4226 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4227 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4228 process, but there is a small probability of 4229 deadlocking the machine. 4230 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4231 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4232 4233 page_alloc.shuffle= 4234 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4235 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4236 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4237 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4238 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4239 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4240 4241 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4242 Storage of the information about who allocated 4243 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4244 we can turn it on. 4245 on: enable the feature 4246 4247 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4248 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4249 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4250 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4251 on: turn on poisoning 4252 4253 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4254 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4255 Format: <integer> 4256 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4257 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4258 4259 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4260 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4261 timeout = 0: wait forever 4262 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4263 Format: <timeout> 4264 4265 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4266 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4267 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4268 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4269 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4270 called with any of the flags in this set. 4271 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4272 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4273 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4274 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4275 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4276 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4277 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4278 4279 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4280 on a WARN(). 4281 4282 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4283 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4284 bit 0: print all tasks info 4285 bit 1: print system memory info 4286 bit 2: print timer info 4287 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4288 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4289 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4290 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4291 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4292 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4293 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4294 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4295 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4296 4297 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4298 connected to, default is 0. 4299 Format: <parport#> 4300 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4301 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4302 Format: <mode> 4303 4304 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4305 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4306 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4307 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4308 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4309 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4310 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4311 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4312 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4313 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4314 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4315 are specified on the command line, starting 4316 with parport0. 4317 4318 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4319 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4320 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4321 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4322 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4323 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4324 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4325 4326 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4327 Format: <int> 4328 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4329 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4330 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4331 4332 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4333 Format: <int> 4334 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4335 changes. Disabled by default. 4336 4337 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4338 Format: <int> 4339 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4340 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4341 Disabled by default. 4342 4343 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4344 Format: <int> 4345 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4346 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4347 Disabled by default. 4348 4349 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4350 Format: <int> 4351 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4352 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4353 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4354 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4355 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4356 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4357 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4358 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4359 all channels. 4360 4361 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4362 Format: <int> 4363 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4364 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4365 respectively. Disabled by default. 4366 4367 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4368 Format: <int> 4369 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4370 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4371 respectively. Disabled by default. 4372 4373 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4374 Format: <int> 4375 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4376 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4377 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4378 All modes allowed by default. 4379 4380 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4381 Format: <int> 4382 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4383 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4384 4385 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4386 Format: <int> 4387 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4388 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4389 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4390 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4391 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4392 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4393 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4394 By default all supported ports are probed. 4395 4396 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4397 Format: <int> 4398 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4399 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4400 4401 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4402 Format: <int> 4403 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4404 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4405 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4406 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4407 0 otherwise. 4408 4409 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4410 Format: <int> 4411 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4412 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4413 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4414 allowed by default. 4415 4416 pause_on_oops=<int> 4417 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4418 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4419 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4420 4421 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4422 4423 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4424 4425 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4426 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4427 specified in one of the following formats: 4428 4429 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4430 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4431 4432 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4433 bus/device/function address which may change 4434 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4435 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4436 by other kernel parameters. If the 4437 domain is left unspecified, it is 4438 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4439 to a device through multiple device/function 4440 addresses can be specified after the base 4441 address (this is more robust against 4442 renumbering issues). The second format 4443 selects devices using IDs from the 4444 configuration space which may match multiple 4445 devices in the system. 4446 4447 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4448 changes anything 4449 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4450 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4451 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4452 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4453 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4454 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4455 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4456 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4457 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4458 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4459 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4460 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4461 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4462 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4463 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4464 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4465 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4466 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4467 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4468 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4469 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4470 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4471 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4472 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4473 Configuration 4474 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4475 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4476 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4477 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4478 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4479 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4480 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4481 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4482 should never be necessary. 4483 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4484 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4485 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4486 when the system masks IRQs. 4487 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4488 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4489 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4490 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4491 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4492 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4493 on several machines and they hang the machine 4494 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4495 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4496 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4497 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4498 motherboard. 4499 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4500 Use with caution as certain devices share 4501 address decoders between ROMs and other 4502 resources. 4503 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4504 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4505 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4506 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4507 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4508 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4509 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4510 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4511 this way. 4512 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4513 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4514 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4515 F0000h-100000h range. 4516 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4517 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4518 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4519 explicitly which ones they are. 4520 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4521 numbers ourselves, overriding 4522 whatever the firmware may have done. 4523 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4524 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4525 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4526 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4527 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4528 IRQ routing is enabled. 4529 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4530 or for PCI scanning. 4531 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4532 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4533 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4534 please report a bug. 4535 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4536 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4537 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4538 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4539 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4540 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4541 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4542 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4543 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4544 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4545 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4546 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4547 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4548 so this option is a temporary workaround 4549 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4550 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4551 handle more pci cards 4552 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4553 This might help on some broken boards which 4554 machine check when some devices' config space 4555 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4556 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4557 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4558 This sorting is done to get a device 4559 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4560 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4561 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4562 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4563 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4564 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4565 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4566 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4567 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4568 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4569 or bus can support) for best performance. 4570 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4571 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4572 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4573 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4574 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4575 that hot-added devices will work. 4576 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4577 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4578 The default value is 256 bytes. 4579 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4580 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4581 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4582 resource_alignment= 4583 Format: 4584 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4585 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4586 aligned memory resources. How to 4587 specify the device is described above. 4588 If <order of align> is not specified, 4589 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4590 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4591 windows need to be expanded. 4592 To specify the alignment for several 4593 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4594 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4595 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4596 for 4096-byte alignment. 4597 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4598 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4599 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4600 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4601 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4602 the default. 4603 off: Turn ECRC off 4604 on: Turn ECRC on. 4605 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4606 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4607 Default size is 256 bytes. 4608 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4609 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4610 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4611 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4612 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4613 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4614 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4615 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4616 MMIO_PREF window. 4617 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4618 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4619 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4620 Default is 1. 4621 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4622 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4623 accommodate resources required by all child 4624 devices. 4625 off: Turn realloc off 4626 on: Turn realloc on 4627 realloc same as realloc=on 4628 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4629 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4630 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4631 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4632 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4633 port. 4634 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4635 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4636 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4637 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4638 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4639 taints the kernel. 4640 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4641 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4642 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4643 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4644 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4645 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4646 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4647 this removes isolation between devices and 4648 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4649 config_acs= 4650 Format: 4651 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4652 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4653 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4654 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4655 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4656 unchanged based on what is specified in 4657 flags. 4658 4659 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4660 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4661 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4662 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4663 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4664 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4665 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4666 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4667 Each bit can be marked as: 4668 '0' – force disabled 4669 '1' – force enabled 4670 'x' – unchanged 4671 For example, 4672 pci=config_acs=10x 4673 would configure all devices that support 4674 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4675 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4676 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4677 or firmware set it to. 4678 4679 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4680 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4681 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4682 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4683 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4684 one PCI domain per PCI function 4685 4686 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4687 Management. 4688 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4689 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4690 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4691 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4692 4693 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4694 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4695 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4696 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4697 also tries to use these services. 4698 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4699 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4700 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4701 hotplug). 4702 4703 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4704 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4705 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4706 4707 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4708 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4709 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4710 4711 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4712 4713 pd_ignore_unused 4714 [PM] 4715 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4716 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4717 for debug and development, but should not be 4718 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4719 4720 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4721 boot time. 4722 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4723 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4724 4725 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4726 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4727 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4728 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4729 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4730 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4731 and performance comparison. 4732 4733 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4734 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4735 4736 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4737 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4738 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4739 4740 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4741 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4742 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4743 4744 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4745 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4746 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4747 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4748 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4749 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4750 remains 0. 4751 4752 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4753 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4754 4755 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4756 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4757 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4758 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4759 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4760 possible settings and some assignment information. 4761 4762 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4763 { off } 4764 4765 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4766 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4767 4768 pnp_reserve_irq= 4769 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4770 4771 pnp_reserve_dma= 4772 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4773 4774 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4775 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4776 4777 pnp_reserve_mem= 4778 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4779 autoconfiguration. 4780 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4781 4782 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4783 Default is 21. 4784 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4785 may be specified. 4786 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4787 4788 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4789 Format: <unsigned int> 4790 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4791 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4792 4793 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4794 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4795 platform machine description specific power_save 4796 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4797 execution priority. 4798 4799 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4800 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4801 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4802 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4803 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4804 4805 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4806 Format: {"off"} 4807 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4808 4809 preempt= [KNL] 4810 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4811 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4812 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4813 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4814 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 4815 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 4816 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 4817 4818 print-fatal-signals= 4819 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4820 4821 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4822 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4823 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4824 coredump - etc. 4825 4826 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4827 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4828 4829 default: off. 4830 4831 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4832 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4833 panics 4834 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4835 default: disabled 4836 4837 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4838 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4839 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4840 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4841 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4842 in order to provide more debug information. 4843 Format: <bool> 4844 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4845 4846 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4847 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4848 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4849 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4850 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4851 Default: ratelimit 4852 4853 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4854 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4855 4856 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 4857 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 4858 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 4859 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 4860 restrict that. Can be one of: 4861 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 4862 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 4863 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 4864 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 4865 4866 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4867 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4868 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4869 4870 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4871 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4872 instead using the legacy FADT method 4873 4874 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4875 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4876 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 4877 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4878 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4879 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4880 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4881 statistical time based profiling. 4882 4883 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4884 4885 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4886 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4887 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 4888 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 4889 Layout Randomization is disabled. 4890 Format: <bool> 4891 4892 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4893 tracking. 4894 Format: <bool> 4895 4896 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4897 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4898 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4899 per second. 4900 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4901 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4902 (0 = never). 4903 psmouse.resolution= 4904 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4905 psmouse.smartscroll= 4906 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4907 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4908 4909 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4910 4911 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4912 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4913 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4914 system calls and interrupts. 4915 4916 on - unconditionally enable 4917 off - unconditionally disable 4918 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4919 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4920 4921 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4922 4923 pty.legacy_count= 4924 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4925 default number. 4926 4927 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 4928 4929 r128= [HW,DRM] 4930 4931 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4932 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4933 invalidate. 4934 4935 raid= [HW,RAID] 4936 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4937 4938 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4939 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4940 4941 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4942 4943 random.trust_cpu=off 4944 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4945 random number generator (if available) to 4946 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4947 4948 random.trust_bootloader=off 4949 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4950 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4951 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4952 4953 randomize_kstack_offset= 4954 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4955 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4956 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4957 that depend on stack address determinism or 4958 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4959 available on architectures that have defined 4960 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4961 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4962 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4963 4964 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4965 4966 cec_disable [X86] 4967 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4968 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4969 4970 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4971 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4972 as described above. 4973 4974 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4975 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4976 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4977 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4978 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4979 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4980 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4981 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4982 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4983 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4984 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4985 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4986 4987 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4988 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4989 4990 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4991 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4992 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4993 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4994 4995 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4996 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4997 4998 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4999 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 5000 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 5001 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 5002 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 5003 This improves the real-time response for the 5004 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 5005 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 5006 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 5007 periodically wake up to do the polling. 5008 5009 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 5010 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 5011 process in one batch. 5012 5013 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 5014 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 5015 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 5016 5017 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 5018 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 5019 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 5020 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 5021 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 5022 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 5023 5024 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 5025 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 5026 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 5027 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 5028 5029 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 5030 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5031 RCU grace-period cleanup. 5032 5033 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 5034 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5035 RCU grace-period initialization. 5036 5037 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5038 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5039 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5040 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5041 the rcu_node combining tree. 5042 5043 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5044 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5045 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5046 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5047 and maximum value is HZ. 5048 5049 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5050 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5051 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5052 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5053 5054 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5055 Set required age in jiffies for a 5056 given grace period before RCU starts 5057 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5058 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5059 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5060 a value based on the most recent settings 5061 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5062 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5063 This calculated value may be viewed in 5064 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5065 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5066 overwritten. 5067 5068 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5069 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5070 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5071 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5072 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5073 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5074 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5075 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5076 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5077 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5078 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5079 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5080 5081 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5082 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5083 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5084 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5085 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5086 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5087 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5088 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5089 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5090 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5091 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5092 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5093 5094 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5095 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5096 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5097 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5098 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5099 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5100 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5101 5102 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5103 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5104 batch limiting is disabled. 5105 5106 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5107 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5108 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5109 5110 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5111 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5112 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5113 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5114 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5115 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5116 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5117 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5118 5119 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5120 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5121 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5122 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5123 5124 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5125 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5126 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5127 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5128 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5129 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5130 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5131 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5132 5133 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5134 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5135 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5136 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5137 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5138 5139 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5140 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5141 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5142 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5143 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5144 5145 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5146 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5147 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5148 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5149 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5150 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5151 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5152 5153 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5154 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5155 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5156 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5157 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5158 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5159 condition. 5160 5161 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5162 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5163 each group, which defaults to the square root 5164 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5165 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5166 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5167 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5168 5169 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5170 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5171 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5172 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5173 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5174 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5175 5176 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5177 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5178 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5179 By default, this limit is checked only once 5180 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5181 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5182 5183 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5184 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5185 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5186 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5187 Larger delays increase the probability of 5188 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5189 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5190 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5191 5192 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5193 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5194 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5195 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5196 5197 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5198 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5199 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5200 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5201 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5202 5203 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5204 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5205 to zero. 5206 5207 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5208 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5209 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5210 big. 5211 5212 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5213 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5214 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5215 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5216 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5217 normal grace period. 5218 5219 How to enable it: 5220 5221 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5222 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5223 5224 Default is 0. 5225 5226 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5227 Measure performance of asynchronous 5228 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5229 5230 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5231 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5232 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5233 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5234 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5235 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5236 5237 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5238 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5239 grace-period primitives. 5240 5241 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5242 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5243 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5244 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5245 interference. 5246 5247 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5248 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5249 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5250 5251 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5252 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5253 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5254 Defaults to 1. 5255 5256 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5257 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5258 5259 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5260 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5261 If this parameter has the same value as 5262 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5263 and double-argument variants are tested. 5264 5265 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5266 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5267 If this parameter has the same value as 5268 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5269 and double-argument variants are tested. 5270 5271 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5272 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5273 5274 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5275 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5276 5277 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5278 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5279 of allocations and frees. 5280 5281 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5282 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5283 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5284 but instead allows better measurement of things 5285 like CPU consumption. 5286 5287 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5288 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5289 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5290 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5291 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5292 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5293 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5294 a single reader. 5295 5296 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5297 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5298 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5299 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5300 5301 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5302 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5303 5304 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5305 Shut the system down after performance tests 5306 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5307 testing. 5308 5309 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5310 Enable additional printk() statements. 5311 5312 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5313 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5314 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5315 no holdoff. 5316 5317 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5318 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5319 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5320 says no holdoff. 5321 5322 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5323 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5324 in microseconds. 5325 5326 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5327 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5328 in microseconds. 5329 5330 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5331 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5332 in seconds. 5333 5334 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5335 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5336 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5337 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5338 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5339 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5340 of CPUs to be used. 5341 5342 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5343 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5344 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5345 5346 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5347 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5348 forward-progress tests. 5349 5350 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5351 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5352 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5353 testing. 5354 5355 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5356 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5357 primitives, if available. 5358 5359 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5360 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5361 5362 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5363 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5364 update-side primitives, if available. 5365 5366 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5367 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5368 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5369 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5370 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5371 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5372 they are all non-zero. 5373 5374 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5375 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5376 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5377 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5378 5379 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5380 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5381 This can of course result in splats, and is 5382 intended to test the ability of things like 5383 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5384 such leaks. 5385 5386 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5387 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5388 5389 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5390 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5391 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5392 test, hence the "fake". 5393 5394 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5395 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5396 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5397 5398 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5399 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5400 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5401 5402 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5403 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5404 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5405 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5406 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5407 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5408 5409 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5410 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5411 5412 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5413 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5414 5415 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5416 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5417 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5418 5419 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5420 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5421 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5422 task-exit processing. 5423 5424 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5425 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5426 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5427 is spawned. 5428 5429 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5430 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5431 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5432 5433 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5434 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5435 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5436 during the rcutorture test. 5437 5438 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5439 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5440 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5441 5442 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5443 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5444 warnings, zero to disable. 5445 5446 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5447 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5448 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5449 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5450 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5451 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5452 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5453 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5454 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5455 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5456 5457 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5458 5459 5460 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5461 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5462 5463 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5464 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5465 on the first stall in the set. 5466 5467 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5468 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5469 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5470 in four stall sequences. 5471 5472 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5473 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5474 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5475 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5476 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5477 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5478 5479 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5480 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5481 5482 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5483 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5484 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5485 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5486 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5487 5488 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5489 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5490 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5491 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5492 5493 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5494 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5495 5496 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5497 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5498 5499 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5500 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5501 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5502 5503 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5504 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5505 5506 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5507 Enable additional printk() statements. 5508 5509 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5510 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5511 stall warning. 5512 5513 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5514 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5515 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5516 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5517 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5518 5519 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5520 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5521 5522 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5523 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5524 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5525 during early boot, that is, during the time 5526 before the init task is spawned. 5527 5528 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5529 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5530 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5531 value is 300 seconds. 5532 5533 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5534 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5535 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5536 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5537 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5538 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5539 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5540 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5541 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5542 5543 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5544 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5545 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5546 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5547 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5548 5549 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5550 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5551 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5552 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5553 5554 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5555 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5556 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5557 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5558 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5559 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5560 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5561 5562 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5563 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5564 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5565 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5566 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5567 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5568 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5569 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5570 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5571 5572 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5573 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5574 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5575 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5576 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5577 5578 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5579 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5580 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5581 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5582 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5583 grace-period processing. 5584 5585 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5586 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5587 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5588 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5589 a single callback queue. This switching only 5590 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5591 set to the default value of -1. 5592 5593 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5594 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5595 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5596 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5597 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5598 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5599 the default value of -1. 5600 5601 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5602 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5603 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5604 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5605 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5606 for use in testing. 5607 5608 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5609 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5610 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5611 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5612 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5613 but lengthens grace periods. 5614 5615 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5616 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5617 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5618 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5619 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5620 callback flooding. 5621 5622 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5623 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5624 informational messages, which give some indication 5625 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5626 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5627 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5628 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5629 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5630 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5631 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5632 5633 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5634 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5635 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5636 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5637 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5638 the value three, so that the first informational 5639 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5640 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5641 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5642 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5643 5644 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5645 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5646 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5647 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5648 A change in value does not take effect until 5649 the beginning of the next grace period. 5650 5651 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5652 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5653 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5654 A negative value will take the default. A value 5655 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5656 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5657 5658 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5659 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5660 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5661 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5662 will take the default. A value of zero will 5663 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5664 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5665 5666 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5667 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5668 5669 rdinit= [KNL] 5670 Format: <full_path> 5671 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5672 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5673 5674 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5675 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5676 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5677 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5678 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5679 path). 5680 5681 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5682 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5683 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5684 mba, smba, bmec. 5685 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5686 rdt=cmt,!mba 5687 5688 reboot= [KNL] 5689 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5690 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5691 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5692 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5693 [[,]f[orce] 5694 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5695 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5696 reboot only), 5697 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5698 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5699 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5700 to be used for rebooting. 5701 5702 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5703 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5704 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5705 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5706 interference. 5707 5708 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5709 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5710 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5711 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5712 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5713 5714 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5715 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5716 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5717 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5718 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5719 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5720 x86 laptops. 5721 5722 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5723 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5724 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5725 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5726 5727 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5728 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5729 the console log. 5730 5731 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5732 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5733 measured in microseconds. 5734 5735 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5736 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5737 5738 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5739 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5740 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5741 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5742 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5743 5744 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5745 Enable additional printk() statements. 5746 5747 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5748 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5749 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5750 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5751 specified. 5752 5753 regulator_ignore_unused 5754 [REGULATOR] 5755 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5756 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5757 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5758 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5759 5760 relax_domain_level= 5761 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5762 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5763 5764 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5765 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5766 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5767 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5768 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5769 5770 reserve_mem= [RAM] 5771 Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label> 5772 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 5773 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 5774 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 5775 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 5776 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 5777 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 5778 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 5779 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 5780 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 5781 different location. 5782 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 5783 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 5784 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 5785 located at the same location. 5786 5787 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 5788 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 5789 5790 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 5791 5792 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 5793 Format: nn[KMG] 5794 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5795 address space. 5796 5797 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5798 during initialization. 5799 5800 resume= [SWSUSP] 5801 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5802 Format: 5803 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5804 5805 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5806 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5807 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5808 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5809 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5810 5811 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5812 read the resume files 5813 5814 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5815 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5816 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5817 5818 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5819 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5820 5821 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5822 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5823 vulnerability. 5824 5825 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5826 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5827 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5828 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5829 that don't. 5830 5831 off - no mitigation 5832 auto - automatically select a migitation 5833 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5834 disabling SMT if necessary for 5835 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5836 and older without STIBP). 5837 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5838 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5839 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5840 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5841 on Intel. 5842 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5843 when STIBP is not available. This is 5844 the alternative for systems which do not 5845 have STIBP. 5846 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5847 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5848 systems. 5849 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5850 is not available. This is the alternative for 5851 systems which do not have STIBP. 5852 5853 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5854 time according to the CPU. 5855 5856 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5857 5858 rfkill.default_state= 5859 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5860 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5861 1 Unblocked. 5862 5863 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5864 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5865 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5866 blocked and the previous configuration. 5867 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5868 blocked and everything unblocked. 5869 5870 ring3mwait=disable 5871 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5872 CPUs. 5873 5874 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 5875 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5876 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5877 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5878 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5879 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5880 5881 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5882 5883 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 5884 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5885 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5886 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5887 [arm64] 5888 5889 rockchip.usb_uart 5890 [EARLY] 5891 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5892 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5893 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5894 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5895 5896 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5897 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5898 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5899 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5900 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5901 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5902 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5903 5904 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5905 mount the root filesystem 5906 5907 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5908 5909 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5910 5911 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5912 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5913 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5914 5915 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5916 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5917 filesystem. 5918 5919 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5920 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5921 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5922 managed by CMA. 5923 5924 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5925 5926 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5927 5928 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5929 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5930 strict 5931 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5932 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5933 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5934 iommu.strict=1. 5935 5936 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5937 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5938 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5939 factor of the size of main memory. 5940 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5941 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5942 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5943 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5944 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5945 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5946 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5947 5948 sa1100ir [NET] 5949 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5950 5951 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5952 5953 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5954 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5955 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5956 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5957 5958 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5959 [Deprecated] 5960 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5961 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5962 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5963 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5964 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5965 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5966 value. 5967 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5968 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5969 1 64 ms 5970 2 128 ms 5971 and so on. 5972 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5973 Default is 0. 5974 5975 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5976 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5977 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5978 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5979 tests. 5980 5981 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5982 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5983 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5984 default) disables this feature. Please note 5985 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5986 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5987 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5988 5989 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5990 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5991 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5992 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5993 equal to the number of CPUs. 5994 5995 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5996 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5997 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5998 5999 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 6000 Number seconds to wait between successive 6001 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 6002 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 6003 6004 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 6005 The number of seconds following the start of the 6006 test after which to shut down the system. The 6007 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 6008 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 6009 6010 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 6011 The number of seconds between outputting the 6012 current test statistics to the console. A value 6013 of zero disables statistics output. 6014 6015 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 6016 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 6017 to the set of CPUs under test. 6018 6019 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 6020 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 6021 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 6022 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 6023 functions. 6024 6025 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 6026 Enable additional printk() statements. 6027 6028 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 6029 The probability weighting to use for the 6030 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 6031 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 6032 default if all other weights are -1. However, 6033 if at least one weight has some other value, a 6034 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 6035 6036 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6037 The probability weighting to use for the 6038 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6039 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6040 6041 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6042 The probability weighting to use for the 6043 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6044 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6045 Note well that setting a high probability for 6046 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6047 on the system. 6048 6049 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6050 The probability weighting to use for the 6051 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6052 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6053 and weight_many. 6054 6055 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6056 The probability weighting to use for the 6057 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6058 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6059 weight_many. 6060 6061 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6062 The probability weighting to use for the 6063 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6064 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6065 and weight_many. 6066 6067 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6068 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6069 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6070 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6071 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6072 1 -- enable. 6073 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6074 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6075 6076 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6077 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6078 "lsm=" parameter. 6079 6080 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6081 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6082 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6083 0 -- disable. 6084 1 -- enable. 6085 Default value is 1. 6086 6087 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6088 6089 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 6090 6091 shapers= [NET] 6092 Maximal number of shapers. 6093 6094 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6095 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6096 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6097 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6098 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6099 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6100 apic=verbose is specified. 6101 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6102 6103 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6104 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6105 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6106 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6107 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6108 last alloc / free. For more information see 6109 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6110 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6111 6112 slab_max_order= [MM] 6113 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6114 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6115 fragmentation. For more information see 6116 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6117 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6118 6119 slab_merge [MM] 6120 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6121 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6122 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6123 6124 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6125 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6126 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6127 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6128 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6129 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6130 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6131 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6132 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6133 6134 slab_min_order= [MM] 6135 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6136 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6137 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6138 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6139 6140 slab_nomerge [MM] 6141 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6142 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6143 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6144 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6145 layout control by attackers can usually be 6146 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6147 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6148 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6149 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6150 own. 6151 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6152 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6153 6154 slram= [HW,MTD] 6155 6156 smart2= [HW] 6157 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6158 6159 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6160 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6161 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6162 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6163 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6164 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6165 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6166 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6167 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6168 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6169 6170 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6171 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6172 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6173 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6174 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6175 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6176 6177 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6178 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6179 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6180 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6181 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6182 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6183 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6184 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6185 1: Fast pin select (default) 6186 2: ATC IRMode 6187 6188 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6189 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6190 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6191 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6192 Format: <integer> 6193 Default: -1 (no limit) 6194 6195 softlockup_panic= 6196 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6197 Format: 0 | 1 6198 6199 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6200 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6201 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6202 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6203 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6204 6205 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6206 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6207 backtraces on all cpus. 6208 Format: 0 | 1 6209 6210 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6211 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6212 6213 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6214 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6215 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6216 clearing sequence. 6217 6218 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6219 needed. This protects the kernel from 6220 both syscalls and VMs. 6221 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6222 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6223 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6224 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6225 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6226 off - Disable the mitigation. 6227 6228 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6229 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6230 The default operation protects the kernel from 6231 user space attacks. 6232 6233 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6234 spectre_v2_user=on 6235 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6236 spectre_v2_user=off 6237 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6238 vulnerable 6239 6240 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6241 mitigation method at run time according to the 6242 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6243 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6244 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6245 6246 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6247 against user space to user space task attacks. 6248 6249 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6250 the user space protections. 6251 6252 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6253 6254 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6255 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6256 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6257 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6258 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6259 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6260 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6261 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6262 6263 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6264 spectre_v2=auto. 6265 6266 spectre_v2_user= 6267 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6268 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6269 user space tasks 6270 6271 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6272 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6273 6274 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6275 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6276 6277 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6278 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6279 per thread. The mitigation control state 6280 is inherited on fork. 6281 6282 prctl,ibpb 6283 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6284 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6285 always when switching between different user 6286 space processes. 6287 6288 seccomp 6289 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6290 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6291 they explicitly opt out. 6292 6293 seccomp,ibpb 6294 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6295 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6296 always when switching between different 6297 user space processes. 6298 6299 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6300 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6301 6302 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6303 6304 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6305 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6306 6307 spec_rstack_overflow= 6308 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6309 6310 off - Disable mitigation 6311 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6312 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6313 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6314 kernel entry 6315 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6316 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6317 6318 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6319 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6320 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6321 6322 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6323 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6324 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6325 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6326 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6327 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6328 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6329 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6330 6331 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6332 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6333 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6334 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6335 6336 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6337 Bypass optimization is used. 6338 6339 On x86 the options are: 6340 6341 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6342 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6343 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6344 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6345 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6346 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6347 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6348 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6349 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6350 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6351 for a process by default. The state of the control 6352 is inherited on fork. 6353 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6354 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6355 6356 Default mitigations: 6357 X86: "prctl" 6358 6359 On powerpc the options are: 6360 6361 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6362 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6363 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6364 exit. 6365 off - No action. 6366 6367 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6368 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6369 6370 split_lock_detect= 6371 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6372 6373 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6374 instructions that access data across cache line 6375 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6376 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6377 bus lock detection. 6378 6379 off - not enabled 6380 6381 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6382 about applications triggering the #AC 6383 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6384 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6385 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6386 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6387 enabled in hardware. 6388 6389 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6390 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6391 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6392 both features are enabled in hardware. 6393 6394 ratelimit:N - 6395 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6396 per second for bus lock detection. 6397 0 < N <= 1000. 6398 6399 N/A for split lock detection. 6400 6401 6402 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6403 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6404 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6405 mode. 6406 6407 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6408 CPL > 0. 6409 6410 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6411 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6412 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6413 6414 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6415 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6416 number generator. 6417 6418 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6419 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6420 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6421 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6422 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6423 6424 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6425 the following option: 6426 6427 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6428 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6429 6430 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6431 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6432 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6433 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6434 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6435 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6436 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6437 (decide at boot). 6438 6439 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6440 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6441 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6442 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6443 6444 0: Never. 6445 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6446 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6447 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6448 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6449 6450 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6451 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6452 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6453 6454 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6455 Specifies how frequently to check for 6456 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6457 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6458 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6459 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6460 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6461 are ignored. 6462 6463 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6464 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6465 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6466 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6467 grace period will be considered for automatic 6468 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6469 expediting. 6470 6471 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6472 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6473 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6474 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6475 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6476 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6477 6478 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6479 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6480 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6481 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6482 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6483 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6484 6485 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6486 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6487 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6488 6489 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6490 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6491 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6492 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6493 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6494 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6495 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6496 6497 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6498 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6499 6500 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6501 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6502 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6503 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6504 6505 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6506 for both kernel and userspace 6507 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6508 for both kernel and userspace 6509 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6510 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6511 to allow userspace to register its 6512 interest in being mitigated too. 6513 6514 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6515 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6516 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6517 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6518 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6519 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6520 6521 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6522 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6523 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6524 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6525 to false. 6526 6527 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6528 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6529 6530 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6531 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6532 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6533 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6534 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6535 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6536 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6537 6538 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6539 Format: <num> 6540 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6541 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6542 as the initial boot-console. 6543 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6544 6545 sti_font= [HW] 6546 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6547 6548 stifb= [HW] 6549 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6550 6551 strict_sas_size= 6552 [X86] 6553 Format: <bool> 6554 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6555 against the required signal frame size which 6556 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6557 be used to filter out binaries which have 6558 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6559 6560 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6561 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6562 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6563 faults on kernel addresses. 6564 6565 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6566 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6567 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6568 on kernel addresses. 6569 6570 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6571 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6572 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6573 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6574 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6575 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6576 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6577 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6578 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6579 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6580 maximum port values. 6581 6582 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6583 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6584 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6585 process in parallel from a single connection. 6586 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6587 6588 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6589 [NFS] 6590 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6591 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6592 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6593 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6594 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6595 NFS server is running. 6596 6597 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6598 automatically using heuristics 6599 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6600 percpu one pool for each CPU 6601 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6602 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6603 6604 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6605 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6606 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6607 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6608 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6609 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6610 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6611 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6612 6613 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6614 [SUSPEND] 6615 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6616 mode before resuming the system (see 6617 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6618 is set. Default value is 5. 6619 6620 svm= [PPC] 6621 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6622 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6623 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6624 6625 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 6626 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6627 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6628 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6629 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6630 to a power of 2. 6631 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6632 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6633 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6634 6635 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6636 6637 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6638 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6639 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6640 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6641 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6642 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6643 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6644 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6645 6646 sysrq_always_enabled 6647 [KNL] 6648 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6649 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6650 Useful for debugging. 6651 6652 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6653 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6654 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6655 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6656 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6657 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6658 6659 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6660 6661 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6662 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6663 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6664 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6665 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6666 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6667 The system is woken from this state using a 6668 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6669 6670 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6671 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6672 6673 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6674 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6675 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6676 6677 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6678 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6679 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6680 6681 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6682 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6683 6684 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6685 -1: disable all passive trip points 6686 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6687 value 6688 6689 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6690 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6691 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6692 0: no polling (default) 6693 6694 thp_anon= [KNL] 6695 Format: <size>,<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>-<size>[KMG]:<state> 6696 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit". 6697 Control the default behavior of the system with respect 6698 to anonymous transparent hugepages. 6699 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes. 6700 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 6701 details. 6702 6703 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 6704 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6705 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6706 6707 topology= [S390,EARLY] 6708 Format: {off | on} 6709 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6710 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6711 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6712 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6713 Default is on. 6714 6715 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6716 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6717 until after init has spawned. 6718 6719 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6720 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6721 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6722 very costly operation when many torture tests 6723 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6724 with rotating-rust storage. 6725 6726 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6727 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6728 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6729 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6730 6731 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6732 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6733 6734 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6735 Format: integer pcr id 6736 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6737 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6738 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6739 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6740 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6741 are saved. 6742 6743 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6744 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6745 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6746 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6747 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6748 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6749 6750 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6751 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6752 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6753 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6754 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6755 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6756 6757 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6758 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6759 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6760 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6761 6762 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6763 to stop the printing of events to console at 6764 late_initcall_sync. 6765 6766 ** CAUTION ** 6767 6768 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6769 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6770 the system to live lock. 6771 6772 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6773 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6774 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6775 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6776 make the system inoperable. 6777 6778 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6779 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6780 6781 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6782 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6783 6784 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6785 at boot up. 6786 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6787 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6788 depending on the architecture, may not be 6789 in sync between CPUs. 6790 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6791 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6792 but better for some race conditions. 6793 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6794 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6795 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6796 once per event. 6797 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6798 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6799 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6800 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6801 stamps. 6802 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6803 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6804 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6805 6806 trace_event=[event-list] 6807 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6808 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6809 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6810 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6811 6812 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6813 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6814 This will be listed in: 6815 6816 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6817 6818 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6819 via: 6820 6821 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6822 6823 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6824 unique. 6825 6826 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6827 6828 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6829 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6830 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6831 6832 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is 6833 created. The flags are separated by '^'. 6834 6835 The available flags are: 6836 6837 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created. 6838 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance 6839 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used) 6840 6841 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq 6842 6843 The flags must come before the defined events. 6844 6845 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance 6846 can use that memory: 6847 6848 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M 6849 6850 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical 6851 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that 6852 instance will be split up accordingly. 6853 6854 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option: 6855 6856 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace 6857 6858 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment 6859 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the 6860 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve 6861 the buffer content. 6862 6863 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between 6864 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer 6865 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel. 6866 6867 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled, 6868 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not 6869 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash 6870 at boot up). 6871 6872 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq 6873 6874 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system 6875 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION 6876 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored. 6877 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system 6878 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. 6879 6880 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst 6881 6882 6883 trace_options=[option-list] 6884 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6885 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6886 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6887 to echo the option name into 6888 6889 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6890 6891 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6892 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6893 6894 trace_options=stacktrace 6895 6896 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6897 section. 6898 6899 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6900 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6901 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6902 filter. 6903 6904 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6905 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6906 6907 For example: 6908 6909 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6910 6911 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6912 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6913 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6914 6915 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6916 6917 6918 traceoff_on_warning 6919 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6920 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6921 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6922 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6923 6924 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6925 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6926 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6927 6928 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6929 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6930 6931 transparent_hugepage= 6932 [KNL] 6933 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6934 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6935 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6936 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6937 for more details. 6938 6939 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6940 Format: <string> 6941 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6942 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6943 sources: 6944 - "tpm" 6945 - "tee" 6946 - "caam" 6947 - "dcp" 6948 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6949 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6950 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6951 successfully during iteration. 6952 6953 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6954 Format: <string> 6955 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6956 Can be one of: 6957 - "kernel" 6958 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6959 - "default" 6960 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6961 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6962 6963 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 6964 This is intended to be used in combination with 6965 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 6966 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 6967 6968 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 6969 This is intended to be used in combination with 6970 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 6971 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 6972 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 6973 scenarios. 6974 6975 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6976 Format: <string> 6977 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6978 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6979 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6980 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6981 virtualized environment. 6982 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6983 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6984 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6985 can add overhead. 6986 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6987 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6988 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6989 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6990 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6991 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6992 acceptable). 6993 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6994 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6995 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6996 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6997 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6998 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6999 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 7000 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 7001 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 7002 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 7003 7004 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 7005 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 7006 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 7007 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 7008 Format: <unsigned int> 7009 7010 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 7011 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 7012 support TSX control. 7013 7014 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 7015 7016 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 7017 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 7018 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 7019 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 7020 so there may be unknown security risks associated 7021 with leaving it enabled. 7022 7023 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 7024 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 7025 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 7026 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 7027 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 7028 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 7029 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 7030 7031 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 7032 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 7033 7034 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 7035 7036 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7037 for more details. 7038 7039 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 7040 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 7041 7042 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 7043 certain CPUs that support Transactional 7044 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 7045 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 7046 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 7047 conditions. 7048 7049 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 7050 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 7051 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 7052 access. 7053 7054 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 7055 options are: 7056 7057 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 7058 if TSX is enabled. 7059 7060 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 7061 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 7062 is not disabled because CPU is not 7063 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 7064 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 7065 7066 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 7067 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 7068 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 7069 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 7070 7071 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 7072 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 7073 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 7074 required and doesn't provide any additional 7075 mitigation. 7076 7077 For details see: 7078 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7079 7080 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 7081 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 7082 Format: 7083 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 7084 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 7085 7086 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 7087 happen after console_init() and before a proper 7088 console driver takes over, this boot options might 7089 help "seeing" what's going on. 7090 7091 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7092 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 7093 7094 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 7095 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7096 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7097 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7098 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7099 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7100 reported either. 7101 7102 unknown_nmi_panic 7103 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7104 7105 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7106 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7107 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7108 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7109 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7110 7111 usbcore.authorized_default= 7112 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7113 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7114 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7115 if device connected to internal port) 7116 7117 usbcore.autosuspend= 7118 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7119 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7120 is the time required before an idle device will be 7121 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7122 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7123 7124 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7125 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7126 7127 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7128 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7129 (default = 65536). 7130 7131 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7132 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7133 7134 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7135 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7136 scheme (default 0 = off). 7137 7138 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7139 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7140 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7141 7142 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7143 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7144 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7145 7146 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7147 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7148 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7149 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7150 7151 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7152 7153 usbcore.quirks= 7154 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7155 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7156 commas. Each entry has the form 7157 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7158 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7159 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7160 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7161 the following meanings: 7162 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7163 descriptors must not be fetched using 7164 a 255-byte read); 7165 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7166 correctly so reset it instead); 7167 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7168 Set-Interface requests); 7169 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7170 handle its Configuration or Interface 7171 strings); 7172 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7173 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7174 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7175 more interface descriptions than the 7176 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7177 talking to these interfaces); 7178 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7179 during initialization, after we read 7180 the device descriptor); 7181 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7182 high speed and super speed interrupt 7183 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7184 require the interval in microframes (1 7185 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7186 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7187 (bInterval-1). 7188 Devices with this quirk report their 7189 bInterval as the result of this 7190 calculation instead of the exponent 7191 variable used in the calculation); 7192 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7193 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7194 requests); 7195 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7196 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7197 remote wakeup capability); 7198 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7199 Power Management); 7200 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7201 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7202 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7203 calculation); 7204 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7205 to be disconnected before suspend to 7206 prevent spurious wakeup); 7207 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7208 pause after every control message); 7209 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7210 delay after resetting its port); 7211 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7212 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7213 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7214 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7215 7216 usbhid.mousepoll= 7217 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7218 7219 usbhid.jspoll= 7220 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7221 7222 usbhid.kbpoll= 7223 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7224 7225 usb-storage.delay_use= 7226 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7227 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7228 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7229 suffix with "ms". 7230 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7231 7232 usb-storage.quirks= 7233 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7234 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7235 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7236 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7237 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7238 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7239 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7240 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7241 of sense data, not on uas); 7242 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7243 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7244 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7245 device capacity by one sector); 7246 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7247 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7248 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7249 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7250 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7251 command, uas only); 7252 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7253 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7254 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7255 reported device capacity by one 7256 sector if the number is odd); 7257 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7258 device); 7259 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7260 command, uas only); 7261 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7262 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7263 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7264 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7265 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7266 not on uas); 7267 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7268 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7269 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7270 reported by the device, not on uas); 7271 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7272 by default, not on uas); 7273 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7274 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7275 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7276 Logical Unit); 7277 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7278 commands, uas only); 7279 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7280 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7281 medium is write-protected). 7282 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7283 even if the device claims no cache, 7284 not on uas) 7285 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7286 7287 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7288 Format: <int> 7289 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7290 1 - undefined instruction events 7291 2 - system calls 7292 4 - invalid data aborts 7293 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7294 16 - SIGBUS faults 7295 Example: user_debug=31 7296 7297 userpte= 7298 [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7299 7300 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7301 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7302 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7303 7304 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7305 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7306 7307 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7308 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7309 7310 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7311 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7312 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7313 7314 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7315 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7316 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7317 7318 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7319 alias for vdso32=0. 7320 7321 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7322 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7323 7324 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7325 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7326 7327 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7328 Format: [0|1] 7329 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7330 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7331 level and then send out the event to user space through 7332 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7333 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7334 brightness level. 7335 default: 1 7336 7337 virtio_mmio.device= 7338 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7339 7340 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7341 where: 7342 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7343 like K, M and G) 7344 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7345 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7346 request_irq()) 7347 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7348 example: 7349 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7350 7351 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7352 7353 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7354 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7355 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7356 Use vga=ask for menu. 7357 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7358 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7359 7360 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7361 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7362 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7363 All options are enabled by default, and this 7364 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7365 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7366 debugging features. 7367 7368 Available options are: 7369 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7370 - Disable all of the above options 7371 7372 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7373 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7374 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7375 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7376 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7377 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7378 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7379 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7380 7381 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7382 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7383 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7384 7385 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7386 Format: <command> 7387 7388 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7389 Format: <command> 7390 7391 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7392 Format: <command> 7393 7394 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7395 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7396 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7397 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7398 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7399 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7400 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7401 7402 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7403 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7404 readable. 7405 7406 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7407 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7408 page is not readable. 7409 7410 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7411 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7412 might break your system. 7413 7414 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7415 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7416 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7417 7418 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7419 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7420 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7421 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7422 7423 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7424 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7425 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7426 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7427 ranging from 0-255. 7428 7429 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7430 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7431 Change the default green palette of the console. 7432 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7433 ranging from 0-255. 7434 7435 vt.default_red= [VT] 7436 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7437 Change the default red palette of the console. 7438 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7439 ranging from 0-255. 7440 7441 vt.default_utf8= 7442 [VT] 7443 Format=<0|1> 7444 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7445 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7446 newly opened terminals. 7447 7448 vt.global_cursor_default= 7449 [VT] 7450 Format=<-1|0|1> 7451 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7452 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7453 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7454 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7455 cursors, 1 will display them. 7456 7457 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7458 Default: 2 = green. 7459 7460 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7461 Default: 3 = cyan. 7462 7463 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7464 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7465 or other driver-specific files in the 7466 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7467 7468 watchdog_thresh= 7469 [KNL] 7470 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7471 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7472 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7473 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7474 seconds. 7475 7476 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7477 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7478 to use in unbound workqueues. 7479 Format: <cpu-list> 7480 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7481 unbound workqueues. 7482 7483 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7484 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7485 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7486 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7487 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7488 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7489 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7490 corresponding sysfs file. 7491 7492 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 7493 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 7494 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 7495 stall to trigger panic. 7496 7497 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 7498 7499 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7500 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7501 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7502 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7503 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7504 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7505 7506 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7507 will report the work functions which violate this 7508 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7509 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7510 7511 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7512 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7513 will report the work functions which violate the 7514 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7515 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7516 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7517 7518 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7519 7520 workqueue.power_efficient 7521 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7522 they show better performance thanks to cache 7523 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7524 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7525 7526 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7527 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7528 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7529 power usage at the cost of small performance 7530 overhead. 7531 7532 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7533 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7534 7535 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7536 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7537 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7538 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7539 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7540 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7541 7542 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7543 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7544 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7545 updated accordingly. 7546 7547 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7548 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7549 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7550 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7551 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7552 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7553 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7554 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7555 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7556 impacted. 7557 7558 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7559 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7560 7561 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7562 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7563 7564 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7565 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7566 supporting x2apic. 7567 7568 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7569 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7570 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7571 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7572 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7573 domains. 7574 7575 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7576 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7577 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7578 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7579 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7580 nics -- unplug network devices 7581 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7582 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7583 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7584 the unplug protocol 7585 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7586 7587 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7588 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7589 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7590 7591 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7592 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 7593 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 7594 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 7595 debug data in case of multicall errors. 7596 7597 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7598 Format: <bool> 7599 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7600 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7601 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7602 7603 xen_nopv [X86] 7604 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7605 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7606 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7607 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7608 7609 xen_no_vector_callback 7610 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7611 event channel interrupts. 7612 7613 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7614 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7615 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7616 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7617 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7618 7619 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7620 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7621 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7622 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7623 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7624 more timer interrupts. 7625 7626 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7627 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7628 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7629 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7630 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7631 max. Default is 180. 7632 7633 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7634 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7635 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7636 7637 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7638 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7639 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7640 7641 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7642 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7643 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7644 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7645 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7646 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7647 7648 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7649 Format: 7650 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7651 7652 xive= [PPC] 7653 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7654 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7655 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7656 7657 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7658 controller on both pseries and powernv 7659 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7660 7661 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7662 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7663 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7664 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7665 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7666 7667 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7668 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7669 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7670 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7671 7672 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 7673 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7674 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7675 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7676 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7677 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7678 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7679 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7680 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7681 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7682 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7683 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7684 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7685 can be written using xmon commands. 7686 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7687 memory, and other data can't be written using 7688 xmon commands. 7689 off xmon is disabled. 7690